tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-850460519986732757.post8568330686093602321..comments2023-06-30T08:58:35.666-05:00Comments on Good Lieutenant: They'll Need a CraneMatt Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05049817294442385108noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-850460519986732757.post-19595873196240750972006-11-19T23:28:00.000-05:002006-11-19T23:28:00.000-05:00I've been trying to get people to call me Desmond ...I've been trying to get people to call me Desmond Howard, but people keep calling me Norma Desmond. (I <i>have</i> been called Desmond Tutu on occasion. Charming.)<br /><br />The Decemberists did get a lot of Neutral Milk Hotel comparisons at first, mainly because of the suspiciously similar vocal stylings. They even seem to use the same fake British accent! But NMH was an entirely weirder and wilder beast, despite having far fewer songs. I'll write about them on here someday, but for now I'll just say that the Decemberists are perfectly happy to sing about the listener's mother screwing shiploads of sailors for money, but they would never write a song about Anne Frank, because that would be <i>tasteless</i>. Whereas for Jeff Mangum it was okay, because he was apparently sincerely in love with her. Sort of creepy, but genius all the same.Matt Desmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05049817294442385108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-850460519986732757.post-83026384988166668452006-11-19T19:47:00.000-05:002006-11-19T19:47:00.000-05:00shout out to neutral milk hotel !
if you dont kn...shout out to neutral milk hotel !<br /><br /><br />if you dont know who the decemberists are, you may remember a little band back in your salad days called neutral milk hotel. some may not agree, but the whole genre of... _________ ... {place category here} owe nmh everything for that sound. <br /><br />start out with "in the aeroplane over the sea" <br /> <br />"under the boughs unbowed"...ppphhh... how about..."when you were young you were the king of carrot flowers"<br /><br />what nmh is lacking in vocabulary they make up for in anne frank props.<br /><br />p.s. i think i speak for everyone when i say, thanks lieutenant, we need more boys like you fighting on the frontlines of mediocrity."dohm"https://www.blogger.com/profile/06685408249264849943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-850460519986732757.post-59425309827850779232006-11-18T03:36:00.000-05:002006-11-18T03:36:00.000-05:00who is this band you speak of? that's quite an ex...who is this band you speak of? that's quite an extensive review. i am now siccing Steve on you because i have no idea who the Decemberists are. you know, it only took 72 hours, but i just realized that your blog subtitle has a sort of Hold Steady quote up there. so you finally got Separation Sunday? how about all those nicknames on that cd? your blog subtitle should have been, "i've been trying to get my friends to call me Diamond Dog, but they just keep calling me Desmond Tutu!"<br /><br />so, speaking of the Kobayashi Maru (weren't we?) Wrath of Kahn was on tonight, like it's on every other night on G-4, and i took a VERY close look at the screen when they first identify the Kobayashi Maru during the test. and i could have sworn it said, CREW: DEAD WEIGHT TONNAGE. what the hell was that?! doesn't that kind of give it away? i swear it really did say that. i'm not kidding. also, it said it was a "Neutronic Fuel Carrier." a "Neutronic" fuel carrier?? in the "Neutral" zone???? i don't konw what that means, but the answer is there, i know it.<br /><br />your picture down there looks like you're at a football game. what's up with that. speaking of, they're using a Doves song in some NFL commercial. it's a bad fit.<br /><br />i get to do my presentation on "Alien" for my film class on Monday. i pretended like i never saw it till we screened it in class. but i think the cat's gonna be out of the bag because all i want to do is go in there and demand their respect for the movie. you see, when we screened it last Monday, 3 of them snuck out before the movie was over. fucking kids don't know how close they came. but they will. <br /><br />they will.david james keatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05492042454085415129noreply@blogger.com