SATURDAY EVENING POST: More and more I realize the truth of the following: you better love your dissertation topic, because you're going to be spending a lot of time on it.
And a mix cd for those who have a lot of patience:
1. Halleluwah - Can (18:28)
2. Hung Over as the Oven in Maida Vale - Godspeed You Black Emperor! (18:51)
3. Marquee Moon - Television (live in Portland; 16:57) (Rob Sheffield's position on fluxblog aside, it doesn't really "build and build." "Marquee Moon" has a compositional structure not unlike "Flamenco Sketches" (on Kind of Blue)--the song moves from one part to the next when the soloist feels like it. But Tom Verlaine is an excellent guitarist, so the technical aspects of the performance are always less noticeable than the emotional ones).
4. Night Falls on Hoboken - Yo La Tengo (17:41)
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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