People Take Pictures of Each Other

The Kinks, ever the formative existential rock band, present to you a problem in experiential living:

People take pictures of the Summer,
Just in case someone thought they had missed it,
Just to proved that it really existed.

It's one of our essential human dilemmas: how do we live in the moment without an excess of reflecting on the moment, or attempting to preserve or prolong the moment while we're living it, only then to return forever after to the moment once it's gone?

People Take Pictures of Each Other bookends an album that, earlier on in the track listing, has presented a similar meditation on the capturing of experience, Picture Book, which popped into my head back in February. I wonder if there's been something occurring in my life betwixt February and now that I'm trying to trap, as an insect in Amber, for all time.

Artist: The Kinks
Year: 1968
Rating: Luke Hot