I may be dooming myself by writing about this song. I may be dooming the site in general as well. Right about now you'll be asking yourself why. All I can say is that if you read on, you'll find out.
This song is, hands down, one of the top five most beautiful songs ever made. It's one of my favorites and has been since the day I first heard it. You may or may not have heard of the band Porcupine Tree, a British progressive rock band started by self-centered musical genius Steven Wilson. I first heard of them from my brother, who's influenced of the music I listen to now a whole lot, when we were in the car, March 2006. We were headed to the Janesville mall, and he started playing a CD that began like many that he listened to, and I wasn't very impressed, or at least I didn't pay attention to it. Then Lazarus started and I fell into it. I felt like I was inside the piano, jumping on the strings. (on with it)
So I loved the song, and it's the one that got me listening to the band, even though I feel terribly "mainstream" for saying so. Since I love the song, and it's perfectly suited for many occasions I've used it as the background music for some projects.
The first project I used it on was a music video for my Computer Multimedia class. It was a very simple concept, too. I would be walking down the hallway and gathering "random" students the come with me and "follow me down" as the song says. Cheezy, but it was the best idea in the class, since the room was filled with underachievers. I invited about a hundred students to meet me after school to work on it and participate. About half of them said yes, they'd be there, and a few more said they'd consider it. This was fine with me, since I really only needed thirty to pull it off.
Nobody showed up that afternoon. Okay, about four people did, but they were really close friends, so I wouldn't expect any less from them. So I had to completely rethink what to do for the video, and I ended up going around with my friends and videotaping some things that were going on around the school. I filmed some cheerleaders and gymnastics people practicing, and some guys out on the soccer field and then I put in some pictures of the informational pamphlets in the nurse's office and made a little musical documentary about AIDS. Wasn't what I planned on, but it worked out alright, and I liked the finished product. Even though I had to re-do it once because the file disappeared on the computer I was using.
By this time I thought this song may be bad luck. Bad things seemed to happen when I tried to work with it, and I wondered jokingly to myself how many times they had to record it before it worked.
After that summer I moved to Independence, WI, where I had nothing to do all day but sit around and watch TV, so one day I got bored and decided to use my new digital camera to start making a video. I forgot about the problems I'd had with the song, and I'm not a very superstitious person anyway, so I used this song as the background music. I got two hours, and about halfway into it, and the movie making program closed for no reason. I'd forgotten to save the whole time I'd been working, so I lost the whole thing. I was CRABBY for the rest of the day.
I decided that the song was cursed then, and said I'd never do anything with it but listen to it. Now I'm writing about it on Jamsbio, and I started writing this TWO DAYS AGO. I finished it even, and right as I went to save it, the site hit a glitch and I lost it. Therefore, I've been saving this in Wordpad after every paragraphs and coming back to it after a while. I don't know what could possibly go wrong with BOTH of these, unless the whole computer shuts down, which wouldn't even get rid of the Wordpad file.
The song is cursed.
Here's hoping that it works............
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