Asteroid City
- Rachel Jeong
- Jul 18, 2024
- 1 min read
MUSIC, Philosophy
by Rachel Jeong
Listen to Asteroid City
Lyric video (make sure to turn up video quality all the way)
Asteroid City
It might be confirmation bias, but I had watched Asteroid City by Wes Anderson after I had written and attempted this song a few times, and it was like the movie just read the song's mind.
These three minutes describe an experience of being awake at a time where the world seems silent, pushing up the bedroom window, and just sitting in front of and looking out of it. it describes the quasi-anagnorisis of your existence, meaning, and place in the universe. a transformative experience that changes the positionality of your being in your mind, and therefore relative perspective. it’s a cosmic consciousness that only comes out at night, as day is filled with an unconscious busy restlessness. asleep during the day, awake during night. But it's a comfort to see the expanse of a sky and stars and airplanes filled with other humans going to places during the night (sonder).
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