The walls are caving in, as far as I can see
I got my copy of "The Glass Passenger" CD/DVD from Amazon today. So sure, it's minus the signed poster and digital copy of the album but fuck it, it's $30 less than it would've cost ordering from JM.com.
As per usual, listening to "Caves" made me tear up. I thought I'd get over that by now but I didn't. The rest of the songs are just as magnificent as they are on the leak. But the real deal here is "Choke, California" DVD. The movie itself is a surreal sort of short film, no longer than 20 minutes long. In it, Andrew is shown packing his gear in an old truck, and driving to the middle of nowhere, staying in a model, and driving to nowhere again. In the end, he ends up getting his gear up a hill and plays a beautiful piano melody (on a keyboard) facing the sunset. Through the short film he tells of how he started playing piano and writing songs. Whether it's a real story or a script for the movie, I'm not sure. The spoken parts are done in voiceover. Andrew doesn't speak on screen the entire film. It's all very artsy in the way it's filmed and presented. Quite nice.
The DVD also includes a too-short making the album feature (Andrew air-drumming to Bloodshot Eyes and recording piano for Swim are my favorite parts) and a photo gallery that runs the lengths of 3 songs (Swim, Hammer And Strings and Annie Use Your Telescope) with quite a few artsy pictures that follow the mood of the film and album.
All in all a good package and a great album. Now I just need to get my hands on Everything In Transit special version and I'll be good to go.
As per usual, listening to "Caves" made me tear up. I thought I'd get over that by now but I didn't. The rest of the songs are just as magnificent as they are on the leak. But the real deal here is "Choke, California" DVD. The movie itself is a surreal sort of short film, no longer than 20 minutes long. In it, Andrew is shown packing his gear in an old truck, and driving to the middle of nowhere, staying in a model, and driving to nowhere again. In the end, he ends up getting his gear up a hill and plays a beautiful piano melody (on a keyboard) facing the sunset. Through the short film he tells of how he started playing piano and writing songs. Whether it's a real story or a script for the movie, I'm not sure. The spoken parts are done in voiceover. Andrew doesn't speak on screen the entire film. It's all very artsy in the way it's filmed and presented. Quite nice.
The DVD also includes a too-short making the album feature (Andrew air-drumming to Bloodshot Eyes and recording piano for Swim are my favorite parts) and a photo gallery that runs the lengths of 3 songs (Swim, Hammer And Strings and Annie Use Your Telescope) with quite a few artsy pictures that follow the mood of the film and album.
All in all a good package and a great album. Now I just need to get my hands on Everything In Transit special version and I'll be good to go.
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