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“Some day you will die and
Somehow something’s going to steal your carbon”
- Parting of the sensory by Modest Mouse
I’ve always loved Modest Mouse’s lyrics.
I heard this track on my walk to the office today and had to share it. Pretty simple reminder that life is temporary.
Go get it.
“Boom, where I come from is irrelevant
‘Cause my glory is all that I revel in
And my story begins where most others end
So all I really got to tell ‘em is…”
loving this song lately and it’s a great way to ring in the new year, because as my dear friend @laurenwick has pointed out, my plans for 2012 are “being f*cking awesome”
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just rediscovered my live recording of Skinny Love by Bon Iver from the show in BK in August… man… so good…
free streaming of Red Hot Chili Peppers' new album "i'm with you"
i’m a life-long RHCP fan, so i’m super excited to hear the new album, but it’s not without trepidation in regards to the loss of John Frusciante/addition of a new guitarist. here goes…
Bon Iver live in Brooklyn
Last night I got to see Bon Iver perform at the Prospect Park Band Shell. It was an awesome show.
Bon Iver - Wolves Act I & II (Live) by reecepacheco
I recorded this SoundCloud file on my phone of “Wolves Act I & II” during the encore last night. Still have chills thinking about it…
Seeing Justin Vernon/Bon Iver lead eight (8!) others on stage was quite a performance, though I couldn’t help but reminisce about the first time I saw him live…
I’d heard his now famous track “Skinny Love” about four years ago on a now defunct underground internet radio station and fell in love with it immediately. So when I heard Bon Iver was opening for Elvis Perkins in Providence, I had to go. I drove an hour (from my parents’ basement on Cape Cod) to Providence, really just to hear this magical voice… “c’mon skinny love, just last the year…”
At the time, the album wasn’t even released yet - just “Skinny Love” - so I was really flying on blind faith, but man did it pay off. Justin played solo, to a dead-still, awestruck crowd of about 30 people. His presence was so powerful, you could hear a pin drop between notes. I’ll never forget it.
He played about 6 songs and called it a night after a rendition of “Wolves Act I & II,” in which he had the crowd singing the chorus “what might have been lost…” It was a lot like this…
After the show, I was able to catch him by the bar and tell him what an amazing performance it was. I’d love to say ‘I knew he’d be a huge success,’ but I honestly wasn’t sure he would and that’s what is amazing about Bon Iver… he’s such a breath of fresh air from mainstream music (which likely hearkens back to the roots of his first album - recorded in the woods of a Wisconsin winter).
What I couldn’t help but feel last night was that Bon Iver was making real music and performing real emotion. Most of his songs don’t follow conventions and most people can’t sing along to every track, but that pure bittersweet heartfelt elation you feel when you listen to his music - particularly live - is a thing of beauty.
I also recorded Skinny Love…
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“For The Workforce, Drowning” by Thursday
When I was in college, I developed an extreme distaste for everything corporate. Just the thought of ever going to wear a suit everyday made me want to hurl. I graduated and turned an internship into a paying gig in media production before circumnavigating the globe on my bartending tips.
Meanwhile, my peers were interviewing at banks and getting high paying jobs in finance and the like. It was all about the f***ing race to get a corporate gig and live in NYC.
Yesterday, I went to visit some open office space at 1 State Street - at the very tip of Manhattan and I was struck by the irony of the situation. What was once a huge corporate headquarters for a now defunct insurance company - complete with a million dollar lease in one of the most prime pieces of real estate in the country - is now an empty shell of American Psycho style offices in which STARTUPS ARE SQUATTING FOR FREE. Meanwhile, it seems that every other day I meet corporate 9 to 5er’s who are just itching to leave their corporate gig…
Being that high up on the 22nd floor, in the heart of everything I’d come to despise, I was reminded of the lyrics to a favorite song (particularly the first verse) that I once posted to my blog in college… and in light of the failing financial environment and the thriving startup boom, the lyrics are particularly relevant again.
p.s. - The song itself isn’t for everyone.
“For The Workforce, Drowning”
Falling from the top floor your lungs
fill like parachutes
windows go rushing by.
people inside,
dressed for the funeral in black and white.
These ties strangle our necks, hanging in the closet,
found in the cubicle;
without a name, just numbers, on the resume stored in the mainframe, marked for delete.
please take these hands
throw them in the river,
wash away the things they never held
please take these hands,
throw me in the river,
don’t let me drown before the workday ends.
9 to 5! 9 to 5!
and we’re up to our necks,
drowning in the seconds,
ingesting the morning commute
lost in a dead subway sleep
Now we lie wide awake in our parents beds,
tossing and turning.
tomorrow we’ll get up
drive to work,
single file
with everyday
it’s like the last.
waiting for the life to start, is it always just always ahead of the curve?
please take these hands
throw them in the river,
wash away the things they never held
please take these hands,
throw me in the river,
don’t let me drown before the workday ends.
just keep making copies
of copies
of copies
when will it end?
it’ll never end,
‘til it gets so bad
that the ink fills in our fingerprints
and the silhouette of your own face becomes the black cloud of war
and even in our dreams we’re so afraid the weight will offset who we are
all those breaths that you took have now been canceled in your lungs.
last night my teeth fell out like ivory typewriter keys
and all the monuments and skyscrapers burned down and filled the sea.
save our ship
the anchor is part of the desk
we can’t cut free,
the water is flooding the decks
the memo’s sent through the currents
computers spark like flares
i can see them.
they don’t touch me,
touch me.
please someone,
teach me how to swim.
please, don’t let me drown,
please, don’t let me drown.
Fred’s such a gangsta. dope track.
Good Evening - Mac Miller
got this in my soundcloud dropbox the other day.
“if you haven’t heard about the kid, you’re out of the loop”
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Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangster by the Geto Boys
This one goes out to all my buddies in the early-stage startup game - hustlers, pirates, gangsters - whatever you are, you’re buckin’ the system and runnin’ shit.
And the lyrics just seemed too appropriate…
“And everything’s cool in the mind of a gangsta
‘cause gangsta-ass n****s think deep
Up three-sixty-five a year 24/7
‘cause real gangsta ass n****s don’t sleep”
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Peripheral Vision by Sea Pinks
Blown away by this song. Just wish it was longer…
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Originally posted [video] by my music pal HeadUnderWater.
