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youth. teeth. seeth.

i am really pulling for you to grow up.
because you are not getting any younger.

love,
mgmt

Download: the youth:mgmt
Buy the album: oracular spectactular

sometimes i get homesick

Tips:
one. london is not chicago.
two. politeness isn't the same as friendliness.
three. you're on your own, kid.
(footnote. swelling strings and chorus.)

Download
one. home i'll never be
two. american squirm
three. walked for hours
(footnote. chicago)

Buy the album:
tom waits - orphans box set
nick lowe - basher
gonzalez - gonzales uber alles
(sufjan stevens - come on feel the illinoise!)

rhythm comes in many forms

the train rolled to a stop, originally uploaded by delicious aloysius.

"i often dream of trains when i'm with you"

Múm - Asleep on a Train
The Notwist - Off the Rails
Zoviet France - Amber

We're off the rails. Now we are trains ourselves. No wait and see, we're off this place, doesn't mean we're somewhere else. This is all I know: keeping still to watch the engines come and go.

Buy the albums: Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK | Neon Golden | Digilogue

we always knew we were different.

or: Creepiness as a Light in the World

Learning, Arts, and the Brain, a study three years in the making, is the result of research by cognitive neuroscientists from seven leading universities across the United States. In the Dana Consortium study, released in March 2008, researchers grappled with a fundamental question: Are smart people drawn to the arts or does arts training make people smarter?
- http://www.dana.org/news/publications/publication.aspx?id=10760

In their paper "How Arts Training Influences Cognition," Posner et al. argue that there are specific brain networks for different art forms, that there is a genetic factor for interest or openness to the arts, and that this leads to specific cognitive advantages, particularly when dealing with conflict.

What that means to me is, the people who understand. We're different.