Can You Hear Me?

    What's up everyone?
    Well, it's been  a few days, and I am very sleep deprived right now so I am gonna make this kind of short.
    Not too much going on besides school and writing music. Been coming up with some more lyrics and guitar stuff for a few songs I have in mind. I've found myself concentrating on making the music before the lyrics recently, and it's proving to be alright! So we will see where that goes. I have an offer to record some stuff so that would be great if I could do that before the year is over. Picking and choosing songs has proven a bit difficult too, because there is so many ideas but I know I need to concentrate on a few central ones (at least from what I'm trying to do). So yeah, that's what I've been up to, late night music theory with a friend of mine last night which was awesome! And then came back at like 2:30ish and did some spanish homework, listened to music, procrastinated, and barely got any sleep before my 9:00am dance class, but all and all good day, a bit more on the out of it side but still awesome!
    So my friend Phil and I were waiting for a brown line train at the Library stop, when I noticed that some old guy was filming us on his phone from the other side of the track. We were like "woah, that's a bit creepy". So we moved to the other side of the platform....to see him following us with his camera. What. The. Fuck. It was really creepy! What is this guy doing creeping on us? It was absolutely weird. The train came pretty quick after that, but it was just a creepy experience all and all. So watch out for that guy : /
    Anyway, so that's my creeper story.
    So I'm going to pass out in a few minutes because I have to get up, eat breakfast, hopefully morning swim, type up a paper, shoot a film in the morning, class from 12:30-3:20, study for music theory exam and spanish quiz, dance paper, try to see a dance show, work on more lyrics/music, try to get a little reading in, and then jump off a cliff.

   But, these past few days, I did get to listen to the latest Bruce Springsteen album, Working On A Dream, released in 2009. Some of the songs were written during the Magic tour, and they decided to take it from there and make another album, which is pretty fast for Bruce. It's different than Magic for sure, with a less bleak and dark tone. It has a bit more upbeatness to it, but still, like usual, has the Bruce sound. Magic will always be my favorite but this comes pretty close, and the more I listen to it, the more I fall in love with it.

   This is also the last album to have long time E-Street Band member Danny Federici on it. He passed away on April 17th, 2008 from melanoma, which he suffered with for three years. The song "The Last Carnival" on the album is ususally played for him (at least on the CD's DVD, which shows a 38 minute long special about the making of the album and has a little memorial clip for him, and also has an extra music video on it for one of his songs he wrote for Halloween, "A Night With The Jersey Devil", which is AWESOME). The song is also considered by quite a few people as a sequel to "Wild Bill's Circus Story", a song off of Springsteen's second album The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle. Great album by the way. Anyway, so this album is dedicated to him and he is missed by many Bruce and E Street Band fans. I personally have seen him perform during the Magic tour, and he has such an amazing stage presence on the organ and the accordian. He was such an amazing musician and band member, it's so weird to not seem him on the stage with Bruce anymore. Alas, we all get old : (
    All this aside, this is a great album. Some of my favorite songs: "Outlaw Pete" (an 8 minute epic), "Lucky Day", "Working On A Dream", "Queen Of The Supermarket", "What Love Can Do", "Good Eye", "Kingdom Of Days", "Surprise, Surprise", "The Last Carnival", and "The Wrestler" (which is an bonus track, and it is from the movie The Wrestler. It's the song that starts the credits at the end of the movie. It's an amazing song, and I'm sad it got snubbed by the Academy for Best Song. err)
     Hey, also check out this website called myfavoritekirby.com. My friend TJ worked on it and it features my friend Kent's work. So check it out and enjoy it, I'm sure you'll find some good stuff there! The link is below!
    So that's all I have right now. I'm gonna go pass out. Good night everyone!

   - The AR

myfavoritekirby: http://mattsoria.com/Kent_Kirby/

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The Wrestler: