Amongst all the TV series I have seen in the last few years, CALIFORNICATION is easily the best one.
The first season was brilliant, focusing on the sexual highs and lows of HANK MOODY, the one time wonder, self deprecating writer played by David Duchovny. But the second season is quite simply fan-tas-tic !
Picking up where the first season left things, it shows Hank Moody struggling to live "happily everafter" with the woman of his life despite all his good intentions.
In addition to being hilarious, it also covers more serious grounds especially when Moody finds out he might have testicular cancer.
I have to admit I feel quite close to the Hank Moody character, without the screwing around but definitely a lot of the screwing up. And the latest episode I saw (IN UTERO, episode 10) got me thinking: what if you blinked and missed your life ? what if you took all the wrong turns ? and what if you blew all the chances that came your way. This is definitely a thought that comes to me quite often at the moment.
So I did what I do in such a case. Which is to write a song about it.
Here are the first verse of BLINK (working title obviously) which came to me yesterday in the whiteness of my bed sheets and the darkness of my thoughts:
I was blinking with the sun in my eyes / I didn't see my life pass me by / I was standing on the edge of a knife / I didn't see what happened to my life
Do you get that feeling sometimes ?