Wow

I fought God in a dream last night.

!!

Oh my gosh, the Dokuros are playing a show in a couple of weeks!! And with an incredible veteran band called Niplets I saw the other week!! Holey moley!, is this some kind of return concert!? And it's at a venue I really love! I'm totally going! I can't wait!!

Blondertoungeaudiobaton

Wow, I get Swirlies' Blondertongueaudiobaton more now. This is cool.

Comfort Music

Modest Mouse's "Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks" is comfort music. It kind of brings back feelings of insulation, warmth, darkness and dim lighting, comfort, experimentation, and the ever-presence of friends I had my first year of college.

Listening to Eve 6's self-titled album also feels good somehow. It feels like the good parts of middle school age - boyness and good friends.

Talking Heads

Listening to Talking Heads on the way up to Iya Valley this weekend sparked an urge in me to try listening to them again, and, oh my gosh, this music is awesome! I like it way more than I did when I first gave them a listen so many years ago. I can totally relate to the way David Byrne sings too!, haha. Actually, I think most of the singing I do in my songs sounds like his more than any other established or famous singer I've heard, if I had to choose. Pretty cool. I really like the seemingly random sounds he makes that don't really narrate anything directly but put out a lot of feeling and atmosphere into the song. I just listened to "77" and "More Songs About Buildings and Food" and, man, those things are like weird dance parties in themselves. It seems like you can hear some kind of hints at trancing into long repetitive loops, too; it's just that these ones end early instead of actually going on, into, and through them like lots of songs do. I think. It reminds you, and lets you feel more directly, the influence of disco. Could I be moving out of the early-mid-60s and into the more recent late-70s-80s? Can I straddle both at the same time?! Actually, David Byrne's singing style also reminds me of ? from ? and the Mysterians; it's just a little more spastic and less soul, pop, and rock. Onto more music!

Nice! Warmth!

Oh yeah, and now my apartment barely even seems cold at all! You think Japanese homes have no insulation, try a spacious, 300-year old one made almost entirely of wood and earth on the side of a mountain. Still, that in itself was awesome, too. Ah.

Back!

I'm back from a four-day trip to Iya Valley in Tokushima where a bunch of people including me stayed in a 300-year old house and cut thatch from fields to repair its roof. So great!

Here's a quote from Bobby Darin's "Nature Boy,"
"The greatest thing you will ever learn
is just to love and be loved in return."