This Is The End

I can't think of an adequate metaphor at the moment, so I'm just going to say that if you like the people you work with, giving notice that you're quitting inspires a strange distance and heaviness in your interactions with them, one that's probably best ignored. There's just no avoiding awkwardness when a team of people united for a common goal knowingly harbors a dissenter for two to six weeks.

Baby Just Say So

I wasn't really aware of the Huey Lewis song "If This Is It" before hearing Throw Me the Statue's amazingly transformative cover. The original isn't terrible, but it certainly lays on the cheese and schmaltz pretty heavy. The cover takes the exact same words and structure but goes bananas changing the arrangement, and what emerges is a much more affecting song. That's telling of something...I'm still thinking about what.

Throw Me the Statue on MySpace

Rod Stewart

How is "Maggie May" possible? I've never harbored any deep loathing of Rod Stewart—he seems nice enough—but the dude's singles catalogue harbors some of the most embarrassing music in the pop canon. And yet, somehow, he managed to turn out this one incredibly touching number, beautiful in its simplicity and humility. Where the hell did it come from?

Off to practice

UB practice now! We play the Mercury Lounge with Jeffery Lewis this coming Friday. It's an exciting time.