my world is rocked...

just saw It Might Get Loud with the edge, jimmy page and jack white.

it's overwhelming being in a room with the three of them at the same time, even on a screen.

it was more than watching a film. it was getting inside the minds of absolute legends. yes they are just people, same as me–but they saw something that nobody else saw; they felt a hunger for something different from anything yet created; and they have spent their lives chasing it, fighting it, owning it...and bringing it to reality.

brilliant.

that demand to bring alive the music they felt inside–an obsession, really–and then believing in what they wrote...that's what MADE them! their music is their hearts and souls, paraded before the masses to do with what they like. as it turns out...the masses like it.

hardcore.

favorite parts: each of them played a song and showed some tricks to the other two. when jimmy started in, the edge and jack just looked at each other and got kiddie boy grins on their faces; jack's dimple came out; they were in awe. it was the part of the rockers' bible that says, take off your shoes, this is holy ground. ;) blasphemy, i know, but we DO bear the image of God, and i have to think moments like these are when we taste the spiritual and physical realms colliding. i had a tear.

the edge showed them how to play "i will follow," and jimmy didn't like one of the notes. he said, are you sure about that C? ahaha...one of the most famous songs in the world and the creator was just questioned whether he was playing it right...

so much more. jack wrote a song on the spot; they took you in the film to physical locations where each first started out with their bands; all of the playing was inconceivably ridiculous; and as yule brynner says...etc, etc, etc.