pilates help

Pilates. Whats it all about? I would appreciate any details
And we're all allowed to dream of the next time we touch.
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  • kimsukimsu Posts: 6
    Yes, me too! Were only "ten" members privy to this song??
  • KatKat Posts: 4,871
    Here are a few things Jeff said at the time about Pilate. :)
    Love,
    Kat

    From 1998 Guitar World article:

    GW: But why does Pilate have a dog.

    Ament:...Have you ever read the THE MASTER AND MARGARITA [by Mikhail
    Bulgakov]? I just read that book, and at the end they talk about
    Pontius Pilate being all alone on a mountain with his dog. He couldn't
    sleep and he couldn't function. It really struck me hard, because at
    that point I was feeling very alone. I've always had this recurring
    dream about being old and just me and my dog sitting on the porch. It
    wasn't necessarily a sad dream or a premonition, but it did get me to
    thinking about why Pilate was so alone and freaked out. Then I realized
    he didn't get to finish his conversation with Jesus, that's why he can't
    function, because he didn't tie up the loose ends in his life.

    From: Guitar World "All For One"
    by Vic Garbarini
    March, 1998


    GW: Your songs on Yield seem too reflect that process. "Pilate" is all
    frenzied frustration, while "Low Light" is like a hymn, serene and at peace.
    But why does Pilate have a dog?

    JA: I think "Pilate" was the question I was asking myself, and "Low Light"
    was the answer, the realization. Have you ever read The Master and Margarita
    [by Mikhail Bulgakov]? I just read that book, and at the end they talk about
    Pontius Pilate being all alone on a mountain with his dog. He couldn't sleep
    and he couldn't function. It really struck me hard, because at that point I
    was feeling very alone. I've always had this recurring dream about
    being old and just me and my dog sitting on the porch. It wasn't necessarily
    a sad dream of a premonition, but it it did get me to thinking about why
    Pilate was so alone and freaked out. Then I realized he didn't get to finish
    his conversation with Jesus- *that's* why he can't function, because he
    didn't tie up the loose ends in his life. Later, I was playing the guitar,
    and I was hit so hard by this amazing emotion. In that moment the words "low
    light" came out, and somehow those were the only words to explain what I was
    feeling. It was a kind of greatfulness at finding that place of calm and
    peace at my center and getting a glimpse of the person I could choose to be.
    It was the purest happiness that I've experienced in a long time, that
    particular emotion. God, I thought I was going to explode. I feel very
    lucky to have been able to put it down on tape that morning and work through
    it until it became a song.
    Falling down,...not staying down
  • paintEDbigpaintEDbig Posts: 11
    it's a bit like yoga
    Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

    Calvin to Hobbes
  • Wow. Thanks Kat. Thats threw me a bit. Ill be thinking about that all day now.
    And we're all allowed to dream of the next time we touch.
  • little_wishlittle_wish Posts: 532
    Thanks for the info Kat, I've been confused by it for a while now :)
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