Kodachrome

So I'm listening to Kodachrome by Paul Simon and could not stop laughing because it reminds me so much of Larry.  Larry who seems to revel in the past while loathing the present.

Ok maybe he doesn't loath the present, but he certainly does favor the past.

"If you took all the girls I knew when I was single

Brought them all together for one night

I know they'd never match

My sweet imagination

And everything looks worse in black and white"

Now I'm wondering, would the girls be better than he imagined or worse?  I think they'd be worse, it seems like we (being silly humans) have a tendency to elevate people and things to such a degree of amazingness that when we look back on them we think "Holy smokes how is it that I survive without that person/thing?"

Maybe I'm being ridiculous right now but I'm pretty sure there are plenty of people who know exactly what I'm talking about.  Wouldn't it be nuts if we could just what the song says though?  Bring all those elevated things or people together and realize that they aren't actually all we build them up to be.  Not to say that people who are remembered as being wonderful aren't, just that they probably aren't nearly as perfect as made out to be.  

This is probably just stress and pent up gobble-dee-goop talking...  Sometimes you just need to blab to figure out what it is you're actually thinking.

Indo in five days.  Holy crap.