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“VIDEO GAMES” - LANA DEL REY

CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF THIS SONG.  ALBUM OUT 1/31.

Swinging in the backyard
Pull up in your fast car
Whistling my name

Open up a beer
And you take it over here
And play a video game

I’m in his favorite sundress
Watching me get undressed
Take that body downtown

I say you the bestest
Lean in for a big kiss
Put his favorite perfume on

Go play a video game

It’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you
Everything I do
I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It’s better than I ever even knew
They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living if somebody is loving you
Baby, now you do

Singing in the old bars
Swinging with the old stars
Living for the fame

Kissing in the blue dark
Playing pool and wild darts
Video games

He holds me in his big arms
Drunk and I am seeing stars
This is all I think of

Watching all our friends fall
In and out of Old Paul’s
This is my idea of fun
Playing video games

It’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you
Everything I do
I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It’s better than I ever even knew
They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living if somebody is loving you
Baby, now you do

(Now you do)

It’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you
Everything I do
I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It’s better than I ever even knew
They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living if somebody is loving you
Baby, now you do


Jan 8

Kristen Bell’s Body of Lies from Kristen Bell

Dec 4

The Clash: The Only Band That Matters

    

In the past few weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about The Clash as I read and see footage from the Occupy Wall Street events.  The band consistently sang about revolution and the struggles of the working class during the late 70’s and early 80’s so I’ve been thinking about them and what music would represent today’s events.

It also inspired some more detailed research on The Clash - a band I really like but didn’t know too much about.  Some fun facts:

  • The first concert the band even played was opening for The Sex Pistols.  No big deal.
  • The London Calling album design was inspired by Elvis Presley’s 1956 self titled album.
  • Mick Jones wrote “Train In Vain,” the lovelorn closer to London Calling in ONE NIGHT after breaking up with Slits guitarist Viv Albertine.
  • “Rock the Casbah,” the band’s highest charting song is also one of their most misinterpreted.   Written as a triumphant parable about a ban on music in the middle east it’s often played in support of war.  
  • Apparently, Joe Strummer wept when he heard that “Rock The Casbah” had been written on bombs that were deployed in the 1991 Iraq war.
  • In 1982 despite being at the top of their game commercially - even opening for The Who on their Farewell tour, they were regularly booed off stage.
  • Jones went on to form Big Audio Dynamite which ironically saw more commercial success than anything the Clash had done - reaching #1 on the Modern Rock tracks with “Rush” in 1991.
Oct 3

“THIS WILL BE OUR YEAR” - The Zombies

Saw Jon Brion cover this tonight and couldn’t get it out of my head.  

The warmth of your love
is like the warmth of the sun
and this will be our year
took a long time to come

don’t let go of my hand 
now darkness has gone
and this will be our year 
took a long time to come

and I won’t forget 
the way you held me up when I was down
and I won’t forget the way you said, 
“Darling I love you”
You gave me faith to go on

Now we’re there and we’ve only just begun
This will be our year
took a long time to come

The warmth of your smile
smile for me, little one
and this will be our year
took a long time to come

You don’t have to worry
all your worried days are gone
this will be our year
took a long time to come

and I won’t forget 
the way you held me up when I was down
and I won’t forget the way you said, 
“Darling I love you”
You gave me faith to go on

Now we’re there and we’ve only just begun
and this will be our year
took a long time to come

Yeah we only just begun
yeah this will be our year
took a long time to come

       

“THE MAN IN THE ARENA” - Theodore Roosevelt

In an age where cynicism, aloofness, and apathy rule, I’m inspired by this quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Now THAT is some refreshing key art.  

Now THAT is some refreshing key art.  

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Aug 2

LIFE OF LEISURE (diving)

First there was planking.  Then came Owling.  Some claim that Coning is the new craze but my money is on Leisure Diving.