I'm loving music these days, a few particular bands especially. First, and at the top of the list are the Avett Brothers. I've been jamming to these guys ever since I got home from work in the early hours of the morning this past week, and lucked out to a live dvd of them on Palladia. I have two favorite songs by them at the moment, "I and Love and You," and "Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Reason." The first is probably my favorite mostly because it's about Brooklyn; a place I imagine myself living someday, and also because one of my good friends just moved there. It's a fresh a hard to define style of music which I enjoy. Any music that is difficult to define is playing well. I feel like most good things in life are hard to define. How do you define happiness? How do you know when you have it? I read somewhere that the beautiful thing about being happy, is while you're happy you don't think you'll ever be unhappy. I like that idea. To be truly happy and embrace it, you have to let go of the fear of being unhappy.
"Ahh Brooklyn, Brooklyn, take me in. Are you aware the shape I'm in. My hands they shake, my head it spins. Ahh Brooklyn, Brooklyn, take me in.
Three words that became hard to say: I and Love and You."
Check them out if you get the chance.
http://www.myspace.com/theavettbrothers/music/albums/i-and-love-and-you-13742581
