i'm packing light
maybe i'll be your hometown fantasy
but i'm not battery-operated
i almost want to write exclusively about the weather. sitting around falling in love with a chicago in the summer i've scarcely experienced, a new york in the winter that's barely tolerable and not adorable, i almost FORGOT about ferndale in the summer. unquestionally beat physically and emotionally, angela and i lugged our bikes from the basement and rode the couple of miles to brunch at inn season on sunday. i had my cigarettes on the front porch until the wind ushered winter back in. how could i forget? just as i was falling in love with detroit all over again last year, i met some places and people that made me fall right back out again. i've fallen in love with locations with an expansive, open heart, and i'm in love with several at the moment, some i've never even experienced. i think my heart houses a few people right now, some i've known too long, some i haven't seen in forever and only dream about, some i've yet to meet perhaps; but everything, frankly, is halfway, half-hearted. a month or a weekend or one night. sometimes more than that causes my voice to raise and my arms to flail. enough. i can't write about this.
do you have those songs whose lyrics are so right on but they're not lyrics that you could theorectically sing to someone, but instead they could be sung to YOU? i have a lot of those. i'm a massive american analog set fan, so when the HOME split ep with andrew kenny [amanset] and ben gibbard [death cab for cutie, postal service] came out a couple of years ago, i was pretty excited. it's really cute: each do three original acoustic songs around the theme of "home" and one acoustic cover of the other's band's song [ugh, make sense?]. pretty fucking cute! ha. anyway, the end result is this really great ep, like really great. their originals are spectacular tunes, not some throw-aways or c-sides from their "parent" bands. and the two covers [amanset's "choir vandals" and death cab's "line of best fit"] conform to the classic notion of a cover song, as they both receive a new breath of life, of energy. ANYWAY, this song off HOME opens with one of those lines that could be sung about me [should a term it a REVERSE favorite lyric?].
andrew kenny -----> hometown fantasy
HOME: volume V
2004 © post-parlo records
[buy it at insound, it's cheap!!]
a couple more kinda-overdue news-y items:
--> oxford collapse signing to subpop: cmj and pitchfork announce it.
--> even more importantly: "The award-winning show dog that went missing from JFK Airport last month is on a boat to France, wearing a little hat, according to one of 33 dog psychics working on the case." read all about it here.
but i'm not battery-operated
i almost want to write exclusively about the weather. sitting around falling in love with a chicago in the summer i've scarcely experienced, a new york in the winter that's barely tolerable and not adorable, i almost FORGOT about ferndale in the summer. unquestionally beat physically and emotionally, angela and i lugged our bikes from the basement and rode the couple of miles to brunch at inn season on sunday. i had my cigarettes on the front porch until the wind ushered winter back in. how could i forget? just as i was falling in love with detroit all over again last year, i met some places and people that made me fall right back out again. i've fallen in love with locations with an expansive, open heart, and i'm in love with several at the moment, some i've never even experienced. i think my heart houses a few people right now, some i've known too long, some i haven't seen in forever and only dream about, some i've yet to meet perhaps; but everything, frankly, is halfway, half-hearted. a month or a weekend or one night. sometimes more than that causes my voice to raise and my arms to flail. enough. i can't write about this.
do you have those songs whose lyrics are so right on but they're not lyrics that you could theorectically sing to someone, but instead they could be sung to YOU? i have a lot of those. i'm a massive american analog set fan, so when the HOME split ep with andrew kenny [amanset] and ben gibbard [death cab for cutie, postal service] came out a couple of years ago, i was pretty excited. it's really cute: each do three original acoustic songs around the theme of "home" and one acoustic cover of the other's band's song [ugh, make sense?]. pretty fucking cute! ha. anyway, the end result is this really great ep, like really great. their originals are spectacular tunes, not some throw-aways or c-sides from their "parent" bands. and the two covers [amanset's "choir vandals" and death cab's "line of best fit"] conform to the classic notion of a cover song, as they both receive a new breath of life, of energy. ANYWAY, this song off HOME opens with one of those lines that could be sung about me [should a term it a REVERSE favorite lyric?].
andrew kenny -----> hometown fantasy
HOME: volume V
2004 © post-parlo records
[buy it at insound, it's cheap!!]
a couple more kinda-overdue news-y items:
--> oxford collapse signing to subpop: cmj and pitchfork announce it.
--> even more importantly: "The award-winning show dog that went missing from JFK Airport last month is on a boat to France, wearing a little hat, according to one of 33 dog psychics working on the case." read all about it here.
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