Cocktails and Debriefing

I was watching An Evevning with James Blunt on MuchMoreMusic earlier tonight, and during his at times (seemingly) emotional performance, I was reminded of an interview I saw with him a couple of months ago. He said (of course, I paraphrase... but when sober, my memory can be quite good) that he talks about things that are far more personal in his music than he would ever discuss in normal conversation, and I couldn't help but notice more than a few times that he seems to lose himself in a song, only to almost come out of a trance at the end of the song practically embarassed that it seemed to be getting "a little dusty" in there during the song. In particular, "Goodbye My Lover" (which apparently has a new video out, starring Mischa Barton) brought this out, but that's pretty understandable, as it's pretty much right up there with Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" as far as "allergy attack"-inducing songs go. However, what got me most was his description in that same interview as to why he is like this. He says that he is "a typical emotionally stunted British male", which is so cliché that it almost hurts, but is also so completely true...

Think about it. One of the wealthiest and most powerful countries in the world has an entire gender that can only show emotion when it's related to football? And even then, only anger, when drunk? When you consider that they're otherwise completely and totally emotionally pent up, it really weirds me out...

I'm not exactly overjoyed to say that I fall into the very Canadian cliché of the guy that tends to only open up emotionally after a few drinks.... but I think it's still a step in the right direction.