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Dashboard Memories

Best use of plinky piano counter-melody: “The Brilliant Dance” by Dashboard Confessional. That album was released 8 years ago. 8. Years. Bad things have happened since then, but I can remember nothing but good things. I think that means that nothing truly bad happened. That’s interesting.

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Get Me Right

Get Me Right by Dashboard Confessional.

I tried the acoustic and… non-acoustic version. The latter rocked aggressively. Some viciously catchy countermelodies in the final chorus.

Where There’s Gold

Box up your gloves and your down coats
Bound for the sun and the west coast
Where upper-crust tragedies abound

A tip for the girl at the coat check
The guy at the door and the bar back
They know your face oh so well

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Fever Dreams

Fever dreams
They can only haunt you
Until the fever breaks
They can only haunt you
Until the fever breaks

Quickly, Now

While my slides for tomorrow’s lectures are printing, I thought I would update you all (and my future self … while I write, I typically tend to think of “future Alex” reading “present Alex’s” musings) with my current musical enjoyments.

Dashboard Confessional
They’re coming to St. Thomas, and we are treated to an exclusive (St. Thomas students only), free (FREE!) concert. Intimate venue, big band, all going down about two hundred yards from where I’m typing this. The excitement builds.

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Firsts

Oh, indeed firsts are what make our lives. Nobody really remembers the second man who walked on the moon or the second place in elections. Who wants to be Vice President, or get the silver medal? Lance Armstrong isn’t saying “I’m going to get second in my last Tour de France.”

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Commencedashbirthday

Permission to recount yesterday in its entirety? Permission denied? Hmm. Sorry, I guess I will have to risk court marshal on this one.

My sister’s commencement exercises, my birthday, and the Dashboard Confessional concert all happened to fall on the same day. In the morning, I dragged my sorry carcass out of bed and ran off to the gym to squeeze in a quick workout. Running down the stairs back to the car, I noticed I had shaved five (5!) minutes off of my usual hour and forty-five regimen. I sarcastically congratulated myself with an “Oh yay me” as I put some rubber down on the road.

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My First Time (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Concerts)

Can a person go from being a virgin to an addict in one short night? I think so. I did. Yes, The Quest was that life-altering. We tried to get John his t-shirt but it was only in small. “Bah” I said, or yelled, or muttered (or at least got the point across somehow) after we waited in line for a half hour. “I knew that would happen,” said John, just as frusterated with the wait as I was. “Still, I’d get the hoodie,” I mimed, and we waded into a sea of people.

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Melodic Self Interest

Love these lyrics: track 5 of Cake album “Prolonging the Magic”. Love this tune: last track of Dashboard “A Mark a Mission a Brand a Scar”. Oh, and this Keith Urban song, too. “October” by Eric Whitacre is also mega good. That song came back to me at the piano tonight - I played it again and sang and liked it a lot. It is, however, not good enough to be recorded. To round out the album, I would say it will take about another five (5) songs. Oh, and I got printed in the paper again. I think that’ll inspire me to write in more often.

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Supermusicality

The for the past couple of days, it has been Dashboard Confessional, Something Corporate, and Coldplay. This song, that song, this album, that album, to the point where they mix into one another while I am walking. It’s like mental dj’ing where “Warning Sign” by Coldplay blend seamlessly into “Rapid Hope Loss” by Dashboard to “I Want to Save You” by Something Corporate. By the way, Konstantine still is an amazing, 9+ minute journey through love’s labors lost.

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