Keeping Warm

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Diagnosis: Flippin' Cold Ass Winter

Prescription: Roll up your sleeves


Winter's fast approaching and it's starting to get colder than a witch's teat up in this mother Ucker.

So what's a young kid from the southwest lost in the bitterly freezing temperatures of the east coast to do? Well, you might suggest busting out my winter clothes, investing in a pea coat, perhaps even hibernation. Though that last one is tempting, and the second one could certainly enhance my style, I'm instead taking a different route: mind over matter.

But I don't have enough mental fortitude to just overcome the elements on my own. I need a little help. Which is where my itunes usually come in handy. For this task, I'm enlisting the help of Scottish indie band We Were Promised Jetpacks and borrowing the track "Roll Up Your Sleeves" from their debut album These Four Walls.

The song sounds sort of like a combination of Frightened Rabbit (who have their own theories about warmth) and Bloc Party's earlier work from Silent Alarm. Both bands sound good in their own right, but We Were Promised Jetpacks' track brings the styles together exceedingly well with upbeat riffs and vocals that simultaneously get the blood pumping through cold veins while soothingly offering reassurance to stay calm, keep warm.

So roll up your sleeves through winter, and wait for summer to come.

-DR

(Author's Note: Music doesn't actually keep you warm, please wear a coat and layer up, it's flippin freezin out there)

Comments

  1. SamanthaDecember 18, 2009 at 7:34 AM

    gonna listen now... i just noticed that A) your profile picture is of MY southwestern state, AZ. nice to see you're pretending to be me. how cool of you.

    also, i like how "DR" has turned from Dirty Robert, to Doctor Robert, and can also be taken as just "Dr." ah, the endless possibilities!

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