Anti-Climacus

LINK: Matthew Fluxblog has a good entry on the R.E.M. song "Camera". In the past, I've always taken it as the semi-biographical account of the death of one of Michael Stipe's friends (the woman who took the pictures for the "Radio Free Europe/Sitting Still" single); Matthew links it up to the attempt to remember the face of a girl you've just met, which long ago made in onto a list I made of "Things That Make Life Worth Living." The song is ultimately too sad to sustain that reading of it, but I'll try to hear it that way when I listen to it next.