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Perfection Shirt 15 1/2
by Dan
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I Need Sleep - "I Should Give Up" This song is sung by a bleary-eyed truck. and the instruments are white and yellow, dotted and solid, lines. The truck is hungry, and looking for dogs and deer, to ask a dance. What happens when you don't sleep is a look underneath the veil of 'rest'. Feeling sick is feeling good. Also, in a more literal sense, your submissions of music seem to be getting better all the time. Keep it up. [Site] ***** If I were Swedish, created in 1997, and a piece of music and not a person, I might be this song. But if I were, I would sing like a girl, and I don't want to do that. You can like it because it gets loud when it should, it's a morning anthem, it's a single. And you can hate it for the same reasons. Do what you want. It's probably because 'harbour' is one of the few words I can decipher, but I think about being in the middle of the ocean, but having a shark-proof suit and a really good life jacket. Simultaneously in danger and safe. The singer's name is Karin, and a fansite had this to say about her: "they say that Karin is a small girl and a mature woman in same breath." It's almost better when you don't know the language. Je suis désolé, je ne suis pas capable. [Buy used] Posted by Dan at June 10, 2005 1:12 AMComments
Wow, that Honey Is Cool song is awesome, makes me want to hear Joanna Newsom backed by a rock band! Posted by No Frontin at June 10, 2005 3:29 PMI didn't realize the lead singer of Honey Is Cool is the same woman from The Knife, I knew she sounded familiar. Thank you for both of these wonderful tracks! Posted by No Frontin at June 10, 2005 10:02 PMYou're welcome, No Frontin. You're invited to my birthday. Posted by Dan Beirne at June 11, 2005 4:07 AM"Nach Heart" totally rules. I think it's hilarious that I can understand so very little of what she's singing, given that it's English. Lately, Sweden is kicking all kind of ass on my stereo. Posted by Sean at June 11, 2005 1:03 PMPost a comment |
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Sean Michaels lives in Montreal, where he is writing a novel. His work also occasionally appears at McSweeney's. Follow him on Twitter or reach him here.
Dan Beirne is an actor and writer living in Montreal. He writes fiction fiction fiction on here. It may feel true, but it is never True. He is most proud of his most recent project The Bitter End. Email him here Jordan Himelfarb lives in Toronto, where he is editor in chief of The Mark. Jordan's posts appear at Said the Gramophone only on the last Wednesday of every month. Email him here. Site design and header typography by Neale McDavitt-Van Fleet. The header graphic is randomized: this one is by .
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