The Blues Came Down On Me This Morning..

Sometimes, when you're in the zone, all you want is to have the same song playing over and over.

I'm staying home for Thanksgiving this year. Hopefully I can stay in the zone long enough to get out of my troubles.



Song number one is fitting because it's all about the blues, always fucking up, and having a girl who's name you can't remember (maybe because she's not yours to begin with?). For a while I had to keep playing this over on YouTube, but thanks to this little friend, I've got it on my iPod.

Two Gallants: Worried Now/I Like To Call It "the Slide" MP3



Song number two is another favorite that I just discovered. I was scoping out some stuff on VICE TV and I came across their music video section. I guess I also video'd this one a lot before I actually got the album it's off. My friend had been playing some Panda Bear a few months ago and I meant to get the music from him, but I never did. I don't think this was the same album, but it's still as great as I remember. Whether or not you're on drugs when you're taking this, it's gonna be a good time.

Panda Bear: Bros MP3

Wrapping up the long weekend

Tuesday: Wrapping up the long weekend
Location: Pomona, California.

Veterans' Day weekend was a clouded heap of field trips and new music.

I'm bored out my mind
Too sick to even care
I'll take a little walk
Nobody's going to know
I'm in senior year
It gives you a little free time
I'll just use it all at once!

After a wonderful midterm, it was time to "water" my other classes. As the above quote implies, I didn't get all that much done. I went against the prof's advice and kept working on studio. With the amount of distractions at my fingertips, I only have two slides of a PowerPoint and the first floor plan of an existing building to show for my long weekend.

I may not have followed my studio teacher's advice, but I did follow my 3D Studio Max prof's advice by going out and buying Ramblin' Jack Elliot's "I Stand Alone."

"I don't want to linger in Alabany, New York. I don't know anyone there, I don't want to know anyone there!"

If I can be half the man Jack is, I have no issue with growing old. One day it'll be me sitting in my pajamas and cowboy hat yelling at passing traffic while somewhere in Southern California an architecture student listens to songs about my arthritis, dogs, and Hong Kong. Listen to the little monologue at the end of Rake & Ramblin' Boy and join me in wondering whether or not that's where Two Gallants get it...

Ramblin' Jack Elliot: Rake & Ramblin' Boy MP3

Jack soon had company on my Ipod after I somehow decided to get Danielson's album "Ships." After three listens I remember exactly why I was so weary about ever buying anything associated with Brother Daniel Smith. The fact that my room mate says it sounds like something he'd listen to only makes things that much worse.



Danielson: Did I Step On Your Trumpet MP3

Finally, the most played album of this weekend is nothing as recent as the last two, it's actually and oldie (relatively). Grandaddy's "Sumday" is an amazing album that's so inoffensive I could probably play it around my mom. Nevertheless, I love this record and I don't think it'll be put away for quite some time. Enough time has passed since I remember hearing "Now It's On" being played on Live 105 (read: KROQ) that I don't have to feel guilty, just happy that at this point, this band will probably never be the soundtrack to a frat party. Say Hi (to your mom). Dude looks like my last boss.

Grandaddy: The Group Who Couldn't Say MP3