Pond Prompts - 3/26/08

My favorite song right now is...

One song I've really been enjoying lately is "Girlfriend Is Better" by Talking Heads. I like how funky it is, how rhythmic it is. I especially enjoy the bass line by Tina Weymouth. She did it on a synthesizer, not a bass guitar, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a killer bass part. It's the foundation of the whole song. I like the wobbly effect Tina puts on the last part of each repetition of the bass line. The "stop making sense" part is cool too. Overall, this song really rocks.

Are you afraid of death?

You know, the more I think about it, the more I think I shouldn't be afraid of it. To be afraid of something is to assume you will feel some sort of effect from whatever it is you're afraid of. I have no clue what happens after death, but I suspect nothing happens at all. If I won't be around to know I'm dead, what's the problem? Things don't work that way for people, because we value life. We value life so much that we fear death.

Ask me again in about 60 years and I might have a different, more definitive answer.