For those days you have to stay away from everyone else
Agree. I don't have a lot of suicide themed songs in my archives, and this one... I guess, it's just the name, and I've quiet forgoten this song for a while so it was nice to listen to it again, I guess.
And now I'm going to rant about the video. I got the idea: he was kind of there but did nothing to help and so on, it's all a metaphor... But they didn't quiet pulled it off. They tried to give it all a bit of a surreal look with moody coloring and whole situation but still it doesn't feel like enough. I mean, I saw the guy in the water (I missed few seconds at the begining where the old man comes from the house) and the old man standing there and I thought: ok it's probably some strict father teaching his son to swim by throwing him in the lake and looking if he'll finaly become man by overcoming his problems. And the son is trying his best while, as the name of the song suggests, being tormented by the thought that he's still not good enough. So I prepared myself for digging into some serious father-son relationships issues, but no, there he swims in rewind. Fine.. it's a metaphor, and the old man's presense is ephemeral... but it's not. It still looks like a real situation and that old dude looking at a person dieing and like: "Man... it's sucks, I'm not helping you, mate". I mean, they could be separated by the Invisible Wall of Unspoked Offences or the Mist of Misunderstanding, like, there were real issues that remained unsolved and eventually led to the tragedy. It would make situation more reasonableand comprehensive.
But what trriggered me most was the moment, when I saw the burning car. It clicked immediately in my head: "Oh now, it's the burning car, so what will be next? A falling plane" It's just dumb, it repeats the same idea without bringing anything new to the story, while it actually could do it.
An the last thing is the final scene. It should be different. The pond and the car - that was revising the past, but now it' the time for realization. They could isert something between, or diverge stylistically. But no. I'm watching it expecting
to see another dumb way to die, but oh oe's crying now.
Anyway, they tried to make a deep symbolical thing with deep meaning and artistic value, but I just like to rant about stuff.
The lyrics for I Am a Rock... that some harsh stuff for a song sounding like that.
Somehow, I never listened to Yes. It' sa good introduction.
Uff... I'm tempted to go to that kind of music. Should I?
Yes.
I listen to Japanese shoegaze music to make my sad mood even sadder
Shoegaze in general seems to numb my head in a comfy way--I consider it to be a form of sedative.
The latest Paramore album is pretty good. This song gets stuck in my head once in awhile.
The BoJack theme is pretty good too.
And not a lot says depression to me like blues rock
Or even just regular blues
So welcome again to Geting Drunk With Waldemar, where we're investigating, who the fuck Waldemar is in a first place, and why he's so sad in a second.
Well... Waldemar is actually me, and... fuck off!
Ah.
..yeah, the video doesn't really make any ventures in fully establishing the relationship between them, huh? xD Oh, well
No, no, I get you, you didn't really comment on the song itself so, I assumed the video was what sucked lol
Back with more songs that strike a chord in me when I'm down in my feels~
"An Asteroid Towards Earth" (otherwise known as just "Asteroid") by The Devil Wears Prada. "Think of best friends, think of strangers, think of lovers, think of foes, think of children, think of family. Keep in mind that nothing stays. Say goodbye one last time as the Earth will be no more. All aflame and destroyed. All aflame and destroyed. It's funny how we once thought. It's funny how we didn't care. Consider what we could've been. Consider what we could have. Say goodbye one last time, it's getting closer now."
"Paper Lung" by Underoath. "How can you sleep here? I bear the world of your world. I don't believe a single word you sold to me. Sold to me. I bear your burden for the last time, I swear I'm done with all of this. It's too late to pry you away from the undertow. I watch take you, then I walk away."
"In Division" by Underoath. "God, it's hanging out on me, I feel it watching, but no one seems to care anymore. I'm digging, I'm digging my way out. 'Cause when I'm breathing, there is no relief. I can't believe this, I can't believe this. My mind is starting to turn on me. I've been living inside a hole they put me in the underground, where they can never find me unless they dig me out."
"Panic Room" by Silent Planet. (Contains themes of PTSD in veterans) "In my endless dance with entropy I must rescind my sentience, the sickness that I know.." "..Praise me for my valor, lay me on a crimson tower - justify my endless terror as my “finest hour.” [10] Treat me as a token to deceive the child whom we fatten for this scapegoat slaughter. [11]I learned to fight; I learned to kill; I learned to steal; I learned that none of this is real. None of this is real. None of this is real. None of this is real. But there’s a war inside my head."
