tdaxp

"The world is spinning too fast
I'm buying lead Nike shoes
To keep myself tethered
To the days I try to lose

My mama said to slow down
You should make your shoes
Stop dancing to the music
Of gorillaz in a happy mood

Keep a mild groove on

Ba ba ba Day dee bop

There you go!
Get the cool!
Get the cool shoeshine!

There's a monkey in the jungle
Watching a vapour trail
Caught up in the conflict
Between his brain and his tail

And if time's elimination
Then we got nothing to lose
Please repeat the message
It's the music that we choose

Keep a mild groove on

Ok bring it down yeah we gonna break out

Ah ah ah ah"
Gorillaz, "19-2000" (repetitions omitted)

There's more...

"Feel good.

City's breaking down on a camel’s back.
They just have to go cause they don't know whack.
So all you fill the streets it’s appealing to see
You wont get out the county cause you're bad and free
You've got a new horizon It's ephemeral style.
A melancholy town where we never smile.
And all I wanna hear is the message beep.
My dreams, they've got to kiss, because I don't get sleep, no..

Windmill, Windmill for the land.
Turn forever hand in hand
Take it all in on your stride
It is sticking, falling down
Love forever love is free
Let’s turn forever you and me
Windmill, windmill for the land
Is everybody in?

Laughing gas these hazmats, fast cats,
Lining them up like ass cracks,
Ladies, ponies, at the track
its my chocolate attack.
Shit, I'm stepping in the heart of this here
Care bear bumping in the heart of this here
Watch me as I gravitate
Hahahahahahaa!

Yo, we gonna ghost town, this motown,
with yo sound, you're in the place
You gonna bite the dust, can't fight with us.
With yo sound you kill the "inc."

So don't stop, get it, get it
until you're cheddar header.
Yo, watch the way I navigate
Hahahahahaaaaa

Don't stop, get it, get it
we are your captains in it.
Steady, watch me navigate,
Ha ha ha ha ha!

Don't stop, get it, get it
We are your captains in it
Steady, watch me navigate
Ha ha ha ha ha!"
Gorillaz, "Feel Good Inc." (repititions ommitted)

There's more...

Earlier I promised a somber post on the mosque bombing in Iraq. But I don't have the words for it. And I'm not a naturally somber person. Like a broken bell, the post would not ring true.

By random chance, while I was trying to think of how to write, I finally listened to Feel Good Inc, off the album Demon Days" by Gorillaz. For some reason the memory of Lady of tdaxp being surprised by the "incorporated" in the title was playing in my mind yesterday -- I could not get the song nor her exclamation out of my head.

As I listened to their songs I came across their video, Clint Eastwood, and was blown away. Watching whatever I could find and listening to every track, this series appeared before me.



In the coming days, tdaxp will host the series "Guerrillaz," joining Embracing Defeat, Liberal Education, and OODA-PISRR as tdaxp tetraologies.

Part I, Feel Good Inc
Part II, 19-2000
Part III, Clint Eastwood
Part IV, Dare

I hope you enjoy.