i am not ashamed
i suppose it is time to confess: i confess that i am so overwhelmingly in love with spoon. really, it's distracting. i have never, NEVER, never been so taken with a band as i have with this one. and i have had a long relationship with many bands. no band has ever hit me so hard. this is not a new love - it has been filling my heart now for many years. this is why i am so impressed by the depth and breadth of my love.at the moment, however, i do feel like an unrequited lover since i don't as yet have a copy of the upcoming album, gimme fiction. i feel as though i should get a complimentary copy of the promo from merge just because i am so committed to the band. although how would they know that? i refuse to participate in those message boards. although i do look at them for tidbits every now and again.
alas, i must wait for my connections at the record store to pass me a copy.
i do feel a little less unrequited today after the shockingly clear recall i have of a dream i had last night... see that's how stupidly i love this band. really, i am not a 14 year old.
i wish i could articulate what it is that makes me so devoted to spoon. in a pitchfork review written when girls can tell was released, nick mirov said "their music just seems to possess this attitude that's both fresh and rooted in the origins of rock 'n' roll, an anger that's at once stylish and direct, a compassionate ache that's as oblique as it is palpable." palpable is right, all those perfectly timed exclamations! holy cow.
nick's right, and he has been right in just about every other review of the band's releases. except maybe his only moderately postive review of love ways. still, i think we should be friends.
speaking of pitchfork, i think this is one of the funnier reviews i have ever read, and also sad.
so there, i've come clean. i love this band. i am obsessed with this band. i am very sad that i am not in austin to see them play two nights in a row. i think i should move to texas.
posted by bls @ 11:36 AM
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