Hmph. The book got reviewed by the East Bay Express, getting what I can only call a snotty endorsement.
Serious music dweebs may very well adopt Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed (Routledge) as their rare vinyl-collecting bible. The lisping indie obsessive who gets teary-eyed at Belle & Sebastian concerts ... the thrift-store-foraging Napoleon Dynamite who smells of dust and rotting cardboard ... Steve Buscemi's character in Ghost World ... the Kermit the Frog-voiced fellow who knows the whole discography of bands he doesn't even like ... they're all guaranteed to bust a blood vessel over this one. It's a guidebook written by geeks, for geeks, that makes rock 'n' roll seem almost not cool, grouping fans alongside other nerd cliques who fixate on comic books or Star Trek.
That said, the average music enthusiast will also find Grooves an informative and pleasurable read.
Enjoying the 5ives.com website and felt compelled to share this:
Five terrible alternative names for the band “The Decemberists”
1. The Counts of Enjambementy Cristo
2. The Pirate Folk Family Players
3. The Whirled Accordion to Garp
4. Thesaurus Wrecks
5. Avast Ye Thar, English Majors!
Enjoying the 5ive.com website
Am I missing something? www.5ive.com gets me nothing but a front page with no links...
The book got reviewed by the East Bay Express, getting what I can only call a snotty endorsement.
Hmm, did you give out copies of the book that had mirrors on every page, Hec? Because that review reeks of self-loathing (i.e. tells more about the reviewer than the reviewed).
Here, Jon. It's actually 5ives.com
Including...
Five descriptions that arose while boot shopping with Madeline on Monday
1. Too Bon Jovi
2. Too Adam Ant
3. Not Avengers enough
4. Too Dale Evans
5. Oddly Amadeus
It's a guidebook written by geeks, for geeks, that makes rock 'n' roll seem almost not cool, grouping fans alongside other nerd cliques who fixate on comic books or Star Trek.
A bit rich to make a statement like that in the same breath as invoking Ghost World! Who cares about seeming cool anyway? (Rock'n'roll hasn't been cool for at least two decades, after all...)
David, I love the first review. Good words, those.
Thesaurus Wrecks
heee!
About the East Bay Express review, bah. This is the only review by this guy I've read so I can't say for sure but it reeks of being written by that kind of writer who thinks they have to say something negative for it to be "criticism."
Reason number 135 of why I like the Pernice Brothers. From his latest newsletter:
We recently had publicity photos taken for the next Pernice Brothers album (more on that in a minute), and I have a giant beard. It's like a parasite. I almost look like those dudes from Zed Zed Top (that's for you non Americans who might be reading this). I was speaking to a certain Pernice Brothers fill in drummer there other day, and the conversation went something like this:
Me: "Man, you should see me. I have a giant beard."
Fill In Drummer: "Perneeeece, that's a terrible thing to call your wife. I didn't know you were gay."
Anyway, I have a giant beard.
