Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Some records aren't worth holding.
"When I ask him why Vaseline recurs so much in his work, he thinks for nearly a minute-and-a-half before answering: 'I remember that I applied petroleum jelly to some things I had made as a student, and the impulse then seemed to me to be about making things moist, and also making those objects feel like they had just been removed from me, or could be inserted inside me somehow.'"
Some records aren't worth holding.
But if you do, hold them very gingerly.
Posted by: Mr. Sticky at September 10, 2007 09:42 AMThe street art looks like a cross between Dali and Voldemort.
Posted by: John Johnson at September 10, 2007 10:33 AMYes! I read "onstage banter" and I thought "Robyn better be on that list". And there he is. The "churches full of carcasses" line is a great one, from the "Storefront Hitchcock" concert tape.
Posted by: Clownęsthesiologist at September 10, 2007 11:06 AMProbably doesn't count since it's a live-in-the-studio recording, but that list feels incomplete without mention of the between-song banter on Tom Waits' Nighthawks at the Diner.
Posted by: Ashley at September 10, 2007 11:31 AMIan MacKaye yelling at 16 year-olds for acting like 16 year-olds always made me really uncomfortable.
Also, I'd like to add Ted Leo to the list. He's really funny.
Posted by: Cangrejero at September 10, 2007 12:58 PMit's a live-in-the-studio recording
Wow, I didn't realize this.
Posted by: apostropher at September 10, 2007 02:25 PMHere's some reminiscing about the experience by some of Waits' cohorts.
Posted by: Ashley at September 10, 2007 05:01 PM