Tuesday, November 27, 2007

I'm constantly amazed by how good the writing is on musical blog Said the Gramophone. I know the "writing on an mp3 blog" bar isn't very high, and of course poetry misses the entire point of the mp3 blog (which is to get a something without paying for that a something), but the following passage tells me more about a song than an entire back catalog or biographical diagram ever could:

Whatever you're doing, or watching, become suddenly expanded, it grows to the size of the room, and you can see all the empty space, all the little hairs you didn't know were there, and all the little scabs, the healing, the flesh. In terms of a "single" or a "hit", it isn't that, but this song isn't interested in that, it wants to walk around, anonymous and dark orange, looking for God.

p.s. the song in point is boring as hell, unless you really enjoy jamming out to hymns. not the point! not the point at all! There was something else, oh yes! I'm also impressed by these movie titles:

"Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"
"Diving Bell and the Butterfly"