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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Hotel

Today I took a break from work and wandered through the skyways to Target where I picked up Moby’s new album, Hotel. After listening to it for the past hour or so, I have to say that I like. I especially like his liner notes and, like a Bible Study group sharing their favorite verses, I wanted to share some of it:

Hotels fascinate me in that they’re incredibly intimate spaces that are scoured every 24 hours and made to look completely anonymous. people sleep in hotel rooms and cry in hotel rooms and bathe in hotel rooms and have sex in hotel rooms and start relationships in hotel rooms and end relationships in hotel rooms and etc and etc, but yet every time we check into a hotel room we feel as if we’re the first guest and we get very upset if there’s any remnant of a previous guest’s stay. something about this idea, that these intimate spaces are wiped clean every 24 hours fascinates me. that we enter a hotel room and it becomes our biological home for awhile and then we leave. in some ways it’s similar to the human condition.

we exist and we strive and we love and we cry and we laugh and we run around and we sleep and we build things and we have sex and then we die and, not to sound too depressing, the world is wiped clean of our biological presence. which, from my perspective, makes our brief biological time here all the more precious due to its relative brevity.

Posted by Aaron on April 13, 2005 2:45 PM