I've Got A Burning Sensation In My Cassette Player: April 2010

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Bonsai Trees and a Blog Niche

Hey B-Sides,

#Nowplaying -- The Bonsai Tree by Peter and the Wolf. LOVING this track, have you heard it? It's beautiful. Who came first, Peter and the Wolf or the Tallest Man on Earth? Both bands have a similar (Dylan-ish?) sound.

I'm also adding Swimming Pool by the Submarines, a great band who deserves to be getting some more play. (I may or may-not have discovered them in a Starbucks in Westchester...lame.com) This song may be worthy of the much-mentioned bbq playlist.

So I've been thinking, besides on-going valiant attempts to categorize and describe that most ephemeral of things the BEST SONGS EVER, I think we've stumbled across doing something a bit different--instead of writing about new music, we end up just with an on-going conversation about good music. And really, there is a difference between the two.

Much like America is an ongoing conversation about the tension between government size, ours is an ongoing discussion about greatness across any age.

Hamilton out,
asperb

PS: Sorry did you not want to be Jefferson?

PPS: In case you can't tell, I've spent the past week doing discourse analysis on Financial Time's article's on the ICC's indictment of the Lord's Resistance Army, paying specific attention to representations of violence as related to political agency and issues of power in government institutions versus insurgent groups. I live off food from Cafe Nero and am a few days away from becoming one of those people who mumbles to themselves in their pajamas. If this is at all reflected in my blog posts, apologies.

The Bonsai Tree - Peter and the Wolf

Swimming Pool - The Submarines