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Song of the Moment XCVIII: Foo Fighters’ “Enough Space”

My favorite band in the world, Foo Fighters, has played a few intimate shows recently in the US. And when I searched their three latest setlists from Setlist.fm, I found that they have one thing in common: they started the show with “Enough Space”, one of my favorite and heaviest tracks from their magnum opus, The Colour and the Shape.

The intro of “Enough Space” has this enchanting, bouncing rhythm that makes me want to jump for several seconds, and when the guitars, drums, and bass finally crash, the jumping and the headbanging turn up to eleven. If the Foos will open their Asia shows with “Enough Space”, I will absolutely go ape shit.

Foo Fighters’ “Enough Space”.

See you in the next post!

And as for the Foo Fighters, see you this coming week!

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Song of the Moment LXXI: Philip Glass’s “Metamorphosis: One” (Again)

Have you ever had a dream so happy that you wish the dream would never end? That’s the kind of dream that I had last Sunday, and I woke up feeling happy… and then my smile turned into a frown. It was only a dream.

“But Dewey, it was just a dream. Don’t worry about it.” That’s the thing: It was only a dream.

Since then, I have been struggling to bounce back. I had a hard time fixing my sleeping schedule. I had a hard time finishing my work tasks faster. I had a hard time basically being fine. If I were to add a piece of melancholic background music to my current predicament, it would be “Metamorphosis: One” by Philip Glass. It is one of my favorite sad songs ever.

Philip Glass’s “Metamorphosis One”.

And coincidentally, a year ago today, I also blogged about “Metamorphosis: One” as a Song of the Moment. I only found out after searching the old post. (If you click on the aforementioned link, there’s a spoiler warning if you have not seen “return 0”, the final episode of my all-time favorite series Person of Interest.)

Anyway, even if I’m sad, I will try to keep going. I have to.

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Header image: Danila Perevoshchikov of Pexels. Edited in Adobe Photoshop 2025.

Published on February 19, 2025 at 11:07pm. Edits were made at 11:26pm.

Song of the Moment LIV: Coheed and Cambria’s “Key Entity Extraction I: Domino the Destitute”

For my first post this November 2024, I want to share my Song of the Moment: “Key Entity Extraction I: Domino the Destitute”, the second song of Coheed and Cambria’s sixth studio album The Afterman: Ascension and the first song of the Key Entity Extraction suite.

I remember the first time I heard Coheed and Cambria’s fifth studio album Year of the Black Rainbow in 2010, and it took me a few times before I could tell my favorite tracks from it (e.g. “The Broken”). I never experienced that when I heard Coheed’s first four albums honestly. But when I first listened to The Afterman: Ascension in 2012 and eventually “Domino the Destitute”, I was blown away by how epic it sounded for almost 8 minutes straight, and right away I said, “This is definitely my favorite.” It’s like a relative to “Welcome Home” in a way. (Don’t worry. I will blog about that masterpiece of a song soon.)

The official music video of Coheed and Cambria’s “Key Entity Extraction I: Domino the Destitute”.

Also, let me quote my favorite lines from “Domino the Destitute”. Setting aside The Amory Wars interpretation, I think the lines fit a notable side of me.

Ladies and broken gentlemen
The undisputed champ of misery

Coheed and Cambria’s “Key Entity Extraction I: Domino the Destitute”

That is all. See you tomorrow.

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Header image: Pavel Danilyuk of Pexels. Edited in Adobe Photoshop 2024.

Published on November 6, 2024 at 6:05pm. Minor edits were made on November 9, 2024 at 12:19am.