Your Daddy Don't Know

Okay, I don't really like the original Toronto song, but the New Pornographers' cover for the movie FUBAR was good.

Speaking of which, has anyone read the reviews on PopMatters? It's supposed to be an academic look at popular culture, but it seems like sometimes they're making shit up. Like their review of Twin Cinema by New Pornograhers. Auteur theory to explain A.C. Newman's music?

Silly people... Wonder how I could get a job writing for them?

Music has been on my mind a lot lately. No particular song or band, just the idea of music in of itself. I don't know if I'll ever really understand my love. It so hard to explain to someone why a song is so cool or why it means something to you. I realize that in the last post I mentioned my friend who thought that people depended too much on music, but that discussion was focused specifically on the topic of people wearing headphones while they walked around their daily life. Enjoying music for its own sake, not just as a soundtrack to your daily existence, is a good thing. Art express something about the human experience that would otherwise go unnoticed. Yet, this is a purely academic reasons for liking music. This isn't what I'm thinking about when I think about the lyrical beauty of Tom Waits' classic I Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You. The extended guitar solo, and all sonic noise that goes along with it, at end of At Least That's What You Said by Wilco doesn't remind me at all of the music theory I studied in school. Music touches upon something else for me; something beyond reason. And that's why I like it. All other forms of art included too much thinking (and I just don't get dance. It bloggles my mind how people see things in the movement of bodies. It's kind of like astronomy in that sense).

What's going on? Where are my short random posts of yore? Am I finally starting think about something other than being miserable? Is this me turning a corner? I sure hope not. As Mike Ness says, with some help from Bruce Springsteen (who would have thought that those two would ever be on a track together?), "misery loves company."

Oh, and if anyone can tell me who did the excellent cover of Fools In Love by Joe Jackson on last week episode of Grey's Anatomy would please email me. I flicked through the channels and caught a bit of it and enjoyed the song (although I didn't totally understand what was going on the show).