Still looking for that summer music (thanks Paula for the Kanye track). I was aiming for older times and pulled out the classic Bakesale by Sebadoh. I was having an emotional day- so by track 4 or 5, I had already cried, reminisced about things that need not be reminisced and had to begun to be over-agitated. Some brilliant songs but too loaded for heavy rotation.
Anyways I popped in last summer's Wilco album Sky Blue Sky on a drive home with my family the other night and I've gotta say the first few tracks just hit the spot. This one - Impossible Germany - has this sick guitar work by Nels Cline. For me, its sorta edible, the sound has so much personality and texture. You just crave a way to get further inside it leaving you with air guitar as the most direct entry point.
Anyways my enjoyment of this pure guitar rock was brought to a halt as I noticed my wife, mocking my bliss with devil horns raised and a heavy-metal-head-nod. We got into an unresolvable debate about the validity of guitar noodling which she isn't big on. And though I know it is a bit tedious I find it to be rather tasty at times - the jam. And now I know to satiate my summer blues, I need to enter the abyss of glorious rock jams. Santana, Greg Allman, Jerry...here I come.
Untitled (Hoses) from Zack Bent on Vimeo.
Stop-motion animation from earlier this year.
Ok, I am no longer a student, so its time to make a living. Now my freelancing volume has be turned up. So if any of you out there know people who need photography (no weddings please!), graphic design, logo design, video creation or editing, dvd creation, or a random animation for inspirational purposes - point them my way. I will be right here on my computer just waitin'.
After the Wedding is a really somber gripping number - big time emoter. And its Danish - and you know the Danish keep it real.
I wish I could mention all of the awesome summer music I am listening to- but its just not so. The music well is a little dry these days. I like my summer music to be redundant as in you can listen to an album over-and-over and it still feels right. I tried to do this with Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited and it wasn't working for me but it was realllly close. Aesop Rock' None Shall Pass album has been closer.
Any summer offerings out there?
