{"id":180,"date":"2010-02-26T10:50:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T15:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2010-02-26T10:50:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T15:50:11","slug":"everybody-everybody-wants-to-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/everybody-everybody-wants-to-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody, Everybody Wants to Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed something recently.\u00a0 Both of the last two weeks, I&#8217;ve absolutely gotten obsessed with a single song.\u00a0 We&#8217;re talking humming the song obsessively to the dear wife.\u00a0 We&#8217;re talking 19 on the playcount within a few days.\u00a0 Last week&#8217;s was Ingrid Michaelson&#8217;s Everybody, and this week, it&#8217;s &#8220;Wagon Wheel,&#8221; by Bob Dylan and Old Crow Medicine Show.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody, everybody wants to love&#8230;<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ingrid Michaelson - &quot;Everybody&quot; (Be Ok tour, with full band)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iUcG2qg3kDI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>So rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chris Pureka - Wagon Wheel (06.21.2008) Flagstaff\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FHj2xmvZgfI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>The more interesting thing I noticed was that each seemed to be an absolute driving force in what my characters were going through in my draft of <em>The Book of the Dead<\/em>.\u00a0 Ingrid Michaelson sings about how everybody, everybody wants to love, and everybody, everybody wants to be loved&#8211;and it&#8217;s so true.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not just motivated by the desire to be loved (the more obvious one); we also want something <em>to<\/em> love.\u00a0 We want to find someone worthy of our love, so badly that we imbue them with all\u00a0sorts of noble qualities,\u00a0and it&#8217;s so painful when they let us down that we often turn a blind eye, or create absurd explanations.\u00a0 Or we want to love an activity so much that when we can&#8217;t pursue it the way we want to, we&#8217;ll bend all sorts of dimensions, including common sense and kindness, to make it go the way we want.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That was last week.\u00a0 Last week, my characters\u00a0were falling in love all over the place.\u00a0 This week, things are going kind of sucky for them, and what do they want?\u00a0 To be rocked.\u00a0 Rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain; rock me, mama, like a south-bound train.\u00a0 Hey-ey, mama, rock me now.\u00a0 The love is on a fast course to crashing, and they need a little comfort.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes well with my writing next week, things will go even worse for the characters.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t think what song will be adequate.\u00a0 Something with lots of screaming.\u00a0 Anybody know a song of loud, horrible, pained agony?\u00a0 Something by Kurt Cobain, maybe, except not the Tori Amos cover of &#8220;Smells Like Teen Spirit.&#8221;\u00a0 That&#8217;s the song I&#8217;ll play as everybody surveys the wreckage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any songs you&#8217;ve listened to obsessively during any particular period, of creativity or just life?\u00a0 (I vaguely remember KJL&#8217;s obsession with a certain song senior year of college, something with &#8216;ocean&#8217; 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