Placebo - A song to say goodbye
Yon this past half year, Harrogate has enjoyed the incredible fortune of living across the street from Amy and Mr. Reads, known by way of
Arrogant Self-Reliance
This delectable couple has introduced Harrogate to a wonderful new universe of music, including such heavyweights (to name but a darling few) as Red House Painters, The Cranes, Muse, Spoon, and Sufjan Stevens.
But right now Harrogate has been solidly grooving to another gift from the Reads household, the bizarre candy-rock operettic tour de force known by millions across the globe simply as Placebo. To express his appreciation for their contribution to his aesthetic and moral development, Harrogate would like to dedicate this MTV video to Amy and Mr. Reads
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Note the subtle yet heroic efforts of that little boy (whose heartbreaking smile single-handedly puts existentialism in its rotten place, Harrogate must point out) to keep his father afloat in a rough and tumble world. Depressing yet uplifting all at once. Who says videos never get the job done?
"[E]xistentialism in its rotten place"?
The time has come for Solon and I to introduce you to A&M's own John J. McDermott. If anyone can help you find value in existential philosophy, then it's him.
Good to have you back!
Ah, Harrogate has heard of this mythical McDermott, and would love to get more insight into a philosophy which he has always held antagonistically, even though he knows he needs to learn more about it.
Perhaps the problem as it stands now is that existentialism seems, to Harrogate, far too stridently atheistic for his quasi-atheistic tastes.
There is a moment on the Placebo video (which Harrogate would love to get your opinion of, by the way, given your creds as a musical philisophizer and visionary steward of Texas's most famous Listening Room) where the child smiles melancholicaly, in such a way that suggests to the mind some sort of potentially benign determining order.
We humbly accept your Offering, and extend you Welcome to our home for the Giving of Thanks, forthcoming.
:)
Ciao,
Amy
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