We live in a world of access and excess. It is difficult these days to draw some sort of line between what is enough and too much. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain and so we consume. My generation is pregnant with self-indulgence and self-doubt. I'm one step away from a paradoxical miscarriage.
I've declared this the summer of many things: fitness, understanding, growth, et cetera. While I ponder these things each day I'm bombarded by things that break my focus. In an almost obsessive rage I collect music and I have decided that my summer's anthem is Time to Pretend by MGMT, the Wellesley College originated Brooklyn based band that has been described as "crazy kids who like to take acid." Whether that's true or not there is some profound depth to their sound. Take away the cocaine and intravenous drug laced lyrics and break it down to its skeleton: fun is our fate, no matter how we choose to pursue it. Take a glance and listen and see if you feel the same (click that link above!).
A more pessimistic anthem lies in Kids:
Needless to say they're happily trapped in a state of what Of Montreal would refer to as lysergic bliss. More power to 'em.
GIVE US MORE! IT'S NOT ENOUGH!
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