Archive For The “Shelf Life” Category

LYRICS // Games (2007)

By | July 28, 2008

Reading Eric Schlosser’s ‘Fast Food Nation‘ a number of years ago, I was quite struck to find out that many of the smells of American fast food are actually manufactured in large plants off the New Jersey Turnpike and then … Con…

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LYRICS // Vonnegut’s Blues (2006)

By | June 18, 2008

An early attempt at a political song with Shelf Life and our first original song written together. ‘Vonnegut’s Blues’ was written as a (loosely disguised) diatribe about the Bush administration, inspired by a piece written by the late…

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LYRICS // The Tokyoite (2007)

By | April 27, 2008

Living in Tokyo for almost five years was a major and transformative period in my life. The city inspired me in so many ways and, perhaps bizarrely for a place that is considered so impenetrable for most non-Japanese people, opened … Continue rea…

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LYRICS // She’s Coming Home (2007)

By | April 26, 2008

The best way to get from the heart of Tokyo to the main international airport is by the Narita Express, the smooth-as-glass train that glides through the concrete cityscape to break into the open countryside and paddy fields of Chiba … Continue r…

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