"I went to the gate to ask where was her dorm
This guy made me fill out a visitor's form" - Biz
"I am a visitor here; I am not permanent" - P.S
Hello friends and happy Autumn. Once again we are gathered here today to get though this thing called life. If we're lucky life offers moments of wonder, amazement and inspiration. Grateful to have those experiences but no matter how hard we try challenges, hardships and true life horrors end up knocking loudly on our doors. While these aren't favorite moments of mine, I believe I enjoy the Halloween season and the Fall as a way to cope with the inevitability of the dark times. It's a time to embrace the scary, conquer fears and own the melancholy and underlining themes of death. Instead of fearing it, we acknowledge and hope to appreciate the present moment knowing that around the corner something wicked this way comes.
Let's dive head first into some of those darker edges of the human experience. One pain that most of us go through is the dissolution of relationships. These come in many forms whether it's family, friendship, home towns or lovers. Today's songs deal with the changes in environment and forced growth most specifically post high school. The time when you're separated from lifelong friends that go away to college, move out of town for work or stay put and don't leave home. After time apart everything seems different. People gain new friends, acquire new interests or just become brand new people. It's perhaps most challenging for the people that are left behind and move at a different pace. So far I've felt that friendships can pause and that after some time apart rekindling and rediscovering is possible. After a certain amount of time it's easier to pick the people you want to spend time with rather that just having geography in common. For romantic partners, well that's a different story. I relate to these songs because I did have a partner that was in a different environment after high school and as much as you think you'll will be different, you end up drifting apart and feel like a stranger or like in the songs below, "a visitor." Most of us have been the dumper and the dumpee and as a veteran of both roles I don't find either position pleasant.
Since the theme of today's post is being the visitor or outsider, there's lot's of scary movies to chose from. Let's go with an all time favorite or mine from my youth, 1987's The Lost Boys. It's hard fitting in as the new kid but imagine if it involved becoming a Vampire...or a Vampire Hunter! Not sure if it's coincidence or if I willed it into existence, but this is the third fall in a row where I've seen a performance from a Lost Boy Alumnus. Two of which happened right down the street from my house and one a quick flight to NYC. Two years ago I caught Corey Feldman's (Edgar Frog) band, last year I witnessed the sax man himself, Tim Capello (Beach Concert Star) in concert and just this past weekend I saw Alex Winter (Marko) on Broadway! All pictures above and below from my personal collection. If Kiefer Sutherland gets his band back together I'll check it out next year. Happy Halloween everyone! Hope to share more tunes and movies over the coming weeks. Cheers. Oh since it's been a minute also included is a bonus trailer. As a Stephen King freak I read this book years ago but didn't catch the movie till the Covid year. Quite a few cinematographic nods in the Lost Boys from 1979's Salems Lot. Solid vampire double feature for the season.
