I've been looking for a video of this song for ages. It's not really a musical memory song and this isn't a musical memory post. For the past three months, I've been trying to write another MM post. I've got three unfinished posts sitting in my drafts. It's just that I get so melancholic and I sit there listening to the song over and over while thinking back to that time and actually getting a physical reaction to it. It feels like being slightly hungry and cold and anxious. It doesn't make me happy at all... What makes me happy is perfect, cheesy pop rock. Phantom Planet's "Is Missing" album is one of my favourite albums of all time, possibly my favourite album of of all time. To quote the sexiest ocelot I know: "this CD is one of those rare beasts whose every track is good."
Does not the combination of goofy little guitar bits, sweet harmonies, satisfying chord progressions and cheesy lyrics bring a smile to your face? It doesn't matter how I felt prior, whenever I hear any song from this album, or almost any Phantom Planet song from their first two albums, I feel good. Feeling down cause I feel like a wastrel and that all my friends are more successful than me? No problem. Feeling fat, slow, old and wrinkled? No problem. Feeling pissed because Fatty unloaded all over my cricket bag? No problem. I think that if I was being stabbed to death while listening to this stuff, I'd probably still feel good (not a completely unlikely scenario, as "Is Missing" is one of Mikey's most treasured CDs. I could see him reacting badly to me stealing and listening to it...... naked...... in his room...... while defiling his goomba plush toys...... mmmmm, goomba plush toys)
Mmmmmmmm...... goomba plush toys.......
In homage to Susie's excellent Everclear post, the first song isn't actually from "Is Missing". I didn't pick up on that at all, 大猫 was fooled. I also didn't have an IRC nick that was Phantom Planet-related, but I did draw a Phantom Planet picture in MS Paint that was the wallpaper on dad's computer for a while... Was it dad? Or g-money?
Fuck yeah!
