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September 25, 2005
latest "bows" and (musical) knots
yes, the giant argentinian who looks like freddie mercury shot against the black IS brandishing a fish. it was already dead, honest. baby take a bow's latest show was very cool - not as raucous as the last, but more focused. the biblical theme was a nice leaping off point for the gals' excellent musicaltheatredisrobing antics.
and it's unrelated, but bugger me if Elbow's new album, Leaders of The Free World isn't as good as its predecessors - no mean feat. i wouldn't normally link to an external review (fancying myself at that, what!) but the boffins at Stylus have nailed it this time, right down to isolating Elbow's true-ness and "tumescence" when set against the more volubly praised Coldplay's limp posturing.
(though i generally like playlouder's loose, casual and pretty damn well-informed writing, their reviewer makes one lovely, ironic, cock-up, describing Elbow as being better than, say, Athlete who are "... sensible young men in nice pullovers making sensible nice pullover music for other young men. The sort of pallid pale dullards who narrowly miss out on the Mercury Music award." - elbow were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, narrowly missing out to PJ Harvey in 2001.)
Note to Alanis Morisette: that's the correct contextual use (above) of the word "ironic", fool, not the way you used it in that mega-hit, where it just means "fucked". (I thank my old friend Matt Lezowski for allowing me to steal his vitriol to suit my own purposes).
i had an epiphany on the weekend, but i can't talk about it yet, because i've been known to backslide on epiphanies shortly after they happen. waiting to see if this one holds for a bit ...
Posted by reuben at September 25, 2005 2:26 PM
Comments
What beautiful photos!
What beautiful fish!
do you need to be married to have beautiful fish?
Posted by: alex at October 8, 2005 3:44 AM