Keep Calm and Carry On
K’naan is so wildly optimistic and joyful that it’s almost confusing.
Last year at Romero House I found one of his songs on a mix cd in the communal van and I was like ,”What in the hell is this? It’s so hopeful.”
Anyways, ’bout two weeks into my yearlong stint at RH, the cd player in the communal van jammed with K’naan stuck inside. And that was that.
K is kind of like the US election live on CNN and the comedy network, personified. Because watching Obama win was a pure joy, and I wanted to let all pessimism and criticism seep out of me. But the… hope (if you will) of that moment was greeted with just enough suspicion in the room to really take things down a notch. We were happy! But not too happy.
Optimism really makes my demographic tense. We discuss Obama in calm voices. I listen to K’naan in secret.
But I pulled this off the blogto site this morning because it improved my mood (tensely). Give it a watch and good lord, hopefully you’re from a different demographic than I am.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMwpVF58c2c]
