New Years list 2014

Hey everyone! It's been awhile, and while tonight I don't have any crazy or amusing stories for you I do have a nice little list that my friend Claire posts every year that I filled out for all y'all. I knew that when I started this blog that I wanted to do this list when 2015 came around so here it goes:

1. What did you do in 2014 that you've never done before?

I could choose from any of 1,000 things so lets go with 2 broad ones: go to college and join a band.

2. Did you keep your new years resolution(s) from 2013?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

no.

3. Did anyone close to me give birth?

My cousin added to her perfect family with twin girls and they are the cutest things ever, also the rock gods gifted the world Everything or Nothing so I consider that a pretty big deal this year.

4. Did anyone close to me die?

No, but a daughter of an old family friend passed away and it hit my parents very hard, so prayers out to the Davidson Family especially this holiday season, and more prayers to anyone dealing with loss of any kind.

5. What countries did you visit?

Damn, I started this blog a year late, this year  kept it local in the US of A but hit up my 15 or so states through various adventures, happy to say that Virginia is seeming more and more like home every day, but the 401 is still cozy as ever.

6. What would I like to do in 2015 that you lacked in 2014?

Write more music, sing more songs, live a fuller life, work out, and help people with what ever they need.

7. What dates from 2014 will remain etched upon your memory and why?

Okay this is embarrassing for a history major but I have a terrible date memory... but I'm gonna give it  a shot... I'm also gonna cheat with 2 dates in 2013

12/10/13: accepted to the University of Richmond
12/27/13: bought my first bass guitar officially starting Everything or Nothing
1/30-2/2 winter weekend/ pajama day at Enharmonix
1/25 Senior Semi Formal (somehow Abby agreed to go with me)
2/14 shit does happen on Valentines Day, like me getting my full License
3/14-3/18: Memorable Weekend in NYC watching PC win the Big East Championship
3/20-3/26: Disney with the baseball team, just a blast Dinosaur Ride >-<
4/20: Hehehe
5/8: Birthday with some cool people
5/25: High School Graduation, a day that included a lot of firsts, and a lot of lasts
5/31: Kerr's end of school par-tay
6/16-6/21: Miami and Key Biscane with the Family,God the water is beautiful down there
6/23-6/27: recording week with the boys, life changing experience for everyone involved
6/26: you had to be there...
6/28: first Wives Show at the Met, first Chris Piquette tit signing
7/4: first day of work at Carnegie Club (kill me now)
7/4: also 'MURICA
7/10: My bother's birthday but also WARPED TOUR 2014 w/ Watsky and Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!
7/19: Everything or Nothing takes Simon's 677 by storm (i had to..)
7/23: 3rd Beach, that was a good time
8/2-8/9: Bethany Beach DE: every year same result: perfection
8/12: Fenway Park with the Family
8/13: some tough good byes
8/14: A really long drive
8/18: the next chapter begins
8/25: the real deal
9/3: first mom's birthday away from her
9/20: first black out
10/11: Fonts II: return of the Fonts
10/30-11/1: first college "Holloweekend" AKA a blast
11/16: one of the most interesting decisions I ever made...
11/17-11/18: WORST PAPER WRITING EXPERIENCE EVER
11/25: guess who's back? back again?
11/30-12/5: craziest academic week of my life
12/6: we played the Fucking MET with some awesome people and then Bad Year
12/16: First Semester of College in the books, 3.27 GPA, praise the holy trinity (undivided unity)
12/19: a pretty cool party
12/20: a cooler afternoon of basketball, running cars and hot dogs
12/24-12/27: one of the more eventful holiday trips to NY I've had... also shopping, which is weird
12/27-12/30 band practice and life practice, gotta love my friends
12/31: i assume its gonna be fun
1/1/2015-12/31/2015: the best year yet

8. What was your biggest acheivement of the year?

Learning Bass, Handling college (my liquor) and life *all at the same time

9. what was your biggest failure?

Failing to connect with people and be there when they needed it, any miss is a costly one.

10. Did I suffer illness or injury?

I thought I was allergic to my cat, but turns out I just got 2 bad colds, besides that I don't think I got sick naturally seriously.

11. What was the best thing I bought?

By first bass, my second bass, warped tour tickets, and my friends Christmas Presents

12. Whose Behavior merited celebration?

I'm gonna default to Claire Dorie's response: anyone who tolerated me and I'll add to that it's very admiral that kids younger than me can handle themselves in the face of adversity, keep on trucking guys

13. Whose behavior made you appalled?

Appalled is a strong word, a few people disappointed me this year but besides that I can confidently say that their is redemption and penance in their future.

14. Where did my money go?

My bak account duh... but for real? Music, food, drink ;)

15. What did you get really excited about?

Anytime I came home or got to go hang out with my friends, even more so when I got to play music with them,, whether in a basement or a huge venue.

16. What song(s) will always remind you of 2014?

I default to my spotify playlists of the past year... here are some highlights:

Rip Tide: Vance Joy
All Signs Point to Lauderdale: A Day to Remember
City of Ocala: A Day to Remember
Right Back At it Again: A Day to Remember
Til I get there: Lupe fiasco
She's always a Woman: Billy Joel
Vienna: Billy Joel
Miami 2017: Billy Joel
Goodnight Saigon: Billy Joel
Scenes from and Italian Restaurant: Billy Joel
Light Up the Night: Protomen
Maybe I'm Amazed: Paul McCartney
Safe and Sound Capital Cities
Love me Again: John Newman
What's My Age Again?: Blink 182
Atlantic City: Bruce Springsteen
Weightless: All Time Low (covered by Everything or Nothing)
Less Than Likely: Everything or Nothing
Fat Lip: Sum 41
Good Night Moon: Go Radio
All Star: Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!
In friends we trust: Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!
Elevated: State Champs
Mr. Brightside/ Ms. Atomic Bomb: The Killers
3005: Childish Gambino
The Party Song: Blink 182
It Must Really Suck to be Four Year Strong Right Now: Four Year Strong
Classic: MKTO
Ain't it Fun?: Paramore
Chariot: Gavin DeGraw
Maps: Maroon 5
Rude: Magic!
Sing: Ed Sheeran
Thinking Outloud: Ed Sheeran
My Name is Jonas: Weezer
Wasted: Tiesto
the Heart of Life: John Mayer
I will Follow you into the dark: Death Cab for Cutie
slow dancing in a burning room: John Mayer
If I'm lucky: State Champs
Leave you in the dark: state champs
Stories of a different kind: New Found Glory
Sloppy Seconds: Watsky
Sarajevo: Watsky
The One: Watsky
Who Says: John Mayer
Stolen Dance: Milky Chance
Shut Up and Dance: walk the Moon
The Days: Avicii

17. Compared to Last Year are you a) happier or sadder? b) thinner or fatter? c) richer or poorer?

A) Happier, but more realistic
B) fatter definitely, gotta get back in the gym stat
C) Richer, both in terms of money and knowledge and wisdom

18.  What do you wish you would have done more of?

Talk to people about themselves. Listen.

19. What do you wish you had done less of?

Besides eating? probably being selfish, any time I was selfish I wish I hadn't been.

20. How did you spend Christmas?

With my Cuban Family. Church was beautiful and the party was even better, my grandma (mi abuela) nicknamed abby for short, isn't doing well so it's always good to see her.

21. Did you fall in love in 2014?

...

22. What was your favorite TV program?

How I Met Your Mother blew my mind down the stretch of 2014

23. Do you hate anyone you didn't hate this time last year?

Yes, my list of 3 has grown to 4 this year... I keep a list because it makes it real, if it isn't real or relevant to be on the list, I forgive, but somethings, some people take longer to forgive than others.

24. What was the best book you read?

JFK and EXCOM: the Secret Tapes of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Blood of Olympus

25. What was my greatest musical discovery?

Would it be cheesy or too prideful to say myself?

26. What did you get that you wanted?

To get to know my friends better, to make music, to listen to music, to do well in school and life, oh and Beats By Dre for Christmas :)

27. What did you want and not get?

Closure.

28. What was your favorite film of the year?

Either Frozen or the Lion King, yes i know it came out in 1996, whats your point?

29. What's one thing that made your year immeasurably more satifying?

friends I can treat and rely on like family

30. How would you describe your fashion concept in 2014?

Beach bum meets scene kid meets college prepster meets Fonts

31. What kept you sane?

What else? music and Optimism.

32.  Which Celebrity/ public figure did you fancy the most?

Robert Downy Junior, guy has the skills, also any performer on the daily grind, also Chris Piquette

33. what Political Issue Stirred you the most?

So many this year with so many sides, but the GOP swing in Congress is very interesting and will have the most significant short term and long term effects on the country.

34. Who did you miss?

Anyone and everyone.

35. Tell us a life lesson you learned in 2014?

Confidence is key, in everything. Never doubt yourself, something you believe in or something/ someone you love.

36. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.

Roll with the punches cause you know that it's inevitable that it will be unforgettable, in every way unpredictable! -Bada Bing Wit a Pipe: FYS

There's over 7 billion motherfuckers on the planet and  4 billion of us are of legal age, that's 2 billion ladies 4 billion titties and I bet a couple of them aren't engaged! -The One: Watsky

AND WE WILL ALL GO DOWN TOGETHER! YES WE WILL ALL GO DOWN TOGETHER!
-Goodnight Saigon: Billy Joel

So yeah, 2014... that was pretty cool, and hell I still got 23 hours and 15 min to go so lets make it count!

See all you guys on the other side,

Don't be A stranger,
Just some guy who like to talk

keep kicking ass,
keep it real, see you around
Please, please, please, don't be strangers,
I gotta get back to homework now...
these were the basics for now... 
Best,
Keep on Keepin On,
your eager listener
Fonts

Your helpful puzzle master,
A very tired
Fonts(alot)

Your Secret Santa
Matt

Game Master
Fonzie Fonts

So until next time, keep writing, keep thinking, keeping dreaming and keep living,

Matthew Fonts

Lets Play a Game...

So first, no this is not a SAW blog post, and it's also not a sports post so you all can calm down.

Instead this is a little game I wanna see if my readers can figure out.

So if you've talked to me in the last 6-10 years of my life you know that Music is huge in my life and me being a history buff I try and remember where I was, or what interesting thing I was doing when I hear a song. So I do the same thing for people most people who have an impact in my life and I want to see if you guys can pick out who is who on Fonts's list of musical impressions.

*Disclaimer: these are my personal memories and correlations and may have nothing to do with the person's musical tastes past, present, or future.*

I'm thinking of ten people and 1 of them is someone I haven't met. Good Luck.

1. John Mayer: this one is kinda you either know or you don't...

2. Mayday Parade: the feels are real on this one... god damn feels...

3. Sum 41: shit never stops with this one... one may even say that he/she is "in too deep"

4. Christina Perri: really the only reason I put this i cause when I hear jar of hearts I think of this person

5. Bruce Springsteen: this one is kinda another you even know it or you don't, 2 answers acceptable

6. Fleetwood Mac: i doubt you can get this one either... just kind of an association thing

7. T Swizzle: this is cake, Literally the easiest one.

8.  Ed Sheeran: I have some funny memories with Ed and this one

9. Mumford and Sons: little bit of an angle with this one, you can take it one way or another... the correct answer is a little more simple than the simpler answer... but neither are open shut.

10. Billy Joel: no one has met this person but I'm interested in guesses.

You guys can comment or text me or something... and there are people on this list that don't read it so if you think they can help, sure show them... but just this once.

Looking forward to this...

Game Master
Fonzie Fonts

PS. Matchbox 20 is some kinda music... kinda vibing right now.

December Fourth, Two Thousand and Fourteen

Ever had one of those where you wake up kind of hazy.

Take a shower... doesn't help.

You walk to class in a fog and ghost through the questions asked, and just seem to lack any kind of enthusiasm.

The food you eat for breakfast and lunch just don't taste like they should.

And every song on Pandora and Spotify is the same, old, sad, song.

On top of that you need to relive one of the most oppressive parts of history in the form of a 2000 word paper.

Yeah, me neither...

Firsts

     So it's December 1st and I figure the first day of the last month of the year is an ironic enough time to write about first times and a quick summary of what's been going on.

      Last time we spoke I was finishing a crazy week at school and I'm about to jump right into another one so I love the sound of that.  But on the bright side, I think I have things under control, for now. Also take notes; bright side, and optimism are going to be my north star going forward. I realized recently that people are gonna do bad stuff, make bad decisions and say some bad stuff, but brooding over all that isn't doing anyone any good. So from now on I feel like I should listen to a little Reggae as the air gets cold, some Christmas tunes as the fire gets warm and some folk, which is basically chicken noodle soup for the heart. Also the Killers, the Killers are great, and they just it, I think.

     So firsts. People like to measure things, lives, by firsts. First teeth, first words, first steps, first day of school... firsts are nice like that. They can be very memorable, the shit your mom wants to take 300 thousand photos of and that you get tired of after about 4 minutes... or at least you think you do. In my extremely short 18+ years I've had a lot of first and some first I was told would happen that just haven't panned out yet, but lets not focus on those. The past year alone has been packed full of firsts, first job, first "real" job, first day of college, first band, first recorded music, first live show, first semester, first blog post, first pet, first bite of chick-fil-a. These are the things I think we need to focus on more. Things like meeting George Watsky and Bertrand of Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! at Warped Tour, going to grad parties after graduation and going to my first college party are things that will not be forgotten. Oh, throwing it way back I played my first and only coffee house at the abbey, back in January, cow bell forever. Saw a lot of movies and met some awesome people too.

      Basically what I want to cover in this little up date is that I know a lot of people have a tough time during the Holidays for different reasons, but we are given so much and are so blessed to know one and other that I would be criminal to not enjoy it to the fullest. I am a wonderfully sharpened double edge sword of noise and silence and this blog has really been a trusty practice dummy (for the most part).

     Oh, little guessing game. I was very recently invited to an open mic night and I have 2 perfect songs... but which one will I pick? What are they? Will it just be rap/ slam poetry? Who knows? Well I do, but no one else does... not a first for one of my well guarded secrets... but this won't be my first time preforming alone, many do not know this but if you followed my career since the beginning (love you mom xoxo) you would know I sang the Star Spangled Banner for my 3rd grade talent show, needless to say I freakin killed it.

So ladies, gentle dudes, it's been 55 minutes and I need to eat something, so for now this will be it. If you have any questions concerns, or just have to talk... please... keep it to yourself, Korean Jesus ain't got time for your problems.

Jk,
Your Secret Santa,
Matt

My notes on the Antiderivative

       Fonts, man, what the fuck? Why are you writing so many blogs when you have so much homework to do?

       Well caring stranger, it's because homework is dumb and my calc teacher is an asshole. So instead of learning about the anti derivative I'm gonna tell you all about my wild and crazy night last night.

       It all started in my dorm room. I was really bored and really didn't want to write the paper that was due the next day. So I got on Spotify and started listening to my awesome taste in music. Around that same time I was like, "I hate when my friends don't blog for a while, but I haven't either so I'll do a blog thing. So from 9 to 10:15 I listened to the Watsky album and wrote my last post. So that was all well and good until I looked up and it was midnight. So sat down, opened word and tried to start writing. I figured its the Cuban Missile Crisis I could manage to bullshit 4 pages out of it. But it was also a book review. A book I was 40 pages into. So from 1am to 5am I read all 160 missing pages. At 8am I woke up from my short nap and got Starbucks (large coffee, black, 3 shots of espresso) and proceed to crank out 1499 words (1500 word cap). Handed it 5 minutes before it was due. So that was a fun day. Then on Wednesday, I had a paper due at 10pm so what did I do, obviously wait til 8pm to start typing it.

       This was by far my craziest week so far in college. So I've kept the going out to a minimum, and tried to handle my shit. I fly home on Tuesday and I've caught myself day dreaming about getting back to RI. But I'll say this and then dread the actual traveling I'll be going over the next 3 weeks. Be listening to some really fun relaxing music, having some heart to hearts with people and drinking more iced tea, despite it getting pretty cold down here. The song I been vibing with is "Who Says" by John Mayer, Tom, if your reading this, help a brother out on Saturday ;). The heart to hearts have been... helpful, though I'm kinda looking forward to being face to face with the bros again. And the iced tea has been delicious, 2 ice cubes, lemon wedge, tall glass, good time.

Until next time, keep writing, keep thinking, keep dreaming, keep living,
Matthew

The Biggest Waste of Time Around

           So lately things have been pretty heavy so I decided to do what I do best and lighten the mood instead of write my 1400 word paper due tomorrow at 1:30pm. Lately one of the albums that has really been speaking to me is "all you can do" by George Watsky. Now Watsky is kinda odd in the fact that he is a white Jewish rapper, but my friends and I love him any way. He started out kinda goofy but has some really interesting things to say. The concept of an album I think is really lost upon most people nowadays. When artist spend a year making 14 songs its not cause they have to or because they think one or two will make them a lot of money it's cause they have at least 14 songs worth of stuff they want to tell people. Listening to an album straight through is a great thing... even if u don't like 5 or 6 of the songs, I promise they will grow on you. Listening to a full album gives you the incite to who the artist is as an artist and as a person, again I highly recommend it.  So without further adeu this is my track by track review and commentary. Also PS im going to write as long as the song plays, I think its a good testament to how much you can think about a song and still enjoy it.

          Track 1: All you can Do: So the beginning of this song is amazing but you don't realize why until 16 tracks later. The piano and natural drums are just a great vibe to start this very person album. The first verse is really about Watsky as a person and his ideas about moving and family and no matter how much people talk shit about him or his city, a home is a home no matter how much you've grown. The chorus: All you can do is, all you can do is, all you can do is, is Watsky just telling people to go with the flow and try and do what makes them happy, and to learn from his experiences that he shares over the rest of  the album. He gets into some funny and heart wrenching specifics over the album so this track sets it up nicely. The second verse is all about he 27 club in heaven, the 27 club if you didn't know is a group of famous musicians who all died at age 27, he name drops a couple greats until he is booted out of heaven by Jimmy Morison. He also references his stage dive gone wrong for the first time when he says "try to fly like a bird of prey, but I hit the ground and break a mother fucker's vertebra" this references when he was on his world tour, stage dived, landed on a girl and seriously injured her. You can tell over the album that that really had and effect on him.

           Track 2: Stand for Something: This song has a nice fast vibe that really gets me dancing. The first verse is all about his move to LA and the strange culture associated with the west coast, specifically movie stars and the rich and famous. He talks about "low-cal and no-cal meals". The second verse again touches on the theme of personal independence, and being yourself and that Watsky is part of that group that are independents and what to party alone. He just wants to stand for something.

           Track 3: Bet against me: This track is a lot heavier and starts with his high pitched "Watsky" sliding off and falling over. It's a hostile attack on people trying to bring people down down, like the popular culture of today and the industry. He then has the first of a couple interviews with his parents as his father talks about the Cuban missile crisis. This is a really creative and spooky track that is added by the interview. He then goes off on what people who "bet against me" will be left with. Really intimidating song.

          Track 4: Woah, Woah, Woah: Watsky's first single off the album is crazy. Its just savage, he just goes off with his classic white kid flow. Goes after Miley, mentions PETA, MJ, and apparently likes to spit game at soccer moms (btw check out his remix of Mrs. Robinson, its awesome). Second first same as the first, great rhymes great flow. Like he asked his teacher when he heard the crowd applaud he thought he was an atheist  before he realized he's a god. Love that line.

          Track 5: Ink Don't bleed: one of the most personal tracks on the album Wastky does some self analysis and talks about the industry as a monster. The second verse is even worse as he goes into graphic detail about his stage dive and how the girl's life was altered and how he and the media should view those kinds of incidents. He wants people to judge him by the content of his character, not just be happy because your a fan. The third verse is even better as he condems himself and tells people to not confuse what celebrities do as all good. "everything I say conflicts with everything I do but I already did it so I guess it must be true."

          Track 6: Right Now: one of my favorite tracks starts with some fast paced drums and a time jump from birth to teenage years and a 4:20 weed joke. It's all about his view on life and how we should enjoy freedom and have fun while we can: "Life is hard and then you die, so lets all go hard tonight". He enjoys what little money he has in the second verse and rhymes Matt Lauer with Jack Bauer... love that. The chorus is about embracing the now and having fun with your friends and city. Very positive message.

         Track 7: First Stalker: the first classic funny Watsky song on this album. Very cool groove about a stalker. Really funny how he views others viewing him. He likes it but he tries to use the rest of the song to describe that he's just like you. He's just watching Netflix jerking off to porno (he has a subscription) but she thinks he's in there writing songs about her. Very funny track... very short, I nice light note.

        Track 8: The One: honestly this is fighting for my favorite song right now. It's all about Watsky's troubles with the ladies. I get that, I feel your pain bro. So he's watching everyone pair off even dogs, he makes a tomb raider's reference that you gotta be good to spot, a beyonce one that is easier way. A very realistic look at hook up culture and the self esteem problem with young adults. second verse goes to a wonderland metaphor and a balls joke and an awesome math calculation: "theres over 7 billion mother fuckers on the planet and 4 billion are of legal age, that 2 billion ladies, 4 billions titties and guess that a couple of them aren't engaged!" And continues to encourage guys to get back in the sattle with some inspirational words and self confidence. Best white guy/ jewish rapper break up song ever :-).

         Track 9: Boomerang: this song is more of a slow jam for Watsky and special lady that he used to get Mexican with. He observes her from afar before he tries to get back together with her. He's just observing a weird limbo between the 2. The best line from this song is definitely: "when you want me I don't want you and when I want you you don't want me, when I sing a tune and you sing it too it's just wamp wamp in the wrong key" perfect explanation. The song is not knowing how to me apart or together and just coming back to each other because it feels right, like a boomerang. Also the horns are really nice.

       Track 10: Why don't we get high and watch planet Earth: pretty much exactly what you think it is. A weed song about enjoying the little things in life, like take-out, lovers, small moments in time together. Honestly, if Watsky gave me a blunt and told me to smoke, chill, and philosophize with him, you could sign me up in a heart beat. This is also a good time to talk about instrumentals. in every song you can bet on 20 sec of just music, its very nice and everything is different and new and nice. The song ends with another interview with his dad talking about the hippies: "the hippies were doing alot of cool things, and I think they did some stuff really well, like the sex".

        Track 11: Hand Over Hand: a nice acoustic guitar intro's this song about more societal problems, he calls it as he sees it, most people rubber necking the problems in life until its them in the car crash. He wants it to be hand over hand, love over everything. Anderson Paak does an awesome feature on this song's chorus and second verse. The message comes through crystal clear on this song, wishing to break free from this world and wanting the world to change for the better. Watksy's tries to put some of it perspective in the last verse with a personal question to the listener to ask what they've done to help the cause. Again with an awesome horns section at the end of the song.

         Track 12: tears to diamonds: just a heart felt flow about lost, whether from death, or personal reasons. Watsky tries to display what what it means to love some people and has some choice words to say to drug abusers and pharmaceutical companies hooking people for profit. Another heavy song from a Watsky album that is much more mature and crafted than his earlier work.

        Track 13: The Grass is Greener: Watsky nearly writes a ballad in this slow acoustic guitar driven track. Him and a female rock a chorus that is hypnotic. He uses the ground as a continued metaphor for life and how people continue when they see different people and judge themselves to others. Like how Watsky feels so much more grateful when he walks through a hospital. I always think the album is falling off by then end of this song, which I think is the worst on the album but then...

        Track 14: Never it Die: This driving song with the repeated chorus "I'll never let it die" is just driving on down beats and a nice little piano chord progression and little bit of glass xylophone. It's all about self confidence and great rhymes and creative story telling allows this song to really fit well. The music video is also very cool, I highly recommend it. Watsky wants the early worm, so hes the determined sparrow, flying circles around the sternest scarecrow. He wants everyone who has a burning flame within to take a deep breath and feed it oxygen. Just an outstanding song that ends with an interview with is mom and her memories of folk music, politics, and her father, before going back to chorus showing the connections of family. Now the that point the music video ends but the track keeps going as he talks about his ancestors exiles from east Europe during WWII, and the statue of liberty. His diatribe is more than enough to warrant hearing the entire song just for that last spoken word verse.

       Track 15: Sarajevo: this city is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina but in the late 1960's was the sight of a horrible civil war that put the three main world religions against each other (Christianity, Jewdeism and Islam) thousands of innocence were killed for almost no reason. Watsky takes this song to tell the legend of the lovers of Sarajevo, an inter faith couple who were gunned down by snipers trying to leave the city together. I highly recommend you read further into the story to get the full effect of the song. He uses the story not to make a religious point but a point about love, god, and others, the song is not about religions, but the problem with religious leaders and people who use religion as an excuse for war and hatred. The song tries to convey the lovers as the listener and Watsky who want to bridge the gap, end the hatred and spread peace. Dia Frampton adds spine tingling vocals to the chorus "Sarajevo, Sarajevo, you're the alter that I pray to, God is love and love is all we have." I've take blocks of 35 min to just listen to this one song on repeat, very powerful.

       Track 16: Cannonballs: so you know how I told you to remember the piano at the beginning of the album, well that's cause this whole song is built on that piano melody. The track is mostly Watsky's spoken word (which is excellent). The verse is mostly about a trip he took to a park by his house with an old girl friend. One of the my favorite parts is when he talks about commemorating the moment with bug bite tattoos, because in the video for let the ink bleed there is a quick cut to his ankle with the 3 circle tattoos.. really brings everything full circle. Stephen Stills rocks a chorus on forever as this song just keeps going forever. Awesome drum fills, more trumpets, a slight melody shift puts this song in the conversation with Sarajevo, The One, and Never Let is Die for my favorite on the Album. I just love the artistry of basically putting a musical cover on the album like a book. Beginning and ending. And of course at the end of the song you hear Watsky talking to his parents. His Dad says "well that was fun" and all you hear from Watsky is "I love you" and an "I love you too" right back.

        Now its been about an hour now and I did say I had work to do but I'm gonna do one more Watsky review because this next one pulled my head out of my ass the other day when I was thinking that maybe friends were overrated and I should just stick to myself. The song is called Sloppy Seconds and its off his last Album Cardboard Castles.

         Track 1: Sloppy Seconds: piano chords introduce this song that I can only describe as what I would want my life to be like with the people I love. There's a genuine feeling in the chorus of acceptance. The second verse about people baggage, personal problems, and everyone's take on it. I love that verse a lot. 'I don;t care where you been, how many miles, I still love you." Is on repeat for a while and it's excellent. Watsky tells you he's the guy who rocks the bad fashion  and is bad with the ladies simply because he's staying honest to himself. And the line that hits me the most is "That's a temper, in a kitchen, in a Christmas sweater, sipping cold coffee on the phone with damaged goods.""and there not a single place that I would rather be, I'm fucked up just like you are and you're fucked up just like me". He goes on to list very very important things "cold pizza, tie-dyed shirts, broken hearts, hand-me-downs, leftovers, sloppy seconds".

        So yeah, that's enough for tonight, and I challenge every reader to listen to a full album straight through without stopping sometime in the next week, and the one rule is it can't be your favorite artist/ your favorite artist right now. Before I listened to this I was on a heavy ADTR binge, I promise, if you are so brave, comment what you listened to. I'm always looking for new music.

Your Eager Listener,
Fonts

Longer Version

Usually when I a have something to get off my chest I do 1 of two things, 1 tell someone, or 2 usually for the thing I don't want to share I write music. But tonight the music wasn't really coming so this is a longer, less melodic version of what I may one day put in a song.

Something has been keeping me up, not really ready share what exactly yet, but it's a first for me and I really have no idea how to approach it. I can't fall asleep without thinking about it. When I wake up I think about it and throughout the day if there is a lull at work or in class, I catch myself thinking about it. Hell even music has me thinking about it lately. I need to figure this out, and quick.

Thanks for listening,
A very tired,
Fonts(alot)