New bohemianism: beards, pickling beets, Fleet Foxes, rye...

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I'd never heard of Bill Buford before. Thanks guys!

Not the drummer for Yes, then?

curtis armstrong, like steve buscemi, makes any movie he's in better just by him being in it.

i don't want to meet the hipster with a chamber pot fetish. christ, if you thought the Rainbo smelled bad BEFORE...

I knew a hipster with a chamber pot, it didn't smell but I had to kneel to piss because I had drunk aim and didn't want to splash all over her bedroom. I didn't feel too bohemian.

jaymc, would i like the fleet foxes? they are playing here for free on friday.

i don't know about beets, foxes, or rye, but this shit just sounds like urban kids that know how to camp

or are you talking about tripsters?

wait, i don't care

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^^^ i know plenty of dudes who subscribe to these guys' philosophy, which would appear to be whatever it is you're talking about. they're just called "retro-grouchy." or telemark skiers.

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Beards, beets, Battlestar Galactica

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rockin chin scrub

Can I cross-post to several days ago and say that I like the semi-archaic "wear a beard" construction? It refers to a stylistic choice, like wearing your hair down or wearing your trousers loose. If we were really awesome we could even try and use "wear" and "have" differently, to denote this: i.e., if you live in the woods and don't care either way, you have a beard; if you woke up one day and decided you'd look snappy with a beard and proceeded to grow one, you wear one.

P.S. I realized the other day that Fleet Foxes have some really terrifically constructed lyrics! Or at least one song ("White Winter Hymnal") suddenly jumped out and I noticed all the stuff going on with sound and internal rhyme and whatnot. It looks way worse on paper because the internal rhymes are all emphasized in specific ways, but:

I was following the pack
All swallowed in their coats
With scarves of red
Tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From falling in the snow
And I turned round and there you go!
And Michael you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime

^^ this is just really well put together, the general images, the set-up with colors, the internal rhymes and assonance and alliteration ... so now I have this increasing respect for Fleet Foxes, who aren't always doing the most interesting thing in the universe but are really quite good at what it is that they're doing.

that is terrible

i only count one example of alliteration ("from falling", and maybe strawberries and summertime???) unless I'm missing something huge

ilx prac crit club

and where's the assonance, nabisco, where is it??? is it internal?

i only took one poetry class ever

"their throats" = I guess that counts as alliteration

why would anyone ever say 'wear a beard'??
unless this is a british thing to say, in which case, carry on being british or whatever

follow/swallow

Tied round Their Throats

their/there

etc.

it's not bad -- i'd have to hear it though. i guess i should go to that free concert tomorrow?

not many internal rhymes, but lots of assonance

lots of "rr" sounds

i understand yr point re construction and internal rhyme but blargh

yeah i think the strongest part about those lyrics is the imagery and the imagery is not. . .that great

edie brickell to thread.

And I turned round and there you go!

this line doesn't fit well into the verse... it seems to me...

crunk foxes

I think the free concert is tonight, Am.

RYE

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http://www.bellewood-gardens.com/Rye%20Bread_1.jpg

I CAN TOTALLY SEE ROBIN PECKNOLD IN THE CRUST

butter churning is so hot right now

jordan's concert is tonight, the fleet foxes are tomorrow (the 18th)

Oh, I thought you meant in Chicago. It looks like Fleet Foxes are playing a free show in Chicago tonight, a free show in Madison tomorrow, and then coming back to Chicago on Saturday for Pitchfork...?

No matter how many caveats are given y'all pretend not to have sorted out the "lyrics on paper" thing, but I will continue to post bits I like in the full knowledge that everyone will have more fun going "god that's terrible," as if similar bands are doing anything better -- whatevs

The well-turned thing about the imagery is the red-on-white scarves/snow that it kinda suggests at the end may have turned to red-on-white blood/snow. The "there you go" bit breaks meter because it's set on a chord change. The follow/swallow is a nice internal rhyme that I appreciate because the unnecessary rhyme ("swallowed") is a better and more interesting word there than most alternatives. "White snow red as strawberries in the summertime" rolls around well in the mouth and adds a seasonal opposition to the white/red -- whatever, y'all, most everything in there locks together really neatly, if you ask me, but maybe I'm just being over-reminded of a scene in Les Enfants Terrible involving a snowball with a rock inside it.

Amateurist, they do a lot of harmony singing, which I think you might like. Some of the harmonies are interestingly constructed, some more conventional but still nice. (And it's mildly interesting to hear a band like this pay lots of attention to doing multi-part harmonies well instead of just scrounging other, lamer "roots" affectations -- they genuinely sound good singing their harmonies slow and a capella)

nah

;)

:/

The well-turned thing about the imagery is the red-on-white scarves/snow that it kinda suggests at the end may have turned to red-on-white blood/snow.

Yeah, I got that.

fully true tho that it works better in the ear than on the page, if that is the comparison, as i have just heard this on their myspace dot com

i saw these guys a bit before this micro-blowup and they were impressive -- the singing especially, yes. the songs were catchy and memorable hearing them once, live, so they must be doing something right and it's not surprising they are getting buzz. they were obviously going for that minor-key t-bone burnett style space-country and they nailed it. i always appreciate a band who orchestrates things well, and there was plenty of reverb and purposeful echo-y empty space instead of a lot of generic strumming with a pedal steel on top or whatever.

i should add here FWIW, i like these guys okay! their voices are great, songs are cool even if i don't care for their lyrics. but i don't care about lyrics that much.

basically these guys make me feel old
which i am cool with feeling/being! but not via them
haha
ha

if i was me as i was in 2000 today then i wld be all into this
and butter churning

it works better in the ear than on the page

now what'd I JUST say?

oh wait sorry i misread you, je suis desolee

d'accord

Quand on est ensemble...