9/23/08

...this is a great song.


I roll the window down
And then begin to breathe in
The darkest country road
And the strong scent of evergreen
From the passenger seat as you are driving me home

Then looking upwards
I strain my eyes
And try to tell the difference
Between shooting stars and satellites
From the passenger seat as you are driving me home

"Do they collide?"
I ask and you smile
With my feet on the dash
The world doesn't matter

When you feel embarrassed then I'll be your pride
When you need directions then I'll be the guide
For all time
For all time
-Death Cab For Cutie, Passenger Seat
Transatlanticism


Ben Gibbard--maybe one of the 21st century's best pop music lyricists? Death Cab reaches the ears of enough of the majority. What I love about this song is how well it captures a moment. There's a pleasant ambiance, and it sounds like it could be sad song, but it's not. It can describe so much--those simple moments with friends, or the careful moments with a more-than-a-friend. The times when you're really seeping in the atmosphere around you.

I'm pretty sure you never can get enough of those.

9/23/08

Wtf mate?
Apparently this was for a week in August, and then went away...but now, again, you can purchase your own Say Anything song.

Max Bemis Song Shop....what a concept. THAT is something new. How interactive is music going to get? I wonder how it would feel to hear a song written JUST about you. And not by a musician you know, who is involved in your personal life, but a total stranger or one of your favorite musicians.

Let's see how far this goes. Not gonna lie, if I had $150 to throw around right now I'd so do it just to hear what it sounds like.

9/17/08

If you like folk singer/songwriters....
Buy this.

Then listen to it on a pensive drive when it's sort of gray and rainy, and it sounds really fucking good. "Thin Blue Flame" kind of blew my mind at first, it was like a cross between Death Cab and, i don't know, a smarter Ryan Adams. And upon second listen, it was still pretty resonant. Good sign. Third, too.

But you have to be into this kind of sound to appreciate it, i think. His lyrics are powerful in their own right, and he does have some equally powerful moments. Beautiful songs, but simple. A song like "Idaho," well, you just have to like folk music. I needed something new to dig my ear into in that genre, so I'm glad this full length came my way.

Also, Ritter majored in the self-created study of "American History Through Narrative Folk Music," according to Wikipedia and thus he is my academic hero.

9/17/08

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I do like them! They're so subtle sometimes, always little ringings or whatever in the background. Less than a month!

9/17/08

Now we take our time

so nonchalant

And spend our nights so bon vivant

We dress our days in silken robes

The money comes

The money goes

We know it's all a passing phase

We light our lamps for atmosphere

And hang out hopes on chandeliers

We're going wrong

we're gaining weight

We're sleeping long and far too late

And so it's time to change our ways

But I've loved these days

Now as we indulge in things refined

We hide our hearts from harder times

A string of pearls

a foreign car

Oh we can only go so far

On caviar and cabernet

We drown our doubts in dry champagne

And soothe our souls with fine cocaine

I don't know why I even care

We get so high and get nowhere

We'll have to change our jaded ways

But I've loved these days

So before we end and then begin

We'll drink a toast to how it's been

A few more hours to be complete

A few more nights on satin sheets

A few more times that I can say

I've loved these days

--Billy Joel, "I've Loved These Days"

Turnstiles

Turnstiles was one of the first CDs I owned. I like it a lot better now than I did when I was nine.  And this song is so soothing, so accepting, so satisfied with the good and bad in life. So reminiscent.