I When I was a teen, 45 years ago now, I’d walk weekly to a neighborhoodrecord store. There were, in fact, three to choose from on the samesuburban strip, otherwise, a culturalwasteland. By the time I was an adult,all three of them were shuttered. My favorite, Everybody’s Records, turned into a pornshop. ALL ADULT VIDEOContinue reading “#573: A Double Loose Love Sonnet for Daily Records”
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#566: Two Sonnets for Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacios by The Mars Volta
I I haven’t even listened to it yet, but I have looked at it with some surprise– precisely because there’s nothing to see.I will describe it from the inside out.Black vinyl, black label, on which tiny numbers indicate sides, inside black sleeves.An insert, the only art, a gray and tanindeterminate image, a map, orjust randomContinue reading “#566: Two Sonnets for Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacios by The Mars Volta”
#555: Dan’s Boogie (A Record Review Sonnet Pair)
1 “That’s life,” Dan Bejar sings in the first song of the new Destroyer album. “It’s the same thing as nothing at all.” Listening toBejar, I remember hearing Neil Youngsing for the first time, thinking at first he was a woman, and then thinking that he really wasn’t very good at singing, until I beganContinue reading “#555: Dan’s Boogie (A Record Review Sonnet Pair)”
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