03/08/07/0712215
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posted by
davidt
on Thursday August 07 2003, @08:00AM
An anonymous source writes:
Word is Jerry Finn (AFI, Green Day, Blink 182, Sum 41) just signed on to produce the new album.
03/08/07/0451222
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posted by
davidt
on Thursday August 07 2003, @08:00AM
Tanner writes:
The Guardian recently published a short fiction piece on their website by Dave Eggers (author of "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) called "Something Might Plummet. Something Might Soar." In it the character listens to "Well I Wonder" and there's also a bit more commentary on Morrissey. It is definitely a good read.
If you do not want to read the whole thing here are the specific references.
"Your Toshiba Walkman is clipped to your shorts in back and you've got your Smiths mix on. You've fast-forwarded to Well I Wonder and you swerve a little to prove to the song that you love it. Why does this song speak to you? You are not sure. Maybe it's that, like Mr Morrissey, you aren't sure yet whether this is the world you were intended for."
"You'll wait a minute or two more, while you rewind Well I Wonder. The song only becomes at all meaningful, of course, after seven consecutive plays; but even then it's not even close to enough. Between seven and twenty plays one begins to grasp its power, but not until you've reached thirty do you pay it the respect it's due; only then have you earned the right to listen while swaying, to listen while lying on the lawn of Mrs G's house, only then have you walked a mile in the shoes of Mr Morrissey, great poet in the tradition of Keats and Yeats and possibly even Roddy Frame."
03/08/07/1446210
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posted by
davidt
on Thursday August 07 2003, @08:00AM
Cabinsin writes:
Rolling Stone review of Under the Influence
Rolling Stone review, 3 stars
I am not sure if this had been posted yet.
Enjoy!---
Mel writes:
Morrissey / Smiths titles in Nerve.com articles
Readers may find the this-week-in-sex articles a bit much, but each of
them are titled with Morrissey/Smiths song titles:
"Charles Schulz must be somersaulting in his grave."
NOT WORK SAFE
Nerve.com weekend review
NOT WORK SAFE
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PoisonIvy writes:
Smiths references in Stuart David book review
Auto Focus by Dennis Lim - Village Voice, July 21, 2003
Excerpt:
Nalda Said
By Stuart David
Turtle Point, 152 pp., $14.95
"...Pace Morrissey, not only can shyness stop you from doing all the things in life you'd like to, it is often not very nice at all."
"...There's nothing romantic, David seems to be saying, about the solipsistic existence of a shy boy, caught up in his own shit."
