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June 14, 2005
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This Song Is A Mess But So Am I - Bedridden and Dancing
This band name is a risk, logically speaking. Because if you were to symbolize it in sentential logic, it would be a conjunction (This Song Is A Mess (and) I Am Also A Mess)- but if any of the songs that are ever produced by TSIAMBSAI turn out not to be messes, then that makes the entire band name false (a conjunction has to have two true terms to be wholly true). Woo! And people think a philosophy degree is useless!! Haha think again my friends.
OK, really though- this song is not a mess, and it leaves me with two interpretive choices:
'Bedridden and Dancing' is a richly textured (possibly commissioned?) piece of film music, meant to soundtrack an alternate version of Tron where Jeff Bridges' character and Cindy Morgan's (such a fox, back in the day) character end up together, and are both trapped in that weird little cave where that blue Powerade/energon stream runs along its polygonal banks. They hold each other in fear, while red-neon-blooded bad guys run around looking for them, and this music plays to heighten the dramatic and romantic tension.
or
'Bedridden and Dancing' is meant to soundtrack sped-up montage footage. Of what, you ask? Of a cheetah, outfitted with tons of (humane, of course) bicycle streamers, filmed at the moment of attack. Like, from crouch-sprint-pounce. Thousands of hours of raw footage, edited down to 2 minutes of pure viciousness and speed and glitter.
Freddy Ruppert is This Song Is A Mess But So Am I, and he sings a little like Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu (who he'll be on tour with soon, actually), but a little more gently. Come to think of it, Xiu Xiu's 'Knife Play' is probably a good reference point, at least for some of the atmosphere that TSIAMBSAI creates. Except multiply Xiu Xiu by Venetian Snares and Jason Forrest, and then that should give you a good idea. 'Bedridden and Dancing' is taken from the "Church Point, LA" LP, which you can buy right here.
Posted by Kevin at June 14, 2005 09:19 AM
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