So I still can't get yesterday's song out of my head. Just seeing the title makes me go "do do do do do do do do!"
I figured I'd follow up yesterdays oddity with another oddity out of my collection, courtesy of Josephine Foster & The Supposed. This occupies a weird fringe of my taste: catchy yet discordant songs. Marissa Nadler (who is actually more accessible) and Rasputina fall into this category right along with Foster.
A good friend of mine, who has known me since we were both two, said upon hearing this song, "This is the kind of music that I imagine you listening to while you drive down the street," which was fitting because we were listening to it while driving down the street but it has stuck with me: I do turn this up and drive around with all the windows down. I wonder what people think.
When I lived in San Diego I was listening to Pet Sounds and Smiley Smile (by The Beach Boys, if you're dense) a lot and I used to blast it, and during one of the many sections of high pitched harmonizing a couple on a motorcycle shouted at me, "HEY! WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?"
"THE BEACH BOYS!"
"OH, COOL, RIGHT ON MAN!"
I've been back in LA for over four years now and no one ever asks me what I am listening to. LA county sucks. I can't wait until I start repeating stories unknowingly on this website. Maybe I've already told this one? I will have to start checking. Not today though, I will not start today.
Yesterday I rode around on one of these things:
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And it was awesome. In two hours I effectively mastered it. Then I went home so dehydrated that I woke up hungover. Yes, a Ripstik gave me a hangover. This is why people should drink water. Fuck.
I'm going to go buy one now, because I haven't spent enough money this month between a whole new speaker system, a new guitar, and now a fucking ripstik board. Man.
And one day I will be alone again, or something, etc, etc, to tie it all together.