America

My roommate just walked out his room with no pants on. "This is happening," he said.

Just woke up from a nap. During that nap, I had a dream that my girlfriend might have been replaced by an exact double. I was trying to figure out if she was actually my girlfriend, or someone else.
Woke up, called my girlfriend. She said there was really no way to tell.

I actually really like the long song from The Crane Wife, "The Island," that is, whenever I actually listen to it. Usually when I'm in the car, I just skip over it. Long songs are hard to listen to, especially when you get bad song ADD. Sorry, Bob Dylan. At least I always feel bad.

Come and join the Youth and Beauty Brigade

It's raining here. I mean really raining. What are good songs for rainy days?
Well, any Andrew Bird, of course. But those rainy day songs (or at least today's rainy music)?

1. The Decemberists- "California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade"
2. Sonic Youth- "Teenage Riot."
3. Wilco- "Jesus, Etc."
4. "The Decemberists- The One-Two punch that is "The Engine Driver" and "On The Bus Mall."
5. The Antlers - "Kettering."
6. Beach House - "Tokyo Witch."
7. The National "Fake Empire."
8. Belle And Sebastian- "Judy And The Dream Of Horses."
9. Blaine Duncan & The Lookers - "Virginia (State Park)"
10. Callooh! Callay! - "Quentin"
11. Sufjan Stevens - "To Be Alone With You"

Sleigh Bells

So, you've heard of Sleigh Bells, right? I mean, of course you have. We're all cool kids here.
Describe them? Hmmm, okay. They're noisy pop mixed with what I think of as M.I.A. style hip-hop (although I don't really know, I mean, I've only heard the one M.I.A. song. Yeah, "Paper Planes." At least I heard it before it was used in the Pineapple Express trailer).
Anyways...
It's pretty cool. I really like their song "Crown On The Ground." Listen. It pretty much sums them up. Love 'em, hate 'em, you can tell by that song.
(Yeah, I know, all the other blogs have been going nuts for ages over these guys. Shut up about it; the Commissioner took away my license for this one).

What's the point of having lyrics when I can barely hear them?
I say this listening to My Bloody Valentine's "When You Sleep," a song I absolutely adore. A song, I should point out, whose lyrics I can hear. It took me a while, but I can pick it out. On the other hand, some My Bloody Valentine songs I'm lucky if I get one or two words out of the whole thing. I love My Bloody Valentine. But still. What's the point?
For me, I suppose, it makes me really pay attention. The songs leave the pop sphere, where it kind of sinks in subconsciously and I wander around singing it for the next three days or so. I have to put in work to make sense of the lyrics and music. Or, I have to accept the music for what it is, whether I can understand the lyrics or not. The words become another instrument, taken less for their meaning and more for poetry on a basic level, the way the words sound.

That can't be normal

Do you think I should see a doctor?