Moments ...

[shannon_a]

At 9pm or so last night, toward the end of DP's wedding banquet, the DJ started playing "I Wanna Be Sedated" by the Ramones. It's a quick, maniacal, frenzied song. Within a few seconds DP had recruited a number of his friends, including some of the folks from my gaming group (DS & DW) to rush the dance floor.

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go
I wanna be sedated
Nothing to do
Nowhere to go
I wanna be sedated

We all began to bounce wildly up and down--to "pogue" as DS calls it, swearing it's the only dance he knows. For the full three minutes of the song, a half-dozen or a dozen of us were gyrating up and down, the music blaring in the background, the entire banquet hall bouncing up and down before us. Arms stiff at our sides, leaping like salmon, we tried to reach the ceiling, the heavens.

Just get me to the airport
And put me in a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
I can't control my fingers
I can't control my brain
Oh oh oh ho

Then finally, blissfully, thankfully the song trailed off, fading into a slower, older piece, and we stumpled off the dance floor, sweat beading our faces, legs aching and on the verge of collapse, and we felt momentarily joined. Members of a community. Alive.

And that moment reminds me of a similar one, at ER's wedding, six months gone now. As the ceremony ended the DJ--the same DJ, as it happens--began to play "I Melt with You", by Modern English.

I'll stop the world and melt with you
You've seen the difference and It's getting better all the time
There's nothing you and I won't do
I'll stop the world and melt with you

And as ER and his new bride began to walk back up the aisle, the guests began blowing soap bubbles up into the sky. And I began to follow ER and his bride up the aisle, the maid of honor at my arm, and the sky was filled with rainbows and music, and everyone was standing and smiling, and there was love in the air too ...

And it was another moment it which I felt truly united.

Music offers catharsis & release, and sometimes I dearly wish life had a soundtrack all its own.

Comments

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

Life *does* have a soundtrack all it's own, even if it's only in my head.

But then, I'm unusual, too. ;)

[allorin.livejournal.com]

It does, bub - and the best thing is, *you* get to choose it!