Andrew Bird- Fever Year

Another useless - I need to watch this post.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800665/

Andrew Bird TED Talk

Need to watch this later:

http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2010/None/AndrewBird_2010-480p.mp4

Crazy Weekend / Introspection

I think I just had one of the most amazing weekends of my life.

Star Wars role play, a party in Glencoe, meeting my new neighbors, and of course Andrew Bird *swoons*. Jam-packed action, mostly involving my good friend Altaris. We stayed up until 3 or 4 in the morning every night and slept until 3 or 4 in the afternoon. Lazy AND jam-packed. Hard to beat.

Andrew Bird rocked my socks and my brain and my heart and pretty much melted all of my circuits for the two hours proceeding his concert. Not only were there calm melodies found on the CDs, but Andrew Bird and his now four-piece band (including himself) rocked out on several numbers. Many of his songs should only be listened to live. The sheer wall of sound produced by his band is amazing. Also, when the spinny speaker thingy (I may insert the name later if I can remember of it) is a great end to several songs. The sound is thrown out into the venue and you can feel its waves wash over you. *sigh*

Unfortunately, my schedule became skewed by all of the awesome. I couldn't fall asleep last night and I had to get up at 9:30 in order to get a good start on my day. Makes me think that I need to start going to bed early and getting into the lab early.

As much as I enjoy staying up late and talking to my friends, the fact of the matter is I get little work done. It was advantageous to me to stay up late when Tara and I were sharing an apartment, but now that I have my own room I have no reason to be up late. Granted, when I stayed up late with Tara and developed these bad habits of mine, I didn't have friends that were up until 4am and were willing to talk to me.

Look for me online less. Watch for me working more. Talk to me and hopefully find that I'll have a better outlook on my situation.

Gotta get this paper done by Thursday.

Andrew Bird - "Anonanimal"

I love this song. The lyrics, the backings, everything. I even like the subject matter. Andrew Bird, I love you.

Album cut:


Live cut:



I see a sea anemone
The enemy
See a sea anemone
And that'll be the end of me.

While the vicious fish was caught unawares
In the tenderest of tendrils
Underneath her tender gills

I will become this animal
Perfectly adapted to the music halls
I will become this animal
Anomalous appendages
A non-animal

Hold on just a second
Don't tell me this one you know
I know this one I know this song
I know this one I love this song
Hold on just a second
Don't tell me this one you know
I know this one I know this song
I know this one I love this song
I know this one

Underneath the stalactites
The troglobites lost their sight
Uh oh

The seemingly innocuous plecostomus
Though posthumous
They talk to us
They talk too much

See a sea anemone
The enemy
See a sea anemone
That'll be the end of me
Vicious fish was caught unawares
In the tend'rest tendrils
Underneath her tender gills and

I will become this animal
Perfectly adapted to a music hall
I will become this animal

Anomalous appendages
A non-animal

Andrew Bird - Not a Robot, But a Ghost

Another song from Noble Beast. This song is a collaboration between Andrew Bird and drummer Martin Dosh. I'm also a big fan of Minneappleton Dosh's solo work. This song is very rhythm-centric. I like it.



I run the numbers through the floor
here's how it goes: I crack the codes
I crack the codes that end the war
I crack the codes that end the war

I pushed a note under your door
here's how it goes: things come to blows
but we don't want this anymore
No we don't want this anymore
We don't want this anymore

I crack the codes, you end the war

I hear the clockwork in your core
time strips the gears till you forget what they were for
I push the numbers through your pores
I crack the codes
I crack the codes that end the war

How's my living, you can call
encrypted numbers on bathroom stalls
there's something burning it casts a pall
it's melting numbers right off the wall

I run the numbers through the floor
here's how it goes: I crack the codes
I crack the codes, you end the war

Andrew Bird- Oh No

I'm going to be posting a lot of songs from Andrew Bird's new album Noble Beast. I'm seeing him in concert on Saturday!! It's going to be a good time.

Here's my favorite song from the album "Oh No." This is the first song on the album.



in the salsify mains of what was thought but unsaid
all the calcified arhythmitists were doing the math
it would take a calculated blow to the head
to light the eyes of all the harmless sociopaths
oh arm and arm we are the harmless sociopaths
oh arm and arm with all the harmless sociopaths
calcium mines were buried deep in your chest
oh calcim mines you buried deep in your chest
oh no we're deep in a mine
oh no a calcium mine
so let's get out of here
past the atmosphere
squint your eyes and no one dies
or goes to jail
past the silver bridge, oh the silver bridge
wearing nothing but a one-sie and a veil
oh oh deep in a mine,
oh oh a calcium mine
arm and arm we are the harmless sociopaths
arm and arm with all the harmless sociopaths
in the calcium mines buried deep in your chest
oh the calcium mines buried deep in your chest
oh oh deep in a mine
oh no-- calcium mines oh no

Andrew Bird and the Bowl of Fire - "Eugene"

I've had this song stuck in my head since Wednesday. While "chillaxing" in our amazing basement living room, Tara, Dave, Moose, and I decided this was good music to smoke hookah to.

Bowl of Fire music is amazing. I wish that there were more videos like this on youtube. I also wish that there were more than three albums of this amazing band.

Did you know that Andrew Bird was the violinist in The Squirrel Nut Zippers? Now you do.




Studies have shown that we like sheep are prone
To sure fatal doses of malcontent through osmosis
But don't be sympathetic, just pass the anesthetic
'Cuz sheep are benign and on the young we will dine

Burn her pale blue shroud, and tread on her bones
The din of the boys club crowd, reveals we've always been clones
Oh this being true you know there's more than just two
In the cards are four aces so turn and shoot at twelve paces

Studies have shown that we like sheep are prone
To sure fatal doses of malcontent through osmosis
But don't be sympathetic, just pass the anesthetic
'Cuz sheep are benign and on the young we will dine

Burn her pale blue shroud, and tread on her bones
The din of the boys club crowd, reveals we've always been clones
Oh this being true you know there's more than just two
So tie up your laces for the gene pool race of races

Andrew Bird - "Tenuousness"

"Tenuousness" is from Andrew Bird's new album Noble Beast. This video is great, the song is great... Much of the lyrics don't make sense(hell even the title is a weird Andrew Bird contraction, see Imitosis for another example), but that's normal for Andrew Bird. Also, great video (albeit not official).



Tenuous at best was all he had to say
when pressed about the rest of it, the world that is
from proto-Sanskrit Minoans to Porto-centric Lisboans
Greek Cypriots and and harbor-sorts who hang around in quotes a lot

Here's where things start getting weird
while chinless men will scratch their beards
and to their minds a sharpened axe
is brushed upon the Uralic syntaxes

Love of hate acts as an axis
Love of hate acts as an axis
First it wanes and then it waxes
So procreate and pay your taxes

Tenuousness
Less seven comes to three
Them, you, us plus eleven thank the heavens for their elasticity
And as for those who live and die for astronomy

Know when to stand or when to sit
Can't stand to stand can't stand to sit
Now who would want to know this

Click
Click
Click

Who wants to look upon this
Who wants to look upon this
Pray tell

Who wants to look upon this
Who wants to look upon this
Pray tell
Pray tell

Tenuousness
Less seven comes to three
Them, you, us plus eleven comes just shy of infinity
and as for those who live and die from numerology

Andrew Bird- "Fitz and the Dizzyspells" music video

I would have to say this is my least favorite song on Andrew Bird's new album Noble Beast. This is mostly because it is considered "the single" of the album. It is most "commercially viable" or something like that.

However, this music video made with a marching band and non-album cut has made me think more of it.

Andrew Bird with Mucca Pazza - "Fitz & The Dizzyspells”



He even performed it live on Letterman:


In any event, here are the lyrics:

Comes and goes,
Like in fitz and dizzy spells
Like the weather
And it blows
Like it knows what's going wrong
Like it's clever

Has a name but the name goes unspoken
Weather wanes were all twisted and broken
So soldier on, soldier on
Soldier on, soldier on

Flailing to the whir of a snack machine
And muted screams of an old regime
And then oh something gets in
The nightshade gets in
We were all fast asleep
Were all so fast asleep

But you woke us
You woke us from the strangest dream
that an aubergine could ever know
Would ever know
Would ever

Lava flows over crooks and craggy cliffs to the ocean
And explodes in a steam heat fevered cyclical motion
Has a name but the name goes unspoken
It's in vain cause the language is broken
So cast your own, cast your own (Soldier on)
Cast your own (Soldier on)
Cast your own (Soldier on)
Soldier on, soldier on

Andrew Bird - The Happy Birthday Song

Had to post it. The best birthday song ever.



The Happy Birthday Song:

when i wake up
in the morning,
pour the coffee,
and i read the paper,
and i slowly,
and so softly,
i do the dishes.
i feed the fishes.
sing me happy birthday
sing it like it's going to be your last day.
like it's hallelujah,
don't let it just pass on through ya
it's a giant and long cliché,
and that's why i want you to sing it anyway
sing me happy birthday
'cause hell, what's it all about?

sing me happy birthday,
happy birthday.
it's gonna be your last day,
gonna be your last day.

sing me happy birthday,
happy birthday,
like it's going to be,
going to be your last day.