11 posts tagged “dave matthews band”

"I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well . . . "

It's impossible to know when we'll be gone, impossible to know what's going to happen to us next. Life is full of little surprises, isnt' it?  We live our lives every day, trying to do things to make it okay.  To get to the next day.  It's really easy to get into a routine.  It's really easy to stay stationary, in a way.  Lately, I've felt stationary in certain parts of my life while other parts are moving ahead wonderfully.  I just want the stationary parts to move forward too. 

The wedding planning is just about done.  It was pretty much done less than a month into the engagement.  We picked the date, the hall, DJ, pictures, etc.  All that's left is the flowers.  And then it's the little things.  Finalizing the guest list.  Picking the menu.  The easier stuff.  I'm thrilled that everything went so easily.  Just gotta wait the eight months until the wedding :-)

The rest feels like a routine.  I pretty much work for my next day off.  I look forward to Tuesdays and every other weekend, because that's when I'm off.  I'm actually looking forward to going back to school.  I feel like I need to jumpstart something.  I've been getting realllllly sick of Target lately, it's been a frustrating place to be.  I go through highs and lows all the time there, so I'll be fine soon enough.  But still, I need to finish up so I can move on and get a real job.

I cannot believe that next year is going to be my 10 year reunion.  Ten years since I graduated from high school.  It's such a strange feeling.  I'm going to be 27 in a few weeks.  Someone I work with turns 17 next week.  I hardly feel like I'm ten years older than her. 

I'm sitting here listening to Ants Marching . . . the studio cut from Under The Table and Dreaming.  I'm already up to 11 years of being a Dave Matthews Band fanatic.  We're talking about 40% of my life.  Is it any wonder that when I finally decided to get a tattoo, it would be a dmb one.  They just released a new album, one that I've been waiting with anticipation for a long time for. 

Good timing . . . a song from that album called You & Me just came on.  This song makes me feel really excited about starting my life with Heather.  It makes me excited about having a family, growing old with someone. 

You and me together
We could do anything, baby
You and me together
Yes, yes . . .

It's amazing how much this band means to me.  When LeRoi died, it felt like a family member died.  I was at the three concerts immediately following the funeral . . . the first one was just two days after.  The amazing thing is the fact that the band came out and played, even the night that Roi died.  Dave said he just wanted to be with the people one stage and with us in the audience.  Music was therapy for them, and it was for all of us at the Gorge that weekend.  Every show I've been to since, every time Dave mentions LeRoi, we all feel what Dave feels. He'll always be Stage Left.

But then the wrong and rage is over
When light comes laughing loud
Oh and the hatred turns into loving
And out of nightime the soul is found
Oh when flowers bloom in the desert
Only hope can come from that
Oh and worn down in your worry
Only love can get it right"

That's from Grey Street, July 12, 2000.  One of my absolute favorite versions that happened to pop up on shuffle. 

It's always been the lyrics for me.  I mean, the music is great.  But I don't know that much about music, and I usually just get lost in it.  On the message boards, when people are discussing Carter's drumming or Stefan or Boyd's fills, I don't really catch them.  But lyrics . . . Dave's words.  Those get me every time.  I've said before that I think Dave Matthews Band has saved my life on a few occasions.  I've been down before . . . like really low.  It's been a while since I've felt that way, but it's happened multiple times.  And it's always this music that keeps me going.  It's the Carpe Diem attitude. It's the way the songs relate to me.  It's the fact that I can put on certain songs like Song That Jane Likes or Granny, and I can't help but smile.  It just happens, no matter what's going on.  And sometimes, when you just have to listen to sad music, there's plenty of that there too.  There are a lot of lyrics that help you realize that you need to live for today, the first thing I wrote in this entry, from Lie In Our Graves, is a great example. When all is siad and done, you don't want to regret anything.  You don't want to wonder if you've lived well or not.  You need to be happy in your life. 

There used to be a very positive person inside of me.  It's still in there, but it's hidden by a lot of self-hate.  It's hidded deeeeeeep down, and it needs to come out soon.  It's gonna be tough . ..  but I really need fix what's wrong with me and fix my attitude. 

But really, life isn't bad at all. 

Hehe, certain songs can bring it all back to a good place for me. 

Like this one:

07 Spaceman

Dave Matthews Band

So, after listening to a bit of the O, Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, I realized that this new DMB song reminds me a lot of I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow.  Check it out:

16 I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow

The Soggy Bottom Boys

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Okay, so there was that.  Now here's this new song, called #27.  Lyrics are after it, so you can read along:

#27

Dave Matthews Band

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See??? They sound similar.  Not totally, but similar.  Anyway, that's one of two new songs debuted this tour.  Here's the other one, called Cornbread.  Bot of these songs were first played by Dave and Tim, but the full band has picked them up.

Cornbread

Dave Matthews Band

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So, before I do anything else, I want to post an entry.  It's been two months since I've felt depressed.  I feel really down right now, though.  It's not depression, I don't think.  I'll be honest with you, I don't know why this feeling hit me.  Today has been a rough, emotional day for me.  And right now I'm listening to this, which I shouldn't be:

1-04 Some Devil

Dave Matthews

On Thursday I was planning on coming home and posting about how excited I was about stuff.  I still am, and will get to that soon, but not today.

You see, I am sick.  Badly.  Like, the kinda sick where I had to call in sick from work on both Friday and today.  And to be honest, I should have called in sick yesterday too.  I was able to stick it out yesterday . . . I mean, it was only a 6 hour shift.  Today, I have no voice, my fever is back (it was really bad Friday), headache, and extreme sore throat.  I'll be visiting the doctor tomorrow, where he'll let me know that I have strep throat, and hopefully it's the kind where you can take antibiotics and not the other kind (one is viral and one is bacterial, ya know?). 

So yeah, I'm sick.  That's all I wanted to say in my fourth post in all of April :(

I really wanna post more than that.  And I will start up again regularly after I get over this.  There is so much to say.  Nothing major, of course.  But still.

Here's a song, since this was a bummer of an entry:

Dave Matthews & Friends - 2004-06-11 Bonnaroo - Thing

Dave Matthews & Friends

Although it is called Thing here, the actual title of this song is Good Good Time. Great song.  Dave has done it with both the Dave Matthews Band and Dave and Friends (as this version is from).

Enjoy, my friends.

-Anthony

Any minute now, my ship is coming in

I'll keep checking the horizon
And I'll check my machine, there's sure to be that call
It's gonna happen soon, soon, soon
It's just that times are lean

-Colin Hay - Waiting For My Real Life To Begin

    I know that I have mentioned this song at quite a few times throughout the course of my blogging.  But right now I have these five lines running through my head.  Any minute now.  That's what I feel.  I really do.  Understand, I'm not down or anything.  Well, maybe that's a lie.  I'm kinda down, but not super-down.  Not at the moment. 

Here's what's going on with me, since it's been 11 days since I've posted anything substantial.

• I will be leaving for work soon.  Normal 2-close Sunday shift. 
  
• My parents are going to Florida for a week, from tomorrow through Sunday.  It will be nice to have some time to myself, to be honest.  I have no party-type plans, anyone who knows me knows that that's not my style.  But I am looking forward to the week.
• I have been super-duper into dmb lately.  As I've mentioned in the past, I've been a dmb fanatic for nine years, and right now I'm as into them as I was during the my dmb obsessed years of 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.  Yay!

    I have been trying to read for my Monday class this weekend, so I wouldn't have too much to do tomorrow.  So far I've read 35 of the 115 pages in the book we're reading.  I'm bringing the book with me to work again, since I got most of that done yesterday on my breaks.  I hope to get through chapter 1 by the time today is over, which will get me to page 60.  I have to read this slowly, since it's for historiography, the hard class.  So a modest 35 page goal should be just fine.  That will mean that I have to read 55 pages between 10 and 3 tomorrow.  I think I can do that.  That's ten pages an hour, just about.  Seriously, I can do that :-)

Then bang out a 1-2 page response paper.  Then bring my parents to the airport at 4, go to class, and when I get out of class, I'm chilling with Andrew for a while.  And that will be nice :-)

So, my friends, I do have to start getting ready for work.  I do think that work will be okay tonight.  At least until we close.  Then, we'll see.  LOD Bob is closing tonight, which is awesome, because he's so nice.  I believe that I'm alone from 8:30 on.  I hope we're not there til 11:50 like we were last Sunday.  But then again, I envision a lot of people calling in "sick" today, the day after St. Patrick's day and all.

Okay.  That's enough from me.  More soon.  I'm going to start blogging regularly again, not just QoTD and Vox Hunt, although you know Iove those, especially music and video Vox Hunts.  I don't have a digital camera yet, so the picture ones are kinda tough for me to do. 

More soon!

-Anthony

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 (officially, although I still feel like it's Tuesday because I haven't slept yet)
Current Music: Dave Matthews Band - Two Step (album version)
Current Mood:  kinda tired

   Soooooooooo, here it is, late Tuesday.  It's not too late, less than an hour after midnight on Wednesday, so I'm stil considering it pretty much Tuesday.  I know, doesn't really matter to many, but I like to make sure that my Vox book keeping is solid. 

  So, here I am, posting as I lay in bed, relaxed and feeling good.  Had a test tonight, did pretty well, I think.  Have a few classes tomorrow, but I got my homework done for them already, so I feel good about that, too.  Tomorrow night is Game 1 of the National League Championship Series (NLCS), Mets vs. Cardinals.  Should be a very interesting series. I have faith in the Mets, but I also am not going as far as to say they'll win or lose.  Anything can happen in this series.  We'll see.  At least it'll be good baseball. 

   I feel good.  I don't know if that matters, but I do feel good right now.  My shoulder is itchy, but I don't think there's any real reason for that.  As far as I know, things in my life are going okay.  I am on a downswing of my emotional biorhythm, according to Google, but I don't feel that.  I feel very strong at this point, and I feel like I am doing great emotionally.  So I'll just enjoy myself, and I hope that things go okay this week and weekend.  I think they well.

  I guess I really don't have much to post about today.  I am kinda boring, since nothing has happened today.  Just counseling, which went very well, and a test. 

  Well, how about some music, since Two Step just ended:

(Now playing: Buddy Holly - It Don't Matter Anymore)

   This song is uploaded to my Vox, and I posted about it once.  It is so sad that this song is pretty much how I am going to feel about Rocio.  It's just about how I did everything I could, I'm done trying, I cried and wasted my tears over the breakup, and that's it.  I'll find someone new, and she won't be so important to me anymore.  And it's not a malicious song or anything.  It's not mean.  It's just pretty much saying, I'm done being sad, and I'm moving on.  So yeah.  I like Buddy Holly, so this song works well for me. :-)

(Now playing: Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson)

   I liked this song before I really got into the Beach Boys, so I didn't really understand the references (sandbox in the living room, Dr. Landy, Smiley Smile, Fun Fun Fun).  But I do like the song for other reasons.  It is catchy, and it reminds me of such a simpler time.  I mean, doens't everything?!  But really, it's a great song.  Reminds me of Adam Gold, actually.  I don't think that Adam even liked BNL, and I'm really not sure why this song reminds me of him.  Adam Gold was a friend of mine from 11th and 12th grades.  Very good guy, big dmb fan, too :-)  Hmm.  I need to figure out why this song reminds me of him.  Maybe that'll come to me eventually.

(now playing: Dave Matthews Band - Song That Jane Likes)

   This song will always remind me of July 4, 2001.  On that day I went into the city with my whole family.  We had dinner at Carmines and we got stuck in traffic since we were diverted on the way home because of the Macy's Fireworks.  Anyway, I remember looking out the window at the city, listening to this song, and feeling 100% content.  I love this song.  The lyrics are pretty much nonsense, but the happiness of the song cannot be any better to me.  I remember Rocio knew I loved this song, too, and she'd sing it to me.  This was back around December, 2002.  She was hoping they'd play it at the concert I went to on 12.21.02, but they didn't.  Still, she was so awesome at the beginning of our relationship.  I could just tell that she loved me so much. 

 I have no regrets, by the way.

My favorite line from this song:
 And we'll be back round again
Yes I'll walk in time with you old friend
And we'll find that place
That we had danced in so long ago . . .

(now playing: Shakira - Underneath Your Clothes)

  Okay, now this song reminds me of the Summer of 2002.  I would be standing at Dunkin Donuts after we closed, cleaning up, and this song would come on the radio, and I just would feel so, so, so alone.  I dunno.  I wanted someone to love me so badly.  I wanted someone to feel something for me. 

  Rocio came soon after :-)

  It's strange to have that feeling again, ya know?  I never thought that I'd feel unloved again. I never thought I'd have to worry about being alone, and dying alone.  I know, I'm young.  I understand that.  I'm just saying, I wasn't expecting this at all. 

Okay, sorry Shakira.  Next:

(Now playing: Dave Matthews (solo) - Stay or Leave

   Okay.  Wow.  This song takes on a whole new meaning after a break up.  I had better post the lyrics first:

Maybe different but remember
Winters warm where you and i
Kissing whiskey by the fire
With the snow outside
And when the summer comes
In the river
Swims at midnight
Shiver cold
Touch the bottom
You and I
With muddy toes

Stay or leave
I want you not to go
But you should
It was good as good goes
Stay or leave
I want you not to go
But you did

Wake up naked drinking coffee
Making plans to change the world
While the world is changing us
It was good good love
You used to laugh under the covers
Maybe not so often now
But the way I used to laugh with you
Was loud and hard

Stay or leave
I want you not to go
But you should
It was good as good goes
Stay or leave
I want you not to go
But you did

So what to do
With the rest of the day's afternoon hey
Isn't it strange how we change
Everything we did
Did I do all that i should

That I coulda done

Remember we used to dance
And everyone wanted to be
You and me
I want to be too
What day is this
Besides the day you left me
What day is this
Besides the day you went

So what to do
With the rest of the day's afternoon hey
Well isn't it strange how we change
Everything we did
Did I do all that I could

Remember we used to dance
And everyone wanted to be you and me
I want to be too
What day is this
Besides the day you went babe
What day is this

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  I mean, look at the parts I bolded, in particular.  We used to laugh, not so often now.  I mean, that's exactly what started happening.  Rocio just was not into it anymore.  I did everything that I could.  I tried so hard to make her happy.  She just didn't feel it anymore, ya know?  And the chorus, "I want you not to go, but you should".  It's like, I know that it's the right thing, but it still was the hardest thing to deal with, ya know?  And then the line about "What to do with the rest of the day's afternoon" . .. I mean, it's more like, what should I do with the rest of my life?  I had everything set.  I had found love, I had found my future.  It just didn't happen in the long run.  So it's sorta back to the start. 

 Did I do all that I could?

-Anthony

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Current Music: Seinfeld
Current Mood: Down, but traces of up

  Back to my blogging style, trying to get back into my life.  I have had a positive day.  I went down to the Missouri River today, just thought I'd get back to nature for a bit.  I needed to get away.  I got a call from Rocio on my way back from the River, feeling really good.  Rocio and I had a very, very good conversation.  She told me that she's talk to me tomorrow, and that she appreciates that I left some dmb cds for her.  She said that we'll work things out, and she understood totally when I told her that if I do work, then I'll drive right back here afterwards.  She said she'd try to call me tonight, but if not we'll talk tomorrow.  I told her that's fine, and that I won't expect a call tonight, and I'll call her tomorrow or she can call me.  I played it cool. 

  Before, I started freaking out about if I don't see her this weekend.  I started thinking about how if I don't, then if I do see her next weekend, it'll be three weeks since I saw her.  That is a long, long time.  Then I put it into perspective by thinking about how I used to go three to four months without seeing her.  So that's a big difference, right?  Yeah! 

   But I have been having anxious moments.  I have been dealing with a lot, which is why I went to counseling today.  I had gotten to the edge.  I wasn't going to do anything to myself or anything, but I don't know how my body was going to react if I didn't talk to someone. 

  I think about how everyone is visiting her at this very moment, but not me.  And I'm okay with that.  And she's okay with it, which is more important.  The counselor asked me why I was upset about not going, and I said "She may think that I don't care about her".  She questioned that, and then I realized that that isn't possible.  Rocio knows how much I care, and she understands.  She has been great.  I know I said this last post, but I am so glad to know that I am her best friend.  It makes me feel so good! :-) 

  Okay, that's that.  I'm so weird. 

How about some music, eh?  It's been a while.

(Now Playing: David Gray - Nightblindness)

  David Gray, as I've mentioned before, reminds me of January, 2001.  His voice is great, I really love it.  White Ladder is the only David Gray album that I've ever heard.  It depresses me.  Not just because of the memories it brings up.  It is just a depressing sounding album.  I don't know if it's his voice, or the music itself, but there's something that, it doesnt matter what the lyrics are, the music makes me . . . I dunno.  It doesn't make me feel sad.  It doesn't depress me. It just is kinda, eh.  It's hard to explain.  I'm not sad because of David Gray.  But I feel sad for 3 minutes or so.  Then, BAM, it's gone :-)

Yes, I said BAM.

(Now playing: Sublime - Santaria)

   I LOVE this song.  I like Sublime. This song makes me feel happy :-)  It's like the total opposite of what David Gray does.  Just upbeat.  This song reminds me of Steve Manley.  I've mentioned him once before, but not much.  Steve lived down the street from me when I lived in New York.  He also started working at Baskin Robbins.  Being a year younger than I was, he was in my high school when I was a senior.  He and I became friendly.  He was a great, great guy.  Just top-notch.  I never knew for sure, but I'm pretty positive that Steve loved the marijuana.  Not just from his music choices (Sublime being his favorite), but just from him being himself.  Good kid, though.  I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it. I'm just saying, he loved the pot.  I remember that on my video yearbook, he knew my mom and dad would watch it with me, and so he was like "Hey Anthony, I am so glad we're friends.  You love pot.  Pot pot pot."  And he started dancing and singing about pot.  Good times, Steve :-)

(Now playing - Dave Matthews Band- Rhyme & Reason)

   This song, when you listen to it, is about a man who is at his darkest point, needing to kill his pain with more and more heroin, and it is just dark, deep, and amazing.  I've never felt as low as the person in the song.  But, when I saw this live at Madison Square Garden, I believe it was the 5.29.02 show, I had this amazing moment.  I was so into the music, I was just tuned in.  And I was watching the screen, and seeing Dave's facial expressions, watching him sing this song.  "I've had enough of being alone, and I've got no place to go.  My head won't leave my head alone, and I don't believe will till I'm SIX FEET UNDERGROUND IN MY GRAVE"  And then, at the end, there's this part when it's just him and Carter playing the a drumroll on the symbols, and Dave sings "My head leaves me behind, my body falls cold . . . I . . . see . . . heaven" The way he sings that "I see heaven" part, with the cymbal behind him, and dead silence in the place, just so deep into it.  I got chills.  I get chills just thinking about it. 

  And THAT is why I love music.  The fact that it can do that to you.  Amazing.

(Now playing: Weezer - Butterfly)

  This song depresses the hell out of me.  :-)  If you've never heard it, find it, listen to it, and you'll know what I mean.  "Everytime I pin down what I think I want, it slips away".  Ugh. 

NEXT!

(Now playing - Guster - Fa Fa)

   Oh man, another band that Dan Cherney got me into.  This is a band that when Rocio found out that I like them, she loved me even more :-)  This song, this album, reminds me of about 11th grade.  I was getting into Dave Matthews Band big time at that point, but it wasn't the total music experience like it was in 12th grade and my first two or three years of college.  I actually listened to other music like Barenaked Ladies and Guster and Granian. 

  I'd put them in the category of music that makes me happy.  There are some bands that their music just makes me smile. 

 Hmmm.

I miss Rocio.

sorry

(now playing:  Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years)

  Okay.  I love this song.  I love Paul Simon.  But do you want to know what this song reminds me of?  When I was a kid, maybe 8 years old, I used to watch WSBK, which was a superstation at the time, like TBS or WGN.  The thing is, it was a Boston Station.  I would watch Punky Brewster and Cheers on it.  And there was this commercial for M*A*S*H.  And this song was to this tune, and it was like "Mash is crazy after all these years . ..  "

  Memories are so fun :-)

(Now playing - America - Horse With No Name)

  Neil Young is amazing.  His music is so great.  This song is fun.  I used to talk to my friend Jon-Paul all the time.  I mean ALL the time.  Every day.  He was my Andrew of 11th and 12th grades.  Actually, he got me from 10th grade through my freshman year of college.  That was a rough time for me.  But he used to say how this song is fun because it makes no sense.

"In the desert, you can't remember your name
Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain."

  No sense whatsover.  but still a great song :-)

  I'm going to stop there for now.  More later.  Maybe I'll post the QOTD, it seems like a great one.

Friday, September 22, 2006
Current Music - iTunes on shuffle
Current Mood - lonely/okay

    Before I listen to music and wax poetic about what it means to me, I have some other stuff to post about.  Today was an okay day.  I actually decided not to go to my only class today.  Instead I headed back to Sioux Falls earlier so that I could get stuff done.  Rocio is still in Minneapolis with Rob until tomorrow, so I used today to go up, do my laundry, and buy some clothes for my internship, and see the dogs :-)  Juan (Rocio's brother) ended up being home, so we hung out for a bit before I went out.  Then I got clothes.  I am so happy that I have started Weight Watchers, because eventually I'll be able to buy smaller clothes and I'll feel really good about myself!  For now, however, it was the JC Penny big and tall section.  BUT, the weird thing is that I didn't need nearly as big a size as I thought..  I tried on what I thought I would need and needed smaller.  So that felt good.  So I got two shirts and a pair of dress pants.  I'm going to look good!  Hehe, that's a good thing. 
    I went home and Juan and I went out to lunch.  I actually had the buffet at KFC, which is something I haven't had in a year or so.  The good thing about Weight Watchers is that you can eat that if you count it.  You can eat anything.  Granted, they'd like you to make healthier choices most of the time, but if you do go to KFC, you can eat stuff and not feel bad.  So I did.  And I ate all of my points allowance already, and I'm not super hungry, but the old Anthony (as in the Anthony from before yesterday) would be in his car on his way to McDonalds right now.  That's not to say that I'm not going to go, but I'm 85% sure that I'm not going to go :-)  So that's a plus.  I had a light english muffin to hold me over, with a lot of water, which fills me, thankfully.  I still havne't decided if I'm going to have one of my beers that I bought.  We'll see.  I may save that for tomorrow. 
    I have a LOT of homework to do over the next two days.  It is a very good thing that I am off the whole weekend, because I'll need it.  I did this to myself, really.  I decided to save it till now.  I figure that this will take at least 8 hours of reading and highlighting and writing.  I'm up for it, though.  That's not bad over a two day span. 
   Today is the first day in four years that I haven't talked to Rocio at least once.  It is so hard because there are so many times throughout the day that I would have called her, but I couldn't.  I can't.  I won't!  I'm going to be strong.  I hope.
   On to the music

(Now playing: Jimmy Eat World - The Middle)

   This song was popular in the summer after my freshman year at college.  Summer of 2001.   I remember driving to bball with Will and stopping at  7-Eleven for some Gatorade.  After that this song came on the radio.  Good song :-) I miss playing bball with my friends.  I miss having those friends.  I know that people go ahead and do their own thing.  Most of them don't even live on Long Island anymore.  Heck, I don't live on Long Island anymore. They were great friends in high school though, and I really thought that I'd stay friends with them.  Gah.  Song is over!

(Now playing: Del Amitri - Roll To Me)

     Oh man, summer of 1995.  Haha.  This kind of music sticks with me.  Summer after 7th grade, I believe that was.  Really good time in my life, I think.  This song always reminds me of the 1996 Olympics actually.  I put it on a mix tape that I made, along with the Mission Impossible Theme, Coming to America, and the Olympic theme.  Weird!

(Now playing: Barenaked Ladies - The Old Apartment)

   When I wanted to form a band, this was the first song that I wanted to cover with them!  Never got the band together.  This song reminds me of my sister Michelle, actually.  She loved it when she was still in college, so many years ago.  I'd say around 1997 or so, like her sophomore year at Boston College.  She told me about it, and I fell in love with BNL after this song! 

    I got into them about a month before Dave Matthews Band.  Then I sorta got obsessed with dmb for about eight years.  Hehe.  Forgot about everything else.  :)

(Now playing: Paul Simon - Homeless)

  I don't know what to say about this song.  A lot of fun African singing in it, sad lyrics otherwise.  I love Paul Simon.  And Simon and Garfunkel.  I really got into his album, Graceland, after seeing a special about it on VH1 in tenth grade.  Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes is still one of my favorite songs by anyone ever!  :-) 

  That's all for now!

-Anthony