I set my clock dumb early. I actually set two alarm clocks, just so I don't get screwed and sleep in. If I had a dog, I'd have no issue. When I was in high school, my dog would lick me in the morning and wake me up. Gross, right? But it worked.
I set my clock for 5:45 AM. I then carefully set my phone alarm on Vibrate + Tone for 5:50 to wake up me 5 minutes later. My alarm clock is out of my immediate reach, thus forcing me to move and "wake up." So far, in 26 years of life, this tactic has not worked. One of the following things happens:
1. My alarm clock incorporates itself into my REM cycle.
2. My phone decides to not work out of pure random awfulness and, on the very same day, my alarm clock goes "Ksshshhhhhhhhh" because, in my efforts to set the alarm (I still don't know how to do it exactly right) I have set it unknowingly on "radio" and it's not tuned to a station. I cannot tune it to a station because #1 would happen (and the song would play in my dream).
3. My alarm clock goes off, my phone goes off, and I inadvertantly press snooze.
4. I press snooze in my sleep.
5. I just sleep through all that shit.
Did anyone pick up on the fact that I actually set my alarm for the ludicrous hour of 5:45 AM? Ha. I got up that early maybe like, once this whole year. It is set that early purely so that I can enjoy exactly 18 minutes of extra sleep and FEEL like it's extra sleep. Studies have actually shown that this is detrimental. That your body gets into a bad cycle. WTF. It feels great.
Here's to waking up tomorrow.
Now- welcome to my favorite new bands of rightthissecond:
1. Folksy sound/Best overall: Blitzen Trapper
Deemed the "Neo-Cash." Listen, I don't really dig the Cash comparison - call me a blasphemer to all music, but I'm not a huge Cash devotee. But I do love the chill sound here.
2. Broken Bells, i.e., The Shins By a Different Name (Plus More Electronica)
John Mercer of The Shins started a new band. Here it is. Some of the songs sound more Shins-y than others; this is the furthest from Shins I could find. I love the Shins. I just don't think that your side project band should sound like their younger, more alternative brother.
3. Gorillaz, "Plastic Beach" album (Left Field Award)
So I think the Gorillaz have a good thing happening. Wasn't sure how I felt about the album at first, but after a day of steady listening, I'm going with Rolling Stone, who loves it. They particularly love this song:
That's "Some Kind of Nature," f. Lou Reed (of Velvet Underground fame). Did you know Velvet Underground had a chick drummer? I found that out tonight, when I got fucking STEAMROLLED in trivia by an entire team wearing mom jeans. Yay for me. Honestly? Like the song. It's probably my favorite on the album. But here's the thing: while RS hypes the fact that Gorillaz distances themselves from their dance-floor anthems in these tracks, I'm kind of missing what I expected. And while I'm grooving to this album in general, I'm left wondering - what happened to songs like "Dare"? You'd think I'd be all over Lou Reed + Gorillaz.
What's undeniable is the beat. Check out "Stylo," the first single to drop, and "Superfast Jellyfish," featured below.
4. Song I Can't Get Outta My Head: Cake, "Let Me Go"
5. Song I Secretly Listen To @ 6:45 AM (assuming I awaken)
Hmmmmmm...
In other news, like Sade, don't love Sade, despite the intense Sade love going around. Like the main track, don't love the main track, love the hook on the main track (Kool Moe Dee's "Wild Wild West," circa 1988 bitches).
In other other news, I think the somewhat obscure alt-pop band The Academy Is... (I don't care what their official ITunes label is, they're alt-pop) does a great cover of "Fox on the Run."
And, as always, life is good people.
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