Moving Music 2: "Wishful Sinful"

  

John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison of The Doors

    This is the second installment of my Moving Music series. You can read the first one I did on “Blue Sky” by the Allman Brothers Band. I explain in the first paragraph of that post how I want to write about these different songs that have affected me in very profound ways. The song I will feature in this post is “Wishful Sinful” by The Doors.

Greenwich Village 1984

Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village
(photo by Jean Christophe Benoist)

    I was thinking recently of my teenage years. It seems so long ago that it doesn’t even seem like it was my life. I was thinking specifically of a time when I had this idea that I didn’t need any more information about how to live. I felt like I was an adult even though in reality I didn’t have much of a clue of what being an adult meant. Did you have a time like that when you were a teenager? Well for me that time was in the summer of 1984 in Greenwich Village.

Infinite Video

    My friend posted a video of her 3 year old daughter the other day. She was making different faces, an angry face , a surprised face, a happy face. It was absolutely adorable. As I watched, I realized that my friend probably has tons of pictures and videos of her daughter since the day she was born. And so does everyone else who has kids born in the past 10 years. I often wonder how this constant video will affect how children of that generation will perceive themselves as they grow up.