Monday, February 18, 2008

How this connects with hyperreality (bus ride)?

The bus ride i took is connected to hyperreality because when you watch what riding the bus is like on TV shows, and how when a character is always on the bus they are thinking about something happy, or something that has made them sad, or something that has made them angry. The intereesting thing about this is that, that is exactly the way i rode the bus.When ride the bus i'm either extremely annoyed by something or i'm excieted or just in a thining sate where i'm neither angry or sad. When we see characters on TV they are most of the time thinking about the events that have just happened in there lives. The funny thing is that this is how i find myself riding the bus, staring out the window, with everything on my mind. The songs i chose are, All We Are by OneRepublic, Twilight by Vanessa Carlton, Mad World by Gary Jules, Iris by Goo Goo Dolls, Drive by Incubus, Upside Down by Jack Johnson, and One Last Chance by James Morrison. i chose All We Are because i thought it was the perfect depiction of everybody on the bus and how no one says goodbye to one another but there is a curiosity of what people are like inside. And if we just maybe talk to each other we may find something that we never knew about. Next i chose Twilight, because to me the people on the bus are like some sort of twilight zone where the people that are outside, walking the streets are the people that are in reality and every time we step off the bus we go from twilight to reality. After that i chose Mad World, because when travelling on the bus it seemed as if the people outside were moving so fast, but when i looked on some people's faces i saw nothing, no emotion, no nothing, they seemed as if they were moving so fast with no final destination. This song relates directly to me because i dont exaclty kow who i am yet and i like the people outside the bus rush aorund, but find even where i thought i wanted to be, i dont want to be. Next i chose Iris, this song is the classic love song that when riding the bus i think about all those i have loved or had a crush and never did anything about because " i dont want the world to see me because i dont think that they'd(next verse:you) understand and when everythings meant to be broken i just want them to know who i am."For the next song i chose a classic in my opinion, Drive. This is my recovery song, that basically motivates me, in that yesterday was yesterday, and i need to get ready for whats coming next. Though they may not be seen as a Christian band or anything i have always been taught to live by the motto of, " whatever tomorrow brings i'll be there with open arms and open eyes." Upside Down is the next track. i chose this song because the sun came out and this is a light tune that reflects the season and the spaciness of how i think when i'm on the bus and how the world in different areas seems as if its turned upside down. The last song i chose is, One Last Chance. This song was for the homeless people that i see and how much it bugs me to have so much and to see people that just talk to themselves and wonder, just to know that you can't really do anything to help, just sucks. Being around homeless people others that i see on the street like business pay no attention, no body gives them a chance, no body seems to want to help them with maybe the last chance they have.

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