…but no, my fun is just beginning. I’ve been faxing stuff to our mortgage consultant for over an hour now. It’s 8:30 at night and I still have to return our rental car to Logan tonight. I’m definitely getting a better picture of what I’m in for with this househunting stuff.
Day: May 22, 2002
Now playing
Currently playing song: “Fight Against Drug Abuse – Public Service Announcement” by James Brown. Cause drugs are super bad, super bad, super bad, super bad…
A retraction
While I’m on the subject, I have to apologize for saying that And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead’s “Relative Ways” “sounds a whole lot like really good Sonic Youth.” That’s not nearly specific enough. The intro and 4/4 / 3/4 guitar hook sounds pretty specifically exactly like the 5/4 middle section of “Wildflower Soul,” while the verse melody is highly derivative of “Teen Age Riot” (from Daydream Nation). Just wanted to clear that up.
David Grubbs, call your agent
Appears that Sonic Youth have tapped enfant terrible Jim O’Rourke to join the band permanently. As I haven’t cared much for anything O’Rourke has done, solo or otherwise, since the demise of Gastr Del Sol, I wonder what the result will be. I do know that I thought “NYC Ghosts & Flowers” (the first full album to feature O’Rourke) was pretty lame compared to its predecessors.
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