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thehumantrampoline · 1 year

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Sup since I've been waiting on my spotify wrapped to tell me that the mountain goats finally eclipsed mitski for me this year and I wasn't on The Internet for most of 2022 including when I had a week long breakdown about three year old song Waylon Jennings Live! here's the text post version of my week long breakdown about Waylon Jennings Live! that literally nobody asked for because it makes me insane from a songwriting perspective

This song is 3 minutes and fourteen seconds with two verses and two choruses and there is not one wasted fucking word. It starts in media res and doesn't really bother to catch you up at any point! It might as well be the narrator talking to himself! and yet the complete picture is THERE unspooled a little at a time and it's so good like

Drunk at the Meskwaki casino right where God intended me to be

GOD intends him to be there but possibly/probably nobody else. This was not part of the plan.

Looking up at the one man in this room who's handled more cocaine than me

Okay, so the protagonist feels confident that only Waylon Jennings (who did a LOT of coke) has handled more of it than him. He probably runs or deals. Got it.

Think back to the good times just an hour or so ago before I got myself this drunk

Oh boy. So things were good, and then they were not good, and then he started drinking. In a casino that was not possibly part of the original plan. The drug thing is not going well.

When the valet parked my rented Mitsubishi with a beat up old brown suitcase in the trunk

THIS MAKES ME CRAZY, this makes me crazy. The economy of the word choice. The nice car is not his, the beat up suitcase is. Somebody has been making money from what he's doing but it is probably not him.

Full of firearms and flash drives full of passports and international money orders

Oh?? not coke??? Possibly he is dabbling in some shit he does not usually get into and that's what went wrong, or maybe some of that shit is for him to make a getaway with.

For just in case I make it cross the border

And this is fucking it, the emotional heart of the whole song to me, that Just In Case. He is drinking in a casino, he does not think this is going to go well for him. He might not survive the day. He probably won't. But Just In Case. Irresistible hope in a hopeless situation. I feel like John Darnielle starts with an emotion and reverse engineers a fictional situation from it. How do you feel? Like I don't have a snowball's chance in hell but I can't help planning for a best case scenario anyway. What's that like? Uhhhhh like a smuggler who knows in his heart the plan's a wash but stopped at a casino to reassess and wants to believe he'll still make it to Canada. Sure.

Get a postcard from the gift shop let my family know I'm doing fine

HE'S NOT DOING FINE. He's not doing fine. This is PROBABLY goodbye but he doesn't want them to worry.

Looking up at a map up on the ceiling to find the place where we all meet up further on down the line

STOP. Stop John you can't do this to me. He's looking in the DIRECTION of the map but he does not expect to meet up with anyone in any location on that map. He's looking beyond the map. It's the afterlife do you get it it's the afterlife get it get it I'm going to eat paperclips until I don't have to think about this song anymore

Head back to my table get another scotch and soda for the road

He's already drunk. The road does not have good things in store for that rented mitsubishi, methinks.

The band on stage is really working up a head of steam Close my eyes and lean my head back dream a little dream Full of firearms and flash drives...

Back to dreaming of the best case scenario!! Just In Case I make it cross the border!!! it's taking a single concentrated emotion and painting a picture of it by just describing the scenario and not using any emotion words, and the whole thing sounds like loping Waylon Jennings esque country music bc frankly there's only so stressed you can be when you already know how it ends, right. I could teach myself a college level narrative songwriting course with just this song if I wasn't a fucking coward okay we're done you can all go home John Darnielle drop the name of your warlock patron I have so much blood I'm not using

#the mountain goats #waylon jennings live #songwriting #or something #original posts #I just had to get this all out in text form you don't even have to read it just let me scream

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thelocalshooter · 4 years

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The Local Shooter Vs. AR$XNN JARIUS

(LS) Good afternoon thanks for being able to be a part of a great come up, how about we start with a little introduction for the people that aren’t familiar, where are you from, who are you, how old are you and what do you do?

(AJ) Thank you for having me. I go by Ar$xnn Jarius, I'm from Wichita Falls, TX born & raised, I'm 23, and I'm an artist

(LS) Being from Texas how has music inspired you? Obviously you have many greats from there all the way from Paul Wall To Sauce Walka, who were some people that you grew up listening to that inspired your sound?

(AJ) The people that inspired my music I would have to go with Eminem, Lil Wayne, Tech N9ne, Busta Rhymes, Kid Cudi and Gorillaz. Growing up in my hometown I really never paid attention to the Texas scene like that but i would listened to like Paul Wall, Mike Jones, Chamillonaire and other artists from the state that would be TV at the time. Growing up I had to listen to the radio or the TV, and now having the internet it feels so much better finding the music that fits your playlists.

(LS) We see last year you dropped your project “Don’t Wait Til I’m Dead” which is an underrated project name, why did you choose to go with that title? What was the whole project like for creating that project cause after a listen myself it’s so raw, so much passionate and fired up energy, do you feel you were just tired of holding back or?

(AJ) When I made "Don't Wait Til Im Dead", living in Wichita Falls where its a lot of favoritism and barley having support they never gave me the recognition that I been deserving, after going through being used and taken advantage of, moving out of my childhood home, suicide attempt, getting locked up for the first time, and my first rap beef (which is based on the track "Lucas Mode") I thought about all that has happened so far at the time I put all that anger into making this album. The reason I came with the project title is because I mostly tired of being slept on, most people don't pay attention until someone's death is all over social media. People don't actually f*ck with someone until its too late, I feel that people don't show love until someone's 6 feet in the earth, yeah people say they really care but how much? Things like that made me hit them with the DWTID title there's also a dark vibe with it.

(LS) How has being in the Texas music scene affected you? What has changed from when you first started up to now? What are looking forward to in the future? Any tours? Any shows?

(AJ) My brother is the reason that I do music I remember seeing him on stage with 2 other people in the school talent show rapping I been in the scene since I was younger from talent shows to venues now everybody around school knew i rap. I went to a studio for the first time when i was 13, one of my brother's friends had equipment at the time I wasnt thinking about looking for my sound that fact that I was young and being a kid I remember watching the first mic pass that they had in the city on Youtube half of them I don't hear from them now days. I remember recording songs on the phone it sucked and it was trash, shortly after that i started working on a mixtape around the time of my last year in high school. After high school I was part of a movement called YB$ (Young Boss Status) with 2 of my friends i went to school with and another friend that was down the from road from us. We had a show opening for Mike Jones the next year we disbanded the movement me and the homies were still on good terms no matter what we moved on was best for us. A year after that one of our friends had passed away due to health issues it made me a stronger person in music, you can tell the fired energy that's in my art, my friend Nappii was one of the best people that anyone could be around from school to studio sessions to shows around town, the best memory I had with him was when I helped him out with an issue, I want to go far with my passion to honor it for him. There's a lot of talent where I'm from. At the time I would always go out to places go meet people around my age and under with a lot of talent that I came across in WF, the fun part about it is doing shows with them and get to know who they are, I remember going to a party there was a show in the backyard, it was really lit but it would've been more lit if i grabbed that mic (that comes from the inspiration of the track "Go All Out Like Its 2017") Im looking forward to meeting fans, making new fans, and meeting more artists through this journey, Im working a few EPs for 2020 shit load of fire and no tour dates for at the moment but I have a couple shows coming up February 22nd in Grand Prairie, TX its a part in Dallas opening for 500GwapGang and March 14th in my hometown Wichita Falls, TX at the Deep End. Those are my 2 main focus, making more music & doing more shows!

(LS) Are there any artist you look forward to working with? Can anyone work with AR$XNN JARIUS or are you picky about your work? Have you expanded throughout Texas at all?

(AJ) Famous wise I would like to work with Tech N9ne, $uicideBoy$, Denzel Curry, & J.I.D, just artists that I enjoy listening to, Im down to work with any artist that are also on the come up I just got to feel and know the vibes, I done shows in a other couple places so far I been making connects out in Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and many more to come. I'm growing more everyday, my goal is to do shows in 10 places by the end of 2020.

(LS) Besides music is there anywhere else where you’d like to get your foot in? Or is music you’re sole passion and main focus?

(AJ) Music is all got, its the only resort I have, there's nothing else that I'm good at to be honest, I been dealing with music for all my life now, it's my way only way of fun. If it wasn't for this I would be dead right now.

(LS) We see you’re on many platforms, apple, Spotify and even a couple channels on YouTube have covered some of your tracks like “No Hook” and “Turbo” which are both fire tracks also! Do you plan on dropping any visuals yourself this year or what’s the plan with that?

(AJ) I will be dropping a visual next month for sure. And more to come!

(LS) What’s your long term goal as far as music? Are you looking to be signed one day and really go pop or are you wanting to stay independent, and work as you see fit?

(AJ) My long term goal is keep going til the wheels fall off. Constantly drop that heat for the people! Far as I'm concern I'll stay independent unless if i get signed to labels like Top Dawg Ent. or Dreamville. As an artist my goal is to reach out to every audience of different parts and merge them together.

(LS) What’s the creative process like for you? Do you need a big studio? An engineer etc, or can you just get a mic and do it yourself so you can bring your vision to life?

(AJ) I definitely take my time with music than i ever had before. I treat myself like its homework I'm not done until I get it right, some of those got to understand that it takes time for everything, the longer it takes it'll come out perfect. I have my own studio in my room, I don't like working with somebody else's time for recording so i went out of my way to get my own so I can have all of it right there when I get ready to lay some vocals down.

(LS) Thank you again for being here today( anything else we should be expecting from you in 2020? Any links you’d like new listeners and viewers you’d like for them to check out, or any social media where they can reach you?

(AJ) You're welcome. Thank you for having me once again. Once again I'm Ar$xnn Jarius, anyone that's new to my music I'm on Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, Youtube, SoundCloud, Google Play, Amazon Music and Tidal. And for my social media outlets follow me on twitter is @arsxnn4lxrn, Instagram: @arsxnnnjarius, Facebook: Ar$xnn Jarius, Snapchat: hicks1596

The Local Shooter Vs. AR$XNN JARIUS

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