"you still love rock and roll"
-jeff tweedy

i've been real into live music lately. something about a group of guys onstage just making some kind of racket seems important to me. not important like, "my kids are important", or "my girlfriend is important", but REALLY important. like holy grail type of shit.
or maybe i'm going hippy. the community of music...sum is greater than the parts...
but really creating something is the only thing that matters. living is just something you should do in order to create. cuz everything else is fleeting. momentary. trite. un. unimportant.

there's a moment on wilco's "kicking television" that i think is important. the album is recorded in the bands hometown of chicago. the moment is something you've heard a million times from skynard to ashley simpson shows. it's the crowd sing along. during "misunderstood", the opening song, mind you, jeff tweedy sings the lines: "you're short on long term goals/there's a party there that we oughta go to/you still love rock and roll/you still love rock and roll". the crowd isn't singing along into the "you still love rock and roll" line hits. it seems spontaneous. heartfelt. it's like good improvisation. the obligatory cheer follows but it sounds desperate, pleading. like rock is all there is that's left to love. like it's the only thing important in life.