jD has his whole day turned around!Transcript:0:22] Hey, it's JD here, back for another week of introspection and reflection on grief, depression, and the pathway to mental wellness, all the while nourishing my soul with the music andart of the late indie rock singer-songwriter David Berman.How the fuck are you, motherfuckers? That's the question of the day, isn't it? How are we?We take stock in the fall of how we are, And we put that through the rigors until we come up with a list of things we want to change about ourselves in the new year.And we use the calendar to achieve, you know, these goals.I don't know exactly where I'm going with this, but be careful when you take stock.[1:17] The way you feel at the moment can influence or bias your outlook, and I know that the last few weeks I've been, you know, in a pretty low place.Last week, notwithstanding, I think last week, felt markedly different and better, and I think that, um, this week is another notch up.I really do. Now, today, the day I'm recording this, of course, I feel like a sack of shit, and I just want to crawl under my bed, but the days leading up to this, I've, I've felt reasonablyhuman.I managed to stay up past 7 p.m.Which is something that's been, you know, going on for the better part of two or three years now where I just crash.I crash at like 6.30, 7 o'clock, 7.30.[2:23] And then I get up at 6.30. So I'm sleeping, to quote Bell and Sebastian, I'm sleeping the clock around, you know.It's troublesome.So there's that.Aside from staying awake a little longer, I've just had a bit more pep in my step.I've went for a couple walks the last consecutive days.Now today it's very cold out. I probably should try and go for a walk, but it's afternoon now and I don't do a whole lot in the afternoon.The afternoon is tough for me.It's sort of morning or bust and it's feeling like a bust at this point.[3:11] So, I don't know, but I got to toughen up because this is just the start of winter.And fuck, does winter ever suck.Oh, it's so dark and it's cold and it's wet on your feet and it's just miserable.It's the realization of melancholy, you know?It's the physical manifestation, rather, of melancholy.It's just ugh. And it does nothing for my, you know, my natural I'm fucking totally okay disposition.So, there's that.But I ask again, how are you? How are you?I hope you're all right.[4:21] I've got a couple real nice letters over the past couple of weeks.One of them, you know, came during a therapy session and it was so gratifying to think that not only are people out there listening to this, and participating in this, but that they would takethe effort and time to drop me a note.[4:52] It just means, it means so much. It's pretty fucking cool.Pretty fucking cool.[10:22] Don't step on it, motherfucker. What a fucking song.That should have been an indie rock hit.It's an anthem and it's just really spectacular and emblematic of what this record is all about.And the strength of this record is staggering. It's staggering.And so we get, send in the clouds.And I'm grinning. This has turned my day around.[11:18] I'm not like, I don't know. I don't even know. Suat-a-santra? What, does this phrase mean? As far as I can tell, researching, it's, and that's googling, really, and that's a cursoryGoogle, so if you want to do some more far-out research, please have at her.But as far as I can tell, it's gibberish, and Uh, it's not shocking.Um, but it comes from a phrase that isn't gibberish and it's soi de sainte, uh, and it's something like everyone.Something like that I don't know I'm pretty fucking stoned so there's that I, love the atmospherics in between the chorus and the verses I think that that's really again something you canshake your head at and think goddamn this is not something that would have ever you know when you when you go back and listen to earlier works, Natural Britain. You just can'timagine.You can't imagine that sort of atmospheric-ness.[12:45] And then you get the extended out. And what's not to love about that?When Malc comes in and does the Swatasantra on his own, why can't robots, why can't monsters get along with other monsters? when he does that on his own it's fucking just great.When him and David sing ...
