new musics!

[thanate]

#1: Black 47, stolen from Carey off a CD a friend made her called "Irish History 101." And... I have no idea why I think this is an incredibly cheerful song. It's totally not. But it sounds like it.

#2: When you don't see me, which is a little more disturbing than I thought it was, after reading the lyrics... But such a fascinating concept. Way cool. (My father and a friend of his in high school had this theory that Detroit would be far too expensive to keep running all the time, and clearly it was just packed up in boxes when there weren't any tourists there...)

...and there was some jazz violin that Steve was playing in the lab this morning that was pretty cool, too. :)

Comments

[scraun23.livejournal.com]

I always heard When You Don't See Me as the singer(narrator?) pretending to be something he's not for the benefit of his lover. The "better man" is the person he pretends to be.
I suppose it could be read as "pretending to be someone he's replaced in some sinister way" but I really don't see it like that.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

I was looking at it as literal-- the idea of someone who actually isn't there when you turn away... sort of like Schrodinger's cat, only weirder... That it wasn't a pretense at all, just like a demon-lover, someone who ceases to exist out of context, which of course raises the question of whether he actually exists in context either.