i know it's been forever

but fuck off. i had swine flu. no joke. it basically put me out of commission, and by out of commission, i mean asleep with a fever between 100 and 103, for five days. i could have brain damage. who knows, really.

this isn't a real post anyway either, so i can fuck off for that one.

i've been a bit down lately and i found myself searching around for some new tunes to cheer me up a bit. anyway, i did find some sweet tunes so i'll rustle up the gumption and post about them soon. tonight i just want to feel bittersweet.

anyone who knows me knows that i'm obsessed with frightened rabbit. anyway, i was perusing a few blogs and happened across a frightened rabbit live video. not the one below, but the same song:



anyway (and i preface this with the following comment: "yes. i'm aware that i'm being lame and a teeny bit pathetic") but anyway, all of the sudden i remembered being in my ex boyfriend's car, just after christmas, when i went down to visit him for 10 days, on our way to a movie. we were running a bit late because he made this red thai curry for supper. he made fun of me because i didn't quite trust that the chicken was cooked all the way through. i totally didn't think it was cooked all the way through.

it was incredibly cold and his car always took a little to while to warm up. it was old.

we had to take the highway to get to the theatre on time. we listened to frightened rabbit the whole way there. i swear, i can remember that song playing in the car and looking over at him and just feeling so. incredibly. happy.

it's just bittersweet. it's a great memory, but it's marred by the fact that we don't talk anymore and probably never will. that week, i was happier than i'd ever been, almost certainly. i know i'll be that happy again someday. but, i do miss him. just a little. from time to time.

i guess this is sort of inappropriate for a blog about music. but, in a way, it all relates. a song, a good song, always has meaning. this song in particular has the ability to actually bring back the smell of the cold, cold air that night. that's a pretty powerful track, if you ask me.

bronchitis is the pits

So I've been suffering from a nasty bout of bronchitis/a-cold-that-has-turned-into-bronchitis over the past two weeks, hence my decreased inclination to search out new tunes and post about said tunes.

Today my boss asked me to leave work early because my walrus cough was disturbing my co-workers (jokes, but she really did tell me to go home.) Annnnnnyway, I tried to take a nap but I couldn't sleep without enduring a wicked coughing fit, so I ventured onto one of my favourite music blogs, chromewaves. I like Frank; because once and a while he introduces me to a new band I fall in love with, though generally after the band has played a show in Toronto, which is often a kick in the pants if you ask me. This is the case with Frightened Rabbit. They're a band from Scotland who started as a one-man outfit around 2003 and grew to include two other members but didn't go public until a few years later - says their bio. They're fucking awesome, plain and simple. Who wouldn't love a band who says:

You won't find love in a hole/it takes more than fucking someone to keep yourself warm.

I'm drunk, I'm drunk/And you're probably on pills/If we've both got the same diseases it's irrelevant, Girl.

Now, someone may find these lyrics to be slightly off-putting, but I'm struck by their honesty and realness (realness probably isn't a real word and my writing lab teacher would probably die if she saw I published something with the word "realness" in it but what the hell). Despite the clever and albeit dark lyrics, the music is warm and uplifting. I was trying to think of the best way to describe the album and all I could come up with was that it's the kind of music you wish had arms and was able to pick you up and press you against it's warm chest and let you snuggle in its beard. Basically it makes me feel warm and fuzzy and happy all over. I love every single track off Midnight Organ Fight. Literally, EVERY. SINGLE. TRACK.

Standouts:

"Backwards Walk" - I love the line that says: You're the shit and I'm knee-deep in it.
"Keep yourself warm" - This is the one I quoted above.
"The Twist" - Again. Honest, honest lyrics.
"The Modern Leper" - Possibly my favourite

Seriously, I could list every single track. Each time another one comes on my iTunes while I write this I want to add it.

Check them out and buy their album. PLEASE. (if anyone besides Jason actually reads this).
I want them to come back to Toronto again. So do it for me, not the band.

With instant love like this on the first two listens I would say that Midnight Organ Fight rivals my pick of TVOTR's Dear Science as best album of the year.

I'm in serious fucking music love right now.