Thinking About What A Friend Had Said, I Was Hoping It Was a Lie

       I finally managed to whittle the list down to one so it's Post 19: A Song From Your Favourite Album. Before I get to the song honourable mentions go out to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon, The Tragically Hip's Phantom Power, Matt Mays and El Torpedo's Terminal Romance, Rage Against The Machine's Renegades, and Neil Young's Harvest. So without further ado the title track from my favourite album

Great Album Creepy Cover

Neil Young's After the Goldrush is sentimental without being sappy, it's the rare album that works for every mood, it's calming, but still uplifting. The albums lead track "Tell Me Why" is a perfect introduction for what's to come while "Cripple Creek Ferry" manages to wrap everything up in a neat little package. The best known song would probably be Southern Man which is probably the song that seems the most out of place, It's the longest song on the album, it's also the one with the most anger. Unlike most Neil Young albums there are no long jams and Southern Man is the only song that has any of the "Disjointed" sound that would dominate the majority of the rest of his output. It almost feels more like a country album than anything else, A Cover of Don Williams Oh Lonesome me really drives this feeling home. The only real downer on the album would be Birds but even then it's not unwelcome. This is an album that when played on a car trip will make any time this album is playing fly by twice as fast. Really the only place this album wouldn't work would be at a wild party, other than that it can be played anywhere and fit in perfectly. If you have never heard this album from start to finish I highly suggest you go purchase it and listen to it in it's entirety right now
it's only 35 minutes long so I will wait.


I have decided upon a new goal for my life. To be the best at one thing. Let me clarify, one of my greatest frustrations is that in everything I do I am at best average, at worst awful. This encompasses everything in my life. There are a select few things I would say I am good at such as cooking, however I know numerous people who put me to shame in that regard. I don't need to be the best in the entire world I just want to be the best out of everyone I know. I don't need to nor do I want to be the best at everything, for that would make me even more insufferable. Of course for this to realistically happen I will need to select at least 1 if not more things to work on perfecting, and for some reason I believe that may be the most difficult part of this whole task. Things such as best Son/Brother/Boyfriend/Husband/Father etc. do not count since there is no clear way to figure out who is best and to compare skills. If you have any suggestions for what I should perfect feel free to tell me in the comments. Whatever it is I decide, I have a feeling I may have to wait awhile to be the best at anything besides being perfectly average.

The Daytimes Are Bad, The Nightimes Worse.

I'm having a hard time picking a favourite album for the next challenge post hence the long gap after being semi consistent in my writing which is incredibly frustrating since there have been many things I wanted to write about but no longer can since they are no longer relevant or applicable. One of them was going to be about how life is great and such but that topic has to be abandoned seeing as how so far all 9 days of 2013 have ranged from bad to terrible for various reasons that frankly nobody else needs to know. I am also finding it hard to find a song/title for this post since I keep over thinking everything and finding meanings that don't exist. Thankfully shuffle exists and cannot be influenced by outside factors even though there are times it seems the purposefully choose the songs that are the worst for any given situation.

Don't bother looking for some hidden meaning that doesn't exist. Go read a book or something

Remember I'm not picking these. It's the work of forces unknown

This may be my favourite album of 2012 but not even close to favourite overall

I have nothing to add here.

I hope in the next few days I can decide what my favourite album is and maybe feel one emotion at a time instead of everything and nothing at once. I also hope 2013 gets better because if it gets worse then I have truly done something wrong in a past life. Until then Goodnight and Goodluck

Guess I've Got That Old Travelin' Bone,

Let's just cut to the chase. Post 18: "A song that you wish you heard on the radio"

I want to learn the saxophone for the sole reason of playing this solo

It's a great song, it's slow, somber, but not overly sad. I'm sure I could here it if there was a dedicated classic rock station. Of course here in Yorkton there isn't one. CCR is one of the few groups that I can honestly say doesn't have a bad song. Are all of their songs great? Definitely not but there isn't a rotten apple in the barrel, However in music like apples if you don't like the taste of one you won't like the taste of any. There are two other musical groups who have the same distinction in quality, The Band, and Foo Fighters. This is also on the short list of songs I would want played at my funeral, One of the things I do when I want to kill time or focus on something unimportant and un-troubling is make playlists for every event. I have shared my thoughts on funerals here. I actually polished the second portion of that up into something much better for a SYP article I may replace the original or make a new post with the update.

I find more in more in my life I explain my actions and describe my personality, by talking about the various people in my life as I grew up. I come from a very large family of mostly healthy people so I have all kinds of influences to draw from but as I grow I find there are two people I am most like. One is obvious and makes a lot of sense which is my Father. For a small glimpse into the kind of person he is you can check out his Twitter. From being around him my whole life and being his son I have picked up a lot of his mannerisms, sensibilities, and ethics among other things. The one thing most people notice and comment on when first meeting the other after knowing one of us for awhile is how we basically have the same odd sense of humour that I really can't objectively describe. The other man I find in myself is my late maternal grandfather Arhibald "Archie" Locke. We were never particularly close but from sheer luck, some good some bad, and genetics, I have picked up quirks that are seemingly unexplainable and his personality.This is basically due to my picking up some of his undiagnosed minor mental disorders that are absent on my dads side of the family but seem to be lurking just under the surface on my mothers. However in my case these things didn't stay under the surface and are actually noticeable enough to be diagnosed. At one time I hated it and what it made me, but as I grow I am becoming at peace with it and can accept that it is an integral part of who I am for better or for worse. They are both a little quieter and a lot calmer than I am but I'm still a work in progress and I hope to one day be a bit more like both of them.

Indecipherable Korean, and Song About Boys

Post 17:  A Song That You Hear Often on The Radio

This is actually pretty hard since I generally spend 6 hours a day listening to and talking on the radio so for simplicity's sake I am excluding anything heard on the station I work at, This leaves me with the station I used to work at and there are two songs that I always seem to catch and they are both awful.

Seriously name me two current songs that are worse.

I have nothing to add for Psy, Taylor Swift on the other hand I have many negative thoughts about.

When is Taylor Swift going to grow up and sing songs that grown ass women would sing? Has she ever released a single that's not about boys and how much she likes them, or dislikes them, or how relationships are so haaaaaard etc.? Seriously she's turning 23 in a few weeks and still sings songs for 15 year old girls who have pictures of horses on the walls! When she started out it all made sense but thematically she hasn't progressed as an artist at all. Yes she has changed musically to keep with the times and is moving away from the very little bit of a country sound she had and is recording pure pop and asking some poor soul to lay a banjo track so her songs can torture me at work. I feel no ill towards Swift and she seems to be someone who isn't a horrible human being but unless she starts to write songs for her own age I never want to hear from her again.

I Am Tired Of Waiting

Usually I go on a tangent and then talk about the song choice but today I'm doing it the other way around. It's Post 16: "A Song That You Used To Love But Now Hate"

Beep Beep Motherfucker

This is the first Beatles song I was ever really aware of thanks to the "Beep Beep Yeah" being used in a radio jingle. The Beatles are great but this song isn't, I have no real memories good or bad associated with this song it's pretty boring and bland which are really the only things a song shouldn't be. If it wasn't for the album appearing as the default image for the video I wouldn't have remembered what album it was off of or if it was even on an album. All that being said I don't really hate this song, I am just indifferent to it iTunes says I have played it 6 times since January 2010. I also never really loved this song either I just enjoyed it a lot, I ended up choosing it because I don't have any strong negative feelings towards anything I have loved including music. Drive My Car just happens to have the largest gaps between how highly I used to think of it in the past and how ambivalent I am to it now. I also couldn't find any lyrics from this one to use as a title.

I can't think of a decent segue to my next topic and I don't want to beat around the bush so I will just come out and say it. I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND AND IT'S AWESOME!!! 
O.K. I'm glad I got that out of the system, I haven't gone and shouted this from the mountaintops and this is the public place I have put this statement out on so far. I am purposefully keeping this on the down low and on a need to know basis since it has always annoyed the hell out of me when others constantly crow about how awesome their significant other is and how theirs is better than yours and if you don't have one then your really up shit creek. Plus it is always fun to see people's reactions when they find out you have kept this kind of information from them. Still I will admit that it's hard not weave in mentions of the fact I have a girlfriend into every single conversation I have, but for the most part I have managed to avoid it, for now.
For some strange reason I find it easier to type out my thoughts and feelings in a semi-public place than it is to tell them to another human being in private so I apologize in advance for the inevitable posts about first world problems and the mundane aspects of relationships, I am almost certain the next post will address the fallacy that is normality, that being said plans were made to be broken.