ayayay!

Been listening to a stream of The National's new album High Violet which will be out in May. I'm having goosebumps! Another tight-ass shit from this great band.

Excerpts from New York Time's article:

“Alligator” and “Boxer” did what excellent rock ’n’ roll albums did in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s: transcended the sum of their singles to offer something larger. In the National’s case, it was a powerful, probing feeling for the inner lives of average people out in the American heartland. So good was the music that with it came the promise of what might follow, the heady potential that the National would soon take things one step further, go ahead and make the great Middle American novel as music, an album for our time.

Since Matt excels at writing about sensitive people whose lives slump within that chapfallen key, the result is songs that are rich with mood, slow-cooked all the way down.

…the truth is that all five live for the measure-by-measure rigor of building, tearing down and rebuilding four-minute songs.

That feeling of risk shows up in the songs. The National’s sensibility captures the in-between feeling of being adrift in the mainstream with only a medium-size American heart to keep you from sinking. As Matt writes in the song “Slow Show,” “Looking for somewhere to stand and stay/I leaned on the wall and the wall leaned away.” It’s one of several songs that engage with the growing recognition that life out in the middle isn’t as stable as you were brought up to believe.

Read full article and listen to album stream here. Waaah. Concert! Concert! Concert!

it's lonely being tired all the time. kayod lang. someday soon, if it's not that, i hope it's this:

call me mellow
photo from here

woke up early today and this vid greeted me on my wall, c/o the little brother. cuteness. good vibes summer everyone!

Mistakes made: denial, internal skirmishes, negativity, loss

Lessons learned: truth, acceptance, positivity, abundance

"Being in the flow refers to a state of being where present actions and attitudes are in perfect sync with our visualizations and goals for the future. Its a state of coincidence and synchronicity brought on by creative and affirmative visualization." -- Martin Prihoda