Just as you can hide behind a car, You can hide behind a job Though they’re not yours, There are feet that are attached to you, And though the ground is obsolete, There is some contact there It’s not for us to decide Insofar as any thought can unfurl, Evasion is probably a safer bet
There’s a new store opening up in my town, It’s a cell phone store I always wondered what happened to the people who got killed in my town Where they went after they died, how they were transformed One time I pulled up to these black dudes and asked them If they knew where I … Read more“Cell Phone Army”
On the titled track of the new Deerhunter album, by the time Bradford Cox repeats over and over, “Mono mono mania, mono mono mania,” it seems like a natural, gerontological retreat into play, rather than simply gibberish. And indeed it’s these multi-phase heterogeneous setups of these songs that give them their power. In this way … Read more“Monomania: Deerhunter’s Genre Retreat”
All of a sudden, I knew anger, All over again, Anger worse than mine There was this kid Walking and I felt it spring out of him As I rode by on bike Unless it was a girl Couple minutes later I see the same Kid, by a baseball field Sitting there staring at it … Read more“The Harped Buzzing of Solace”
So you think you’re a Camera Obscura fan… well there are some things you need to know about that, sonny boy. So you think you’ve lost all taste for aggression and strife. Hell, you’re over 21 now, you saw what aggression and strife did by your own country to a secular country across the sea … Read more“Lightning in a Fast World”
Led Zeppelin is one of those bands that people will go out of their way to say they DON’T like. It’s almost like disliking them entitles you to some special club of superiority. I love Led Zeppelin, but here are two overrated albums: III and Physical Graffiti. Presence comes right after the bloated Physical Graffiti, … Read more“Presence: Led Zeppelin’s Underrated Return to Form”
The word “Heraldo” is always fun to hear, because it almost always refers to the early ’90’s, or happens on an album that was made in the early ’90’s, like 1991’s I Wish My Brother George Was Here by Del the Funkee Homosapien, also sometimes known as Del the Funky Homosapien, and/or Deltron Zero, a … Read more“Crank in a Capsule: I Wish My Brother George Was Here.”
Lou Barlow is kicked out of Dinosaur Jr. behind is back, a band which proceeds without him having told him they were calling it quits. All Barlow does to show strength of resolve is to not only form a wildly efficacious Sebadoh, but actually shout out to the ones that let him go, championing the … Read more“Lou Barlow: Bored and Disconnected as Ever”
I met Jeanne at freshman orientation. Corny. I get it. Belmont University, not that you asked. We’d made it to our senior years. It was getting on toward the middle of March, the snow had all melted from our one February mini-blizzard. Still, it’s not like it was spring or anything. Me and Jeanne were … Read more“At Morehead State”
This was good to see yesterday — Boamani Jones, one of the newer additions to the best show on television I’ve seen, ESPN’s “Around the Horn,” discussing Vince Young. Apparently the ex-NFL quarterback worked out with his alma mater, Texas, at a skills showcase/televised practice sort of deal. I can’t remember exactly what they called … Read more“Street Knowledge Displayed on TV”