Waiting and "The Wilderness Downtown"

During class on Friday we listend to "We Used to Wait" performed by Arcade Fire.  By listening to the song and really reading over the lyrics several times, I took the meaning of the song, to be that the writer literally was waiting on a letter.  Before we had computers to write e-mails you had to write your letters by hand, walk them to the mailbox, and wait on a reply from the person that you sent it to. The lyrics were interpreted in other ways by some of the other students in the class, such as that technology is replacing old-fashioned letter writing.  In class on Friday we also went to a website www.thewildernessdowntown.com that integrated the Arcade Fire song with Google, to show a man running down the street.  You put your address, or any address in the search box, and the man will run to your house.  I thought that this was a neat website, because it used different forms of media to catch our eyes.  It had music, video, and the pop-up screens that weren't annoying advertisements made it fun to watch, but you have to make sure that you are using Firefox or Google Chrome when watching the video, because it doesn't work well with Internet Explorer.