inspiration

It's been a while. I've been lazy. But I have now been inspired to type some words again. And what inspired me? Do you even have to ask?

Conor Oberst.
New album.
August 4.
Tour!
Of course, he's not playing my fair city (why?), but I'm up for driving to Tupelo, Mississippi.

they wouldn't be still

Saw the most fun show Sunday night:
Tilly and the Wall.
They were so smiley and happy and sounded amazing.
Tap dancers, maracas, balloons, and confetti.
I'll just call my pictures atmospheric because the band would not stop moving.



This all happened at the Drunken Unicorn in Atlanta, where there is no sign, but there is a painted velvet banner of a unicorn hanging at the bar.
I think it's perfect that the band played at a place with unicorns.

32 days

So it's been 32 days since I've posted about Bright Eyes and I must remedy that.

Fixed. I was driving to work this morning listening to Blue Angels Air Show which is barely a wisp of a song. But these words are so simple yet convey so much:

There's a show we can see at the base outside of town
where the planes, they turn circles in the air.
I watch you stand next to me with your hand over your mouth
and join the crowds' heavy gasp.
One for each time they pass overhead.
So we've been selected in this beautiful lottery.


They remind me of William Carlos Williams. I know - I'm crazy.

the happiness is back

So my one day bout of melancholia appears to have passed. And while I love to listen to sad Neil Young songs when I'm down, the happiness invites some Bauhaus!

Swing the heartache!

melancholy

Completely inexplicably, I woke up this morning feeling so sad I couldn't stand it. I must have had some horrid dreams or something. So I spent the morning listening to Neil Young and just being blue.

Helpless
There is a town in north Ontario,
With dream comfort memory to spare,
And in my mind
I still need a place to go,
All my changes were there.

Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.
Leave us

Helpless, helpless, helpless
Baby can you hear me now?
The chains are locked
and tied across the door,
Baby, sing with me somehow.

Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.
Leave us

Helpless, helpless, helpless.

a perfect song

I love all of Elliott Smith's songs, but Rose Parade may be my favorite. It's a masterful display of alienation. You can feel the loneliness. RIP, Elliott.

Rose Parade
They asked me to come down and watch the parade
And to march down the street like the duracell bunny
With a wink and a wave from the cavalcade
Throwing out candy that looks like money
To people passing by that all seem to be going the other way
Said wont you follow me down to the rose parade?
Tripped over a dog in a choke-chain collar
People were shouting and pushing and saying
And when I traded a smoke for a food stamp dollar
A ridiculous marching band started playing
And got me singing along with some half-hearted victory song
Wont you follow me down to the rose parade?
Wont you follow me down to the rose parade?
Wont you follow me down to the rose parade?
The trumpet has obviously been drinking
Because hes fucking up even the simplest lines
Id say its a sight thats quite worth seeing
Its just that everyones interest is stronger than mine
And when they clean the street Ill be the only shit thats left behind
Wont you follow me down to the rose parade?
Wont you follow me down to the rose parade?
Wont you follow me down to the rose parade?

into the wild

It's a cold grey day and I'm listening to the soundtrack for the movie Into the Wild. I haven't seen the film. I have such an intense relationship with the book that watching the movie seems like an infidel move.

But the soundtrack, which is basically just Eddie Vedder singing, is perfect.
I wonder what Chris McCandless would think.

i love ray davies

I just discovered something that millions of people have known for years - that The Kinks are a motherfucking awesome rock 'n roll band. Of course I had heard OF them, and I knew a couple of their songs (Lola, You Really Got Me). I just never seriously listened to them before. I've been listening to this

all day and it is brilliant. The songs rock, and they're all smart and funny and sad and sweet.

And I just now went to youtube and found a video of Ray Davies and Damon Albarn singing "Waterloo Sunset". Be still my beating heart. I might have to make Ray my imaginary boyfriend.

a crazy idea

Since I'm pinching pennies so tight now that my house constantly smells of copper, and I don't know where I'm going or what I'm doing, I think I need a little certainty in my life. I know I would feel much better if I knew exactly what I was doing on September 29, 2007 at 7:00 pm. Especially if it was this .

Seriously, that's a plan, right? I would have plans.

the ipod does not lie

I just looked at my ipod and it appears that I do have some Nine Inch Nails songs. So I guess I lied in my previous post.

an outlaw love song? maybe...

There are bands that I've outgrown. And some that I haven't. Yet. Here's a list of my high school playlist updated. Well, it kind of boils over into early college.

First off and foremost let's just get the whole heavy metal hair band thing out of the way. Yeah, for whatever reason I used to listen to a lot of Motley Crue. And I wasn't even the target audience! I was a bookworm; a poetry reading sensitive little girl. Yet there it was. Currently, however --- NO.

Dinosaur Jr. --- Yes! J Mascis will always have a piece of my heart. Evidence -- I still have the completely scratched up cd of You're Living All Over Me that I snagged from the record-store dude in 1990 (Alexandria, Louisiana).

Social Distoration -- Yes! Ok, so their songs kind of all sound the same. But I'll still throw "Story of My Life" into the mix. Forever!

ALL -- Yes!
Descendants -- No!
So they're kinda the same band.... but not really. ALL still does it for me. D's seem very teenage boy-ish.

Pearl Jam -- No! Maybe they outgrew me... I just find them boring now. (maybe it's me)

Red Hot Chili Peppers -- Yes! Fight like a brave.... And I listened to Stadium Arcadium for days on end...

Cocteau Twins -- Yes, I will love them forever.

Sisters of Mercy -- Yes...laugh all you want; Andrew Eldrich = my dark prince (ha?)

Nine Inch Nails -- Hmmmm... NO!

This will have to Be Continued...

Oh, but Outlaw Lovesong is Social D!

Memories....

i've got a red japanese teapot

Thanks to my brilliant sister for making me download this: