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Let’s Get Sacarny (Full Version).mp3

And so I make my glorious return after one month of drunken depravity:

We recorded The Sacarny Song, Part 2 last night. That’s different from Part 1, which goes by the alternate title of Sacarny (Let’s Party). But anyway, I figure everyone wants to see the lyrics:

(To the tune of Let’s Get Retarded)

Lose windows
Just blow your nose
Neva drive too fast
In your wrinkled plaid clothes
Change your contacts, check your syntax
Get into an ivy, cool out & relax
Get Sacarny, throw down the party
Dave and Bonnie will make it all naughty
(fall asleep) on other people’s couches
(sit up straight) nah man he always slouches
(motherboards) as far as the eye can see
Never met a girl that didn’t already like Jesse

Everybody (what?)
Everybody (excuse me?)

Let’s get into it and get Sacarny!

More coming soon, it’s about to get political here…

The last non-school night before senior year, we had a sleepover. The next morning, I heard a song on WFUV that I sorta liked. It wasn’t that great, but I thought that I might as well try to find it online. I searched google for the lyrics, but got nothing. So I fired off an email to them:

Subject: What song did I hear?
To: thefolks@wfuv.org
Date: 04 Sep 2002 00:01:02 -0400

Do you guys have any clue what song that might have been?
Thanks,
Adam

WFUV replied, but the song they gave was not correct. With google not finding any results and the people who played the song not even being able to identify it, I was lost. I gave up, although the situation never really upset me to begin with.

I was looking through all my old e-mails today (What a fucking trip. Junior year??) and dug up that guy you see right above. So I googled for those lyrics, and lo and behold, the lyrics to the song showed up. I was even able to find a 30 second clip of it on CDNOW. Niftiness.

(For the curious, the song is called “If Love were an Airplane” by Willy Porter. It’s ok, I think, judging by the 30 second clip.)

I have been listening to Death Cab for Cutie a bit recently, and I’ve decided I like them a lot. It’s some combination of song structure and lyrics. Take “A Movie Script Ending” as an example. (A good example, because it’s such a damn good song). The chorus is just an act of beauty, but they manage to build towards it over the course of the first half of the song. You don’t listen to it for the catchy hook; you get half the enjoyment out of the anticipation. And just what IS the chorus?

Passing through unconscious states
When I awoke I was on the highway
Highway
Highway
Highway

That’s right. He fell asleep in car and when he woke up he was on a highway. And it sounds beautiful.

I close out the post with lyrics from “Kaleidoscope”. You must listen to these songs to get the full effect:

I was a kaleidoscope
The snow on my lenses distorting the image
Of what was only one of you

Oh god, I’m fucking myself over so badly. I don’t care. Onwards certainly, upwards maybe.

I saw Brother’s Past + The New Deal last night at the Bowery Ballroom. It was incredible. I took pictures, and I just got them back. They came out badly. Dammit. Not enough white light, and a poor attention to detail by yours truly. Blame the music, just please don’t blame me.

Maybe I don’t know enough about the whole scene, but I’m going to try to describe how I felt during the show. The New Deal do an excellent job manipulating the crowd. It helps if you’ve heard the song beforehand. They’ll start with a basic pattern, just enough to get you dancing and keep you interested. They’ll play that a bit. The energy builds and you start wanting to hear that beautiful riff. You know it’s coming, the question is how long will you have to wait to feel it. And I think ‘feel’ is an accurate verb.

They build towards the riff, maybe even hint at it a bit. Maybe play a few notes from it, but not enough. You’re not there yet. Then back to fast, fast drumming. They’re going to break into that riff and reach the high of the song, but you don’t know quite when — The New Deal keep you guessing better than anyone I’ve heard. Then, finally:

Bliss.

I’m not trying to say it’s sexual or anything.

I called up the Bowery Ballroom and found out their wonderful photo policy: I just need to be on “The List.” Then I gave a ring to the manager of Brother’s Past and got the band’s permission. They said I’d need to speak to The New Deal as well. I was worried, because The New Deal is a more popular band, and as bands get more popular, their photo policies seem to get more restrictive.

I was wrong! I called their “Tour Cell Phone” and got the immediate OK from the manager. I can take pictures there on Saturday. Sweet!

“Once Around the Block” by Badly Drawn Boy is in 3/4 time. Maybe I will play it again on No Soap radio so that no one can listen to it?