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August 30, 2005
the role of excess in your aesthetics
So a lot of people have already written about Broadcast's forthcoming "Tender Buttons", but that's OK. Saying things like, "oh, the band only has two members now", and "yo this is so much awesome it's turning my tympanic membranes into some sort of edible jelly which is also kick-ass to the awesometh power", (that last one's probably not a direct quote), etc.
What this song reminds me of more than anything else is the ambiguously windswept scene in Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow Up", where David Hemmings' Thomas character is photographing a quick and dirty meet-up between Vanessa Redgrave's Jane and some random tweedy businessman in the middle of the park. Thomas thinks that he's only capturing a sordid bit of outdoor lasciviousness, but when he develops the film and looks at it carefully, it shows what may or may not be a shooting taking place in the background, behind the embracing couple. 'I Found the F' is graceful and beautfiul, like any one of the many gorgeous models that Thomas photographs during the course of the film- but it has a sort of detached prettiness, uninvolved, just a displayed object. Maybe it has something to do with Trish Keenan's voice- she sounds like she's singing from underneath the folds of a down comforter, in a bed, in a room that's far too cold for her liking.
"Tender Buttons" is released on September 20th, and you can order it right here, soon.
P.S. This contest is giving me fits. I'm pretty sure I know what I want to give away as the prize, but I'm having a hard time thinking of exactly what I want to do for the actual process. Here's what I've got so far: the first person to send me a perfect replica of Abraham Lincoln's 'Discipline Brick', which he used as a sort of portable curb-stomping device, will win a gift certificate for something fun. The brick must conform to the dimensions specified in Lincoln's personal correspondences to Mary Todd. Extra points to anyone who can decorate the brick with fake teeth and/or blood. Or you could, you know, just send me a drawing of something crazy.
Posted by Kevin at August 30, 2005 12:48 AM
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