beast and dragon, adored
wow, spoon touring with the clientele. while i am excited to see both, i'm not sure there could be a more strange billing. i wonder how that came to be. i'll imagine that spoon really likes the clientele and wanted them to open for the tour - rather than thinking merge forced the coupling. holy cow, i can't wait to see spoon.i read a funny article yesterday about a series of sneaks considered a new classic. i am a little embarassed for ms. hodges who, while believing she is composing an "intimate look" at the record, can't even get the singer's last name correct. hmm, how hard is that? and while i applaud her attempt to define what it is about the band that makes them so remarkable ( like i said before, that's a difficult task) she really comes across as a tyro. it is hard to take her seriously when she doesn't take the band seriously enough to learn the singer's name. oh well, not everyone can love the band as purely as myself, i suppse. or maybe she's just not as consumed as i am.
i also read an (old) interview with bd yesterday. the interviewer asked him why he doesn't have an accent if he grew up in texas. he responded that smart people don't have accents. i would contend that he is wrong. while an accent, be it southern or not, may carry with it certain negative stereotypes (especially southern), it does not necessarily indicate that one is not bright or educated. although i do not have an accent myself, as an adopted southerner i must defend my compatriots.
posted by bls @ 3:41 PM
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So, my new thinking on accents is that the Boston sound...or more specifically, the working class Boston suburb sounds (north, south, and west) way out-do the southern ones for unpleasant and (insert negative stereotype here)sounds. Maybe I'm just nostalgic for the southern sounds up here in the frozen north. I find I use my southern accent to great success when I need it and turn it off when I don't. love you--bls. hate that spider.
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