When Jon Bon Jovi first advocated Livin’ on a Prayer in 1986, he seemed to be resigning himself to the gods of fate. I don’t subscribe to this view, nor the rock star sentiments of JBJ and his ilk.
Whilst it is true that it doesn’t really matter if we make it or not, if “making it” means fame and fortune, especially when the sentiment we’ve got each other, and that’s a lot encapsulates the very root of my approach to attaining happiness, I am certainly not content to await the lap of the gods, nor to do it wearing leather and hairspray.
And when in Romain Polland’s 1927 letter to Sigmund Freud he spoke of the sensational of the eternal – an oceanic sensation – which might explain religious sensations and feelings as opposed to hardened beliefs, he captured effectively the joyous impenetrability of the seas even for someone without religion.
I am happy to let the ocean fill me with oceanic feelings, staring out at borderless imponderables.
Iona by FCB Cadell
I am also certain that, in lieu of religion, moving towards the ocean is the most efficient way of improving one’s lot and taking fate into one’s own hands, so last weekend I moved with my partner to Brighton, away from the London monster which has had us ensnared for the last four years, and towards a future full of sensations of the eternal…
courtesy of Ben and Carol @flickr
..and on the way home from London on my first commute, I listened to the Dirty Three’s Ocean Songs – a reverential and majestic album – which in my opinion is able to recreate and inspire such oceanic feelings in the way only art is truly able.
And so as Mr, MR Warren Ellis says at the start of this beautiful clip of the Dirty Three playing The Restless Waves at Roma’s Circolo Degli Artisti,
Ladies and Gentlemen, No We Ain’t Fuckin’ Jon Bon Jovi
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