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September 12, 2008

Mice, Whales, and Swimming After the Boat

Recently back in touch with Modest Mouse.  Thanks to Tom and James for Night on the Sun.  And thanks to Heath for leaving We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank sitting on the mantel in Ocean Beach.  I didn't even know that album existed.  Guess that's what happens when you live in China for almost four years.

Anyway, I haven't been able to stop listening to Missed the Boat.

Our ideas held no water, but we used them like a dam.

And then there's that whole section in which a new vocal track jumps in and makes everything tiny.

I love it.

But.  And this is important.  I don't think I agree with all the nostalgic helplessness.  Boats come back.  And, if they don't, people can swim.  Sometimes we can even find a whale or a dolphin to give us a ride.

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September 06, 2008

Night On the Sun

Ripple is the song James most loved to play.  This, according to Tom, might be the one to which he most loved to listen.

As Lombard morphed to highway, Tom restarted the track, turned up the volume, and explained himself:

Driving slowly is not the way this song is meant to be listened to.

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