Liner Notes

Soundscape #90: “A Balanced Diet Is A Cookie In Each Hand”

The relationship between us and our bodies worsens as we age. It seems as though we need more time to recover from a hangover. Our skins look really bad when we sleep 1 hour less at night. Our reflexes are probably slower as well.

Lucien Freud. Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995

There is probably a scientific explanation for why our bodies seem to metabolise food much slower as we get older. I used to be able to lose whatever weight I put on from late night suppers just by swimming a couple of laps. But now, I can barely stay awake on a work night, much less process the extra junk food. I don’t know if it’s the sedentary lifestyle that comes with work but I’ve been putting on some weight recently. People you see everyday aren’t really going to notice that; they are too much absorbed in their worlds anyways. But when your own mother makes some remark about that extra gut you’ve got, it’s really time to worry. I mean, aren’t all mothers supposed to think their kids perfect or something? For a mother to say something like that, you might as well be rolling to work on your stomach.

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Playlist:
1. (0:00) Tegan & Sara - You Wouldn’t Like Me (So Jealous)
2. (2:56) Belle & Sebastian - The Model (Fold Your Arms Child, You Walk Like A Peasant)
3. (6:53) The National - All The Wine (Alligator)
4. (10:12) The Hold Steady - You Can Make Him Like You (Boys And Girls In America)
5. (13:04) Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass (Silent Alarm)
6. (17:25) The Cardigans - I Need Some Fine Wine And You, You Need To Be Nicer (Super Extra Gravity)
7. (20:58) Death Cab For Cutie - We Looked Like Giants (Transatlanticism)
8. (26:32) Pompeii - Numbers (Assembly)
9. (30:52) Mojave 3 - Big Star Baby (Puzzles Like You)
10. (35:12) Okkervil River - Get Big (Black Sheep Boy)
11. (39:05) Aqualung - Strange And Beautiful (Wicker Park OST)