On Friday in one of my English classes our teacher just had us listen to various types of music. He has an amazingly eclectic taste in music. Just a few of his likes are crazy grunge punk, The Fiery Furnaces, Miles Davis, Tom Waits and The White Stripes. We got to spend the entire class period listening to these bands and more. I love this guy! He also told us that he knows Conor Oberst's brother! Ahh! He tells us stories of him and his college friends and how they would sit in his bedroom with the lights off, blast contemporary classical music, drink beer, and talk about life till day break. This is totally the type of guy I would have loved to hang out with.
One song he played for us in class was "I'm a Vampire" by Future Bible Heroes. I really like the sweet beat and funny lyrics. Listening to it also made me think of the song "Vampire" by Antsy Pants which I also enjoy. I thought it would be appropriate to post these songs (just ignore the weird pictures in the Anstsy Pants vid.), especially since the Twilight craze is still very much occurring. I've never actually read the books and I've just recently seen the movie...I still don't know how I feel about the whole thing.
We also talked about Death Cab for Cutie in the class and my teacher stated that he much preferred the Postal Service. I love both strictly because I adore Ben Gibbard. Ben Gibbard is actually going to be in Milwaukee once again January 30 along with Jay Farrar. They got together to make music for the Jack Kerouac documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur. I haven't seen it yet but I definitely take an interest in Jack Kerouac. I've only read his novella Tristessa. His writing is beautiful and different and I'm really looking forward to finding the time to read On The Road and Big Sur. I have not yet had the honor of seeing Ben Gibbard live and I don't care what it takes but I am going to go to that show. Here's a link describing this wondrosity in more detail http://pabsttheater.org/benjay
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