Cue up: The National – “Theory of the Crows”
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not enough money
to buy a PC
so i come in this weekend
asleep on my feet
and if i forget you
ill have nobody left to forget
i guess thats what assholes get
traded my day light
for a career
but i need you to disprove
my theory of the crows
pouring my fingers across the keys
will someone review my salary please?
im selling my time to the man who sells style
that time should be mine to waste on you
ill suck off investors
ill suck off VCs
im losing my posture from time on my knees
they treat me so well
cause i’ll do anything
its in my nature of service
***
I am jamming out The National which always makes me happy. “Theory of the Crows” came up and I went, “hmm.” Timely track.
Last night I guested at Lucky Bar for WTF! Lots of fun to DJ in a club that was A) full and B) the people were really into dancing to ANYTHING. It was cool.
There were three of us tagging in at the controls, Liam Lux, DJ Fatso and myself. I felt really old.
I plugged in my laptop and was using iTunes to DJ (lame I know). I was telling Fatso how much I’d love to get a proper rig one day (I’ve been talking about FOREVER) . Fatso said, what, you can’t drop $1,000 on Serato?
I said, “I’d love to, but my DJ money goes to the kid or bills or diapers or food.”
he looks at me oddly, “how old are you?”
“29.”
“Wow! you are one young looking 29 year old.”
He was cool, he apologized and said, “yeah I’m 22 and my DJ money is weed money so….” Then the dude turned me onto this program called Ableton. He said you can buy it at Long and McQuade or… um, download it off the internets.
Fatso was a good man and showed me what it can do. Requires no controller which was rad. He had a little channel mixer thing that he wasn’t even using but said costs like $80 is I wanted to go there and have a controller of some kind. Fatso was a real wizard with Ableton, so I think if I can get my hands on the program I might be able to elevate my game from “dude that pushes play on CDJs” or “Music Nerd that makes fantastical playlists on iTunes.”
It was sorta neat at Lucky, I saw a bunch of old regulars from my days playing at Hugo’s. It was odd, never thought I’d miss the weekday party kids… till they were gone. I wondered what became of them after Hugo’s closed. I’d hoped some would come to the Clubhouse for my new Tuesday but they are all at Lucky on Wednesday now I guess.
Coral and I are pretty excited to learn that Jimmy Eat World will be reissuing their brilliant record Clairty on vinyl.
I was never a big Jimmy Eat World fan before I met Coral. I had always thought they were a pop band that we played on the radio. Never really dived too deep into the lore. I met Coral and that all changed. She told me how amazing they were. I thought she was amazing, ergo JEW=Amazing.
Coral’s favourtie record is Clarity. One of those discs that is just so good but never meant for mainstream accolades. A record, that when enjoyed in the right context will change your entire perspective. Beautiful, challenging and hmmm… I want to say gliding? but I don’t think that is a word.
Coral and I like to collect our favourite records on vinyl. Not so much cuz we are overly snobby about our tunes (the record player is in Madelyn’s closet) but because we like displaying the album artwork on the wall (and I like to have the albums).
Clarity has always been high on our list of acquisitions but the dude at Ditch Records says it is a real collector and a challenge to track down. Until now. 10th year anniversary reissue! huzzah!
Now I don’t have the money to take Coral to San Diego or San Francisco for a 10th Anniversary show, but I can probably scrounge $30 for the LP.
She get an IOU on Valentines day… coming in the mail… your Clarity record.
That’s all I got.
Go with yourself.
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