And I don’t know what that means, But I find everyone all color binded, And there are color binds The face is massaged, And a party’s taken place The martinis are in good stock and, We sleep to tea The super bowl’s happened
Bukowski has a novel called Hollywood. It’s probably my favorite “novel” by him, though anyone who even remotely knows his work knows that he’s a poem and short story guy. Hollywood is basically the story of the making of the film Barfly, a “semi-autobiographical” story of the writer’s life. The guy just had a lot … Read more“Born into This: A Condescending Cake Walk for a Once Fearless Articulator”
“Think of all the places that get it crazy. Who plays tonight? Ohio St. and Michigan St. Pph. Hell yeah. Ohio, comin’ through with the crazy Wio-Wio. Even Wichita St. This dude in Denver said Wichita was smaller than Denver, and also rougher.” “Hmm.” “Ohio, isn’t Youngstown all crazy?” “Oh yeah, like in that Cam’ron … Read more“Life, or the Shot, is a Matter of a Bent Whisker”
I know what the song’s about. What it’s ABOUT… is the wailing, bulbous guitar that chimes in after the song’s lyrics have come to a subsiding. It’s BULBOUS in a certain sense, because even though it’s a bit shrill and grainy, it’s got a mellow, round underbelly, I’m talking about the sound here. The way … Read more“‘Eon’ by Supergrass: The Song’s Meaning at a Dot Com”
The Dismemberment Plan always seemed to me like a band that circumvented a lot. Rather than being original, they were almost so daringly and mind-bogglingly unoriginal, or extant, to use a better term, that they endeared instantly through familiarity, across the board, with almost all people who experienced their music. So that if it brings … Read more“A Dismemberment Plan Last-Three-Album Compendium Culminating in This Year’s Strong Effort Uncanney Valley.”
Grace sat with a magazine on her lap. “I wish you guys would get a cat,” she said. The stylist on duty, working on someone, just laughed. “Uh-huh.” It was a typically cloudy day, an infinite, unilateral mist inundating the things that Grace and Tanya looked at. Tanya’s customer made a comment to her about … Read more“The Stylee”
There’s almost nothing tongue-in-cheek about Twin Shadow, just like there was almost nothing tongue-in-cheek about Bob Dylan (Freewheelin‘-era). Emotion still must be the driving force behind music. Certain “artists” who are apparently “hip” and have great “personalities” are fine and dandy, but please listen to them on your headphones, and spare me such repugnant gregariousness. … Read more“Twin Shadow’s Confess: Dissecting the Album that Is”
Remember the crisp, naive melodies of the poppy and poignant Make up the Breakdown, Hot Hot Heat’s 2002 melee of widespread glee? These are alive and well on Mug Museum, the new LP by L.A.-via-Wales guitarist/songwriter Cate Le Bon. Screw sitting in the cafe, this is music for bounding carelessly past cranky people, listening to … Read more“Cate Le Bon: A Kind of Stereolab Meets Hot Hot Heat”
Sherman Was old The newspapers deflected off of him Left and right . He’d fought in a war, Vietnam The Man he thought he’d kill Ran away and One day Sherman took a plane home . Sherman Visited the thrift store and Talked To me as the sun began to set in the western sky … Read more“During an Afternoon”
Junip – “Head First” / Son Volt – “Cemetery Survivor” / The Tragically Hip – “Streets Ahead” / The Smiths – “That Joke isn’t Funny Anymore” / The Vaselines – “Bitch” / Belle and Sebastian – “Suicide Girl” / Soul Coughing – “$300” / The Knux – “Life in a Cage (Electric)” / Ghostface Killah … Read more“DD Mix CD”