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You Would Know If I Were Finished
“Across from him the Dane and his companions had ordered luncheon. Abe did likewise but scarcely touched it. Afterwards, he just sat, happy to live in the past. The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again.”
A passage from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night. I’ve never read it. I assume the Dane must be Hamlet, and Abe must be Abraham Lincoln, because with those characters, the passage becomes quite pointed. But if my life and my whole damn aesthetic has any marching song it’s “down with context”, so let’s just let the words fade in and out like passing by a fist-fight while riding in a cab. In a way, that’s what this year has been like. A lot of heavy rumbling, some loud thunder, and a great big night that just turns the volume up and down on the sun. [the vinyl is cheaper]
Ramblin’ Jack Elliot - “Woody’s Last Ride”
Shhh… if you’re quiet enough, the whole year will just fall fast asleep and we can get out without any more hassle, without any more favours. [Buy]
The ZimCali Pop of Chris Berry & Panjea (CD Review)
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Anyone think they should write for this blog?
Well if you think that you should be yapin’ your trap on here, this your chance sausage fingers. If not, you’re bummed cuz that’s what this whole post is about. So anyways, a while ago people started complaining that the…
Blitzen Trapper
File this one under my favorite band that I completely missed in 2006. This despite the fact that plenty of fine sites have been trying to hit me over the head with Blitzen Trapper’s simultaneously spacey and homey sound. “Texaco” is a straight up country joint, the whining of a slide guitar punctuating the wavering vocals while “Summer Twin” floats and hovers about like one of XTC’s psychedelic efforts. The two tendencies come together on “Pink Padded Slippers.” Pure listening satisfaction. Don’t miss “40 Stripes,” a throwback to solid AM-worthy, classic rock standards and the electro-funk of “Love I Exclaim!” The band’s two self-released albums are available on CD Baby where a fan beautifully sums up Blitzen Trapper: “[they] sound like they’re trying to paint the Sistine Chapel with a box of crayons.”
sean
2006 in review
This year we;
- got a banjo for xmas
- got fined fifty quid for littering
- rode the Paris tube one hot summer night, listening to Burial on headphones
- helped arrange a workshop at the Tate Modern (and then failed to show up)
- signed on
- didn’t have a sauna
- paid tuition fees late
- got fatter
- got chatted up on the Leeds-Kings Cross train
- got some kittens
- went boating in Cornwall
- got a violin for xmas (and broke the string already)
- got punched for being foreign (we’re not)
- used a bottle as a… read more
