So today I got a little present for myself, the tattoo. I got it because it’s like the emblematic symbol of one of my favourite bands.

Rick van de Dood
2 min readSep 10, 2021
CDMX, Mexico, Winter 2021

Well, I think I’m starting to live my adulthood earlier than I was expecting. All of my friends now are in college, living the university style of life and I decided a different path for myself. Instead of going to college, I decided to start working and I think that comes with different responsibilities, kind of more mature responsibilities. Like working, and saving up money, and deciding where am I going to direct my life.

Its like this new era of becoming an adult, and living life as an adult I think. I mean, a young adult, but I don’t feel like a student anymore. I feel more responsibilities, and living more mature responsibilities and Im really loving that.

It’s cool. It’s also really how I identify as a person. I’ve seen myself as a different person my whole life, as I’m seeing myself now. And now im experimenting with freedom in a way I’ve never done in my life. In school, everyone told me what to do, when to do it.. and everyone was literally pushing me into the path to go to. And right now what im doing, im doing it because I want to do it. And its.. it’s different. I feel more freedom, and I feel more responsibility at the same time. So it’s a new era for me.

So today I got a little present for myself, the tattoo. I got it because it’s like the emblematic symbol of one of my favourite bands. It’s the 1975. And they made — I think — there were four albums, and they called that era ‘music for cars’.

And they told everyone, after these four albums, there’s gonna be a new complete era of the music we’re gonna be making.

And I remember that my whole adolescence, I like listened to this music in high school with my friends. I think it was a pretty amazing time of my life. I mean, I still like the music, I still like the band, but I think it is.. kind of symbolic that right now, this era is ending. Because I think an era in my life right now is also ending. I’m beginning a new era. I designed it myself. I designed a little rectangle, and the MFC is for the album’s title, Music For Cars.

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Rick van de Dood

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