"Laughter? Do people ever care about laughter? I mean real laughter, beyond joking, mockery, ridicule. Laughter, an immense and delicious sensual pleasure, wholly sensual pleasure...
"I said to my sister, or she said to me, come over, shall we play laughter? We stretched out side by side on a bed and began. By pretending, of course. Forced laughter. Laughable laughter. Laughter so laughable it made us laugh. Then it came, real laughter, total laughter, taking us into its immense tide. Bursts of repeated, rushing, unleashed laughter, magnificent laughter, sumptuous and mad... And we laugh our laughter to the infinity of laughter... Oh laughter! Laughter of sensual pleasure, sensual pleasure of laughter; to laugh is to live profoundly."
(MK)
Midtown - “Waiting for the News”
This song is so, totally old you guys, it’s from 2004…and the band broke up in 2005! So why am I posting it? I have a thing for songs which totally alienate themselves from the rest of a band’s repertoire. Midtown is some sort of pop-punk band who had some mild success in the early 2000’s with songs like Let Go and Like the Movies, which are alright but by no means unique.
I don’t know how I got this song, Waiting for the News, off of their “experimental” album. All their other songs sound like the bastard lovechild of Fall Out Boy, Sugar Ray, and maybe a pop punk band, but this song is something really great. It’s sweet and sad, then passionate. It’s a notch above acoustic, with a dominating piano sound at first, and then gradually builds into something grittier. Great lyrics accompanied by rolling drumming (is that even a real term? I feel it’s apt) and rockin’ guitars.
Midtown—Waiting
this goes so well with my back-to-school routine this morning.
THIS SONG HAS BEEN FOLLOWING ME EVERYWHERE I SWEAR. it came on shuffle first last night, then it was my alarm this...
I wish I had this on my iPod. Seriously…
I’m still waiting...news dad That she’s gone and never coming back