![]() This is what's meant by "sunny" music: both laid-back and upbeat, with crystalline vocals and lyrics that, while sincere, aren't particularly weighty. For some have hailed Oh, Inverted World as the next great entry in a long line of clean and carefree pop albums that strings back to the Beach Boys' early surfing days. Then again, if Sub Pop is releasing the Shins' kind-of debut (they've been around for nine years, previously as Flake, and then Flake Music), maybe even Seattle has turned to the bright side. Maybe I need to move to the home of Sub Pop, where the sun is shy even in summer, and where angst and aggression are more likely to be internalized. ![]() ![]() There's a reason no one riots in the winter. Mere days later- this time at night- a similar-looking man (but different there a lot of these guys in Boston) stumbled out of a bar and immediately grabbed my shirt and tore the pocket off, spattering his blood across my arms and chest in the process. Just last week, in the middle of the day, a reasonable-looking man in his mid-twenties decided to slam his palm across my forehead as he walked past me. Not to mention those package music tours.īut perhaps worst of all is the heightened aggression. Oh inverted world shins rar file tv#Then there's the traffic, both pedestrian and automobile, and those unavoidable, unbearable Hollywood blockbusters and TV reruns (or second-rate series). Sure, it's great for holidays, work vacations, and ogling the underdressed opposite sex, but you pay for this in sweat, which comes by the quart, even if you obey summer's central directive: be lazy. It is, in my opinion, the worst season of the year. If my tone isn't suggestive enough, then I'll say it flat out: I hate the summer. And TV is just an exaggerated reflection of ourselves the hordes of convertibles making the weekend pilgrimage to the nearest beach are proof enough. Or so you'd think, judging from the anonymous TV ad men and women who proclaim, "Summer is here! Get your now!"- whereas in the winter, they regret to inform us that it's time to brace ourselves with a new Burlington coat. ![]() For the majority of Americans, it's a given: summer is the best season of the year. ![]()
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