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it's a wonderful life
so last night it was the mix for brenda, tonight it's tara's. we'll see how they compare, although i doubt i'll make it through the whole thing.
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01 - the twilight singers - the twilite kid: "rock steady baby, your man is dead" so what if i start out with the same song, it's a killer opener.
I'm on such a cleaning kick, i just went out for a smoke and i had a serious urge to come back into my room, get the fantastic and some paper towels and fucking go clean the elevator. No joke. I'm a man possessed.
02 - crooked fingers - new drink for the old drunk: "hours pass by half forgotten / night turns black cause it's rotten / and we slide right to the bottom / our tongues made out of cotton." great song. and another about alcohol. Nice little march thing going on, great lyrics. yeah eric.
So today i woke up at about 1, stayed in bed listening to the entirety of sparklehorse's "it's a wonderful life" and then got out of bed at about 2. I like that album, even the fucking weird ass tom wait collaboration is growing on me. I should buy the second crooked fingers album when i go shopping later this week.
03 - ben lee - cigarettes will kill you: "and i need a tv embrace."
tv, it's become my friend these past two days. And could i possibly watch more reality dating shows? Sarah came over at about 11 and we watched blind date and then SNL, which had a dismissed skit, and then we saw another episode of blind date and then we wrapped up with TLC's A Dating Story. Seriously, how many goddam dating reality shows are there? Blind date, the fifth wheel, the love cruise, shipmates, elimidate, a dating story, change of heart, blah blah blah and blah. And i'll happily watch any of them.
04 - david gray - babylon: oh david, i don't care if people be hatin' on you these days. You're still cool with me.
As i listen to this cd, i'm cheating a little, because i have to be up in a mere few hours, so i'm kinda cutting through the songs so i can hear what's next. Whatever, i'll sleep to this tonight.
05 - neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea: man, another song i haven't heard for a long time. I can tell you when it was last, it was the night i had a goth dance party all by myself here in edmonds, and then threw in this disc. read about it here. "what a beautiful face i have found in this place that is circling all around the sun."
06 - built to spill - car: heard this one a bit more recently. Love it. "i wanna see movies of my dreams." Want a car entry? how about this. Actually a pretty big entry for me.
07 - jeff bukley - last goodbye: yeah jeff. "must i dream and always see your face."
08 - belle & sebastian - mary jo: "because life is never dull in your dreams" funny, after i said earlier that i'm skipping through songs, now i'm listening to them in their entirety, and oddly enough, not writing anything else.
09 - sigur ros - staralfur: I read the english lyrics for this last night. Interesting, yeah, they kind of dulled the magic, but also, they have a very disconnected quality to them that made them very much not pedestrian. very child like, but somehow, it works. "A little elf stares at me / runs towards me but doesn’t move / from place - Himself / a staring elf"
So when i got up at 2 today, i threw on my laundray and immediately began cleaning. I cleaned and i cleaned and i cleaned. Listend to trail of the dead, boards of canada, aphex twin, the clash and godspeed you black emperor.
10 - badly drawn boy - the shining: another repeat, oh well. "soleil, all over you."
11 - anne previe - torn: i'm on a fucking roll here. "illusion never changed into something real / i'm wide awake and i can see / the perfect sky is torn."
so my room is looking pretty nice. The bedroom has never looked nicer, actually. Too bad it'll only stay this way for like a day. I spent so long in our bathroom today. That fucking shower is beyond help. Scrubbing bubbles after scrubbing bubbles, fantastic after fantastic, shower cleaner after shower cleaner, scrubbing with towels, shirts and sponges. And still, i could not remove all the film. Oh well, it was a most noble effort.
12 - the dismemberment plan - the city: the song that made me recognize what a fucking amazing drummer the plan has. Such intensity from travis, too. "all - i ever say - now - is - goodbye"
13- elliott smith - angeles: ah, so lovely and darkly etherial. "be forever with my poison arms around you."
14 - the afghan whigs - now you know: more anger from mr. dulli. "we bit into a rotten one, now didn't we?"
Ha, i just bought a new t-shirt. It involves *nsync. I'm excited. So the room is nice, that's phat. Got to get up in 5 hours for mixing. that'll be fun. Riiiiiiight.
15 - yo la tengo - you can have it all: oh yeah, yo la tengo covers disco classics with a sexy a cappella bossanova section. I love you georgia.
I want to buy another shirt, but i just don't know if i can pull of a red shirt with a pink and white pixellated heart. It's tempting, but shit, i just don't know.
16 - acoustic junction - the wind: ah yes, i'm certainly not too cool to like this song still. Huzzah.
17 - modest mouse - bankrupt on selling: oh isaac, you world-weary motherfucker. "and all of the angels /
they'd sell off yer soul for a set of new wings and anything gold
ok, looks like just one song left. fun day tomorrow, hopefully i'll make it through alive. Still don't know when/if i'm going home. Tuesday maybe?
18 - jets to brazil - sweet avenue: hey, guess what? blake doesn't have to be pissed off all the time. really dig this song, so bright and sunny after the vitriol of orange rhyming dictionary. "this cigarette it could seduce / a nation with its smoke "