not falling down

Almost forgot: bizarre spam subject line alert!

That last post was less than coherent, wasn’t it? Yikes. I was up too late, and under the influence of a really good book, and shouldn’t have been trusted with a keyboard.

I’m not going to take it down, but I want to make it clear that I don’t see myself as some kind of literary-analysis savant, nor do I mean to cast aspersions on the English majors of the world–my brother is one, after all. Also, I don’t like casting aspersions in the first place, as they get my hands all yucky.

All it is is that I just read one of my new favorite books ever, and found some great stuff underneath the surface. I’m sure there was more below that, but I think if you go too deep you lose the parts that made it so good in the first place. That’s all.

Next topic.

At GSP this summer, a guy from my hall–the infamous Ben Stith–had to leave a day early due to a really awful situation (yes, he’s still a Scholar; it was nothing disciplinary). As he was packing, he played this one song over and over again, and as the only other person on the hall at that point, I could hear it through the door.

It was a really good song. Unfortunately, I neglected to ask him for the band name or the song title, so when I started thinking about it a few days later all I had were a few snatches of lyrics to look for.

I spent nearly an hour googling for that song,and to paraphrase John Constantine, in an hour I can google into anything–the Bank of England’s vaults, or a nun’s knickers. I barely found the song, though. As it turns out, neither its title nor the band performing it are exactly solid things.

The band was called Sunday Drive when it put out its first indie release, which included “Piano Song.” They then got signed to a major label and started calling themselves The Starting Line.Because the song was written by someone outside the band, it never made it onto a major-label release, though subsequent reissues of the original EP had the song titled “Hold On.” All the links to the original indie label’s site, or sites about the original EP, are pretty severely dead.

Anyway, the upshot is that it’s impossible to buy the song unless you find a copy in your favorite local underground-record establishment. It’s certainly nothing you’re going to find at CDNow, even under any combination of bandname/title matches. So! As a part of my ongoing quest to bring otherwise-unavailable quality music to you, illegally, I hereby present