Looking through Craigslist; came across your personal. I like Pavement too.

Let's meet at my place. I want to let you see my seven-inch singles.

Want to watch Top Gun? I have it on VHS and on my iPod.

Call an ambulance! My heart has just skipped a beat. She's got my tattoo.

Nearby ATM charges me a service fee. Good thing I'm +1.

Up-and-coming band picks up the girls by saying, "Check out our MySpace."

When the lights come up, afterparty at my place. My parents don't mind.

I'll be your Nancy, you can be my Sid Vicious. We'll make rock and roll.

House, trance and techno can't beat my old-school Game Boy. 8 bits are enough.

New boyfriend never goes to work or pays the bills, but he's in the scene.

Sometimes I wonder: does my Ivy League degree make me less indie?

Time to go to work - service industry peon, but it pays the rent.

When the bar is closed, my buddy can hook us up if he's not too drunk.

Throw A Rock, Hit An Artist

[ original by Radiohead http://radiohead.com ]

you are not to blame for
bittersweet distractors

because we separate like
ripples on a blank shore

dare not speak its name
dedicated to all human beings

reckoner

you can't take it with you
dancing for your pleasure

Reckoner (Negative Department remix)

I Hate You Philadelphia Gas Works (Negative Department's 16-bit remix)

[ original by Tears For Fears http://tearsforfears.com/ ]

Mad World (Sandmusic remix)

[ image based on commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moonen_Bay_and_Waterstein_Head.JPG released under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 licence ] 

Films About Trains

[ original by Plastic Operator http://www.plasticoperator.com/ ]

she gets all the attention at the party / she's singing all the time
i need to dance closer / to catch her sound

she sings with an air of self-indulgence / and that is not a crime
as long as she's careful, it is OK

she's singing all the time / she's singing all the time

some say she's weird and maladjusted / she's singing all the time
but i'll never want her to stop one day
she sticks all the lyrics on the dashboard / and that is all right
as long as she's careful, it is OK

all she needs is an old mic and a tape deck
it turns her world into a better place

she's singing all the time / she's singing all the time
she's singing all the time all the time all the time ...
she's singing all the time all the time all the time ...

all the time all the time all the time...
she singing all the time singing all the time / that is not a crime
singing's not a crime / singing all the time
singing all the time is not a crime

she gets all the attention at the party / she's singing all the time
i need to dance closer / to catch her sound

she sticks all the lyrics on the dashboard / and that is all right
as long as she's careful, it is OK

Singing All The Time (Negative Department remix)

Dark And Stormy

Time Bandit

[ image based on artwork by Madeleine Lesperance ] 

Jersey Girls

[ original by City Rain http://cityrain.info/ ]
[ image based on work by Doug Seymour www.facebook.com/DougSeymourMusicPhotography ] 

There's an optimist in me
There's an optimist in me
There's an optimist in me

Do you ever stop to empathize?
Or are you drowning in your lies?
Are you even present?
Are you living in this moment now?
Or sometimes you just wonder how
Keep on going

There's an optimist in me
There's an optimist in me

Do you understand that on this ride
There is nowhere to run or hide
Frank conclusion
But despite the fate of our demise
I find something to recognize
It's our fulfillment

There's an optimist in me
There's an optimist in me
There's an optimist in me
There's an optimist in me

There are still things I don't understand
And while the topic is at hand, I can't control it
Cause uncertainty is certain now
And whether you will fight it now
Is your decision.
So I'm turning off the storyline and falling back into the light
I swear you'll love it
Because fighting it is tiring
And I found out when you give in
It's so much worth it

Broken dreams and broken hearts
Empty streets and empty hearts

There's an optimist in me
There's an optimist in me
There's an optimist in me
There's an optimist in me
There's an optimist in me
There's an optimist in me

The Optimist (Negative Department remix)

[ words, vocals by Hollie McNish https://holliepoetry.com/ ]
[ image based on work by Evolutionary Games Infographics www.christopherxjjensen.com ] 

He says,
Those goddamn Pakistanis and their goddamn corner shops
Built a shop on every corner, took our British workers' jobs
He says those goddamn Chinese and their goddamn china shops
I tell him they're from Vietnam but he doesn't give a toss
I ask him what was there before that damn Japan man's shop
He stares at me and dreams a scene of British workers' jobs
Of full-time full employment before the goddamn boats all came
Where everybody went to work full-time every day
A British business stood there first, he claims, before the Irish came
Now British people lost their jobs and bloody Turkish they're to blame
I ask him how he knows that fact, he says because it's true
I ask him how he knows the fact, he says he read it in the news
Every time a Somalian comes here they take a job from us
The mathematics one for one, from us to them, it just adds up
He bites his cake and sips his brew and says again he knows the spot
The goddamn Caribbeans came and now good folk here don't have jobs
I ask him what was there before the goddamn Persian curtain shop
I show him architectures plans of empty goddamn plots of land
I show him the historic maps
A bit of sand, a barren land
There was no goddamn shop before those Pakistanis came and planned
Man
I'm sick of crappy mathematics
Cos I love a bit of sums
I spent three years into economics
And I geek out over calculus
And when I meet these paper claims
That one of every new that came
Takes away ones daily wage
I desperately want to scream
"Your maths is stuck in primary"
'Cause one who comes here also spends
And one who comes here also lends
And some who comes here also tend
To set up work which employs them
And all your balance sheets and trends
Work with numbers not with men
And all your goddamn heated talk
Ignores the trade the Polish brought
Ignores the men they gave work to
Not plumbing jobs but further too
Ignores the ones they buy stock from
Accountants, builders, on and on
And I know it's nice to have someone
To blame our lack of jobs upon
But immigration's not as plain
Despite the sums inside your brain
As one for one, as him or you
As if he goes, they'll employ you
'Cause sometimes one that comes makes two
And sometimes one can add three more
And sometimes two times two is much much more
Than four
And most times immigrants bring more
Than minuses.

Mathematics (Negative Department remix)

Negative Department consists of a computer, two rock musicians with day jobs, and occasionally a jazz pianist moonlighting as a candyraver. The band’s entire studio costs less than a Les Paul and fits inside a Toyota Yaris. Their assembly of mechanical beats, erratic melodies, and plastic MIDI controllers has been compared to "some hipsters breaking into a Radio Shack."

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