peaks & valleys, peaks & valleys. peaks & valleys are my life.
no, those aren't the lyrics to some horrifyingly maudlin folk ditty. though well they could be. no, i am just getting all melancholic on a very sun-filled sunday.
ups and downs and back and forths are suitable i guess, since i am currently out in the beaches, and so spend my time sallying from one end of queen street to the other. it's a two hour walk through more peaks and valleys - not physical ones, but the less tangibles - the fancy neighborhoods and starbucks and yuppie delights representing the peaks, and the seedy underbelly of queen east - in all its denim-clad booze-drenched splendor, the valleys. and as i walk through the changing cityscapes and peoplescapes, i listen to the same songs on repeat - songs that have turned into quite the soundtrack.
there's the wistful happy lilt of feist's "i feel it all" - i know more than i knew before, she sings, and as much as i hate carrying on a one-sided dialogue with song lyrics, i have to agree with her.
there's the simultaneously mournful and uplifting shimmers of the national's "guest room" - and much as i hate attempts at describing music in such poetic, pretentious fashion, i have to say that it is mournful and uplifting. just like life.
there's the anthem for my year so far, lcd soundsystem's "someone great" - and much as i hate the declaration of song of the year, i must admit that this is the song of my year - in all its longing and losing and dreaming not only of what once was, but of what will eventually be. you'd think after listening to it 100-odd times - in faraway places, at home, walking to and from work, sitting in my office, on airplanes, in the park - that this song would stop haunting me. and yet, i still listen over & over a song about things being over and how you feel when thinking it all over.
finally, this, the newest to land itself in my mind - spoon's "the ghost of you lingers". this song has stunned me, with its incessant keyboard banging joyful wistful everything. there, i abandoned all hope of describing that one with any grace or style. suffice to say it is everything i need in a song right now. here it is, in all its wonder and wonderful-ness. i will listen myself into oblivion as i wait for the stretch to smooth into something in between the peaks and valleys.
no, those aren't the lyrics to some horrifyingly maudlin folk ditty. though well they could be. no, i am just getting all melancholic on a very sun-filled sunday.
ups and downs and back and forths are suitable i guess, since i am currently out in the beaches, and so spend my time sallying from one end of queen street to the other. it's a two hour walk through more peaks and valleys - not physical ones, but the less tangibles - the fancy neighborhoods and starbucks and yuppie delights representing the peaks, and the seedy underbelly of queen east - in all its denim-clad booze-drenched splendor, the valleys. and as i walk through the changing cityscapes and peoplescapes, i listen to the same songs on repeat - songs that have turned into quite the soundtrack.
there's the wistful happy lilt of feist's "i feel it all" - i know more than i knew before, she sings, and as much as i hate carrying on a one-sided dialogue with song lyrics, i have to agree with her.
there's the simultaneously mournful and uplifting shimmers of the national's "guest room" - and much as i hate attempts at describing music in such poetic, pretentious fashion, i have to say that it is mournful and uplifting. just like life.
there's the anthem for my year so far, lcd soundsystem's "someone great" - and much as i hate the declaration of song of the year, i must admit that this is the song of my year - in all its longing and losing and dreaming not only of what once was, but of what will eventually be. you'd think after listening to it 100-odd times - in faraway places, at home, walking to and from work, sitting in my office, on airplanes, in the park - that this song would stop haunting me. and yet, i still listen over & over a song about things being over and how you feel when thinking it all over.
finally, this, the newest to land itself in my mind - spoon's "the ghost of you lingers". this song has stunned me, with its incessant keyboard banging joyful wistful everything. there, i abandoned all hope of describing that one with any grace or style. suffice to say it is everything i need in a song right now. here it is, in all its wonder and wonderful-ness. i will listen myself into oblivion as i wait for the stretch to smooth into something in between the peaks and valleys.
posted by mad at 7:18 AM
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i miss the way we used to argue.
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