BSOW: Can you be Perfect?

One of my favorite movies of all time is "Friday Night Lights". This, actually, makes complete sense to pretty much everyone. However, I don't love the movie because its about football in general or high school in particular. Nor because it has Connie Britton^sd1 in it, though normally either one of those would do it for me. FNL: The Movie, is about perfection. Which makes it right up my alley.

I don't know if anyone knows this but attempting to be perfect is the thing that gets me to do, well anything. It's the only thing that makes me try new things^sd2. Perfection is pretty much the goal in everything I do. Naturally I fail almost all the time. But that's not the point. The point is to try to be perfect each and every time you do something.

But what is perfection? Well, Coach Gaines defines it by saying:

Being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It's not about winning. It's about you and your relationship with yourself, your family and your friends. Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn't let them down because you told them the truth. And that truth is you did everything you could. There want one more thing you could've done. Can you live in that moment as best you can, with clear eyes, and love in your heart, with joy in your heart? If you can do that gentleman - you're perfect.

And I think that's a pretty good example of what personal perfection is. Perfection can also be when everything seemly comes together in a strange confluence of instances that can't really be explained or repeated.^sd3

Why am I talking about perfection all of a sudden? In a BSOW no less.

Because this week's song is frakking perfect.

I mean it. It's my favorite song in the history of songs. For a multitude of reasons. Mostly because it's just happy. Seriously. I mean, it makes me get up (or want to get up) and dance. And I can't dance^sd4. The beauty of this song cannot really be explained. It just has to be experienced

Postcards From Italy - Beirut

Postcards From Italy
Beirut
Gulag Orkestar

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sd1: were you aware that Connie Britton and Lauren Graham were once roommates? That's almost as hot of a room as me and Griz!

sd2: I'm well aware of the fact that it seems like i dont try new things. This is cake.

sd3:

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sd4: I really am stuck between making a Phil Collins reference or a slimy "that's the only part of the stereotype i don't fit" joke. Huh. I guess I just did both.