Some Words

The letter writing went well today. I wrote letters to two old friends that I had largely lost contact with. Each of them got a couple of pages and a Muppet stamp, thank you U.S. Postal Service. My handwriting in printed letters has already improved. I might soon try some cursive. It felt good to write things out by hand again. I have always liked writing by hand over writing on a computer, as it slows me down. I think I create sentences that are less likely to be bloated crap. That may just be me romanticizing it though. When I first tried writing a novel, I wrote large portions of it out by hand. What stopped me was when I had to start moving it into a digital form for editing. In the end I decided that it just wasn’t worth it.

The other day YouTube helped me find a band. Several years ago I had seen a video while bored and watching MTV2. I didn’t catch the band id at the end though. All I heard was that the band was from Canada. For years I thought there was some Canadian band out there that I would just love, if I could remember who they were. I think my memories might have inflated my love of the song. A few weeks ago I looked up all the bands that had members who spent time with Broken Social Scene. Then I went to YouTube and started looking at the videos for these bands. I found it, Elevator Love Letter by Stars:

It’s not as good as I remember, not bad, but not the Canadian revelation I had dreamed of. I wish they’d stayed a myth. It’s always nice to think that there is another band out there just waiting for you to go nuts.