Noah has one of the most heart-breakingly honest voices and this song puts it front and center as he drags through some of those lyrics like a dull blade that somehow cuts oh so sweetly.
“Say something awful, as if fucking the world is your right, and I watch you stumble, drunk out into the night, to cat call ladies, you’re thirsty for blood, you’re pickin’ a fight, and I wanted to ask you man whatta you do, in the daylight, so bum me a cigarette, buy me a beer till I’m happy to be here, happy to be here, with all of my family hookers in heels and the men who watch them like hungry black eels”
My Ava-Bean graduated High School tonight and it’s pretty mind-blowing to come to grips with that. But like this song is titled, “Here’s To Endings”!
What a journey, for her, her classmates and even myself when I think about it in that context. Look at how much things have changed. They’re going to change whether we pay attention to the NOW as it’s happening or not.
Let’s set the intention to be in more moments, starting now, so we don’t have to look back and lament at how fast time passed.
I very much enjoy both the percussion and melodies in this little bop. I discovered dodie years ago on YouTube, and it’s still cool to hear her unique sound!
Hope you’re well my friend! Thanks for stopping in.
Great song here by AVEC! I love how deep her voice is and that little bit of leather it has! This one has a great little tempo to it.
“And though, I still feel you, I hate that I still feel, I know we’ll never find our way to each other, ’cause we’re just too scared of what we don’t know, and I try to take the weight of this love off my shoulders, ’cause I know I’m better off dancing on my own”
Today’s my first day of summer vacation! Looking forward to using this summer to better myself.
This band is probably my favorite find of 2023 the more I listen to them. I just love the energy that they are bringing!
“I know a girl who spent a year and a half crying, in the bottom of a bathtub, it was really such a bad look, then on New Year’s Eve, someone yelled “ten, nine, eight”, everybody kissed, then she punched them in the face, woo”
Wow! I discovered this one and added it to the playlist almost a year ago to the day! This Dessa jam spent time in the Top 10 for a while. Just in love with the bass.
“There was a snowstorm in Jackson when you and I met, at a club called St. Sebsastian’s, but the sign said something different, I remember thinkin’ that I didn’t have a shot at Mississippi, television told us which roads they were closing, there goes a rap show, everybody knew you as the wife of a famous man, everybody who knew said “there’s goes Dixon’s girl again”, even the walls will lean closer, when she plays the piano real soft”
“Called to the Devil and the Devil did come, I said to the Devil, “Devil, do you like drums?” do you like cigarettes, dominoes, rum?, he said, “only sundown, Sundays, Christmas”, some days end when I need a few friends, now and again, I could never hope to keep them, thought to give friends what I thought that they wanted, never had they needed a good friend as I’ve been, don’t get me venting on friends who resent you, ’cause all you’ve ever done is be a noose to hang on to, they thought was a necklace, and reckless, they fell into hell, where you both hang with nothing to do, scratch kick, let gravity win like, fuck this, let gravity win like, you could leave it all behind, even the Devil need time alone sometimes, you could let it all go, you could let it all go, it’s called free call, it’s called free fall”
This is a fun little two and a half minute folksy jaunt! I enjoy the percussion on this one! I’ve mentioned before sometimes it’s fun to do a listen through focusing on a certain instrument. Simple cymbal taps and bass hits. It’s great to build around.
Hope you’re well my friend! Maybe grab a 15 minute nap today. Recharge. Take that time for you.
I was struck by the number of this post as I sat down to write it. One-hundred-seventy-five days have passed since New Year’s Day? It was a blur.
Being the self-reflective sort, I asked myself in that moment…”are you happy with where you are? Have you reached any goals that you set for yourself back then?”
The obvious thing that popped into my head was “I’m overjoyed to see the blog is still happening on a daily basis!” In a way it’s both a measure of how busy/tired I am (short miniscule posts) and how introspective I am at times (deep dive into lyrics and their perceived meaning as it pertains to bettering the human race). These things ebb and flow like everything else. All things in balance!
In some ways though, I am disappointed. I am going to be gentle with myself here though, because this school year was a bear. Summer break is longed-for.
“I was in a quarter-life crisis and I couldn’t explain, I been feelin’ so different about all the same things, remember that summer that I shaved my head, just to prove that I had control over somethin’?, I played the Sims ’til I was 21, I had a little life that I always wanted, ’til you dragged me along to your best friend’s party, where the conversation always started with, “hey there, darlin’, did ya get your haircut?”, I think I cut damn near every last one of ’em, I’ll make jokes when I’ve been feelin’ uncomfortable, am I alright? I really think I’m in trouble”
I both need time for nothing and time for production with school coming to a close. I’m pondering a moto-camping journey somewhere. I had this big NYS tour planned…and even now part of me says SEIZE THE DAY regarding it…but another part of me feels like that would be shoe-horning it in because it’s something I want to do at some point. Just blockheaded stating “THIS SUMMER” when it’s probably not the best course of action, it just feels mostly “let the wind blow me where it may” longing for summer/freedom.
Part of me also says longing for things is the same as chasing them. I’m trying to be more in the moment on the day to day, so I don’t wanna be ’bout that life.
RED ALERT discovery here! I stumbled across Iniko on TikTok and man, my algorithm slaps!!
This song weaves such a gorgeous sonic tapestry. I know that sounds INCREDIBLY fucking flowery, but I’m telling you…listen to the song. You’ll see what I mean.
“I will be one of the greatest, that is a vow, yeah, that is a promise, always wanted to be famous just being real, yeah, just being honest, my haters gon’ always be nameless, give them no clout, i give them no power, creators built different, they ancient, sooner than later, all will be ours, I keep an eye out for the numbers, I stay in contact, synchronization, to infinity, even beyond it, I am a comet, no destination, a lot of things I am above and there are a lot of things that are above me, do not come for the people I love, ’cause then I get scary, then I get ugly, yeah”
Take a dip into their catalogue AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. They’re that good!
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