jimmy eat world — pass the baby
this song is so fucking weird!!! bizarre first half that feels like it's part of a heist movie standoff; and then the absolute chunkiest, droniest, head-banging-est thing jimmy's ever published, as the abrupt coda. I love it every time it comes around.
man I still feel like this record just came out. but it was... ah, 2016. right. that makes sense. the last year of the gregorian calendar, while we now live in a perpetual year zero of interminable collapse
you know I was thinking about how the carceral state has extended itself to trapping us in our homes by way of preventing policy that would diminish the threat of covid or provide access to treatment, but has done so by inflaming the canker sore of "freedom" in the mewling mouths of the abject masses. freedom to work. freedom to not wear a mask. freedom to inflict yourself upon others without reflection.
and I feel so trapped in my own home that I can't even reach out, because it all draws attention to how absolutely fucked everything is. remembering how cool it was to just have friends over, but now they can't come over because our government would prefer we die and are happy to passive aggressively allow the virus to do it, and when I think about the friends who would come over it makes me so fucking mad to be unable to see them that I just, can't, do anything about it????????????????
BECAUSE I JUST WANT TO SING SONGS WITH MY FRIENDS AND INSTEAD WE'RE TRAPPED INSIDE SCREAMING TO OURSELVES BECAUSE THE FUCKING DEATH CULT OF CAPITALISM REFUSES TO MAKE THE DUMB FUCKS WE'RE DROWNING IN WEAR A GOD DAMNED MASK??????????????? WHAT? THE FUCK??????? ARE WE STILL DOING INSIDE????????????????????????????????????????????????? WHILE THE FUCKING MONSTERS GLOAT UPON THE THRONE
anyway, "it's almost too easy. the pictures frame themselves." what the fuck ever!!!!!!!!