Tokyo Jihen - OSCA
My favorite band broke up today. I’m not, like, inconsolable. You live long enough and all your favorite bands break up. You barely feel anything about it.
I mean at one point today I wanted to kill someone, but it was mainly because I was interacting with employees of a large, hierarchical and public-facing organization, who were doing that thing where they get frustrated at you for being frustrated at how arcane and nonsensical their policies and procedures are, going Lower your voice sir and you’re all I’m just trying to understand and they’re all Well I’m trying to explain to you and you’re all WELL FINE GOOD THEN PLEASE DO THANK YOU and then they say six words that explain absolutely nothing and only prove your point, which they refuse to admit and it starts all over again and jesus fuck if they would just design forms that made sense anyways.
And then also I was crying and getting super emotional on my way to work and then on my way home but I think that was mainly only because I was reading Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, which, ugggh. It doesn’t even come out until March and it already has so many people freaking out about it that I was kind of skeptical! I was. I went in skeptical on this book I had no reason to be skeptical about. But it didn’t matter because the book fucking demolished me. I was like Am I going to like this? and then it was just sweeping over me.
Kind of like where some random link on some music blog years ago mentions this band from Japan doing really cool things and you’re like Wah? Japan? I don’t even speak Japanese, am I going to like this? And it doesn’t matter that you don’t understand any of the lyrics, you get it. You get their music and you feel every emotion of it, kind of better than you would if you knew the lyrics? Somehow? And they become your favorite and then one day they break up.
Anyways what I am saying is that I am doing about average.
