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before sunrise
October 2009 
come here
Posted on Jun 3rd, 2009
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Listening to the radio last night I chanced upon the discovery of one of those not-so-well-known legends, a haunting folk singer called Kath Bloom, whose exquisite poetic folk melancholy reminds me of Joni Mitchell (who is so close to my heart).
Synchronicstically, as I was looking her up it turned out that one of her songs was featured in Before Sunrise. A really beautiful little movie by director Richard LInklater with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delphy. In it, two young travellers meet by chance on a train and spend twelve hours together exploring a city and each other, and in so doing end up connecting with brief intensity in love.
Interestingly for me, Hawke and Delphy are of my generation so the follow up movie, Before Sunset which picks up their story again some eight years later, temporally followed my own growing beyond young adulthood and so it has in some way, seemed to follow the contours of some of my own questions about love and life.
The two movies question their chance meetings : what of our missed opportunities? the paths we don't follow?, what of randomness? ...synchroncity?, the magic of heart connections, do we have a soul mate?, what of the way love's presence and loss cuts into us?, what of our regrets and dissatisfactions with compromise?
... and Kath Bloom's music fits these questions most exactly...
"there's a wind that comes in from the north and it says that loving takes its course.... come here.... "
Synchronicstically, as I was looking her up it turned out that one of her songs was featured in Before Sunrise. A really beautiful little movie by director Richard LInklater with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delphy. In it, two young travellers meet by chance on a train and spend twelve hours together exploring a city and each other, and in so doing end up connecting with brief intensity in love.
Interestingly for me, Hawke and Delphy are of my generation so the follow up movie, Before Sunset which picks up their story again some eight years later, temporally followed my own growing beyond young adulthood and so it has in some way, seemed to follow the contours of some of my own questions about love and life.
The two movies question their chance meetings : what of our missed opportunities? the paths we don't follow?, what of randomness? ...synchroncity?, the magic of heart connections, do we have a soul mate?, what of the way love's presence and loss cuts into us?, what of our regrets and dissatisfactions with compromise?
... and Kath Bloom's music fits these questions most exactly...
"there's a wind that comes in from the north and it says that loving takes its course.... come here.... "
Kath Bloom / Come Here
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