Hail to the Sky:
Suzan was kind enough to accompnay me to Slim’s last night to see The Polyphonic Spree in concert. She thinks they are big and stupid and happy and I can’t enough of them. So she spent the better part of the show coming up with ways to describe this 28-member musicial happening, which we both decided is half the fun of the Spree anyway.
1. Music for everyone who misses Fraggle Rock.
2. A Generation X reminder that someone still loves you.
3. The ABBA Tabernacle Choir.
4. Pink Floyd meets The Muppets.
5. The Flaming Lips do Jesus Christ Superstar.
6. Your high school band and choir after 10 years in a commune.
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What’s the new music like? Did you get goosebumps!?
What’s the new music like? Did you get goosebumps!?
I warned Suzan that, just before “Light and Day” began, that I was going to cry. She said “let it out babe.” So I did.
New music: On the album, it takes some getting used to. Live, it’s stunning.
I warned Suzan that, just before “Light and Day” began, that I was going to cry. She said “let it out babe.” So I did.
New music: On the album, it takes some getting used to. Live, it’s stunning.
It’s vaguely embarrassing but also incredibly liberating when music makes you cry. You can say, “I can’t help it, this song just does something to me.”
Brooke and I watched Adam Sandler’s silly and sappy “50 First Dates” movie last night and the film ends with Hawaiian vocalist Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” (which, incidentally, also played over the credits of “Meet Joe Black”). Now, this song wouldn’t normally make anyone cry (well, maybe the munchkins), but he just imbues it with a spiritual power that turns it into a song of longing for the divine. Not to mention that it was played at one of my friend’s mom’s funerals. And the fact that the singer himself died in 1997, aged 38.
Long story short: we were a mess.
It’s vaguely embarrassing but also incredibly liberating when music makes you cry. You can say, “I can’t help it, this song just does something to me.”
Brooke and I watched Adam Sandler’s silly and sappy “50 First Dates” movie last night and the film ends with Hawaiian vocalist Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” (which, incidentally, also played over the credits of “Meet Joe Black”). Now, this song wouldn’t normally make anyone cry (well, maybe the munchkins), but he just imbues it with a spiritual power that turns it into a song of longing for the divine. Not to mention that it was played at one of my friend’s mom’s funerals. And the fact that the singer himself died in 1997, aged 38.
Long story short: we were a mess.
I love it man. Only real men cry.
I love it man. Only real men cry.