SHUFFLE #1

Some of us pretend that we kind of hate music but actually we are kind of into it. For me it's the song, not the album, which is one of the reasons we did 7" singles for so long. I only got an ipod bigger than a shuffle about 2 months ago because I only really care about listening to songs at a time and get sick of them in about 10 listens and then get rid of them. Some songs stay important and can trigger us to remember things. In this new thing on our blog called SHUFFLE we're gonna talk about what songs we like and what they make us think of or remember. And you are gonna read it because we are famous rockstars and you come here to read about what we think and experience through us vicariously what you are not experiencing.

SHUFFLE #1
Tears for Fears "Pale Shelter"
A band that I think most people have come up against several times in life. I bought my first batch of LPs when I was 5 (not kidding) and one of the bunch was the 2nd Tears for Fears LP, along with a Bananarama 12", some Corey Hart LPs and stuff like that - I was 5. I forgot about them until I saw that movie Donnie Darko, which I'm sure is the case for everyone, whereupon I kind of got into the cover version of "Mad World" done by that American guy, but then started hating it just in time to have to hear it on that video game commercial it was in where the army guy comes up against that giant robotic bug. Mad World indeed. So fast forward to this Christmas. I was in the UK until like December 22, and was getting a bit sick while I was there. I took 3 sleeping pills on the plane home to try and avoid being awake because I hate flying, but all I could think of was how bad I felt and listen to the guy next to me talk about his life in Finland as a professional hockey player. Apparently I did pass out long enough not to notice that he'd spilled a drink on me. I got off the plane and had completely wiped out my immune system, because I ended up being hallucinogenic sick for the next 3 or 4 days and regular sick for weeks afterwards. Anyhow during the time I was really sick I made two trips outside the house - once to go see Deadmau5 and the other to return a pair of jeans I'd gotten for christmas. It was boxing day so everywhere was rammed but I decided to go to Sherway Gardens because thats the mall of my youth and because it's massive and I wanted to see how insane boxing day shopping would be. I drove around the parking lot for almost 45 minutes playing cat and mouse with parking spots and finally got one at the very outer rim of the lot. The first map of the mall told me there was no Levi's store in the mall anyhow, so I turned right around and drove home. The alternative station played "Pale Shelter" and I had to sit in the car in the driveway to hear the DJ say who it was by because I hadn't listened to the song in maybe 15 years but now I listen to it every few days.