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[miko2]

Earlier in the week I posted about the celtic-folk-rock band Tempest and recommended downloading their cover of Jethro Tull's Aqualung. I took that advice myself, since this is a song not present on any Tempest cds.

I also listed a song by Sleater-Kinney as a song of the day this week, and linked to several videos of theirs. One of these was the song Jumpers, and I was reminded that I liked this song a lot.

I placed both songs on my iPod and moved them to the top of my current favorite playlist. Then I went for a walk the next day and listened to them, and I realized they actually were songs on a similar theme -- both songs are about people on a path of destruction, at the end of their rope:

Locomotive Breath

In the shuffling madess
of the locomotive breath,
runs the all-time loser,
headlong to his death.
He feels the piston scraping --
steam breaking on his brow --
old Charlie stole the handle and
the train won't stop going --
no way to slow down.

Jumpers

I spend the afternoon in cars
I sit in traffic jams for hours
Don't push me
I am not OK

The sky is blue most every day
The lemons grow like tumors they
Are tiny suns infused with sour

Lonely as a cloud
In the Golden State
"The coldest winter that I ever saw
Was the summer that I spent..."

The only substance is the fog
And it hides all that has gone wrong
Can't see a thing
Inside the maze

There is a bridge adored and famed
The Golden spine of engineering
Who's back is heavy
With my weight

My falling shape will draw a line
Between the blue of sea and sky
I'm not a bird
I'm not a plane...

Anyway, nothing profound to say about that except that I hadn't really planned it and didn't realize until I listened to both songs in a row that there was a similar theme running through both.

I've gotten some stuff accomplished today. I took a walk. I managed to assemble a potential article about the APA and sent it off to Gene. I posted my song of the day for Friday as well as Saturday. I'm currently ripping my entire Jethro Tull collection -- about 12 cds total -- to my hard drive. I still want to try and fix my bedroom computer and maybe draw a picture tonight at the Tai-Pan meeting, but then again maybe I'll just play some CoH before I go....