vices and virtues thoughts
Mar. 28th, 2011 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sailorstkwrningsummary: I like it, overall. I'm especially fond of Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind), Hurricane, The Calendar and Always. It's kind of wobbly in places, but, all things considered: they did well.
- Brendon strikes me as a very direct sort of person. He does best when he's just telling the story; it's when he tries to make things fantastical that he ends up in the weeds. But they are very charming weeds, and I'm kind of fond of them.
- The "I'm the light at the end of the road/blink back to let me know" line in Always suddenly reminded me today of the "I'm putting out the lantern/find your own way back home" line in Folkin' Around, which, I realize could be taken two ways, either "I'm turning off the light, find your own way home" OR "I'm leaving a light on, but you can find your own way home", but whichever way you want to read it: narrator (Brendon?) = the light in the darkness.
- Summer comes up again in The Calendar, echoing both from When the Day Met The Night ("When the Day Met The Night/In the Middle of Summer") and Folkin' Around ("Summer lasted longer than/longer than we two"), though this time Summer is "on it's deathbed".
In When the Day Met The Night, Night/the moon = Ryan ("hey moon please forget to fall down" being, I think, his plea with himself to not fuck up) and the Day was Keltie; summer was, I suspect, the condition of being in a band with his friends. Brendon has said that The Calendar is specifically about the demise of Panic 2.0, so I feel pretty comfortable interpreting summer as the band, in that context.
- also in The Calendar, there's "The world may call it a second chance /But when I came back it was more like a relapse", a faint echo of the "relapse relax" in Camisado
- Night also reappears, in one of the bonus tracks - I Wanna Be Free - with "Is there a heart inside the night/I can feel it's vital signs." Whether or not "Night"=Ryan here is open to question, but . . . that was how I took it.
Also all of the Ryan as Night/moon and Brendon-as-light (Sun?) would be contiguous with Jon Walker's "I don't need the sun and the moon to tell me what to do."
- And the one that made me cluck and think ouch!, from Bittersweet:
- Brendon strikes me as a very direct sort of person. He does best when he's just telling the story; it's when he tries to make things fantastical that he ends up in the weeds. But they are very charming weeds, and I'm kind of fond of them.
- The "I'm the light at the end of the road/blink back to let me know" line in Always suddenly reminded me today of the "I'm putting out the lantern/find your own way back home" line in Folkin' Around, which, I realize could be taken two ways, either "I'm turning off the light, find your own way home" OR "I'm leaving a light on, but you can find your own way home", but whichever way you want to read it: narrator (Brendon?) = the light in the darkness.
- Summer comes up again in The Calendar, echoing both from When the Day Met The Night ("When the Day Met The Night/In the Middle of Summer") and Folkin' Around ("Summer lasted longer than/longer than we two"), though this time Summer is "on it's deathbed".
In When the Day Met The Night, Night/the moon = Ryan ("hey moon please forget to fall down" being, I think, his plea with himself to not fuck up) and the Day was Keltie; summer was, I suspect, the condition of being in a band with his friends. Brendon has said that The Calendar is specifically about the demise of Panic 2.0, so I feel pretty comfortable interpreting summer as the band, in that context.
- also in The Calendar, there's "The world may call it a second chance /But when I came back it was more like a relapse", a faint echo of the "relapse relax" in Camisado
- Night also reappears, in one of the bonus tracks - I Wanna Be Free - with "Is there a heart inside the night/I can feel it's vital signs." Whether or not "Night"=Ryan here is open to question, but . . . that was how I took it.
Also all of the Ryan as Night/moon and Brendon-as-light (Sun?) would be contiguous with Jon Walker's "I don't need the sun and the moon to tell me what to do."
- And the one that made me cluck and think ouch!, from Bittersweet:
I've been to Tokyo and to South Africa
So many places that you might say I've seen it all
But my favorite place is the warm embrace
Of holding your hair back in a bathroom stall
