Man’s Best Friend

I watched Marley & Me last night. If you have (or have had) a dog, I reckon it’s a great film.

It brought back memories of our dog, Chester.

He wasn’t anywhere near as bad as Marley.  Favourite memories include my 3 year old (at the time) brother being scared of him when we first got him and climbing on the kitchen table to get away. Then there’s the imitating a fire engine siren that he did once, but disappointingly we couldn’t manage to entice out of him again. Hanging one of his toys on the washing line until he managed to jump high enough to get hold of it and bend the pole as he came back down was also pretty funny.

I’m not sure my parents were quite as attached to Chester as John and Jenny to Marley though. When we moved house, in an attempt to avoid the whole house being covered in hair and smelling of dog, he was banished from the living room once we got a new carpet. There were exceptions to this rule, he was allowed in on special occasions, by which I mean spiders were even less welcome in the living room and he was brought in to eat any that intruded.

Here’s another man’s tribute to a dog:

Let The Good Times Roll

How did I only just find out about this?!

George Clinton & the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Come on guys, it’s been almost 3 years since Stadium Arcadium, surely it’s time to at least start the next one?

Please.

My Interpretation ((Hey Oh))

I don’t think the following is what Anthony was thinking when he wrote these lyrics, apparently he’s into Kabbalah*, but when I listen to this song, this is what I’m thinking about. And I love it.

“Come to decide that the things that I tried
were in my life just to get high on.
When I sit alone, come get a little known,
but I need more than myself this time.”

Basically, things in this life don’t last, there’s an awareness that there’s something more to be had.

“Step from the road to the sea to the sky”

A reference to walking on water and ascension?

“When will I know that I really can’t go
to the well once more? Time to decide on”

You never know how long you’ve got left of this life, need to make sure you’re sorted before its too late.

“Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder
where it’s so white as snow”

“Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow…”
- Isaiah 1:18

“running through the field where all my tracks will be concealed”

Future sins are covered as well as past ones. (This is not a license to go on living in sin; but when we do fail, we are already forgiven.)

“When to descend to amend for a friend,
all the channels that have broken down”

God cannot tolerate sin, so he descended from heaven to take on himself the punishment we deserve, this allows us to have the relationship with him that we couldn’t have had otherwise.

* http://altern-rock.com/bands/rhcp-anthony-kiedis