Rabbits swimming in their tanks – Photographs by Zhou Hongbin – From Myturtleneck
David and I would like to thank Catherine Mangosing, the gloriously gifted designer and curator of all things inspiring, for featuring our song “Reckless” on her blog, MyTurtleneck: Documenting Inspiration.
Read the full article at MyTurleneck here >
Catherine and I go way back to a time when Google was new. Back when we shared a desk in a makeshift office on 25th Street churning out websites for a random assortment of start-ups dealing in everything from poultry sales to online lease trading. Back then we found our inspiration in the shopping sprees, loft parties and rooftop bars that came to define those years—before the inevitable burst of the dot-com bubble.
In her review of “Reckless” Catherine wonders if the song isn’t “a memory of a certain time in our lives” and I suppose she’s right. As bright as that period was—being caught in the whirl of a new creative life, making real money, and feeling like I was actually becoming an adult—it was also an incredibly disembodied experience, feeling separated from the kind of close relationships I’d had at Bennington (where I’d entered into a student body of 385 and graduated with about 80). Now, I’d found myself in the frantic outer world of my early 20s, hovering around hundreds of friends, yet connected to only a handful—Catherine being one of them.
House party in 2001 / Photo by Sparrow Hall
At that moment in history, it seemed as if everyone was in their early 20s, that we were all bright young things, that time had clicked in our favor. Business and culture were due for a changing of the guard and we had stepped in at just the right moment to be handed the keys. Then, New York City was a thriving, sprawling empire and the number of people you would meet on any given night carried with it a spirit of discovery, but also carelessness, and a lack of consequence. We were living a great experiment, and so we were all experiments to one another. I can hear some of that when I listen to “Reckless.” It’s not really a song about where I am now (nor David, who wrote it with me), but a memory of those nights, in those bars and clubs, and all the places where we went to make a connection only to find ourselves lost in the crowd.
