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[jon_chaisson]

So...

This has been a strange couple of months. A whirlwind, to use a cliché. I can't get over the fact that, if all goes according to plan, I should be moving down to NJ with emmalyon and lynxreign and inochinoakari at the end of the month. It only took me ten years to move out of the house!! Sheesh! I love my family to bits, but I gotta move out. I just turned 34, and I gotta move my life forward or else I'm going to turn into one of the drinkers in that damn Billy Joel song (you know which one that is, people... ;) ). And I really don't think I'd be able to handle that. But onward and upward, y'know? Positive thinking. Living life with someone I love, hanging with good friends, and giving myself the open channels to a career I've always wanted in the writing field.

Ah, life. :)

So I told Emm that I feel like I'm in my last few weeks of college, about to take the final final exams that I'll ever have to take in my life (barring graduate courses I may take)...a chapter of my life is FINALLY coming to a close. Like the autobiography I started writing in high school finally has an ending, so to speak. Weird, yes, but that's the way it feels. Also what weirds me out is the fact that I'll be leaving a job that I've had for close to five years. Despite the comfort of having a stable job, I really don't want to shlep boxes for the rest of my life. It's tiring me out and I'm losing interest. I think leaving before I really start slacking off there would be a good move...

More on this later, as I'm in the middle of talking with Emm on IM, so I'll leave you with something that's been going through my head lately: songs dealing with moving out/away/on...

The Cure, "Homesick" (from Disintegration)
Electric Light Orchestra, "Steppin' Out" (from Out of the Blue)
Information Society, "Move Out" (from Hack)
Billy Joel, "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" (from The Stranger)
Talk Talk, "It's My Life" (from It's My Life)
U2, "Where the Streets Have No Name" (from The Joshua Tree)

If anyone can think of any other songs...

Comments

[head58.livejournal.com]

"She's Leaving Home" by some band you've probably never heard of :)

And that song I can't remember the name of from a few years back about the elderly couple that just up and leave and take to the road..."The Way" maybe?

[dasmarzipan.livejournal.com]

The Way by Fastball?

[head58.livejournal.com]

That's the one. All those late 90s bands all kinda run together in my little brain. Marcy's Smashball Ray. Or something like that.

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

Marcy's Smashball Ray. I like it. I should use that somewhere... ;)

[dasmarzipan.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I have one!!!
"Movin' Right Along" sung by Kermit and Fozzie Bear from "The Muppet Movie".

(ps...It's my Theme Song! Or one of them...)

Movin' Right Along
In search of good times and good news
With good friends you can't lose
This could become a habit
Opportunity knocks once, let's reach out and grab it
Together we'll nab it
We'll hitchhike, bus, or Yellow-Cab it
Cabit?

More Lyrics (http://kvetchandsketch.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_kvetchandsketch_archive.html#109030033107165684)

[emmalyon.livejournal.com]

YES!!!!!

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I'm suddenly teleported back to seeing that movie at the drive-in... :p

[emmalyon.livejournal.com]

Ooo-oooold.....

[juniperblue.livejournal.com]

What about Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again"?

[urnesha.livejournal.com]

hahaha I love you. You're probably the only person in this circle that would suggest Williw Nelson. :D Well other than me. lol

[chaoticmoth.livejournal.com]

"Movin' on up" from the Jeffersons?
:)