Star Tribune · Feb 7, 2020
Timberwolves total makeover: What just happened -- and what now?
The ninth song on Sonic Youth’s 1994 release “Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” is a spacey, spare track called “Quest for the Cup.” Kim Gordon does the vocals, and at the end there’s a short spoken word part that pops into my head more often than a relatively obscure passage from a quarter-century old song should.
“All your dreams will come true/ All my dreams came true/ But now, I have a bunch of other dreams.”
The underlying message, as least as I choose to interpret it, is that we tend to fixate on one thing that will make us happy forever, but once we get that thing it is never the endpoint. It’s just a base from which we fixate on the next thing in our adjusted reality.