I heart the guitar ones.
I don’t know if it has anything to do with the fact that some of my earliest memories of my dad put a guitar in his hands… Spanish-sounding chord runs, Puff the Magic Dragon, old hymns, Simon and Garfunkel.
I don’t know if it has anything to do with the fact that I spent every summer at camp, where beat-up Takamines and Yamahas and Martins rested awkwardly in the arms of skinny kids playing “More Than Words” and U2 songs by ear.
I don’t know if it has anything to do with my friend Rene, who used to play James Taylor songs for me in stairwells in college, when I was very sad or very happy.
I don’t know if it has anything to do with the fact that the first person I ever fell in love with… really, really fell… was a better musician than he was anything else.
It just is. I love guitar-playing guys.
Not that every boy with a pack of strings in his back pocket is worth listening to.
Some bring tunelessness or affectation or imitation or arrogance or obviousness. And no one wants that, not even a die-hard like me.
But.
I’ve always just had this sense that I’ll get my own someday.
So, in celebration:
One of my favourite songs, ever. And yes, my dad can play it.
A lullaby I sing to babies all the time.
Yeah.
March 13th, 2007 at 9:23 am
You know, I’ve been playing my guitar a lot lately. Too of my favourites along similar lines are Neil Young’s “Borrowed Tune” (only bad covers on YouTube) and Sufjan Stevens’ “Casimiar Polaski Day” (http://youtube.com/watch?v=17SqVt1GCa8), which is a gorgeous, whispered lullaby to a dying girl.
March 13th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
There’s something about the guitar…Nice More Than Words reference too :)
March 13th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
I’m the same way. And I finally got me a guitar boy! I hope you get you one too. :)
March 13th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Heh, you know, I kind of skimmed this entry, and went from the title to the links. I see, in retrospect, that I awkwardly look like a guitar playing boy. I am, only very casually, and didn’t really, uh, mean to position myself as such. If you get my meaning.
March 13th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Ha! Such is the danger of skimming, DB…
March 14th, 2007 at 1:57 am
What do bassplayers do for you, Meg?
March 14th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
GUITARS rule the musical universe. Period.
Thanks for the links, they were great.
March 14th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
I agree so much that I am going to blog about it myself! (And I loved the links too!!)
March 15th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Ah, guitar guys…yes. I try not to think of this interest as an affliction, but that’s what it’s turned out to be in real life. So I just stick with famous ones lately - less drama, more not-so-guilty pleasure.