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Caught this kind of randomly the other day when digging around an MP3 player I don't get to use enough, I love the rhythm to it, the underlying piano riff.  And there's the imagery of course, it's sort of what I imagine parts of the US to be like.  Anyway, here it is, Jesusland by Ben Folds.  Might write more about him sometime soon as well, maybe about piano stuff more broadly...

[update the following morning] I wonder, is it possible to feel melancholy tinged with joy?  How terribly dramatic of me, and as I write this yes, the mood and the moment, intangible, both have now passed.  I caught the 7am bus, commuters wrapped in themselves against the cold, dawn was only just breaking and I listened to the song again.  The rhythm of the song lends itself to travel, the soft shuffle of the drums and the tumbling piano riff.  Government buildings in Woden stark against the grey sky.  Naked oaks and elms on Adelaide Avenue, and the morning rhythm continues with mini-pelotons of lycra-clad travellers holding up cars at the exit lanes.

Take a walk

Out the gate you go and never stop