What is going on with my favorite little, fiery flowers? I am talking to you, my fellow comrades, the readers of our new Ear Footsie product. As we mentioned, the radio station in Syracuse was lame. The rent was so high, that I myself could no longer get high, so I confronted my teammates with a water gun in my hand and forced them to destroy the contract with the radio station. As part of our celebration, DJ PJ and I decided to go on a road trip.
We both packed our things. Our car-trunk contained two sport bags by North Face, which were filled with shirts, socks, and underwear. Those are the only items of clothing that should be changed constantly in our opinion. DJ PJ was wearing his pajamas, and I just wore simple suit pants with an unremovable ketchup stain by the crotch, (which is actually a part of design.) Those pants were hand made by a very famous designer from Ecuador. In the back seat, we had a cooler filled with Mikes Hard Lemonade, which we brought for picking up bitches (kidding). Our personal drink was in the glove compartment, which was a nice bottle of 12 year old malt. With that said I will get to the point.
When the two of us are driving, we listen to music. Each of us takes a turn in picking this music. So, when we left a rest area at the border of Tennessee and Kentucky, I picked my friend, Allan Vest's band, The Starlight Mints. My personal favorite product of Vest and his band-mates labor is the album Built On Squares.
Issued in May of 2003, Built On Squares became one of my favorite albums after I met the lead-singer Vest, at a small show in a little downtown bar in Norman, Oklahoma. That meeting took place in 2004. There, I saw the Starlight Mints perform, and later partying at the venue. I walked up to Allan, introduced myself, but soon realized that I was actually just tripping on brownies that my friend's grandma had cooked for us. However, I am a type of a guy that thinks any illusion is a reality, that is, if one believes what one sees without question.
This particular time, I thought I was inside of a Mario Kart game or something. With the opening song, I felt like I was trying to shoot Bowser with a giant spiked mushroom, (which I ended up eating,) and apparently, in reality, Bowser was just a big truck on the highway during our trip.
Anyway, the music got me totally in a mood. Trippy lyrics and even trippier music makes this album a must-have on any indie-pop shelve. Vest's lyrics are filled with melancholy, adventure, love, and are so truly playful, that you fall for them right away. Of course, tunes warm like IHOP syrup play a huge role in the success of the album.
The Starlight Mints produce up-lifting guitar riffs, floating in the watery bass, and delightful drums that make your body wanna move. Adding spices like keyboards, and violins like summer bees, even a "St. Peter" style of horn playing.
All these tasty characteristics in every song of the album, as well as the album Goldstar in particular made DJ PJ and I feel like we had our own Goldstar, allowing us to go 30 miles over the speed limit. We felt like we were Michael Cane and Sean Connery in a cinematic adaptation of Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King.
When we got pulled over for speeding, PJ just burned a copy of Built On Squares for the cop, and we got away scot-free. When the cop finally got to track number 6 "Irene", he let us go, because apparently it reminded him of a turtle he used to own in his childhood, of the same name. We were glad that the cop did not ask what was in our cooler though.
-Yours truly DJ Moonsake
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