SOUNDTRACK: MAC DEMARCO-“No Other Heart” (Field Recordings, August 10, 2015).
Mac Demarco is pretty famous now and seems to be pretty much everywhere. And yet I actually don;t think I’d ever heard him before this recording.
I’m not even sure if it is in any way representative of his music. But I love that you can hear the waves lapping.
For this song, Demarco says he bought a boat for his birthday. It’s a small rowboat, which he rowed out into a bay in Queens “Take A Sunset Cruise With Mac DeMarco”) and began playing his song on a little keyboard. The music has an intentional weird vibrato on it but the recording sound is quite magnificent.
For the charismatic 26-year-old songwriter who grew up in the landlocked plains of Canada, the water still holds an exotic appeal. Plus, the area’s laid-back feel is a perfect match for his laconic delivery and perpetually chill personality.
He sounds a little goofy singing it–presumably intentionally–given the other clips of him goofing off on his boat.
DeMarco moved to this house [by the bay in Far Rockaway, Queens] last fall, after touring behind last year’s excellent Salad Days — just in time for the long, bleak East Coast winter — with the intention of playing his instruments loud and writing new music in isolation [the wistful, melodic mini-album Another One]. A shaggy and surfy collection of love songs, it’s suited for a lazy summer backyard barbecue or taking your second-hand rowboat out for a dusk cruise.
As the show ends, he goofs around singing “Don’t Rock the Boat” as the camerawoman walks up to him in waist deep water.
Behind him, sun-dappled waves are chopped up by freighter boats and the occasional jet ski passing by. Across the water sits JFK airport, with its distant engine hum of planes taking off and landing at a steady, rhythmic clip. The crisp, salty sea breeze mingles with wafts of stagnant water, decaying debris and dead horseshoe crabs that wash ashore.
[READ: June 2, 2018] Cleopatra in Space Book Four
T. brought this book home and I couldn’t believe that book four was out already (had it really been a year?).
This book opens with a reflection on the previous book and Octavian yelling at his soldier cat for not killing the girl. He is provided with a bounty hunter–a dog-headed man who will stop at nothing to make sure that the Golden Lion is destroyed.
Octavian is shocked. If they possessed the Golden Lion, they could firmly defeat P.Y.R.A.M.I.D.
Back at P.Y.R.A.M.I.D. at Yasiro Academy, we see Cleo doing battle against a whole bunch of robots in a simulator Akira comes to take her to class but before they can go they are summoned before he Council. When they arrive in front of the cat Council, Akira’s parents are there (they call her KiKi much to her annoyance). They are happy to see her and very happy to meet Cleopatra for they have been studying her life and the prophecy for years. (more…)
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I had taken C. to a couple of live shows before and he had been to see Ice Nine Kills with his friends. But this was my first time taking him to see a club concert.
I might be one of the few people in America to have never read anything by James Patterson. Well, C. really enjoyed this series (and his other books for young readers) so we decided to listen to this on a car ride. (Both kids had seen the film already, although I hadn’t).
