Aging Gracefully by Muscle Mass
New Muscle Mass about nostalgia, aging, & sci-fi apocalyptic body motion music. Listen along & groove with us like it's 1993. Something like that....
1 - I realized when I was 17 that I couldn't find pants that fit & needed to where a belt. It was hard to even find a belt the right size for me. Some things stay the same.
2 - I have hit a wall in life where I know I am no longer able to keep track of the million things I need to do. I need to make lists now. For work, for the grocery store, for my family life schedule. Does that make it all uphill or downhill from here?
3 - I have what is supposed to be a self-winding watch. a 1950s Benrus that belonged to my grandfather. I had it serviced, but it still isn't functioning properly & needs to be wound. In high school I had a pocket watch that needed to be wound & never kept time properly, all but useless except as a fashion accessory.
4 - A classic line from my grandmother asking her great aunt why she had cracks in her face back in 1919 & the story lived on with the family for me to me to be told the story in the the 1990s.
5 - You used to find packs of matches everywhere. As a child I used to collect them. At some point they stopped appearing as advertisement material at every restaurant, gas station, & grocery store. I miss them.
6 - It's hard to fathom today, when 90% of my friends I only know through the internet, but in the 1990s there was a period where I didn't have a television or a phone line & the computer was exclusively for making music & zines & I felt more connected to a community than I have in the decades since.
7 - I remember watching The Day After in elementary school. I am certain if I lived in the UK I would have watched Threads at the time instead. It was a simple fact that humanity would destroy itself before the year 2000. What went wrong?
8 - Seriously, my daughter stole my Kiss t-shirt.
9 - Eventually my eyes are going to hit a point where I need glasses, no matter how much I resist it. Maybe they will make me look like a professor of noise instead of a computer jockey.
10 - The music I make with Muscle Mass is very dated & nostalgic to me; but I like to think as much as it fits in 1993 it fits in to a timeless today.
11 - As a youthful insomniac I would walk through the city where I lived to points of exhaustion so I could fall asleep & would sometimes sleep in a field in a park for an hour or two, the dew settling on me, before walking home. It was the 1990s...
Tracklist
| 1. | Notches in My Belt | 1:08 |
| 2. | No Longer Alert | 2:06 |
| 3. | Watch Winder | 2:31 |
| 4. | Cracking Face | 3:25 |
| 5. | Do You Remember Matches? | 1:13 |
| 6. | There Was Life Before the Internet | 4:29 |
| 7. | I Was Afraid of Nuclear War | 1:31 |
| 8. | My Daughter Wears My Clothes | 5:10 |
| 9. | Progressive Lenses | 2:25 |
| 10. | That 1993 Calendar Will Never Be Useful Again | 4:12 |
| 11. | I Always Sleep Indoors | 2:48 |
