This video was shown to me by a good friend who keeps my new music in check! As soon as I heard it, I got chills all over my body. Everything from lead singer, Chris Chu's crooning voice, the drums, the Etta James-style instrumentals, and the background vocals just compile so beautifully. In the interview at the beginning of the video, Chu describes his objectives for recording their song, "Excuses" in this fashion. He wanted to recreate record producer Phil Spektor's "wall of sound" theory which basically adds up to putting a load of people and instruments in a room and going with it as loud as you can, creating a "wall" of sound. This is "Excuses" from the delightful Berkley, CA band the morning benders (they prefer lowercase), enjoy!
Monday, March 1, 2010
Anonymous Apology (AA)
More often than not we go about our days saying things without thinking, without understanding. Today I realized the true meaning of that old phrase, "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." Today I realized I am not who I want to be, or expected my self to turn in to, either way. I am not the understanding, polite, eloquent, and creative young lady that I know I should be and it took only one person to show me. Unfortunately, she will never know. She won't know the words I said, the hurtful thoughts I had running through my brain every time I saw her. I did not understand, I'm sorry. Silently, she took my hand and offered kindness, a kinship of sorts, although rather unconventional. Oh well, I am an unconventional being. Through her kind outreach I will push myself to learn a better, more patient way of life where I am not run by frustration, jealousy, and guilt. Easy come, easy go-that is what life is. Love, joy, creation, death, sadness, all of these things are essential but others I can learn to live without. "Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope." Josh Billings
