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Signs of Hatred in the Timbre
by Dan
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Repeat these things out loud as you listen: "I can't keep up with you, you're going too fast for me." "I don't love my wife, I want to be with you." "Stop wasting my time." "Is it raining in Canada?" "Is she still there?" "I don't speak English, I never spoke English before." This is a frozen summer song for nights with only smoke, trees, and glances. [Buy (only 100 in print)] Vic Thrill + The Saturn Missile - "Hi On Wade" In the future, every child will be born with a special button, located on the back of the knee joint, or "kneepit", that, when pressed, will give the child or person (they will have this button their entire lives) a last 2:04 of supreme living. It is unclear whether the person obtains super-powers for this time, but they will certainly be more effective to the world for that 2:04 than most other people in their regular lives. However, once pressed, it will be the final 2:04 of the person's (or child's) life. This is the song that plays in your brain during that time span. [MySpace] Posted by Dan at July 3, 2006 2:53 AMComments
Wow! Thanks for Vic Thrill. It really got my morning off to a flying start. A couple of their Myspace samples are amazing as well. Posted by Half at July 3, 2006 9:00 AMVic Thrill! Wow, I thought the friend who introduced me to their quirky music a few years ago and I were the only two people on earth who even knew of them. Good stuff. Posted by muruch at July 3, 2006 11:41 AMThose were two great write-ups, Dan. And if you ever need to know the formal word for kneepits, it's 'poplites', one of my favorite never-used words. Posted by Kevin at July 3, 2006 9:12 PMT.D. Reisert sounds an awful lot like Jason Molina. Also the harmonica is very Neil Young-ish, whose a big influence on Molina. Posted by dave at July 4, 2006 12:35 AMT.D. is my new favorite, thanks to this post. way better than jason molina. Posted by noah at July 4, 2006 2:01 PMThe T.D. Reisert track is hauntiing me through my breakfast. Thanks so much Dan for, as always, a faboulus post. Posted by Mimi at July 5, 2006 2:38 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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