“Date Night” by Father John Misty (2018)

Can’t stop listening to this.
Great animation too.

CREDITS:
Directed and Animated by Chad VanGaalen
https://chadvangaalen.bandcamp.com

LYRICS:

“Nothing surprises me much
And my hobbies include laughing in the dark
Do you wanna go to the farm? Do you wanna go to the park?
I’ll get you ice cream if you give me your card

Nothing impresses me much
I’ve got a great attitude and a map to the stars
I got your number from that sign in the lawn
I also want to vanquish evil but my mojo is gone

(I want you)
C’mon, I bet you know most of my friends
They’re some real exclusive dudes from just around the bend
They’re playing demos. Oh, they’re wearing Dries
I can escort you down the runway I just joined the police

Just right now
So you wanna be a grifter like me?
Are you hearing impaired with your own URL?
I’m the second coming, I’m the last to know,
I didn’t get invited but I know where to go”

“You Better Run” by Junior Kimbrough (1992)

In the late 1950s Kimbrough began playing the guitar in his own style, using mid-tempo rhythms and a steady drone played with his thumb on the bass strings. This style would later be cited as a prime example of hill country blues. His music is characterized by the tricky syncopation between his droning bass strings and his midrange melodies. His soloing style has been described as modal and features languorous runs in the middle and upper registers. The result was described by music critic Robert Palmer as “hypnotic”. In solo and ensemble settings it is often polyrhythmic, which links it to the music of Africa. North Mississippi bluesman and former Kimbrough bassist Eric Deaton suggested similarities between Kimbrough’s music and that of Fulani musicians such as Ali Farka Touré. The music journalist Tony Russell wrote that “his raw, repetitive style suggests an archaic forebear of John Lee Hooker, a character his music shares with that of fellow North Mississippian R. L. Burnside”.”

365 Day Sketch Project Update: 55-68

I suppose I’ve lost the “everyday” part of this project, but, you know life’s too short to get stressed about these things. The point is I am having a lovely time drawing stuff from (mostly) life, my sense of perception and observation has developed and sharpened, my skill with the various implements I am using has improved.

So I am going to keep going with it, even though I am breaking the rules somewhat (there are no rules).

Something that seems to be happening also is sometimes I will finish a drawing and think it’s not great but it gets just as much feedback across the networks as the others.

At the moment I have them automatically cross posting to Twitter and Tumblr. Still haven’t quite got the guts to fire them off to Facebook as well. Not sure why that is, I have always struggled with Facebook, and hate the idea of oversharing on there. But for Tumblr and Twitter I’ll overshare with no worries, which is odd because people who I am connected to on Facebook are more likely to be people I know “Away From Keyboard” as it were.

Anyway, as ever these are embeds from Instagram, you can follow me there if you want them straight off the page, if you catch my drift. I have posted the accompanying comment I posted it with, but you’ll have to click through if you want to read what other people have said. (Don’t bother if there’s only one though that’s usually me adding hashtags after the fact).

 

 

“Shake Appeal by Iggy and the Stooges (1972)

“Little more than a slithering, turbulent, electrifying riff over which Iggy yelps his most histrionic yowl, “Shake Appeal” was originally titled “Tight Pants,” in which form it has since materialized on a string of Raw Power session compilations.The song was written in stark emulation of the untrammeled roar that first drew Iggy Pop to rock & roll, the sound of dragsters racing around the track, while Jerry Lee Lewis, Link Wray, Gary “U.S.” Bonds, and Cannibal & the Headhunters blare from the jukebox — “that’s the kind of shit that would light a fire under my tree,” Iggy enthused. “Let’s get some fucking action here!” “Shake Appeal” delivers precisely that.”

Dave Thompson

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RIP Ron Asheton