Day 26
TODAY'S SONG:
"Romulus" by Sufjan Stevens
This
song reminds me of my senior year of college, when I was working for
the AV department at Duquesne. I would take phone calls when
professors were having problems setting up laptops and projectors.
It usually had to do with plugging in the right cables, or knowing
when to restart the computer. On a few occasions, I had to go
wander around campus to help solve a really bad problem, but mostly I
had a lot of free time to sit at a computer, do homework, read, and
listen to music.
I
think I was using Yahoo radio at the time. I also think you kind of
customized it by typing in artists that you like, so my station was a
hybrid of indie, folk, and jazz. A little while before, my friend
Margaret had put the song “John Wayne Gacy, Jr.” on a mixtape for
me, and I got Illinois shortly thereafter. So I was just a
little obsessed with Sufjan Stevens at the time. On this Yahoo radio
station, I started hearing his songs from Michigan and Seven
Swans.
Then
one day I heard some Sufjan song that was so pretty that I needed to
get the album as soon as I was out of work. I went with my friend
Caroline to the music store Paul's in Bloomfield (which I don't think
is there anymore, unfortunately). They had such a good selection and
the best prices in the area, as I recall. I think we met Caroline's
then-boyfriend Christopher there. His CD-addiction ran much deeper
than mine. He bought like five albums every week, it seemed. If I
had the money, I probably would've bought everything Sufjan had ever
made right then. I guess I didn't, because all I bought was
Michigan.
Here's my song about closed-up record stores:
Day 1: "One More Goodbye" by M. Ward
Day 2: "I'd Be Wrong Were I To Say I Loved You Not Quite Or Almost Always" by damian
Day 3: "If" by The Flaming Lips
Day 4: "Age of Innocence" by Billy Corgan
Day 5: "Jamming" by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Day 6: "Gentle and Delicate" by Maudlin Maladies
Day 7: "Type Slowly (live)" by Pavement
Day 8: "Get Lost" by Tom Waits
Day 9: "The Monkey Versus The Robot" by Piebald
Day 10: "Omaha" by Tapes 'n Tapes
Day 11: "Seasons in the Abyss" by Hellsongs
Day 12: "6th Street" by Space Wolves
Day 13: "Protagonist" by They Might Be Giants
Day 14: "Mellow Out" by JEFF the Brotherhood
Day 15: "New Partner" by Mark Kozelek
Day 16: "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" by Phil Ochs
Day 17: "Snowball" by Louis Armstrong
Day 18: "Faites De Beaux Reves" by Julie Doiron
Day 19: "Our Singer" by Pavement
Day 20: "Calgary" by Bon Iver
Day 21: "The Whole of the Law" by Yo La Tengo
Day 22: "Tonight You Belong To Me" by Eddie Vedder
Day 23: "Look Forward To The Moon" by Lane Shift
Day 24: "Spiderwebs" by No Doubt
Day 25: "Whether U Like It Or Not I Love U" by The Frogs
Here's my song about closed-up record stores:
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