My Dietary Day So far...

It's lent fellow christians!!! Which means no meat on Friday. I never really go in for that no meat on Friday thing, but this year I just might. A day off from meat will give my heart a little break perhaps and make me less aggressive (lord knows what a problem my aggression can be). So here's what I'm eating instead of a big juicy steak.

Egg Salad on Toast: That's right I hat mayo but I love egg salad like it's my full time effing job. (If loving egg salad could be a job I would love to know about it, by the way.) I think the toast really makes the sandwhich in this case though. Today's egg salad was a bit runnyer than usual not that I'm worried because I had...

Raisin Bran Crunch!: I loved raisins in my youth. Really they were like WHAT I ate. And yet for all the novelty of having real live raisins in your cereal bowl Raisin Bran never appealed to me. IT was the sogginess. Those flakes don't stand a chance in a bowl full of milk. But when you add fun little nut clusters it totally counter acts the incredible soggyness of the flakes. It's almost as if Kellogs was reading my blog... BEFORE I POSTED IT!!!!!!!

In Case You Missed This! MARTINI RED TONIGHT!!!!!

Come to Martini Red tonight for the DJ stylings of Russell "DJ Complicated" Berry and myself!!! 10ish!!!! Martini Red is located at 372 Van Duzer Avenue in Staten Island.

Martini Red is one of a very few select locations which feature the $2 Pabst, it may be the ONLY place on Staten Island that does. It's also recently taken on some renovations and is looking quite fetching. Come down and party!!!!!!! We're playing well known music and more culty stuff(ie: even your friend who listens to Z-100 might be able to squeeze a good time out of it*).

Plus we have hugs for anyone who wants em!!!*

*Not a guarantee!

Today's "Best Song Ever"

"Heartbeats"

I have chosen not to choose between the two versions of this song that I listened to one after the other for roughly an hour and twelve minutes last night (with a ten minute smoke break).

There must be something in Swedish water to create such amazing melodies on such a regular basis. All the best teen pop of the last decade has come from Sweden ("Baby One More Time", "I Want It That Way", "Bye Bye Bye", "Since U Been Gone"), Abba is from Sweden, Jens Lekman is from Sweden and so too are The Knife. The Knife created the amazing melody that is "Heartbeats" and set it up with squishing synths and party hardy beats galore. José Gonzalez (also from Sweden, who knew they had hispanic people in Sweden?!) covers the song with a sort of Nick Drake like stillness.

Both versions have their merits but the major catch of the song is it's amazing melody and emotionally transience. The Knife version work the song up into an ode to love as freeing force, which is I s'pose the natural way for a song like this to go when placed into a dance setting.

Gonzalez on the other hand makes it wistful and bittersweat. Love he knows is too complicated to be freeing. This disparity has nothing to do with lyrical change. It's entirely tonal.

This is Today's Best Song Ever because it's important to remember that sometimes (in fact most of the time) it's the singer and not the song.

Download, Listen, Discuss. (The Knife version is currently on my page)

Come to Martini Red tonight for the DJ stylings of Russell "DJ Complicated" Berry and myself!!! 10ish!!!! Martini Red is located at 372 Van Duzer Avenue in Staten Island.