Logic

Another rush of AmazonMP3.

I was looking through their music store when I found this. I played a clip, found it interesting, and went after it on YouTube. Looking at the lyrics: "Wow." 

"The Logical Song" by Supertramp, from their 1979 album Breakfast in America, sung by Roger Hodgson.

When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.

...

But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible,
logical, responsible, practical.

And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable,
clinical, intellectual, cynical.

It Hurts

Exploring my Chrome bookmarks earlier this weekend I found something that I found about two years ago. I think I found Dan Mangan on Amazon, but there's a good chance I found him on YouTube. I'm not exactly sure, but regardless, I clicked on the link in the bar and I floated back to 2010.

Oh 2010. What innocence. 

I have a few more Dan Mangan songs, although they're not so upbeat, but rather thoughtful. Here an upbeat song of his. Nine-year-old alcoholic? Jeebus!

From his 2009 album Nice, Nice Very Nice (titled after a poem of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut), "Sold."

Life is not living 'less your sure you to make it through
But now it hurts
It kills/ It screams/ And it fills my heart...
With chills, and I take my pills, but I still tire
Of sleeping with the light on

Complication

I spent the Christmas season in Mexico. On the drives between Texas and our destination, there were long stretches of rural communities, and lots of Spanish radio. I can understand it, but I'll go for an English alternative if possible. On this trip, like the last, I took my little music player, my Zune.

I've always put the Zune on a pedestal because I feel it's better than an iPod. People will debate, but IMHO, Zune > iPod. Anyway, nothing bonds a person and their electronics than a long car ride, and that is what that trip did. It bonded me to my Zune, and while looking out the window at the landscape of Tamulipas and San Luis Potosi, it made sense to me. I don't know exactly sure... but it did. 

As if the brush and semi-arid ground compounded with this song to do something. I can't even...

I have featured it before, but as the last week of The Archenemy winds down, why not do it for God sakes?

From 2003... Avril Lavigne's "Complicated", from her début album Let Go.

You've become somebody else 'round everyone else

Watchin' your back like you can't relax

You're trying to be cool; you look like a fool to me.

Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?