pickled boogers?
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
the right thread for this song...
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Gladwell isn't bad in individual doses, but after a while you realize he's kind of shticky (everything's all "humans make choices that are counterintuitive!"); plus, I sometimes feel like the artful construction of his essays disguises the fact that his arguments aren't always built on the most solid foundation.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.luminomagazine.com/2004.10/spotlight/nerds/images/booger/booger1.jpg
― carne asada, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd never heard of Bill Buford before. Thanks guys!
― milo z, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Not the drummer for Yes, then?
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
curtis armstrong, like steve buscemi, makes any movie he's in better just by him being in it.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't want to meet the hipster with a chamber pot fetish. christ, if you thought the Rainbo smelled bad BEFORE...
I knew a hipster with a chamber pot, it didn't smell but I had to kneel to piss because I had drunk aim and didn't want to splash all over her bedroom. I didn't feel too bohemian.
― ogmor, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
jaymc, would i like the fleet foxes? they are playing here for free on friday.
― amateurist, Thursday, 17 July 2008 11:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't know about beets, foxes, or rye, but this shit just sounds like urban kids that know how to camp
or are you talking about tripsters?
― gbx, Thursday, 17 July 2008 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link
wait, i don't care
http://www.rivbike.com//
^^^ i know plenty of dudes who subscribe to these guys' philosophy, which would appear to be whatever it is you're talking about. they're just called "retro-grouchy." or telemark skiers.
― gbx, Thursday, 17 July 2008 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link
http://remote.lohudblogs.com/files/2008/02/mose1.JPG
Beards, beets, Battlestar Galactica
― The Yellow Kid, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
― The Yellow Kid, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link
rockin chin scrub
― Edward III, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Can I cross-post to several days ago and say that I like the semi-archaic "wear a beard" construction? It refers to a stylistic choice, like wearing your hair down or wearing your trousers loose. If we were really awesome we could even try and use "wear" and "have" differently, to denote this: i.e., if you live in the woods and don't care either way, you have a beard; if you woke up one day and decided you'd look snappy with a beard and proceeded to grow one, you wear one.
― nabisco, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
P.S. I realized the other day that Fleet Foxes have some really terrifically constructed lyrics! Or at least one song ("White Winter Hymnal") suddenly jumped out and I noticed all the stuff going on with sound and internal rhyme and whatnot. It looks way worse on paper because the internal rhymes are all emphasized in specific ways, but:
I was following the pack All swallowed in their coats With scarves of red Tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From falling in the snow And I turned round and there you go! And Michael you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime
^^ this is just really well put together, the general images, the set-up with colors, the internal rhymes and assonance and alliteration ... so now I have this increasing respect for Fleet Foxes, who aren't always doing the most interesting thing in the universe but are really quite good at what it is that they're doing.
― nabisco, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
that is terrible
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i only count one example of alliteration ("from falling", and maybe strawberries and summertime???) unless I'm missing something huge
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
ilx prac crit club
― Just got offed, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
and where's the assonance, nabisco, where is it??? is it internal?
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
i only took one poetry class ever
"their throats" = I guess that counts as alliteration
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
why would anyone ever say 'wear a beard'?? unless this is a british thing to say, in which case, carry on being british or whatever
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
follow/swallow
Tied round Their Throats
their/there
etc.
it's not bad -- i'd have to hear it though. i guess i should go to that free concert tomorrow?
― amateurist, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
not many internal rhymes, but lots of assonance
lots of "rr" sounds
― amateurist, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i understand yr point re construction and internal rhyme but blargh
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i think the strongest part about those lyrics is the imagery and the imagery is not. . .that great
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
edie brickell to thread.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
And I turned round and there you go!
this line doesn't fit well into the verse... it seems to me...
― amateurist, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
crunk foxes
― uh oh I'm having a fantasy, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the free concert is tonight, Am.
― jaymc, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
RYE
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i.timeinc.net/recipes/i/recipes/su/07/03/beer-rye-bread-su-1589348-l.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.bellewood-gardens.com/Rye%20Bread_1.jpg
I CAN TOTALLY SEE ROBIN PECKNOLD IN THE CRUST
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
butter churning is so hot right now
― velko, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
jordan's concert is tonight, the fleet foxes are tomorrow (the 18th)
― amateurist, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, I thought you meant in Chicago. It looks like Fleet Foxes are playing a free show in Chicago tonight, a free show in Madison tomorrow, and then coming back to Chicago on Saturday for Pitchfork...?
― jaymc, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
No matter how many caveats are given y'all pretend not to have sorted out the "lyrics on paper" thing, but I will continue to post bits I like in the full knowledge that everyone will have more fun going "god that's terrible," as if similar bands are doing anything better -- whatevs
The well-turned thing about the imagery is the red-on-white scarves/snow that it kinda suggests at the end may have turned to red-on-white blood/snow. The "there you go" bit breaks meter because it's set on a chord change. The follow/swallow is a nice internal rhyme that I appreciate because the unnecessary rhyme ("swallowed") is a better and more interesting word there than most alternatives. "White snow red as strawberries in the summertime" rolls around well in the mouth and adds a seasonal opposition to the white/red -- whatever, y'all, most everything in there locks together really neatly, if you ask me, but maybe I'm just being over-reminded of a scene in Les Enfants Terrible involving a snowball with a rock inside it.
Amateurist, they do a lot of harmony singing, which I think you might like. Some of the harmonies are interestingly constructed, some more conventional but still nice. (And it's mildly interesting to hear a band like this pay lots of attention to doing multi-part harmonies well instead of just scrounging other, lamer "roots" affectations -- they genuinely sound good singing their harmonies slow and a capella)
― nabisco, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
nah
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
;)
:/
The well-turned thing about the imagery is the red-on-white scarves/snow that it kinda suggests at the end may have turned to red-on-white blood/snow.
Yeah, I got that.
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
fully true tho that it works better in the ear than on the page, if that is the comparison, as i have just heard this on their myspace dot com
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i saw these guys a bit before this micro-blowup and they were impressive -- the singing especially, yes. the songs were catchy and memorable hearing them once, live, so they must be doing something right and it's not surprising they are getting buzz. they were obviously going for that minor-key t-bone burnett style space-country and they nailed it. i always appreciate a band who orchestrates things well, and there was plenty of reverb and purposeful echo-y empty space instead of a lot of generic strumming with a pedal steel on top or whatever.
― goole, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i should add here FWIW, i like these guys okay! their voices are great, songs are cool even if i don't care for their lyrics. but i don't care about lyrics that much.
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
basically these guys make me feel old which i am cool with feeling/being! but not via them haha ha
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
if i was me as i was in 2000 today then i wld be all into this and butter churning
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
it works better in the ear than on the page
now what'd I JUST say?
― nabisco, Thursday, 17 July 2008 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link