Love Is Blue

Cutter's Log - Stardate 0102.40.80
Current Song - Love is Blue (Paul Mauriat)

Today, I got a dose of an instrumental piece you may have heard on an oldies station. You know, that one with the string guitar and the piano doing some sort of French waltz? No, not Classical Gas.

You can probably say that Paul Mauriat's "Love is Blue" is my kryptonite. It's a song that closely resembles two of my favorite foreign films ("Bicycle Thieves" and "Band of Outsiders"). All active thought in my very active brain ceases for this moment.

In the words of a YouTube comment of an audio file of the song, "My heart sighs heavily."

More difficult than "A Tale of Two Cities," "War and Peace," and any early T.S. Eliot poem is the understanding of life's greatest adventure. Eventually we all finally understand the literary works, but it takes years to understand this adventure.

I feel like I'm back in the literature part of my English classes: Everyone is at the fun and exciting part, while I'm still trying to figure out what the first paragraph of the prolouge means.

Okay, so it means this ... and I advance forward in the reading.

NO! ... and I get thrown back to square one.

Again, I try to make sense of it and again I get thrown back.

I try many different ways. However, I'm unable to get anything off the ground. And as time goes on, the task gets even more difficult. These are the only ways I know, and they have all failed, even if I repeat them. And when I do repeat them, the fewer the people who hold me back - but I still get held back.

Avenues I once went down are permanantly being blocked quite a bit these days.

When, oh when, will that time come?

And which lady will it be? Who will strike me with a zap of romance?