Diary

Music Diary 2012

So, I've been kind of participating in this #musicdiary2012 thing.  The idea is that you simply log the music that you listen to from May 7th to May 13th and post it online somewhere.  I've been going with the real-time Twitter posting rather than the weeklong spreadsheet keeping.  I haven't been that religious about posting everything I hear on TV or in the car or everything I click on the web.  My approach has been to post when whatever I'm listening to makes me remember to do it.  There's no cheating, no listening just to have something to post.  It's all organic.

While waiting for CD #1 to get out of school today, just about my favorite song of all time, LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends," came on the radio.  I've always thought of it as a stream of consciousness meditation on aging, and I've always loved the line, "You spend the first five years trying to get with the plan / and the next five years trying to be with your friends again."  The Plan could be so many things there:  a job, adulthood, parenthood, a twelve-step program.  It just sums up the whole song.

And the stupid, official video for the song cuts out that line along with most of the intro.  Here's a live version from the 2010 Pitchfork Music Festival.