Stop

Today has been one of good news.

New job, new shoes, my knee is healing pretty well. I'll keep it short because it's so good. Around 1.20 this afternoon, I was searching for something to listen to when this came on. I was entrenched, as if it had wrapped its fingers around me and rope me in to its alternative rock grip. Uhhhh.

I absolutely love the oooh-ing and the voice of the main singer. These people sound like the 90s before the 90s were even around. A little research never hurts, and neither does the posting it up on Facebook and tumblr.

From their first full-length album Surfer Rosa released in 1988, Boston-based Pixies with "Where Is My Mind?"

Oh stop!
With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself, "Where is my mind?"

Fucking Special

Ever since I can remember, I've been a big fan of The Simpsons. Up until the sixth grade, I didn't know that FOX aired new episodes on Sunday, because up until that point, it had all been re-runs on a local WB (now CW) station. If I have the time, I'll stop what I'm doing, and I'll lie back in my chair, and just take in those funny yellow people. 

For about the past three or four years, people have commented that the Simpsons no longer have viable storylines or comment on social issues as they did before, like immigration or gay marriage. But what keeps a show on is if it's ratings are good enough, and I see it going for a few more years. It's been on since 1989 ('87 if you count Tracy Ullman), but I think it's still modern and funny. Now to this post.

Last Sunday, I was watching an episode where Lisa makes a social networking site called SpringFace that ends up causing massive injuries to people since they're on the phones and driving. It mocked what I guess was their response to The Social Network, a movie about Facebook's rise based on a book. What got me particularly was the ending... so funny (I can't describe it, but you can watch it).

From Radiohead's 1992 album Pablo Honey, and a choir arrangement by Belgian duo Scala & Kolacny, is "Creep."

 

Just like an angel

Your skin makes me cry

Float like a feather

In a beautiful world

I wish I was special

You're so fucking special

A Year Later...

(Sourced from the ESF Blog...)

A year ago, I thought I could handle another blog. I imagined myself posting all this great music with a little backstory. And here's that story.

*Law & Order jingle*

Black Horse

Back in 2007, I received a small RCA Pearl MP3 player. It was this flash/thumb drive-shaped player that could innocuously fit in your pocket while you withered away in English or on two-mile walk home. I absolutely loved that thing, and I think I even wrote about it before. It's too bad because then I lost it, and found it a year later under my sofa. By then, it was messing up more than a Republican in Iraq and then it got stolen. 

I bring all that up because it's what music was on there is going to be mentioned here. I can remember a health kick I was on at the time, and this song was repeated at least 15 times as I walked past the tree groves that were replaced by a tollway in 2010. Sad, I know. (The trail is still there, just not hidden under the large grove of trees.)

Today, though, as I had on my work-issued radio (they're very paranoid about worker theft), I was feeling as low as I have ever felt. Seriously. As my feet hurt and back ached, this song came on, for those three or so minutes, I was in heaven. Time flew by... and made the physical pain melt away. Then it ended...

So to bring you a little history pre-blogging and pre-high school and "current work", is a little folk. I think. From Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, from her Mercury Music Prize-winning début album Eye to the Telescope, "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree."

(Woo-hoo)

Well my heart knows me better than I know myself

So I'm gonna let it do all the talking

I came across a place in the middle of nowhere.

With a big black horse and a cherry tree.

Found "Time"

(This post in conjunction with the main ESF blog...)

Yesterday, around 11 PM, I was just surfing the internet. I won't say that it was like what you would watch in the daytime, but it was something appropriate for my age group. Anyway, while watching the video, during a strategic scene, this song played. Imagine, it's like 1979 and you've just committed copyright infringement. Scary, isn't? 

As the scene continued, I was like, "That voice... it sounds so familiar! Yes... I think I know what it is!" So I Google-searched song recognition and up came what I was looking for came up. Since I have a headset, I placed the microphone into the earpiece and turned the volume up! The first time I tried it, I had the microphone muted. Disappointed, I tried again. Second time did it, and up popped up the song! It was from Pink Floyd... imagine, these people ripped off a Pink Floyd song like 33 years ago. And were never caught.

Not much you could do now because the majority of the producers could have died or etc., but at least you can enjoy an age-appropriate video with such nice background music. From now on, Pink Floyd will be my background music, much to the chagrin of The Archenemy.

Here comes the pièce de resistance! From their 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon, is Pink Floyd's "Time."

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way