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TWIN PEAKS (1990–1991) 2.20 • "The Path to the Black Lodge"

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65/367: The Dismemberment Plan - Spider in the Snow

Hope I get to see this song live someday….

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64/367: Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets

Ted Leo = one of the best lyricists in rock music.

Chris Wilson = one of the best drummers in rock music.

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists = one of the best bands in rock music.

these lyrics are apt & timely, & so here they are. enjoy:

I said, “I wonder how it is I’m standing here, while war is raging everywhere under the sky? I feel defeated here by everything, cheated here by everyone on every side I want to take you to a quiet place and never ask the meaninglessness to reply When will we get an hour to celebrate, find the time to breathe a sigh? I’ve been working too hard to be living, and later Walking all night, till I’m shivering, and is it Wasting the time I’ve been given, to maybe Wait for the day of oblivion? I want to take it to the president, him and all his cabinet, with a broom I want to sweep the halls of arrogance, sweep the walls of the excrement of these baboons But I respect and prize the covenant, I respect the process, I respect the rules When will we find a chord as resonant as to shake the sheets and make us move? You’ve been working too hard to be living, and later Walking all night, till you’re shivering, and is it Wasting the time you’ve been given, to maybe Wait for the day of oblivion?” And she said, “Roll out and make your mark; pull on your boots and march Then roll on and meet me where you’ll find me doing my own part Roll out your dented car, maybe it won’t roll far But if you do everything you can, well, babe, that’s more than a start” And she said, “Roll out and make your mark; pull on your boots and march Then roll on and meet me where you’ll find me good and ready Sometimes it’s gonna hurt; sometimes you’re gonna deserve it But if you hold on to what you’ve got, I know you’ll keep it steady, keep it steady So there’s no end to work; so there’s no end to murk So everything else is dirt, but I am pure and steady So cut out the morbid verse; I know you’ll make it work And how’re you gonna save the world when the world ain’t ready, world ain’t ready?”

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63/367: Dum Dum Girls - September Gurls

I really wanted to pick this song this month.  Because of the month that it is.  & because I love this song so ehffing much (“ehff” is long for “f” which is short for “fuck”!! but you know this already!!  sorry for wasting your time!!)  So, happy last day of the month! 

But I was hesitant to post Big Star’s version because, well, it’s really well known, so I wouldn’t be presenting anything really interesting or new.  & also, there are so many other Big Star songs I’d like to pick for their song.

Then I remembered this version.  It’s perfect.  The Onion A.V. Undercover series is AMAZING, so if you haven’t, go check it out.  They did one last year too.

I dated a September Gurl.  But I’m not a December boy.  Uh.  Let’s not talk about that.  Ok, sounds good to me!!

Oh, and because I feel kind of bad for not representing Dum Dum Girl’s music with this entry, I’m going to direct you over to their jangly-rad, kaleidoscopic new video, Bedroom Eyes.  The song’s off their new album, Only in Dreams, all of which you can stream on sub pop’s youtube channel!  How fucking grool* is that!!

I would have dismissed this kind of music at another point in my life, saying it’s too bland & simple & uninteresting.  I disagree with my other self now!  Embrace the essentials!  A good song’s a good song’s a good song.  And all that.

bye!

*(thanks, Tif, for “grool”)

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62/367: The Antlers - French Exit

I had a hard time picking a song for this band. I went with this one, because it’s simple & not at all representative of the whole of their material.  Ha!  A bit of a mislead.  But it’s great, right?

I originally really wanted to pick something off of their 2009 album Hospice.  It’s an intense, taxing experience & is by far my favorite of theirs (one of my favorite albums of the last 10 years!).  But it’s very much a concept album.  Lyrically, but also the way the tracks all fit together.  So it was tough to pull a song & present it out of context.  If you like this track, “French Exit”, I’d recommend IMMEDIATELY getting your hands on Hospice & giving it an active listen (which by the way is a distinction from a passive listen).  Although this track has a much different effect than the slow building & devastating art rock scald on Hospice, I think it’s fair to recommend one with the other.

I don’t usually post lyrics, but I like these lyrics a lot. 

every time we speak, you are spitting in my mouth if i don’t take you somewhere else, i’m gonna pull my teeth right out every time we meet, you are shrieking in my ear if i don’t take you somewhere else, you’re gonna make this insincere come on.. everyone i loved kept me tangled in my heart you’ll tie that knot a bit too loose, not enough to tease apart come on… everyone i hold holds me strangled, sweet & smart i’m not a puppy you take home; don’t bother trying to fix my heart

bye!

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61/367: Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - I Gotta Dance to Keep From Crying

Ok, I’m up.  & posting yesterday’s song.  again.  it’ll be alright.  because i’m now caught up on Community.  In time for tonight’s episode. 

my ratio of dancing alone to dancing in front of people is probably unhealthy.  lots:not-at-all.  hey, this kind of applies to crying too!  wow.

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60/367: Grinderman - Depth Charge Ethel

Nick Cave has had such a consistently great career.  Even his weak spots are good.  This band further evidences this, having the raw energy of a group of pissed off teenagers.  I suspect he’ll never die & just keep making badassery for the ever.

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My nose has been stuffed up/runny for the last 2 days.  I am unhappy about it.

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59/367: The Elected - Have You Been Cheated

…and we’re back. 

There is a helicopter circling my neighborhood.  It’s odd that I associate helicopters circling my neighborhood with danger even though I’ve never experienced anything or -one dangerous in coordination with a helicopter circling my neighborhood.  I still need to go make sure the doors are locked though.

I’ve never been in a helicopter…..

This band here was part of an important, important (so important i needed to say important twice (or, really, 4 times!)!) part of my….musical taste development, i guess?  i don’t know what to call it.  the process that i went through to like the music i like now.  2002-2006 was a really concentrated, intense time for me when it comes to that stuff.  I guess instead of getting drunk or stoned, I dove into listening to/watching/talking about/thinking about/listening to some more music.  I still have that process, definitely more-so compared to most, but it’s become sort of detached & insular.  Whereas in the first half of the last decade it was a connected, interactive thing for me.  I still like to share music with people, for sure, but I ultimately feel alone in my experience of most music I love.  With exceptions, of course.  Not sure what happened…

Now the helicopter man is loudspeakering for someone to step out of their car.  I gotta move the fuck out of here.

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58/367: Nirvana - Verse Chorus Verse (“Sappy”)

I think I’m dying 7 times.  But I’m cool.

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57/367: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Long As I Can See the Light

Guess I got that old travelin’ bo-whoa-whoa-whoa-ne

Cuz thi’ feelin’ won’t leave me aloooo-whoa-whoa-whoa-oone

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56/367: Nina Simone - If I Should Lose You

One of the greatest voices I’ve ever heard.  What it takes to be great, I think, is to basically create a cadence.  A quality of voice that is unmistakable.  Nina Simone absolutely has that.  Before I was familiar with Nina, I heard her cadence in other singers, like Vic Chestnutt & Fiona Apple. & in that egocentric way that the brain organizes things, I was just reminded of these singers when I’d hear Simone & these qualities that I now know are hers.  That door-stopper vibrato; the way she’d rush through phrases in order to hold out the final vowel, letting it dip & quiver, as though in a wind.  She had the voice of a fighter.  That tension of hard aggression & deep tragedy, sharing a space.

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Alright. Next order of business.  I’m going to start walking/jogging/whatevering at the track at least 3 times a week.  Oh, & also, paying closer attention to what I shove in my face.  You heard it here first.  “You” mostly meaning “I”.  Because I’m mostly talking to myself here.  I need to lose this useless, stupid, dumb fat.  It’s not only literally weighing me down, but mentally as well.  Not a good idea to take my already dwindling self-confidence & bury it in obesity-ness.  In fact, in an attempt to corner myself into a commitment, I’m going to say that by the end of the 2011, I need to break below 200.  I’m 216-ish now.  So, not a huge goal.  But I’m bad at these things.  The discipline of the self.  But now here it is, the declaration.  And here’s a dollop of hot, cherry red wax. & here’s my signet ring coming down, impressing the Moore family crest onto tumblr, sealing the deal. 

Hope I don’t fuck it up.

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55/367: Engine Down - Detour

Ok, so I got home from hanging with some buds (double meaning) at about 2:30 & totally planned on posting.  But instead I watched 2 episodes of Community & then fell asleep on a bedpile of clothes.  So this is here now. 

Can I just say (by the way the answer is going to be yes, because i’m saying it) that there seems to be an infinite amount of construction going on everywhere lately?  On Valley View, near my work, they decided to take up a giant project, or series of projects, where they repave like a 1 mile stretch.  I’m irritated by things while recognizing them as necessary.  I just don’t like having to leave for work early.

So boring.

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54/367: Yuck - Sunday here’s the thing about validation.  i want it because it makes me feel good.  or do i just TELL myself that?  because this:  because i feel like i don’t get enough,i a lot of times resent it when i do get it.  SO!  if i were to get the amount i feel i would want, how would i feel then?  Well, I wouldn’t feel good, because i can’t, because i make myself resent it, from feeling like i don’t get enough.  I think I found the hole in my heart.  I think I built myself into a solid, circling tunnel of resentment. i feel like validation, or the inward pursuit of it/outward hostility towards it, is a big part of my life, although internally, i think.  i don’t think all of this is obvious to people.  or maybe it is.  hrm. shit, i hope you’re ready for some Meta.  because here it comes.  this post is itself completely included in everything i’m saying within it.  that goes on forever, man. i’m deliriously tired & should sleep. so alright, hey.  if we’re friends, thank you.  if we’re not, i imagine you have no interest in it, knowing that if we were, every single action i made or word i spoke would be in a pathetic, blubbering act of neediness.  hahaha, not really.  haha. hah. hrrh. hhhhuuurrmm.  friends? (there’s a very specific reason all this shit has been swirling around my head, but i’ll not go too into it.  let’s say it involves someone who has likely never seen this blog before.) (because it does.)

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53/367: Giant Sand - Blue Marble Girl

this song knocks me out.  or rather, picks me up & pulls me into itself.  hah, lame.  but seriously, lie down & listen to it with your eyes closed.  when the organ comes in…..when the organ comes in….

so i decided that the REAL smart people never amount to much, because you’re thinking about a brilliant amount of things contantly, & don’t have time to concentrate.  My high justification for my life!!  for instance, it took me 2 hours to write this!  just kidding!  not even close…

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52/367: The Seeds - Can’t Seem to Make You Mine

Getting up at 5:30 is preposterous.  I need to go to work now. bye.

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51/367: Dolly Parton - 9 to 5

Parton, a badass.  She doesn’t just have big tits, a lot of plastic surgery and that song The White Stripes covered for which to be remembered (doesn’t it always read as irritating, neatly tucked in prepositions; ugh).  She was also in some awesome movies and belted out some great self-penned feminist pop.  I loved the movie 9-to-5 as a kid.  Even though I don’t remember much about it at all.  To be honest, I kind of confuse it with other similar enough movies that all morph into a blob of adult female-led comedies from the late 70’s thru the late 80’s.  Big Business, She-Devil, you see what I mean.  Anyway, what was I talking about?  Oh yeah, Dolly Parton is pretty sweet.  This song is fun & political!!  In a sneaky way…

Also, check out I Really Got the Feeling.  Great song.  I almost picked it, but picking “9-to-5” allowed me to segue more easily into a Big Business reference.  So, you know…

Sorry I said “tits."  Dolly flaunts/flaunted them enough for me to justify calling them that.  I feel like boobs aren’t flaunted as much.  As tits. 

Ugh, ruined the post.  BYE!

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since "tit" is both birds & a word for boobs i want to start calling boobs 'sparrows'

"your sparrows look amazing today, beb"

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if (bob willing) I start a job soon (an interview is upcoming); im curious if my anxiety will be as big a hurtle as it was the last time I joined a..wage hive. probably not! I think it'll be great!