Holiday Surprise

Sometimes it's just nice to take a little holiday! "Hey Matt, what is a Holiday?", you ask?

Well, Webster's Dictionary defines it as a "brief, painful respite from the ever-deadening routine that barely passes for your pathetic life"...and, barring any fact checking, I'm pretty sure that's actually what it says.

I personally haven't been on a vacation in almost 2 years, but it might be nice to one day experience something that wasn't...whatever the hell this is. Also, I really shouldn't end sentences in a proposition, eh? Some fancy-type-pants writer I am.

For now, music is my holiday, and what better way to "holiday it up" than with a song called "Holiday Surprise 1,2,3" by a wonderful band (possibly defunct?) known as The Olivia Tremor Control.

I don't what "surprise" the is title referring to, but I can assume it's something awful and Twilight Zonian; like the holiday is actually in hell, or Paris Hilton is worshiped as an intellectual on a planet of neuroscientists.

Either way, I'm cryin' tonight!

Actually, now looking over the lyrics, it appears to be a three part rock opera about a guy who misses his girlfriend (holiday surprise 1) flies out to surprise his girlfriend (holiday surprise 2), only to find she's getting cold on him (holiday surprise 3). Universal themes that anyone; man, woman or Yugoslavian rent boy, can understand.

Anyways, listen to the song and admire its twisty-turniness; reminding you of The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Pink Floyd and Sonic Youth all in one shot.

If you like this, I'd give a listen to their first LP, Dusk At Cubist Castle, one of those albums people talked about in college, but you didn't listen to because people talked about it in college. Well, it's redemption time, you stuck-up douchebag!



lyrics:

spending my last dollar on a hotel and a restaurant
sky looks gray but the sky inside is a mighty great one

don't worry
don't worry

taking the time to waste your sunny day
taking the time to waste your sunny day

holiday surprise and a bright one at that
it's a holiday to last even though we spent the last year
in a dream, in a dream

taking the time to waste your sunny day
taking the time to waste your sunny day

imitating you
your image floats two feet above the ground
i sit down in my seat and wait to take off

i can't wait for the oxygen to get thin
i twist around in my seat
i'm flying like a star (a star taker)
taking light from the sky
teasing all the people with pictures of you
cause it's a holiday surprise
ooo-ah

remember the beliefs we had back then
said we'd never change our minds
but oh, and then again
all the dreams were just early plans
well please, please

don't you ever change your mind on me
don't you ever change your mind on me

conflict in our heads makes us see
without the depth that we used to
all of the problems in our way
make it so very hard to say
well please, please