the Zephyr Song

Track six of Red Hot Chili Pepper's By the Way has been playing almost non-stop in my car while I drive around, and non-stop in my head all other times. The Zephyr Song seems to perfectly fit everything I've been doing here in Phoenix. Driving around in the wee hours of the morning. Driving around in the middle of rush-hour. People-watching at a coffee shop, working on my laptop, reading, lounging around. Standard Ray fare. But it's not just that the song makes a good soundtrack to my life, I find it very difficult to stay stressed while I'm listening to it. My worries just seem to melt away... and I drive really fast no matter what the traffic's like. The song just seems to have this infectious passion for life. It's along the same lines as what Kerouac said in On the Road:

"Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness-- everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being."

*shrug*