365 project:"hey there sleepy smile. i see you brought your bedroom eyes"

52.

artist:alkaline trio
album:maybe ill catch fire

my life is broken up into two parts...the days before the day i discovered alkaline trio, and the days after the day i discovered alkaline trio. these are two very separate and distinct parts of my life. we will heretofore refer to that day as "the day."

i can remember a day before "the day" when i was hanging out with Chris. we were shopping for something or another and he was so freaking excited because he picked up the alkaline trio live DVD that had just come out (the Halloween show a few years back) and he was giving it to a friend of his for his birthday, but they were going to watch it before they wrapped it up and gave it away.

Chris just kept going on and on about going to see this band in Chicago for the Halloween show and how great it would be and how we needed go to and blah blah blah. at this point in my life, i knew the band existed and that they wore black and liked eyeliner. i didn't have much else to go on.

then came the day that i listened to good mourning on vinyl. that was it. it was over. i loved the trio as much as anyone could.

we spent a lot of time together, and eventually had to listen to something besides good mourning. (though I'm going to be honest with you for a second...whenever i hear the opening lines to this album "I've got a book of matches/I've got a can of kerosene/I've got some bad ideas/involving you and me" i will ALWAYS think of Chris. always.) the next song he introduced me to was radio. this is still one of my go-to songs when I'm angry or having a bad day (i guess this explains why i went with this album today...) because as far as I'm concerned, its as raw and real as it gets.

I'm also a sucker for the song sleepyhead. there is just something about that chorus that gets me every time. i don't know if its the lyrics themselves or the way he sings them, but i swoon.

this is a middle-of-the-pack trio album. its not my favorite of theirs, but i also like it a lot better than i like some of the other stuff they have put out more recently. if you are just getting started with alkaline trio, this might not be the best place to start, but its something to get into after you have managed to get your feet wet.