You're too dark, and you're not dark enough. You three were close, right? Maybe too close. Then it went sour and propelled you into one extreme... and you into another extreme.
So, voila'! Two overlapping,fractured philosophies... were born out of that one pain.
Treme's got to be one of the best TV shows I've seen in decades. How they handle the music alone is phenomenal (a multileveled puzzle of interconnections and subtext just begging to be deciphered by music nerds). Last week they had the US Marine Corps Band throw together an impromptu playing of this at the tail end of their Mardi Gras march, and I can't shake it: