The Silver Jews- Suffering Jukebox

planes on the downtown skyline is a sight to see for some
it ought to make a few reputations in the cult of number one
while these seconds turn these minutes into hours of the day
all these doubles drive the dollars and the light of day away

suffering jukebox such a sad machine
your filled up with what other people need
and they never seem to turn you up loud
there are a lot of chatterboxes in this crowd

suffering jukebox in a happy town
you’re over in the corner breaking down
they always seem to keep you way down low
the people in this town don’t want to know

well I guess all that mad misery must make it seem to true to you
but money lights your world up, you’re trapped what can you do?
you got Tennessee tendencies and chemical dependancies
you make the same old jokes and malaprops on cue

suffering jukebox such a sad machine
your filled up with what other people need
hardship, damnation and guilt
make you wonder why you were even built

suffering jukebox in a happy town
you’re over in the corner breaking down
they always seem to keep you way down low
the people in this town don’t want to know

De + Reterritorialisation in the mechanics of Lifestyle

Within Consumer culture, the range of commodity choices provides the consumer with a range of choices that solidifies a particular lifestyle. Perhaps a natural and predetermined idea of a particular form of identity does not exist prior to the formation of lifestyles. Rather, it is an act of exploring, discovering the range of choices, exploring the plausibility of each that enables a subsequent choice. In this sense, it is the gaps and fissures, the unfixed and organic points of consumer culture that are sourced out. The bricolage of such elements is a form of reterritorialisation that results in a differentiated identity/lifestyle. So it is an absence, very much like death or some form of ritualistic standing out that enables a more structured image of identity. Is it possible, in the act of consuming, to foreground this destructive element? What happens when the search for such lines of flight becomes a conscious aim in the formation of one’s lifestyle? When one’s aim in consuming serves the purpose of getting ‘fucked up’?