Will It Take Strength To Be Gentle & Kind? – The Smiths Project – Day II

Day II

The Smiths Project – The Explanation

The random daily updates I will provide during this month long, far from world-changing experiment I am putting myself through will be written in a 1st and 2nd person dual point of view.  As a curious foray into the slipstream of narcissism,  I will be filling out a questionnaire that I have written.  The questions will remain consistent and to avoid the verbose rambling that I so easily revert to when baring down on the home keys, I will use pictorial rating systems and where appropriate, curt responses.

Is there anything you’d like to begin with to help isolate your particular mindset today?:

Today was full of drastic change as I said good bye to bottles of wine and peaceful freedom from obligation and hello to 5am and a viking boat full of more responsibility ready to rape and pillage my free-time.  I’ve always marveled at how quickly my blithe approach to a day, cultivated through weeks of vacation, slips away when faced with this ‘job’ business.

How would you describe your desire to listen to the Smiths today?

I was pretty excited to get this going.  Of all I know, which is shockingly little compared to what I think it should be, I like The Queen is Dead the most.

What Smiths did you listen to today?

The Queen is Dead, about 4 times and the self titled, Smiths record twice.

Why did you choose the Smiths that you listened to today?

I wanted to gain some impression of how enjoyable this process might be so I started with record I knew and liked the most.  Midway through the day I went for the debut record as I remember it containing a lot of songs I enjoy.

Did any one song standout to you today as best capturing your mood?

Outside of surface based lyrical content, which I’m slowly beginning to delve deeper into, I suppose This Charming Man makes the most sense to me today.  First day back, I felt that my ensemble needed to be well chosen – there was a little pressure to have more than a ‘stitch to wear‘.

Do you feel the Smiths affected your general mood today?

Not drastically.  There were a couple moments though, stuck in the middle of the I Know It’s Over and Never Had No One Ever combo where I felt a little more bleaker than I should have, being whirled up in the flurry of jarring change that was everywhere today.  It was hard to listen to ‘Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head‘ more than a few times and remain totally optimistic.

On a scale of 1 to 10 Morrissey in Peaceful Ecstasy faces, with 1 being catatonically bed ridden and 10 being elated, how did your Smiths listening experience make you feel today?

Using what we have been blessed with, use Google Images to find a seemingly unrelated random picture to describe your over all mood after listening to the Smiths all day:

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