im going to write this post based on how im expecting this day to go. then we can play a fun game and compare my predictions with how i actually feel and see how close i was. ready? go. i feel funny. whats happening to me? i cant see aaaaanything. is this real life? ive barely slept the past 4 nights, ive eaten nothing but garbage, i havent showered in what feels like weeks, and i have to sit in a packed minivan for the next 10 hours. but boy was it worth it! lets just say im very happy that i took tomorrow off work for my recovery day because im definitely going to need it. i may need the rest of today just to take the best shower ever since im maybe the dirtiest ive ever been right now.

while im counting down the minutes until said minivan ride is over and said shower is scheduled to begin, i thought id share with you a track by canadian rock group metric, led by the tantalizing emily haines, whos also a former member of canadian collective broken social scene. when i first started listening to broken social scene, i thought it was strange that there were upwards of 10 members at any given moment in the group but didnt think much of it. then i slowly began to realize how many of the members had other successful projects of their own. but i guess i dont know if these peoples groups were famous because of broken social scene or vice versa.

this song is the opening track of metrics latest album fantasies and is really one of the first songs to be considered for posting in the early infancy of this site (nearly 4 weeks ago. holy cow!). i think the reason i dig it so much is because it has so many distinct themes. theres the theme of the verses, the “beating like a hammer” theme and the chorus theme. and they alternate between major and minor, which makes it even more interesting. i think down the road i will have to post the excessively good twelves remix of this song, which i think ive talked about before, but want to let the album version soak into your brains first so you can fully appreciate the magic.

metric – help im alive

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