Rainbows and Butterflies
I’ve been listening to Mum’s first full-length album, Yesterday Was Dramatic — Today Is OK lately. Mum is a Minimalist Glitch Pop band from Iceland. It’s a great soundtrack for working on the book. The first album is definitely more “glitch” and less “pop” than their second album Finally We Are No One, but I adore it.
I’ve also been listening to a lot of The Carpenters. I stream my personalized radio station on LaunchCast, at home and at work. No one else listens to music at work, so my co-workers let me play music through speakers. The classic Carpenters song We’ve Only Just Begun starts playing, and the co-worker ridicule sets in immediately. “Dude. We go from Ministry to The Carpenters?!”
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Allen works for another company but is in my office. He is my age, and is the only person who “gets” my 70s nostalgia. I remarked to him, “You know, this music is like a soundtrack for the book.” I explained that it instantly takes me back to the local pool of my childhood (Fuller Pool, for those who know Ann Arbor). Listening to We’ve Only Just Begun, I can just smell the bright chlorine on a hot, lazy summer day. I remember scrounging for that extra nickel to buy a Hostess Fruit Pie from the snack stand (they cost $0.35). All the while, loudpeakers blasting Air Supply or The Carpenters.
Finishing my explanation to Allen, I added, “That’s the effect I want the book to have on people. When you open it, I want rainbows and butterflies to just fly out of the book.”
Allen looked at me stone-faced for a moment. Then, shaking his head with a smirk he asked rhetorically:
“And I’m the one who’s gay?!”
Benjamin
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