Version 1
Dear Watchful,
Yes, it is your song for today, but I also kind of wanted you to watch the Noir-esque video. Here is what I love:
It is long.
There is something about identity, here.
Candy Necklaces. I really love those- edible body ornament? Need I say more?
Lana Del Rey is the great mumble singer of our time, and I love that; mumble singing is a place often reserved for men, and she just takes that place, as if it were hers all along.
Jon Batiste.
The show about a show; kind of Droste.
Descending a staircase.
Version 2
Dear Watchful,
The title of your song for today has me thinking of things I love, but not the specific things, not the ding an sich, but the love, as a verb.
What do you do about a thing you love? Let us take, for example, a thing I have loved for most of my life, since childhood when I first got one of these pale, chalky beaded loops wrapped in crinkly cellophane: the candy necklace! There is nothing not to love, and if you are unsure of that, let me convince you!
It is sweet, it is candy, it is jewelry, it is ornament, it is meant for girls. It is beautiful; the pale pastel rainbow of it. It melts, it becomes sticky. It is awkward to eat if you are wearing it. It fits everyone's neck, its elastic self-adjusts. It is beads of sugar. It doesn't last at all. It is not at all valuable. Simulacrum. You see here, how one of the things I love about it is that it turns a lot of jewelry associations upside down and inside out? The sound of the words- the double hard c and the soft c ending, in other words, the poetry of it. Oh, and I almost forgot, it smells like sugar, too. A certain kind of sugar, dubiously sweet, like those baby aspirin smell.
Back to what to do with things you love- just now, I gave you a written paean to the candy necklace, but I have seen beautiful polymer clay versions of it for wearing without getting a sticky neck, and I could imagine making a painting, or opening a candy shop, just so you could show your love for the candy necklace. You could name your band Candy Necklace. You could embroider it on your shirt. All of these things for love of a thing.
