This is the summer of my discontent, gravelly voiced, working class songsmiths weaving melodies from the lower registers-
endless amounts of Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Bruce Springsteen... Stephen Merritt, the National.
My womb music was bruce springsteen, I was possibly conceived during the Born in the USA tour, 1985. I don't know if that makes the space he takes up in my soul any less cliche, but I will draw upon the wisdom of Sabina Carlson to justify my shameless devotion to the garden state, springsteen love and all--
...Grow Wings from Your Wounds...We're all stellar, our friends, because we've had to claw ourselves out of the suburbs and onward to the stars--- through that brick red dirt of South Jersey and the apathy weighing ankles like boots coated in clay...
I am in love with New Jersey... and if you've never photographed broken glass in an abandoned casino in Asbury Park with a bohemian princess... if you've never seen the electric factories glow like angels on I-95...if you've never wished on a streetlamp when you couldn't see shooting stars... don't tell me New Jersey isn't beautiful...
Film comment--
My Winnipeg. My Winnipeg. My Winnipeg. So sentimental and bitingly nostalgic and genuine, in the best way possible for an ambivalent, experimental film about a mixed bag hometown, and escape, without answers.
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4 comments:
It has its moments.
Speaking of Tom Waits, does Miss Ghost World do him justice? Ought I invest?
I'm the wrong person to ask, Tom.
I went gay for Scarlett Johansson, and never looked back.
Personally I think it's an okay covers album, but maybe steal it from the internet rather than pay $$
I was just about to tell you to get that album. I actually really like it. For different reasons than I like Tom Waits, but I still like it.
Riese-
That's a great recommendation. Mutual exclusion's a terrible policy on music.
I still don't have $$$ to spend on music I could acquire illicitly.
Also, you reading me/googlereadersharing me is like the most flattering thing that's happened this month.
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