The story of my life for the last 18 months has been a lack of sleep. It's made me sick, constantly fighting off various minor ailments and more serious illnesses that seem to build up overnight and grip me in the morning. It's made me sleepwalk through my days at the office and sleepwalk through poker games that inexplicably end at 1 am without any money being made by 22 out of 24 players. It's both the major subject of the novel I'm in the midst of writing and revising and writing and revising and the major result of writing and revising and writing and revising a novel at all hours of the night. I write best at night, on no sleep, in a state of almost subconscious stream-of-consciousness that somehow makes sense to me, if not to potential readers. The lack of sleep is caused by the writing and taking graduate classes on writing while working full-time and reading excessively to improve my writing or just confuse my writing. And then there's this blog and all of the posting and all of the poker and softball and friends and family and Syracuse and baseball and football and fantasy and everything else up to and including Lost. I'm not complaining, or maybe I am, but I think there's a reason "Fillmore Jive" and "Rebellion (Lies)" and "Oh, You are the Roots that Sleep Beneath My Feet" and "Wake Up" ended up in my Top 200 songs of all time. And there's a reason my novel is titled Five Day Morning. And there's a reason I'm so pissed off that my next door neighbor decided Saturday morning at 8 am was the best time to have his windows replaced with all the inherent banging and pounding and slamming and shouting. Motherfucking motherfucker. I need to sleep.
Passed out,
Passed out on your couch
You left me there (thank you)
Let me sleep it off
I need to sleep it off
I need to sleep.
Why don't you let me?
I need to sleep, why don't you
I need to sleep
I need to sleep
I need to sleep
I need to sleep, why won't you let me
I need to sleep
I need to sleep
I need to sleep
Why won't you, why won't you let me sleep?
- Download Pavement - "Fillmore Jive".mp3
- Download Arcade Fire - "Rebellion (Lies)".mp3
- Download Bright Eyes - "Oh, You Are the Roots that Sleep Beneath My Feet".mp3
- Download The Arcade Fire - "Wake Up".mp3
- Download The Walkmen - "Wake Up".mp3
- Download Belle and Sebastian - "Sleep the Clock Around".mp3
- Download Stars - "Sleep Tonight".mp3
- Download Mogwai - "O I Sleep".mp3
- Download My Bloody Valentine - "When You Sleep".mp3
- Download The Microphones - "Don't Wake Me Up".mp3
- Download Postal Service - "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight".mp3
- Download Postal Service - "Sleeping In".mp3
- Download Death Cab for Cutie - "Sleep Spent".mp3
- Download No Age - "I Wanna Sleep".mp3
- Download Working for a Nuclear Free City - "Asleep at the Wheel".mp3
- Download Sonna - "Sleep On It".mp3
- Download The Smiths - "Asleep".mp3
- Download The Magnetic Fields - "Asleep and Dreaming".mp3
- Download LCD Soundsystem - "Never As Tired as When I'm Waking Up".mp3
- Download The Wrens - "This Boy is Exhausted".mp3
- Download KC Accidental - "Tired Hands".mp3
- Download Explosions in the Sky - "With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept".mp3
"Sleep The Clock Around" by Belle and Sebastian
And the moment will come when composure returns
Put a face on the world, turn your back to the wall
And you walk twenty yards with your head in the air
Down the Liberty Hill, where the fashion brigade
Look with curious eyes on your raggedy way
And for once in your life you've got nothing to say
And could this be the time when somebody will come
To say, "Look at yourself, you're not much use to anyone."
Take a walk in the park, take a Valium pill
Read the letter you got from the memory girl
But it takes more than this to make sense of the day
Yeah it takes more than milk to get rid of the taste
And you trusted to this, and you trusted to that
And when you saw it all come, it was waving the flag
Of the United States of Calamity, hey!
After all that you've done boy, I know you're going to pay
In the morning you come to the ladies salon
To get all fitted out for The Paperback Throne
But the people are living far away from the place
Where you wanted to help, you're a bit of a waste
And the puzzle will last till somebody will say
"There's a lot to be done while your head is still young"
If you put down your pen, leave your worries behind
Then the moment will come, and the memory will shine
Now the trouble is over, everybody got paid
Everybody is happy, they are glad that they came
Then you go to the place where you've finally found
You can look at yourself, sleep the clock around.
Why does "I need to sleep" say it was posted at 12:19AM on the 19th? It is now 10:50 on the 18th. Perhaps your clocks being f-d up could be part of your problem? (Of course by that theory your neighbor started replacing his windows at 6 in the morning which really makes him a Motherfucking Motherfucker.)
Posted by: Sid | February 18, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Oh believe me, he is really a motherfucking motherfucker.
Posted by: Bill | February 19, 2008 at 08:13 AM
Go to sleep.
Posted by: Sandman | February 19, 2008 at 10:02 PM