okay, at this point i'm pretty convinced that this cold is just going to be with me for the rest of my days. i haven't felt my normal 'ol self in over a month, and i'm SOOOO OVER IT. hopefully there will be some sort of thanksgiving miracle in which i wake up some morning this week feeling a-ok. until then...i've been bonding with my apartment, my laptop, my books, photoshop (takka in space!), etc, while occasionally sneaking out to get some things done. just yesterday i went to queens, it was by accident - but it still counts. if anyone needs to know how to get to 23rd and ely, just ask.
so, i've had a lot of time to get nostalgic over here, one of my favorite pastimes, and i'm currently making myself a playlist of the top songs that make me think of recent winters past. as i create it, i will post it here for you...
neighborhood_#1.mp3 - the arcade fire
who didn't listen to the arcade fire all through the winter of 2004/2005?
i was a kaleidoscope.mp3 - ben gibbard (live on kexp)
when i first started this blog in the winter of 2003, one of the first mp3's i posted was of ben gibbard live on kexp. i listened to that whole set over and over and over and over again (i used to have this..."thing"...for the gibbard). anyway, all of these songs bring me right back to the winter of ought three - when i used to walk a half mile in the snow to the train at 7am every morning. seriously!
dr. baker.mp3 - beta band
when i used to commute from connecticut to new york city on the train, i read a lot. one day on the train i was reading franny & zooey while listening to this album. i kept repeating this song - it seemed to fit with the glass family, especially zooey, in the story. mostly the lyrics "see me lost inside, you will see me lost how high". if they ever make a movie out of all the glass family stories (the royal tenenbaums does not count), i want to soundtrack it.
st. andrew's hall.mp3 - blind melon
i really like blind melon. and i refuse to apologize for it. so this song...it reminds me of a lot of things. winter being one of them. it just feels wintery. anyway, it also reminds me of driving to parties in connecticut in high school, watching woodstock '94 on pay per view from a house i was housesitting at on candlewood lake, and my friend lara who reintroduced me to blind melon after i thought they were so over.
whoever_you_are.mp3 - brian jonestown massacre
i just remember listening to a lot of BJM one winter. i think it's because i was inside and had time to download a lot of their free songs.
gold_mine_gutted.mp3 - bright eyes
dave from snowden introduced me to bright eyes, or shall i say - got me to listen to bright eyes, who i had previously written off without a listen. it must have been in the wintertime, because this song makes me think of walking around in the snow.
lover's spit.mp3 - broken social scene
sounds like winter.
we_could_walk_together.mp3 - the clientele
(see above)
i_will_keep_the_bad_things_from_you.mp3 - the damnwells
i think it was the winter of 2004, and the damnwells were doing a february residency at lakeside lounge. i went there with greg and it was freezing cold and this was the perfect music to sit and drink a beer to while warming up.
wow, i'm only to D in the alphabet, enough of this nonsense - if i get past D it'll just be a whole lotta elliot smith anyway. want to see something awesome?:
that was part one. now watch parts two and three.
maybe i would be nostalgic for that video if i lived in the winter of 1969. but sadly, i did not. i live in a time when jared leto plays on rooftops, not the beatles. one of the many travesties i've come to terms with.
Comments