9/14/2016

 

beck

 

I have danced, I would say, I have danced with my wife at midnight and our

hips hurt and our shoulders make languid motions until we fall into ourselves like lumbering logs of limbs.

And I dance the day with my kids, we listen to Paul Simon “I know what I know” and my kids run around crazy and ask for the tiger song…

I play the tiger song which is basically Ratatat “wildcat”
Then the robot song which is Styx “Mr Roboto”
Then the yellow snow song which is Frank Zappa “don’t eat yellow snow”

And I play all these songs, none of them are the songs I want to play, but they are running around and their heads are spinning and I am thinking of my uncle Jimmy and my sister erin and my sister laura…

Dad play the “everything” song

Thank god

It is Radiohead “everthing in its right place” and Finn proceeds to tell Reilly how I used to put him to sleep to this song, and I did, I actually would put Finn in the Bob stroller and play this song to him as he went to sleep, oh my god he remembers it!

Dad play the Wow song… WTF, the wow song…

And we are listening to Beck

I can steer this ship right I think; they are gidding
upping.

I play loser…

Nothing…

I play WOW again, they are dancing, I get crafty…

I play Beck “rowboat” but it is too slow… they don’t get it…

Ok motherfuckers

Sean Lennon “mystery juice” there is this whole thing about row boats and rabbits and lonely men with 40’s in their hands…

Nothing, they are like the walking dead….

Maybe I should try and make the most…
Ok smashing pumpkins I say… I play 1979 and have all these videos of chris and me cued up… we get halfway into the lyric…

Dad play the monkey song… what the fuck is the monkey song?

I move, I change and adapt for these kids, I am going to give them everything that they want, over and over again, I am going to pour good music and books into their heads until the know what it all looks like.

Ok the monkey song… (I don’t know what this is so I slip one in here)

I play Beck "Loser" again, they get it this time around… they like the words “in the time of Chimpanzees” maybe that was what they meant by the monkey song… if they like Beck, I can work off of this…

of fuck I can work off of this.