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The Gypsy List
Sep. 17th, 2002 04:52 amContext: There used to be only one song which I could listen to on single repeat for hours, that being the song "Gypsy" by Suzanne Vega.
She went to the school across the street from where I went, and I feel that it gives me a little bit of extra context, at least for her earlier work (let's say, up to and including "Solitude Standing"). There was a certain amount of smug satisfaction that went along with knowing that just the night before, you inhaled a plate of gravy fries at the same place she sung about in one of her more popular songs. The fact that said place has turned into a shrine for a certain now-in-syndication television show makes it even more amusing.
Oh, for the days of guiltless gravy-fry inhalation at Tom's Restaurant (111th and B'way). It was never called "Tom's Diner", but suffixing a song with "Restaurant" has been done once in recent memory, and it stuck.
Note: It's 4am. I get to digress as much as I want. Neener.
Back to "Gypsy". I can think of times during my freshman year when that song, on single-repeat, saw me through all-night coding sessions (as freshman years are wont to require), the aftermath of a couple of psychodramas (as freshman years are wont to engender), and other times when I was feeling very alone (see previous parenthetical statement). It was ultimately comforting; a perpetual waking lullaby.
I now have another song to add to the one-song list that Gypsy was on. "Are You Out There" by Dar Williams. Same purpose, but completely different tack. Its theme is much more "I'm determined, and I'll do what I have to do", rather than "in the end, it's all okay", but it serves the same purpose; something that gets you through.
Query: What's on your "Gypsy List"?
She went to the school across the street from where I went, and I feel that it gives me a little bit of extra context, at least for her earlier work (let's say, up to and including "Solitude Standing"). There was a certain amount of smug satisfaction that went along with knowing that just the night before, you inhaled a plate of gravy fries at the same place she sung about in one of her more popular songs. The fact that said place has turned into a shrine for a certain now-in-syndication television show makes it even more amusing.
Oh, for the days of guiltless gravy-fry inhalation at Tom's Restaurant (111th and B'way). It was never called "Tom's Diner", but suffixing a song with "Restaurant" has been done once in recent memory, and it stuck.
Note: It's 4am. I get to digress as much as I want. Neener.
Back to "Gypsy". I can think of times during my freshman year when that song, on single-repeat, saw me through all-night coding sessions (as freshman years are wont to require), the aftermath of a couple of psychodramas (as freshman years are wont to engender), and other times when I was feeling very alone (see previous parenthetical statement). It was ultimately comforting; a perpetual waking lullaby.
I now have another song to add to the one-song list that Gypsy was on. "Are You Out There" by Dar Williams. Same purpose, but completely different tack. Its theme is much more "I'm determined, and I'll do what I have to do", rather than "in the end, it's all okay", but it serves the same purpose; something that gets you through.
Query: What's on your "Gypsy List"?
