There are files on my work computer called “quetzalcoatl has plans.txt” and “orange ball of metlink.txt” and I suspect that this is only the beginning.
Listening to a great-quality bootleg and hearing the small gasp of recognition and joy when a girl near whoever is recording the thing figures out that John Darnielle is about to play one of her favourite songs ever and she is there to see it happen.
For a while I’ve been thinking about keeping a record of the songs my brain plays to me unbidden, over the course of a day or a week or whatever. I don’t know what I aim to achieve - maybe some kind of weird self-psychoanalysis - but I actually started doing it today.
While I was noting today’s jukebox favourites on my magic phone, my clumsy end-of-the-winter-day fingers were less accurate than usual.
Turns out “Game Shows Touch Our Lives” is a song by Rye Mountain Oats.
This photo made me feel bad.
Because I thought, “Aww, yay!” But then I thought, “Peter is the prettiest. And John is the most amazing. And Jon … Jon is the best drummer?”
Dear Jon Wurster, why haven’t you forced me to admire you helplessly from afar OR inspired me to make websites and covet striped suits? :(
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This is going to be weird, but here goes anyway.
When I saw this photo I flipped out. You could say it set a switch off in my brain. I went to Flickr, downloaded the photo, and put it straight onto my phone as desktop wallpaper.
(How crazy is it that telephones have desktop wallpaper now? And how long is it since “desktop wallpaper” was a completely meaningless concept? Living in the future is amazing.)
Now every time I go to use my phone it reminds me to be awesome and also makes me grin a big stupid grin. And all those split seconds of joy really add up over the course of a day.
There’s not really a conclusion here. I’m just happy.
The National’s next album is coming out on 4AD.
I don’t know how I am going to cope with such a convergence of awesomenesses. I can only dream of the kind of cross-pollination that could theoretically occur.
Never mind that, though. I have set the countdown timer for May and will proceed to be excited.
The Mountain Goats - Going to Bristol with Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis, Minn. Nov. 7, 2009
John Darnielle - guitar + Owen Pallett = :O
