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Daniel Johnston live review
Daniel Johnston: The Flight Of Daniel Johnston
31 May 07
A short story by Kurt Vonnegut, entitled “Harrison Bergeron,” begins with this vision of the future:
“The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody...
Oxford Collapse
Oxford Collapse: If You Aren't Busy Living, You're Busy With The Wrong Half
31 May 07
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There’s a certain age when a body starts to give out, when the joints start to rust and the connective tissue deteriorates. Sooner rather than later, the bone begins rubbing against bone, the back feels as if it needs to be excavated and replaced with something springier/stainless/sexier and the crow’s feet near the corners of eyes are slowly spreading around the face, eroding the formerly tight and young skin. There’s a time when you will be smart enough to realize beforehand all of the things you shouldn’t do because once the morning comes, you’ll be paying dearly for them. You’ll have become the closest thing to a retiree, though you’ll be closer to your high school prom than all-day euchre tournaments in gathering halls that smell like moth balls and rotten teeth. You’ll be old, exactly what you’d rather not be. You’ll be far from ancient, but you’ll be unfavorably old, regardless of your actual age. To a 13-year-old, the 30-year-old man is on his deathbed. There is no more string cheese for snacking or chocolate milk for sucking out of twisty straws. Adult problems lead directly to that pain in the ass sense of responsibility that comes, like clockwork, to everyone of a certain age.
O'Death
O'Death: Devil-Grinned And Life-Affirming
30 May 07
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Westerns get good when the fight scenes find their way into the pictures. The romantic side stories of winning the girl are tame and predictable, the town always needs saving from some no-good, lawless brutes and the sheriff is usually found in well over his head as it’s all hitting the fan. But those fight scenes can be counted on for gratification – instant payoffs. The way the wooden stools crack so effortlessly against the bar, sending splinters loverly into the air like the seeds of dandelion flowers. The way the bartender knows a brouhaha is on the horizon and pulls himself down beneath the bar before the second bullet flies. The way some were bound to get messed up and others were bound to get killed. The way they amplified the shattering of beer mugs. Brooklyn’s O’Death shares some commonalities with a shootout that winds up leaving a saloon worse for wear and without a single glass capable of holding any liquid.
Drakkar Sauna
May 21, 2006: Drakkar Sauna
29 May 07
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut: Rest Easy While We're Uneasy
29 May 07
Kurt Vonnegut got out while the getting out was good. Oh, sure, it wasn’t his choice to go when he did, but you’ve got to hand it to him for not having to see the things he feared most come...
Dear and the Headlights review
Dear and the Headlights: Here We Stand At The Saltwater
28 May 07
At nearly 30 years old, I don’t want to be here. In line with about 200 teen-emo fans waiting to pile into Philly’s Trocadero, covered in the stink of spring-time Chinatown. And me, without my black eyeliner or apathetic slouch....
The Broken West
The Broken West: How The Real West Was Sung
28 May 07
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When The Thrills decided that they wanted to move from Ireland to the United States to live and write an album five years ago, they moved to California and wrote a mess of songs that referenced everything mystical about Sir Arnold’s state – the sand between your toes aloofness, the eternal sunshine of the various spotless minds and the drowsy, sunny landscape. The tunes became So Much For The City and it was an engaging record that acted like a Viewmaster. A review for Spin magazine by the soon-to-be-fucking-legendary Chuck Klosterman, still comes to mind. He described the record in the basic way we all should experience music, as we do books, which are always touted as portals to a different place. Children are taught to believe that books and movies are the ultimate forms of escapism. They can take you thousands of miles from home without ever leaving your chair. Klosterman claimed that The Thrills took a listener to California, minus the airfare or gas money it would actually physically take to do so. This was a California as imagined by a fivesome of blokes who’d believed in the sweet, multitudinous harmonies and majesties of The Beach Boys and Jan & Dean.
Foundry Field Recordings
The Foundry Field Recordings: So We'll Know What It's Like When We're Not Here -- It Will Be Deafening
25 May 07
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This – the landscape that Missouri’s The Foundry Field Recordings tracks in tracts of cold wash and warm breeze — is how I picture the aftermath, I think, though we’ll never actually picture it because once we’re gone, we’re gone, right? Perhaps though, the charred earth will strike up its own band and deliver a kind of kiss-off good riddance to all of mankind that will borrow much of our sick evil and cold-bloodedness and lace it with a nice blanket of sympathy for us, shaking its head because it always knew this would happen. Lead singer Billy Schuh, who dresses the part of a young professional but has a mind that fixates toward the things that Rod Serling crushed on, brings forth a record — Prompts/Miscues — that sounds like acres of wildflowers, but it’s all a façade. His difficulty in understanding American man’s destructive nature and its need for “liberating” others who don’t feel a pressing need to be liberated has colored most of what he’s written over the last few years. He’s a television news junkie and a former Cold War addict, but you wouldn’t really think it intuitively.
The Morning News
24 May 07
One of the best of the best blogs on the interweb has taken note of our little midwestern operation. The Morning News named us:
“Favorite Heir to the Throne of John Peel”
“If you believe the...
David Karsten Daniels
David Karsten Daniels: Man As Bloody-Faced Beast As Killer Of Love Does What He Wants
24 May 07
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It’s in the timbre that we’re often most deceived, for if you give the kindest soul enough rope and ample time, they’ll find a way to hang themselves. They could be candy-coated, but that’s nothing to a fire or a heady demonstration by the powerful lure of the dark exigencies. I’m frequently reminded that the nicest people sometimes do the worst things imaginable. A great man or a great woman will almost always let you down or just devour you. People don’t gum, they bite and leave puncture wounds that require hours of stitches and staples to fix up. When a human wants to hurt, they’re willing to work alone and get all punitive. But it’s not that clean-cut. It’s not a slam dunk. The shades of gray are the ones we fall for regularly and they’re the ones that David Karsten Daniels labors with on his latest album, Sharp Teeth. Jesus – his notation for the goodness – and the devil – his notation for the bitter side of human nature – are amorphous contraptions that he uses as mirages, substitutions for one another, as one would butter and margarine. The differences are technical, existing this way for most people who struggle with the subtleties of black and white. Daniels explores the way in which man is most animalistic, when in love. For as wholesome and as endearing a notion as it can be, the love that is most abundant is the kind that backfires and spins out, chucking rapid-fire pieces of gravel at your face and eyes, leaving scars, taking off skin and chipping teeth.
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