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

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

http://i.timeinc.net/recipes/i/recipes/su/07/03/beer-rye-bread-su-1589348-l.jpg

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...

oui, mais moi...

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

He wears his whiskers long
She wears her hair in a bun
etc.

wears GROWS
wears PUTS

Yes, just like that classic song, "if you're going to San Francisco / be sure to PUT some flowers in your hair"

Um that's not the same thing at all!

Am I seriously going to have to get out a dictionary and/or copies of 19th-century literature to convince you guys this usage exists?

No, I'm just being a dick

Haha so am I, kinda. (Jay-Z says "wears her hair in a twist!") It's totally archaic, but I really do like the use of "wear" for styling decisions, including hair growths -- wear your jeans tight, wear your hair long, wear side-whiskers, wear a beard

wear your heart on your sleeve, wear your fingers to the bone, wear a point into the ground, wear out a welcome

i have just been french-english exchanging and in this talk often turns to discussions of the idiomatic and grammatically weird or archaic when trying to find correct translations - it is funny but also confusing because yeah maybe the wear a beard thing etc is right even if only nabisco and people in the 19thC use it

language so crazy

ok but if she has already put her hair in a bun she is wearing her hair in a bun.