“Old Ramon” by The Red House Painters
In my previous post I went into cleaning music and its important role in motivating me to get things done around the house. The scene is always the same. I am home alone, probably about to head out of town for a few days and I want to tie up some loose ends around the place before I go. Sounds pretty simple right? I think to myself, “Man, if I am going to be home dawdling around I might as well have a reasonable brew in hand to make things a bit more fun.” So, I go to Binnys and snobishly buy some expensive fancy beer saying “Ill treat myself tonight”, as if I hadn’t spent $11.40 on craft beer in a really long time.
So I get home with ingredient one in hand (Belles Two Hearted Ale!) and an intense cleaning agenda on the mind. I settle in crack a brew and walk over to the record collection. I already know what record I am going to pick in the back of my mind,
I’ve picked it 2 or 3 times before.
I know where that road leads.
I pick up ”Blue Train” like I might actually put it on. ”Who am I kidding?”
Red House Painters feels so right in this situation. I pick up “Old Ramon” and crack beer number 2.
At this point I’ve been home for like 45 minutes and am ready to finally start cleaning up. I go to my room, and what do I do? Look around at bunch of piles of dirty clothes that line the floor while “Void” is playing in the back round. The back of my mind is going “Man this song is fucking awesome”…the front of my mind is saying…”Man I need another beer….”
This process repeats until there is no more beer. By the end of the night I will have listened to the record a good 2 or 3 times through. Some sides more than others…I have maybe done 3o solid minutes of productive activity and I am drunk as shit stumbling around my house mumbling “Feel the void in me now…” I get all relfective and sit in my living room staring off into the distance. The record has lured me into some time trancendent trance. Even when I am sober I lose track of time listening to these 6 minute mind baths. ”Simple and slow, just like life should be” I say to myself in some drunken epiphony. “I done an alright job for tonight” I think in a moment of self congratulation as I then end the night on a cleaners high stoked on all my “progress”…
All in all Belles Two Hearted Ale and Red House Painters’ “Old Ramon” are partners in crime for the ole’ Bman…
check out “Void” here
