am crrrrrazy and fact-checking this studs terkel music book - I love doing this work so much, it's the most wonderful close reading on the history of American performance, what hyperlinks would be like if you didn't get sloppy and forget you were reading, funny, weird and tangential - in short, the perfect inter-semester job for me. Send me more fact-checking, it rules!
doing this gives me time to listen to the promo pile - am digging the new M. Ward - never realized how much he sounds like Sondre Lerche, and the lovely little guitar instrumentals remind me of the incidental music played on cable t.v. during christmas, and i mean that in the best way. wait, he's ripping off the bach unaccompanied cello suites -that's what it is! also, interviewed The Tiny, a swedish psych-folk three piece w/ female vox, very pretty stuff, at the Time Cafe yesterday. "I think we might be new....weird....folk, but we don't have that in Sweden." watch out kids, the brand blitz bubble for the folkies might end after the Newsom/Devendra court pazz n' jop - as we've recently been made away, it's all about watching the tides. also bought the kate bush sensual world/hounds of love box (see above, i'm infected) and am planning to listen to it for a month straight then start writing songs for THE ALBUM THAT WILL HAPPEN IN 2005. so help me.
JSPOTTING:
I really like Peter Scholtes' frank look at the new u2 album - the stunningly corny lede, a fitting tribute to bono, and addressing what it is, in some way, that just urks the hell out of u2 listeners - that cockiness, those throw-aways. Am reading "pop music - technology and creativity" about the tech determin 16 channel midi crazies made the 80s sound - big, dense, in tune and in time - classic U2. His writing is awesome in general.
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