One of my favorite bands is Okkervil River. Discovering them first through their 2007 album The Stage Names, I likedit enough to work my way through their back catalog. I really enjoyed the way frontman Will Sheff wrote, lyrically. A track like "The President's Dead," which was released as a single late in 2005, took both a widescreen and microscopic view to the reactions towards the assassination of a President - any President. It had a subtle depth to it that deftly related the issues that would surround an event of that magnitude without turning into melodrama. And it was a good song, too.
The album that touched me the most was their 2005 album Black Sheep Boy. Loosely, it was a concept album based on the "black sheep boy" character, inspired by a 1967 song of the same name by Tim Hardin. Lyrically, it may be the record I most relate to in my entire library. Sheff sang with furious emotion about hearing of a female friend's abuses with her father on "Black," pained a simple, yet nuanced look into unrequited love on "Song of Our So-Called Friend," and created interesting fairy-tale allegories on "A King and A Queen" and "A Stone."
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Congress? We don't want no Congress! We don't need no stinkin' Congress!
The title of this blog post is not true.
Sometimes it just feels like it.
It becomes really disheartening to watch this group of publicly elected officials fumble and stammer their way through getting absolutely nothing done. When you see things like that, it's enough to make you want to throw your hands up on the air and say, "Can we just tear this whole damn thing down and start over with something else? Please."
(Maybe British Parliament? It's easily one of the top 10 most entertaining things on TV. They're smarmy and sarcastic, condescending and comfortable. They all get behind the people asking the questions with soccer gang-like cheers of assent and, most importantly, they actually ask pertinent questions and give pertinent answers. It's like watching a politically-themed music video for LCD Soundsystem's "Losing My Edge".)
Sometimes it just feels like it.
It becomes really disheartening to watch this group of publicly elected officials fumble and stammer their way through getting absolutely nothing done. When you see things like that, it's enough to make you want to throw your hands up on the air and say, "Can we just tear this whole damn thing down and start over with something else? Please."
(Maybe British Parliament? It's easily one of the top 10 most entertaining things on TV. They're smarmy and sarcastic, condescending and comfortable. They all get behind the people asking the questions with soccer gang-like cheers of assent and, most importantly, they actually ask pertinent questions and give pertinent answers. It's like watching a politically-themed music video for LCD Soundsystem's "Losing My Edge".)
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