Blog about Love, Chris Larson
In the gestational days of the blog, I often wondered what
the blog would be about. Topics that simply leap out of my mind and into the
internet are few and far between. The only one that was at all transcendental
in nature was the simple intro blog that I
added when I set the blog up. But as I sat here in the office/computer room of
my parent’s house with my little brother, JJ, playing Stronghold Crusaders
Edition; with my fiancée asleep on the couch downstairs and with my parents and
my other brother, Matt, somewhere else in the house, I felt a great deal of
love for and from them all. I think that will be the next entry for the
Bombshell Academy blog: Love in relation to the band, Bombshell Academy.
All of the band members have rather different upbringings,
current belief system and moral codes. This has lead us to great conversations
before and after whatever relevant event we were gathered for. In all of the conversation,
comparison and sometimes debate (all of which I am grateful to say was civil
and friendly), we have found that love is the most important component to all
of our convictions. Love, in this context, is not the fiery passion of romance.
I am thinking more of the affection for man that the Greek Poet Terence listed
in his timeless statement his play Heauton
Timorumenos: “I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me.” Truly,
I hold that there is nothing that is unusual about humans who at the least try
to do that which is good.
This is the love that we want to see in the world. Take Me Back, one of the kernel songs of
BSA, has the opening line of “Don’t want any enemies,/ That makes you all
friends to me,/…” and later on it says “Everyday is better than the rest,/ As
the sun sets in the west…” Though the song is more about having a good time on
the beach, these statements are cardinal hopes of many who hold a similar
interest in the beach and for the carefree life. One hopes for a world without
animosity; a world where people get along; and a world with a positive
affirmation for our other human counter parts. We hope for also for each day to
be better than the one that ends. Though we hope for this universal
brother/sisterhood, one must realistically acknowledge that we aren't there.
One hopes that they will see the death of hate and the birth of a time where
all love.
In a small way, we hope that the general tone of our music
makes some kind of contribution to that love. Overall, this will call for a
positive tone for many things, especially our discourse. Our happy ska music is
always upbeat and positive despite sometimes being based around some rather
mortal topics like heartbreak, frustration and pity. This is the realist in us
meeting and getting along with the idealist in us. The idealist gets its happy
music and the realist gets its grounded lyrics. I think that usually brings a
balanced approach to musically distribution of positivity.
All in all, I maintain that it is a wonderful world that we
live in. All I hope is that by the end of my time in it, that I will have made
a positive contribution to it.
