I have my differences with Vincent Laforet, but that’s a hell of a shot.
In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
Albert Camus, The Plague
Dump – “On The Right Track Now”
Plea for Happiness
This record was pretty spotty, in my opinion, but it was also home to a few gems. This is one of them; “Made for it” and “My head in your hands” were the others. I still listen to them years later (one was even in a Ben Stiller short).
A duty few men are fit for, but you were born for.
She who sinks under real disappointment lacks philosophy; but she who sinks under a fancied one lacks purpose.
Reveries of a Bachelor
Lupine Howl – “Sometimes”
The Carnivorous Lunar Activities of Lupine Howl
I never listened much to the rest of this album, but “Sometimes” is one of the few one-off tracks I still regularly listen to that I got during my great college music expansion period. I love the lines “The universal gift must always be returned/and everything can be unlearned.” It’s long but broken into three parts, which helps the pacing.
There, Watson! What do you think of pure reason and its fruit? If the green-grocer had such a thing as a laurel wreath, I should send Billy round for it.
Sherlock Holmes