on Blogger!
Because I'm about to move this shit to Wordpress. While I could make money off of ads from this site, I don't think it's really all that worth it ($2.85 so far!). Wordpress just seemed like a much more entertaining site and the layout of how I could put it would be much better. So, don't go looking for it quite yet, because it's not finished and there's obviously some things I'm goofing off with, but yeah, I intend on turning the Mystery Can into a photo journal as well (inspired by the potential of wordpress from an associate: almost photography). We'll see as things go on.
Anyways, on to da NIGHT SONG:
Because I've been in a pretty huge 90's movement recently:
Mazzy Star "Fade Into You"
It's such a relaxed song and it really reminds me of "The Golden Age" from Beck. Both songs incur images (video related or not) of driving down a windy road with a significant other - not speaking to each other, but just enjoying the present company: the road, the car, and yourselves. This song would be the one that comes up on shuffle and you hold the person's hand. And then boom, you hit a deer sending you crashing in slow motion, faster than you realize. BECAUSE I'M INDIE-DEPRESSING-MOVIE-SHIT LIKE THAT.
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Anyways, yeah, if you can't hear this song without bass, move to another computer or put some better headphones on, because I feel like it's the huge backbone of this song (all songs, really) and helps to lull you away to whatever you're doing. The sliding guitar plays a wonderful accompaniment to Hope Sandoval's voice. Overall, it's just a great, great slow song. Were it not for the melancholy lyrical content, it would probably be the first dance song for a lot of weddings.
The video reflects the song pretty well. I love the "found footage" feel of it all and the overly dramatic color swaths that everything is bathed in. The cliche artsy stuff, like shaky blown out footage or shots of just her hair blowing in the wind, fading into the next scene, is all forgivable – knowing the time period. It's the early nineties and most of those effects are real, not created by a computer, so there's a very genuine feel to it all. It compliments the song, in that everything reminds you of the movie Reality Bites.
Notable Lyrics
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
You live your life
You go in shadows
You'll come apart and you'll go black
Some kind of night into your darkness
Colors your eyes with what's not there
