Friday, March 12, 2010

Widow's Peak (Mont Blanc)

Deranged excitement of the repeated track.
Fair to say 300 times yesterday?

Grass Widow: To Where

Have Eet

Beware the geodesic Grass Widow.


This exquisite/scurvy-esque feeling captured awfully well this past Sunday by Laurent Brancowitz, high-haired Phoenix guitarist, D'Angelo disciple, recent NYT interviewee.

Q: Do you think of your own music as romantic?
MR. BRANCOWITZ: Actually, yes. I think there's maybe one theme in our music, and it's something like romantic abandon. We call that teenage abandon, that kind of anxiety and abandon that you enjoy.
Q: How do you hold on to that as adults?
MR. BRANCOWITZ: It's not hard. I mean, it's not related to age -- I say teenage because it's something you experience with the most force when you are young. You know this emotion you have when you see a movie that's so beautiful or you hear a piece of music that sounds perfect? It's this kind of anxiety and joy. So it's very easy, actually. You just have to see the right piece of art.
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Next flight to De Gaulle?

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