Not Going Home

I don't usually post You Tube videos, but I can't stop listening to Sun, Sun, Sun by the Elected. I feel so safe and calmed when I'm driving home after work and I play the entire thing on repeat and Blake Sennett is just so sincere and I want to hang out and have some drinks in a small, dark bar in the middle of America and we'll talk about what's going on and then what we're having problems with and maybe even make each other feel better and then when I go to leave and he stays behind finishing up his last drink, I'll give him a long hug and pat on the back before I leave. It's going to be awesome. I hope he talks like his lyrics.




"Not Going Home" was actually my least favorite song on the album. Honestly, I used to skip it for the first year I owned it. But luckily I changed my mind.

The sincerity on his face at 2:31 breaks my heart when he looks to the left of the screen. A music video isn't supposed to make me feel this way. And then there is that little piano part that makes me leap.

His joy at the end will let you know everything's going to be ok.

I recommend the Elected's "Sun, Sun, Sun" for anyone who enjoys non-horrible music, and who also likes having drinks at the bar and Winter.

the long drive home - I dedicate this post to you.

p.s. In the song "I'll Be Your Man" these lines go "Now, I read through your poetry/yeah, every last one/felt like I ate too much butter/and drank too much rum..." and that is fantastic because that's the weird light-headed, slightly nauseated, giddy feeling you get when you really connect with something and you're pretty sure they've been reading your diary that you've hidden between the mattresses because that's exactly like how you feel and sometimes makes you cry a little, but in a good way because you're so connected to the music or the art or literature and you are just so damn happy because you have a great fella and the best friends ever, and even though not everything in life is ideal at the moment you know that everything is good and will get better. But everything's perfect in that moment at least.

p.p.s. I read in Filter magazine that he doesn't drink anymore. So I guess we can't get hang at the bar. But I hear he flies a mean kite.