365 project "so when they tap our monday heads, two zombies walk in our stead. this town seems hardly worth our time"

109.

artist:the shins
album:wincing the night away

i know i have listened to this album a few times since the year began, but i just checked the tags and i haven't officially listened to it for this project, so here we go.

i might be in a minority here, but this is my favorite shins album. i mean, i really love all of them, don't get me wrong, but this one is the most accessible as far as I'm concerned. it still definitely has an indie vibe to it, but its got a bit more to it that makes me want to listen to it more than the other albums. i don't know if its the production quality or the lyrics, the music, or all of the above, but it ranks at number one for me.

i have had several days in my life since this album came out where i woke up and only wanted this album, nothing else. i seem to do that a lot with certain albums, where i want that record and nothing else will do.

i have this album on both vinyl and CD. i tend to listen to it on wax, though, because i like to dance around in my room and sing along with the lyrics sheet in front of me, because as many times as I've listened i still don't know them all. obviously, though, for days like today when I'm out and about, the CD works just fine.

i was just going through all of the songs trying to decide which one was my favorite, and when i heard the song "girl sailor" again, it reminded me of something that id forgotten about.

i had a pretty rough experience when i went to bonnaroo last summer. basically, the girl that i went down there with left me the first night on the farm and i didn't see her again until i got back to jersey. we drove down in the same car. you do the math. thankfully i have a freaking angel of a friend who only lived about 40 minutes from the farm who came down, scooped me up and took care of me for a few days. i needed some physical and emotional healing, not to mention a way home, and she helped me out with all of that.

i got onto the plane after what actually turned out to be an amazing 36-ish hours in Nashville and put my ipod on. i guess id turned it off last in the middle of a song, and the very first lyrics i heard were:
"A stronger girl would shake this off in flight,
And never give it more than a frowning hour"
which, at the time, were probably the most fitting two lines on my ipod. even after a good time in Nashville and all of the good experiences i had at bonnaroo despite the circumstances, i still had a lot to deal with...like the fact that my travelling companion had a rental car full of my stuff that i was thinking id never see again. i really was sure that she was throwing my stuff out of the car all the way up highway 81. thankfully she was a bit more mature than that, and after some nasty emails and police involvement, i got all of my stuff back unscathed.

these entries find ways of taking such strange turns...