Maybe it’s the springtime air. I just listened to a mix a friend made for me. I’m head over heels in crush with this song “My little brother just discovered rock and roll” by Art Brut. I’m a sucker for an English accent, a kind of barky or yappy vocal approach, and songs about music. And the it’s got a nice dissonant noisey guitar thing going on (I would have called it an “angular” sound when I was younger and reading music mags a lot). Great bassline as well. Makes one want to bob a bit at knees and neck, with the odd awkward twitch in between (the vestiges of dance-drive left over from years of music that isn’t super dance conducive in settings that are dance unfriendly). Go download it.
ps - in case anyone’s interested, my contribution to the Spivak discussion is online now at Long Sunday.
notes to self re: the Spivak discussion
See
http://www.eco.utexas.edu/~hmcleave/chipprop.html
also http://www.riff-raff.se/en/
Revisit Steve Shapiro’s post on use value, ref’d in comments on one of the posts, respond to it, get clearer on what I think on this category. Also, bust out the open marxism volumes and issues of common sense, Jodi’s post on indeterminacy/openness reminds me that that’s stuff I want to really go through finally (I wonder if it will resonate w/ the Althusser aleatory materialism stuff?)
Comment by Nate — April 21, 2006 @ 3:25 am
Art Brut’s coming to Athens, GA in May….
Comment by Tzuchien — April 21, 2006 @ 5:02 am
Wicked. I guess they played up here recently, but before I’d heard this darling little number.
“Why don’t our parents worry about us? Why don’t our parents worry about us?”
“How’s he living with all of that unforgiving?”
Comment by Nate — April 23, 2006 @ 7:24 pm