audiobiography

Last night, I went saw my friend Abe's band, audiobiography, play at Crocodile Cafe. Here's a picture of the band, with Abe upfront rockin' the thug mug / face on contemplation. It was my first time hearing his band play, and despite the fact that I'm mainly a hip-hop head, I enjoyed the experience a lot... I suppose the band might be labled alternative-pop-rock, but their music sorta escapes easy classification and that's not a bad thing.

The a song they played called "December's Inspiration" seemed to stick in my head after the event - maybe because both liked the tune and the lyrics (an mp3 can be downloaded from the site). Some of the lyrics I liked:

hey, have you ever seen the shore
of that dream beach lost at war?
More or less you've seen before
yearning for that dream come true.
Second time around the chance
sunny days wasted since
so work on it in rainy days,
pull a muscle and clinch your teeth

Good stuff.

Contemplating the cleverness of the name "audiobiography", I thought about how true it is that life and music really are intertwined - especially for people who like music, there's always a tendency to always associate music with certain life experiences. That's probably why large-scale mp3 players like the iPod are so popular - when your mind recalls a memory and that memory recalls a song... it's nice to have a device that's carrying 1000+ songs.

There's a lot of songs that I now associate with Japan... but more on that later.
posted by G at 4:23 PM   |

in?scrip?tion (n-skrip-shun)n.
1. The act or an instance of inscribing.
2. Something, such as the wording on a coin, medal, monument, or seal, that is inscribed.
3. A short, signed message in a book or on a photograph given as a gift.
4. The usually informal dedication of an artistic work.
5. Jeremiah 31:33