Ah - the joy of deliciously emo lyrics

Do you remember when we thought the world was ending?
Seems funny now
The future is a text message sending
Out, out, out
I live forever in sunset
An ending not quite done yet
Some people don't understand that

(Hmm - I may be getting a bit old to be posting dramatic lyrics, but also whatever - enjoyment of the dramatic is a pure thing man)

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I am missing Amar quite a bit right now. Or maybe the idea of Amar - we'd drifted in and out of closeness over the years, but he represented something more broadly wrt the zeitgeist. Being connected to the Culture. He'd like that I think. 

He did an annual music list which served as a touchpoint for a lot of people. The rest of the distribution list is keeping it going this year which is both wonderful and heartbreaking. It is still a little surreal and shocking for someone to just be gone like that. 

Anyway - here is what I posted on that thread:

Been a very strange year - everything seems a bit fractured and all over the place.

Some things

• Kid Cudi made a Netflix rom com (or extended music video) which somehow served as comfort food - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxL6gzYls7Y 
• Porridge Radio's Back to the Radio ended up being a bit of an anthem in our house - feels like it could have belonged on a playlist from 25 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDw9nTQKGd4
• Casisdead - From a few year's ago - vaguely UK rap adjacent and makes me think of Amar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKSGhZi8SLU 
• I discovered that it is in fact called a chaise lONGue and not a lOUnge - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd9jeJk2UHQ
• Ezra Furman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqUTcb368kM

+1 on the Sudan Archives, Dry Cleaning

Also digging into old Ska/Rocksteady stuff - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw66FA6OTqA 

I'll think of more later ... let's keep this going ..