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April 14, 2009
Loaves of Love
Finished with grad school, at last.
I'd like to get back into writing about music, since I suspect that doing this blog was one of the things that actually made me a better writer (not that this sentence really shows that, yikes).
I've been on a kick of listening to this song, which came to me via Phoenix's great Kitsune mix. Doesn't that beginning purify you for the rest of the song? Those quick strums? This song is haunted by the specter of that saxophone jag (which the guitar tries to echo but, alas, cannot). Would you feel a greater or lesser affinity for this song if the title were spelled 'Pajamarama' (that's five As)? The Roxy Music orthography feels somehow more exotic, more in keeping with the origins of the clothing. The title alone suggests all sorts of cool shit (a sleep-over festival; bedspread dances; nighttime excursions). Is there a section of the Ramayana that discusses sleepwear?
Posted by Kevin at 06:43 PM