What song are you listening to right now?

aesop rock - 6b panorama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZHYYeOqI2Q

the words:

"I was sitting on my fire escape and I saw
Sturdy bridges, decorated with dirty pigeons
A vagabond begging for three pennies and a princess
A junkie tourniquet surgeon urging the needle in
A batty senior citizen flashing that awful teethless grin
I saw a corner store merchant rest on a milk crate with a stog'
A pierced nose, a model with a stalker, cheap hooker, jay walkers
A table on a sidewalk with four old men slappin' dominos down
A city, a village, a neighborhood, a ghost town
I saw vandals catching tags and Puerto Rican flags
I saw a pregnant woman on the verge of bursting
I saw a blind man with a dog screaming someday I'll see it all
And then he sat down with his hammer and saw
Business men with multi-colored ties, cashing their checks
A Nazi with tattoos on his neck, a Vietnam War vet
A Caucasian man with a limp and a cane, a pimp with his dames
A thug circus, a pack of shook tourists hugging their purses
I saw freaks with rainbow streaks in dayglo hair
A mother smackin' the grin off her child, replaced it with a stare
A pothole, a storefront with a broken open sign
A hole in the wall bar kicking drunks to the gutter, it's closing time
I see a f*** up, a bum knuckle up with a taxi driver
A squatter, a grandfather, an angry right-to-lifer
I can see the roof garden on the apartment across the street
And kick myself because somewhere along the way I lost my seeds
I see a rat, a roach, a bat approach, a happy student
A black man with a horn and a will to make you sit and listen to it
I see a little girl on the corner with bubbles, braids and barrettes
I see a teen mother with Similac, pacifier, and regrets
Oh, a day turned stale, a hammer with a rusty nail, a failed marriage
A universe of brick buildings slightly off balance
A challenge, I see a chance to add real colors to my favorite palette
Raise my mighty mallet towards the gods and swing my talents
I see a crack in the sidewalk
A slide show of sick civilians gripping bottles like idiots
Sitting inside bent meridians
There's a fun house ooh, a sun spout
Spraying yellow beams above yellow back dreams
And children in the hydrants
Hybrids, I see sirens
The wall to the glamor standard
A dead bird, a red curb
A bus stop where commuters wait to have their souls towed off to work
I see the slapdash habits of bike messengers pausing
To huff that good leaf on the way to damage packages for peddlers
Oh my lord, I see bandwagons, all aboard
A carnival amusement park where a heart is a luxury
I see a gas galaxy huddled behind those pearly doors
Maybe I should sit up on my fire escape a little more"

from his first album float
 
i love this song so much. still cant believe that he's gone :(

A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost.

[...]
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

--edna st vincent millay

 
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The trailer for that "Big Star" documentary looks pretty interesting.



I thought it pretty great. I mean they were like three different bands for each album. The first chiton and bell, the second chillton and the rest of the group, the third basically a chiton solo album and it talked a bit about chitons other side projects right after big star which was neat and had some interesting tv spots and interviews. The stuff with them making the first album is the best part though. Bells childhood and all the work he put into everything and then comes in chiton to steal the spotlight with his seemingly blessed life and admittedly amazing talent offset by his own locked up despair. The thought of Andy driving himself into a tree just really made me sad and I don't think his perspective gets told enough. Somewhere in the doc after some guy listens to I am the cosmos he comments about this part of big star missing from the other two albums and I agree. The ballad of el goodo is achingly sad. Like I said chitons depression seemed to be more one of anger and despair, thirteen sends stabs of pain to my head and heart every time I listen to it, while Andys seems to be a gigantic hole. A quiet defeat and collapse into nothingness that's also equally and incredibly moving. Music misses both of them
 
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