Musical Time Machine: After All This Time by Itchyworms

I always believed that just like how water refracts light, that is how the heart perceives time.  The heart doesn’t recognize chronology, it may only knows two things: stability and brokenness. And we don’t realize it, but the heart could be the time traveling vehicle we’ve all fantasized all along.

Even just by hearing the intro of Itchyworms’ new single After All This Time, I can’t help but get transposed to my vague memories of the 80’s. (I’m born in ’87 but I’ve lived vicariously through John Hughes’ films. Some Kind Of Wonderful is my favorite.) But this musical DeLorian just didn’t take me back to the 80’s, it took me back to the most painful heartbreak of my life. And it’s no aged film, every memory is Blu-ray clear.

But every thing (and every person) has its limits – even heartbreak. After all, a heartbreak is just a memory. Yes, you can come back to it any time you want but there’s nothing you can change about it. You can only navigate your life now and the decisions you will make, pixels that make a clearer picture of the future. Like what Ely Buendia’s character in the movie San Lazaro said:

Thus, make art.

Make art that could possibly get used for your favorite band’s new single.

Nakakakilig, it’s available in the iTunes store, all ready and easy (and affordable) for download.

Thank you so much, Itchyworms, especially Jazz Nicolas. You don’t know how much happy this made me, it actually glued together some of the cracks of my heart!

Special thanks to www.bandageboy.tumblr.com for the San Lazaro screen cap with subtitles.