Saturday is the new Friday (but you know this!)

When I was in high school and college, Friday night was the social night. Plans were made for later that night, movies opened, girls were asked out day of (less time to be nerve-wracked), the natural inertia of being around people kept me social until late. Now that I'm older and work an office job, Friday night is typically a write-off. I'm just too exhausted to really get it going. Now, a full night's sleep behind me, it's all about Saturday night.

Age has given me an appreciation of Bruce Springsteen, too. When I was younger he just seemed sweaty and raspy and way too patriotic. Now, though, I've begun to feel it.

So how awesome is it that Jason Anderson (ex-Wolf Colonel) rolled the best night of the week and a love of the Boss into a rollicking 3-minute anthem to fun for the older set.

Jason Anderson, "Saturday Night"

"Tonight" is a great album; it's basically the sound of good times. A little too Springsteen-y? Maybe, but this knockoff is way more entertaining than anything Win Butler did this year.

PS - Mark my words: 2008 is the year that the saxophone completes its rock instrumentation comeback.

PPS - This was my Plan B.

Stretch mic across stage to 'make a line'

This is a perfect band. I have been thinking a lot about 1996 and have been markov stepping through records/CDs looking for something related to the year in any way. I felt a connection to Plover and I wanted to bond over the internet with Maxime. However, while sawing open a coconut, I suddenly realized that a quasi-random search was useless. A simple analysis, although possibly incomplete, would at least lead me to the vicinity of 1996 ideas. So what could I possibly share with Maxime via music from 1996? Well, frustration, anger, joy and the desire for carelessness might be a start. I don't want to speak for Maxime - he may only relate to certain elements of 1996 music - but I'm pretty sure we both feel the boundless love. Perhaps a nod to flippant disregard set by guidelines of mutual respect. I could go on, but eventually The Feelings broke surface and reminded me of the perfect band, the now/me band, the band that is the way I feel - mixed up and thankful, reckless and embarrassed, so in love and so mad at love.

What do The Feelings say?
"The men of passion, we men of passion make this music. Our names are small cherished promenades and dreamy maps, they"

The Feelings - Blowin' My Mind Like A Summer Breeze

Equal Hidden Parts or Boundary Conditions

Here is some more focus::::

Foot Village - Where Ever the Fuck Arnold Schwarzenegger's From
The focus is on the facts: Foot Village are from LA. Foot Village play drums and sing. Foot Village are maybe more enthusiasm than anything else. A perfect future born from a flawed past? It sounds reasonable, but how do you deal with continuity, first derivative continuity, 2nd derivative continuity and so on?

You don't die of it.

Has your naivety been harshly taken advantage of? The loyalty of a dog can be easily fooled. Is this because a dog is stupider than a man, or simply more naive?

"...the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk."

My best year was 1998. Maxime's is 1996. Maxime has a beautiful child. Maxime discovered this song, from 1996:

Plover - Earplug

See the song
Plover - Earplug

Anyone can ask for help or fish for complements. Anyone can lunch by themselves AND anyone can make mistakes, repeatedly, continuously, with grace and loyalty. However, any reaction is an overreaction in a void. The void is a mirror. I see my face in the void, etc, etc, etc...