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31 July 07

July 23, 2006: Two Gallants

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31 July 07

Skursula: Are Those Talons On That Seamstress And A Neck Tie On That Mare?

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30 July 07

Low: Here Not For The Calamitous, But For Whatever Comes Next, Likely A Series Of Empty Embraces

Free Daytrotter Session Songs (Don’t miss this page!) Escapism is for weenies. It’s for people who gladly pay $9 to see a motion picture in a theater chilled so harshly that their cheeks pink and their toes blue. It’s for the fantasy farmers, mining for the tunnel to China or hunting for a saber tooth tiger or a leprechaun with a powerful ring that all in the universe covet. It’s for popcorn and Goobers eaters. It’s not for the people, the mellow as a candle people that Duluth, Minnesota’s Low draw to their robust-free compositions of exploratory sorrow on parade. They hit the glamour subjects of titillating moroseness, the efforts that get tangled in the sticky albatross of the “what’s to become of this terrible trouble we find ourselves in” worry.more...

26 July 07

The Dead Trees: The Drink Hangs In The Head And It Makes Sense

Free Daytrotter Session Songs (Don’t miss this page!) Guess where I am. (This will be an exercise to allow for some mental calisthenics a la answering brainbusting crossword riddles such as “Florentine glassmaker Antonio” or “Shoe salesman, at times,” a reference to Wednesday’s Chicago Tribune puzzle. Use all of your best reasoning skills. Be the decipherer.) Okay, so guess where I am. There, off to the right side of the bed are stacks of chicken soups. They’re sounding preachy while those cracked cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon sound so understanding and nurturing. They know what to say and they’re saying it. Flush with amber light, the walls are constricting and transparent, all at the same time. It’s hard to walk through them, but should a touch of a wind kick up from the west, it’ll blow a dusting of desert sand and foul, hot air right against your cheeks and the head board, ticking off and landing on the pillows below.more...