Typical Cats - Snake Oil
it completely encapsulates this romanticized construct of austin i've built in my mind -- an arteest paradise where there's an anything happens vibe.

the song is infuriatingly effortless. i can't help but love that jazzy bohemian air that it conjures up in my mind. all slouched figures and smiles seen through cigarette smoke, united by communal head nodding. for me the song is about the type of environment that just breeds the creative process.

infuriating though, because it's something that just wasn't within my grasp. i think of austin when i listen to this song... not the austin i lived in though, but the austin of the achingly hip artist/musician/trendwhore. i saw flashes of this austin, but it wasn't the austin i lived in. my suffocating depression and social anxiety held me back, had me looking in from the outside. which ironically sucked because, it IS the quintessential outsider community. i should've belonged, but i didn't.