Rounded Door Corners

This post has nothing to do with music, art or otherwise; though it is indirectly related to my life and my car at the same time.

My car used to have square rear door edges. After a few hours of work, it now has rounded door edges. Why? Why do something that only I, and a select few people, care about? What does that rounded door edge mean to the world? Why does anything matter?

These are all good questions (and to answer one of them honestly, they're round because they "look better that way" and I really don't want anyone's opinion on the matter), and most of them are fairly un-answerable.

I can say that the rounded door corner is the keystone of a custom car, and to quote Brian Bass "the purpose of a custom car is to make it look like it was sculpted out of one piece [of metal." Though, I also think that it represents a time of change in american life.

The round door corner brought upon the world of change that we see today, not constrained by a door skin hammer and a square door line.

Though, much like my (really neat) Lucas SLR700 headlamps, does it make the world a better place? Do I honestly care weather or not the world is a better place? Honestly, I'm a self-ish person and want to make myself happy by doing something I love (emulating an era that never really existed, whilst still being a socially relevant (and socially awkward) youth).

I posed the question to the friend of mine that was doing the majority of the work (He's fucking good at it.) "Why didn't Ford just do this from the factory?"

His response, "Because if they did, we'd be squaring these right about now."

The world revolves around change, and a lot of time change for change's sake. Its crazy how a rounded door corner, and a tight door gap can represent so much, and bring upon so many questions.

Regardless, my car is gonna look awesome. Expect a few sneak peeks

Also, I'm unsure of the legalities that would fall upon me for posting a Christmas mix-tape up here, so regardless of if I do or not (and I know only a few (0) people read it anyway) just talk with me about it, its a good one.

I shaved.

November has been hell.

My sister is back home for a little bit, so thats fun to see her again. I might go buy CRAZY FOR YOU on vinyl today, it depends on if it stops raining.

I've got some more bits for my transmission swap for my car. Which is at a very good friend's house, who is great at making metal work for him, so he is going to do some things to make my car nice. Then maybe some mud work and some more primer? Who knows.

I've got a new front end for my bike.

I saw Harry Potter at midnight, and it was pretty awesome.

School has been hell for the past few weeks, just trudging through to the finish. Needless to say, I've been doing pretty well,

Also, I'm on thanksgiving break, and would like to thank YOU, whoever you are, for reading this. Please continue reading.

T.V. Girl-S/t EP

San Diego's little known indie pop outfit T.v. Girl recently released their first (As far as I know) ep on their bandcamp page, and has set the blogopshere on fire. Reaching as far as getting a review on The Guardian UK's website. They will be big.

Regardless, the ep starts out with a very sweet song called "On Land" which sounds like band that Brian Wilson would have recorded if keyboards and synths were used in 1966. The ooh's and aah's are great, and the lyrics pushed low in the mix are a tip of the hat to just about every shoegaze group ever. The tempo is up beat, yet the lyrics not so, "Bandage on the soul unraveling" repeated multiple times in the song. A good juxtaposition of emotions.

The next song on this four track ep starts out by sampling "Hello its me" by Todd Rundgren, then breaks of into its own beautiful sound scape. A song about love, and love lost. "Morning comes, and I know how the next part goes. One last dance, then you delete me off your phone." That line pretty much sums up the song as a whole. The jangle of the bells makes the song feel warm, against the cold trumpets and keys.

After that, "It's Not Something" takes the narrator into a different direction. Its completely backwards. The narrator has full control of love, commanding that "The closer that we get, the more it seems to bore me. You should probably just ignore me. You have to notice that I only call at night." Then goes on to admit that there was more than one girl. A complete shift in mood from the previous tracks to have the narrator have full control of his life. Also the song itself is very upbeat and danceable to. the synth drives it, and the beat keeps up.

I' dont care. My favorite song of the album wraps it up. A song about apathy, and what a better way to talk about life. Singing a song that symbolizes our generation of apathetic geniuses. A diatribe about how life is nothingness and how its all a farce, is a great song to wrap it all up. "Call me apathetic, 'cause I don't really mind."

This band better get big, if it doesn't then something is wrong. I think they'll be as big as The Drums or even Tennis by the first of the year, especially if their FREE ep becomes viral.

Also, DOWNLOAD IT it. for FREEE.

8/10 FWIW, I really enjoyed it. Thank you T.v. Girl

No-shave

November.

Alright, so October is officially done for. It was insane, and awesome, and insane. Pile-up was nuts, and everything else was too.

Last night hung out with some awesome folks, bought a pizza, at said pizza, went on an adventure, and ended up watching texas chain saw.

It was a fun night, good halloween. November is going to be hectic and I'm not going to enjoy it.