So I always thought this title was funny and then last night, by random circumstances I was researching the history of this building in the city where I live. Well I ended up down the Wikipedia wormhole and ended up on the Alcoholics Anonymous page (crazy how some topics are linked). Under the "in the media" there was a movie called "Days of Wine and Roses" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Wine_and_Roses_(film). The movie is apparently a well-respected film about a couple devastated by serious alcoholism. Given the similarities in titles between the film and the Japandroids song I thought alcoholism might be an underlying theme in all of these. At first glance the "Days of Wine and Roses" appear to be the good times before they succumbed to alcoholism. Japandriods seem to be yelling that "fuck it, lets do it while we can". Maybe hoping they don't get pulled in as well.
Also, just by chance I saw their music video for "The House that Heaven Built" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRVCtbfuDqw) . If you watch it the video from 3:00 to 3:04 you can see Brian King (guitar, vocals) reading a book called "Alcoholism and drinking in Twentieth-Century Literature". I think booze consumption seems to be something on their minds quite a lot.
So I always thought this title was funny and then last night, by random circumstances I was researching the history of this building in the city where I live. Well I ended up down the Wikipedia wormhole and ended up on the Alcoholics Anonymous page (crazy how some topics are linked). Under the "in the media" there was a movie called "Days of Wine and Roses" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Wine_and_Roses_(film). The movie is apparently a well-respected film about a couple devastated by serious alcoholism. Given the similarities in titles between the film and the Japandroids song I thought alcoholism might be an underlying theme in all of these. At first glance the "Days of Wine and Roses" appear to be the good times before they succumbed to alcoholism. Japandriods seem to be yelling that "fuck it, lets do it while we can". Maybe hoping they don't get pulled in as well. Also, just by chance I saw their music video for "The House that Heaven Built" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRVCtbfuDqw) . If you watch it the video from 3:00 to 3:04 you can see Brian King (guitar, vocals) reading a book called "Alcoholism and drinking in Twentieth-Century Literature". I think booze consumption seems to be something on their minds quite a lot.
Anyways, just wanted to share those observations.