"3 Rounds And A Sound" - Blind Pilot

In my opinion HBO is the new MTV. HBO shows such as "True Blood", "Entourage" and "Californication", are all excellent sources for new music. MTV focuses more on pop songs while music featured on HBO shows tend to give more exposure to a variety of genres, especially Indie.

Dreamy Duchovny

I had never really given David Duchovny a second thought until I saw him in "Californication". I mean everyone knows him as "Mulder"  from the "X-Files", but this show casts him in a whole new light. The show follows the main character, "Hank Moody", as he tries to raise his daughter, get back together with his ex-wife, and have sex with everything in-between. Duchovny's character is the stereotypical player. He is inappropriate and immature yet handsome and charming. He sleeps with anyone with a pair of boobs, but does it in a way that never seems deceitful or wrong.

In one particular episode his ex-wife catches him sleeping with (3) other women. One of the women's husbands calls Moody ,"A girl whisperer". He is in awe that no matter what Moody does, he can never seem to do wrong. Moody's apology is that, "he had the best of intentions". I really liked that line. I think that there are two kinds of "assholes". There are the kind that intentionally do things to hurt people, and then there are the kind who have the "best of intentions", and unintentionally hurt someone. I would like to think I fall mostly into category #2.

The scene where Moody apologizes to his ex-wife is where I first heard "3 Rounds and a sound". It was an incredibly suiting song for Hank Moody's character. The song was also played on an episode of "Chuck". Blind Pilot is an indie band from Portland, Oregon, that made if big in 2008 with their single "Go On, Say It". Following the success of their single they toured on specialty bicycles made to carry their instruments, from Bellingham, Washington to San Diego, California. In 2009 they released "3 Rounds and Sound" which featured the song of the same name.

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Marilyn Monroe

It was driving me crazy trying to figure out the meaning behind the songs' name. I finally stumbled upon an interview where Israel Nebeker, (Lead Vocalist) said that it's a Chinese custom to give someone "3 rounds and a sound" as a wedding gift. For example a clock, a spool of thread, a bicycle rim and a radio. The theory is that newlyweds will need practical things to start their lives together. Israel said he wrote the song when his cousin asked him to learn "Our Song" by Conor Oberst to play at his wedding. Israel liked the song and the idea of having "a song". He wrote the song hoping evenutally that he would have someone to share the song with. It's funny that he drew inspiration from Oberst because before knowing this, I had thought that this song reminded me of to "First Day of My Life" by Bright Eyes, which I previously blogged about.

My favorite line of the song is, "You're the one I want, to see me for all the stupid shit I've done." Because that's when you know you really love someone right? When you realize that you love them despite all the "stupid shit" they do. They incorporate "for better" or "for worse" into wedding vows for a reason. Marilyn Monroe said it best, "I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, than you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

They're playing our song

They're playing our song
Can you see the lights?
Can you hear the hum?
Of our song

I hope they get it right
I hope we dance tonight
Before we get it wrong


And the seasons
Will change us new
Be the best I've known
And you know me
I could not be stuck on you
If it weren't true
I was swimming
My eyes were dark
Til you woke me
And told me that opening is just the start


It was
Now I see you, til kingdom come
You're the one I want
To see me for all the stupid shit I've done
Soil and six feet under
Killed just like we were
Before you knew you'd know me
And you know me
Blooming up from the ground
Three rounds and a sound
Like whispering you know me
And you know me

So this was our song
This was our song
I still see the lights
I can see them


And the criss cross
Of what is true won't get to us
Cause you know me

I could not give up on you
And the fog of what is right
Won't cover us cause you know me
I could not give up a fight

Soil and six feet under
Killed just like we were
Before you knew you'd know me
And you know me


Blooming up from the ground
Three rounds and a sound
Like whispering you know me
And you know me

"Wet Sand" - Red Hot Chili Peppers

9th Studio Album from RCHP

"Wet Sand" is the second song that I have ever blogged about. Recently I've decided to come back and update this post because I didn't feel I'd done it any justice. This is hands down my favorite Red Hot Chili Peppers song. That's saying alot because I am a huge fan of those dirty boys. "Wet Sand" debuted on RCHP'S 9th studio album, Stadium Arcadium. The album won the band 7 Grammy nods - the most they had received in their entire career to date. The song's on this album are quite different and more mature than the previous funky pop/punk material that the boys  had previously put out.  The whole album is amazing but some other notable songs are "Hard to Concentrate" and "Snow(Hey Oh)" 

Anthony Kiedis & John Frusciante

The songs' title was one that former RHCP guitarist, John Frusciante originally came up with for one of his own solo songs. Frontman - Anthony Kiedis,  told Frusciante how much he loved the title and John insisted they use it for a Chili Pepper song instead.

"You don't form in the wet sand"

Lyrically - this song is poetic and beautiful,  literally - it is very hard to comprehend what the lyrics mean. When asked about the song Kiedis said it was, "about a complicated, dysfunctional woman I've fallen in love with." In the song Kiedis compares the dysfunctionality of the woman to legendary hot mess, Marilyn Monroe (aka Norma Jean), "The disrepair of Norma Jean, Could not compare to your routine." Keidis construes the Woman as beautiful but complicated. Beauty does not come without insecurity,  in my favorite line of the song the woman seems to be jealous of Keidis' naivety and happiness,  "My love affair with everywhere, Was innocent why do you care?" It seems he is comparing his relationship to "wet sand", and alluding to the fact that you can make something solid and structured out of wet sand, whereas dry sand will just slip between your fingers. Deep I know. This song is an excellent example of what an amazing lyricist Kiedis is.

My shadow side so amplified
Keeps coming back dissatisfied
Elementary son but it's so...

My love affair with everywhere
Was innocent why do you care
Someone start the car
Time to go... You're the best I know

My sunny side has up and died
I'm betting that when we collide
The universe will shift into a low

The travesties that we have seen
Are treating me like Benzedrine
Automatic laughter from a pro

My, what a good day for a, walk outside
I'd like to get to know you a little better, baby,
God knows that I really tried

My, what a good day
For a take out bride
I'd like to say we
did it for the better of

I saw you there so unaware
Those hummingbirds all in your hair
Elementary, son, but it's so

The disrepair of Norma Jean
Could not compare to your routine
Balarama beauty going toe to toe

My, what a good day
Just to let it slide
I'd like to say we did it for the better of

I thought about it
and I brought it out
I'm motivated by the lack of doubt
I'm consecrated but I'm not devout
The mother, the father, the daughter, yeah

Right on the verge, just one more dose
I'm traveling from coast to coast
My theory isn't perfect, but it's close

I'm almost there, why should I care
My heart is hurting when I share
Someone open up and
let it show

My, what a good day
for a walk outside
I'd like to think we did it for the better of

I thought about it and I brought it out
I'm motivated by the lack of doubt
I'm consecrated, but I'm not devout
The mother, the father, the daughter- Oh

You don't form in the wet sand,
You don't form at all- Whoa
You don't form in the wet sand,
I do- Yeah...
You don't form in the wet sand,
You don't form at all- Whoa
You don't form in the wet sand,
I do! YEAH!!!!!!!!!

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