2021.08.19
It turns out it's quite hard to come up with something original to say about love. But I've had a go:Man, I liked this show a LOT. Funny, sexy, fourth wall breaking - but also thoughtful and really moving.
Love is awful! It's awful. It's painful. It's frightening. Makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself. Distance yourself from the other people in your life. Make you selfish. Makes you creepy! Makes you obsessed with your hair. Makes you cruel! Makes you say and do things you never thought you would do! It's all any of us want and it's hell when we get there! So, no wonder it's something we don't want to do on our own.
I was taught if we're born with love, then life is about choosing the right place to put it. People talk about that a lot. It "feeling right". "When it feels right it's easy". But I'm not sure that's true. It takes strength to know what's right.
And love isn't something that weak people do. Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope.
I think what they mean is, when you find somebody that you love... it feels like hope.
Another good exchange:
"Let's just leave that out there just for a second on its own: I love you..."
"...It'll pass."
As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process in sound. Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don't agree with what they're playing. It teaches you the very opposite of racism and anti-Semitism. It teaches you that the world is big enough to accommodate us all.(Emphasis mine. Heard this recently attributed to Louis Armstrong, which is something that often happens to quotes like this...)
