But luckily, the album kept rolling and the upbeat tone of "Fakin' It" and silly lightheartedness of "Punky's Dilemma" almost immediately lifted my spirits. If I had been listening to it on vinyl, I don't think I would have been able to muster the wherewithal to cross the room and flip over the record. In fact, it kind of scared me how much of an impact the first seven tracks of Bookends had on my psyche.
Simon & Garfunkel hit on so many elements of music that I am naturally drawn to - simple instrumentation, thought-provoking lyrics with narrative leanings and arrangements that allow both to shine.Īnd that's what I've come to discover that I love about Simon & Garfunkel - they are absolute masters of emotive, transformative lyricism. Listening to Bookends was like reuniting with an old friend I didn't know that I had: only after hearing the album start to finish did I recognize that these songs have been around me all along. "America" breezed right by me in Almost Famous, and I never quite understood why the song surrounding a particularly poignant scene in 500 Days Of Summer was called "Bookends."īut now, my narrow cinematic context of Simon & Garfunkel has been broadened. Robinson," I've never seen The Graduate in its entirety. From there, my knowledge of Simon & Garfunkel continued to be informed solely by incomplete pop culture encounters with the duo. Our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you.My musical relationship with Simon & Garfunkel began with an influence that any self-respecting, music-loving twenty-something would now be ashamed to admit: The Garden State soundtrack.
Most of all you've got to hide it from the kids. It's a little secret just the Robinsons' affair. Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes. Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes. Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home. Look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes, We'd like to help you learn to help yourself. We'd like to know a little bit about your for our files Three or four tablespoonsful of alcohol, then the bathroom or a package to put in the rubbish. (Do you know pity permits you to kill a small rabbit instantly by giving it a tablespoon of alcohol to drink? Its flesh tastes better afterward, they say, however, I. I was going to live at your place for four months: four, perhaps with luck three-tablespoonsful of alcohol down its throat. Is it necessarily destructive to make the attempt anyway-do you have to in order to live? does it kill you also? yes also yes.Ĭortazar: "With all that, I decided to kill the rabbit almost as soon as it was born.
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How to make your place, your art, your history in an already working, structured place, art, history. The question of how to feel welcome in the world that has existed before you and exists longer than you. What he created he found detestable because it also destroyed. Letter to a Young Lady in Paris is a suicide note from a man who could not be in the world the way he wanted. And how do we feel welcome in this world? Is it inhospitable or the best of all possible?
Some kill themselves young (the album begins with a suicide story), some make it to old age and are happy in their slow-death aching bodies because they have all these beautiful memories of when they did all that beautiful shit (Garfunkel recorded old people talking in a nursing home).
How do we make room to move? We find love, make mistakes, create, visit the fucking zoo, we fake it, we face winter-have fears and master them, take drugs, watch movies, eat cereal. The title of the album refers to two old friends who occupy a park bench together toward the end of their lives. A beautiful instance of when restraint is lifted: change being art being freedom. They got to make the decisions about how they wanted their art to be without most of the record industry's dictatorship. Bookends is Simon and Garfunkel's masterpiece and also happens to be their first self-produced album.
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