2.10.2005

Feeling old but I guess its about time.

I was listening to The Autumns the other day. I guess I should really say I was trying to listen. I just don't "get" it anymore. You probably don't know who they are. I accidentally found them when I was an emusic subscriber. I don't even think that emusic has their albums anymore. I should never have even found them and I guess that made it cooler that they made music that meant so much to me. My brother found a rapper who makes the most obscene raps ever! The important thing here is that he makes crappy raps. I mean real stinkers that no one can take seriously. I was looking for more of the same and I stumbled onto The Autumns. They were the only non rap band on the label. It was really wierd and I am sure there is a story behind it. Maybe I will try and look it up someday.
I was hooked right away. The singer has a kind of haunting voice. The guitar is deep. Together they moved me. I don't know if I was depressed or if I am just happy now. But I do know that I was looking forward to hearing this album and now I just don't seem to care. Everyone has albums you put on when you just want to lay around and do nothing. Or when you aren't in the mood to be around people yet you aren't mad. The stuff you listen to when you want to think. Deep thoughts. What am I doing? Where am I going? This is what the Autumns were to me. I was pretty much done with SPU but not graduating. I was living back at home.

I was taking classes at a community college with frustrating teenagers. Here I am four years later and I guess I am a lot happier. The Autumns are the same. I should like the new album. I should love it. I can't even listen to the whole thing. Someone :) said I should post more pics. Here is one of Henry and my room. He made a mess so I better go clean up. I guess I'll have more thoughts on music later.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

thanks for posting a new picture! I appreciate your thoughts too. As a fellow music enthusiast it is fun but sometimes difficult to listen to music from a different era. What I've found is that if an album that meant a lot to me long ago isn't sitting right with me now... hang on to it because eventually I find that I come full circle back to the album and feelings i once knew. I regret selling some of the albums that I did because I stopped enjoying them. Now, years later when i hear songs from those albums I miss them. That sounds cheasy i know but just wait.