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sometimes you wonder what type of example you set or just how far your influence will reach. how important am I? is it important to even be important? most of the time i think about driving out to the grasslands of Buffalo Gap and trading my pick-up for a teepee, but then somebody will walk in and say they have never heard of Sufjan Stevens and I can’t keep my damn mouth shut. tonight a couple with their son came into the record store and they said “we really appreciate what you are doing here. we would like to write you a check for $100.” I was listening to some Steely Dan prior so my nerves were cool and I might have restrained my joy more than necessary, but I assure you inside I was a dance dance dance dance dancing machine, watch me get down, watch me get down while I do do do my thing right on the scene. This was the first donation Relative Theory has ever received. I mean people have done us favors and shit but these people came in and straight wrote us a check because their son is important to them. They could have got him a gift certificate for $100. Hell they probably did, I don’t know. Do you understand what I am trying to convey here? I mean who the fuck walks into FYE and says “I really like what you are doing here. I’m going to write you guys a check for $100.” Answer: Someone who found a checkbook on the ground.

Relative Theory is born out of artistic endeavors and we truly appreciate your support. In closing I will post a song which I will play on Christmas Day. It is by Dave Longstreth who is the mastermind of the Dirty Projectors and has recently released a solo album entitled The Graceful Fallen Mango. [I will most likely also play Animal Collective’s new album about a hundred times as well.]

dave longstreth lay down restless bones

Happy Holidays to the music lovers [and the haters]
we love you all

KINGS OF THE ROAD
1976
Wim Wenders.
He calls himself a “professional traveler”. He is an artist who is captivated by landscapes and cities and is driven by music. Nevertheless,Wim Wenders did not become a painter or a musician, but one of the most important German film director’s apart of the German New Wave, or the “new” German Cinema (happened in the late sixties and flourished during the seventies and early eighties).Kings of the Road is one of the early ones that takes you across east and west Germany in the front seat of a second-hand truck. The film focuses on the relationship that develops between two men - movie projector repairman Bruno and suicidal Robert. Lonely and introspective, they both long for a female companion but are apparently incapable of living with or without them. By the end of their journey, they derive comfort from the fact that “in the course of time” (the film’s German title) their lives have taken on some shape and some significance. “Kings of the Road” is a quiet, almost lyrical film that focuses on the difficulties of communication, the americanization of german life and the fate of german cinema, which is done by showing the number of movie theaters that have either closed down or resorted to showing X-rated films. Wenders is often characterized as the “existentialist” of the movement, fueled by his obsession wih the social, artistic, and psychological presence of the american cinema within the german subconciousness. The film has a steady pace that feels very circular.There are these excellent nonverbal performances that remind me of what Gus Van Sant’s does in “Gerry”. But this circular motion the film takes on is prominently because of a song that fills the breaks of each new scene or event..the break signified by a shot of them on the road- covering the desolate landscapes of the border region between the two Germanys. This film really dives deep into social and economical issues but still maintains a very cool and beautiful consistancy.
see it

this is the track that plays throughout the film and emulates the general tone.
MP3 | Nine Feet Over the Tarmac

Wim Wenders also did:
THE AMERICAN FRIEND (1977)
PARIS, TEXAS (1984)
WINGS OF DESIRE (1988)