Its 7am in England and the sun hasn't risen yet and probably won't for another hour, only to set again by 4:30 due to the winter solstice. I've completed my postgraduate finals for this term and I am off until Jan, soI've been reflecting a lot lately on life. Professional gains, family losses, and peripheral assimilations such as new life in a new country, have all been on my mind lately. It was when I was sitting here listening to Spiritualized's song "shine a light" while looking over the rising horizon that I realized, I'm living the blues. I think we are all to great degree, it is just a matter of if we are listening to the song of our life. For me, I think it would be spiritualized (and lightning hopkins of course) playing within the score of my existence.

To bring my point home even more, I read an interview of J. Spaceman (frontman of spiritualized) where he said when he almost died earlier this year it was in a sense a beautiful experience. His words were, when he kept fading in and out in ICU he didn't see angels, no Dante revelations, no white lights and bright tunnels, but rather he only heard one thing. In a room with 5 other critically ill patients, he heard the music of everyone's heart monitors beeping at a different rate simultaneously and that it was analogous to a choir. Listening to himself alongside everyone else's heartbeat on the heart monitors in unison made a natural 'chorus' of collective biological music respective to everyone's respective rhythm within a small intensive care unit of that hospital.

Isn't that beautiful?

People talk about being in the present moment and embracing it regardless of the external circumstances or internal dispositions. True transcendance is what J experienced. Transcendance is why we all listen to BLISS or DOWNTEMPO because it provides a sense of euphoric 'hope' that was so common in early 20th century blues. In the midst of all your troubles, elation, when it seems like God isn't listening, or when everything in your life is going perfect, if you can have the ability of stopping to listen to the music of heartbeats in unison...then I say again,

Isn't that beautiful?

That's why I love Spiritualized! Till the the day I die, if J Spaceman doesn't beat me to it!..lol