Dude AKMA-- that's an amazing essay. It's so different from the rest, but I love it.

Thanks, Shlack — I’m very relieved, after having seen your essay, that we took different-but-complementary approaches; glad, too, that you think I pulled it off. I told WC that it's a very different writing style from my usual academic book/article style, sermons, and Greek translating, so it feels risky. Glad to hear it works for you!



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Glad to hear it works for you!

Hi AKMA, just wanted to say that it works for me, too! I guess WASBH is my favourity tMG album, and for some reason I feel deeply connected to it and its lyrics, even though I was quite a contrary teenager to the ones sung about. Ok, I listened to Metal and felt depressed all the time, but was square to the max, not even a smoker or a drinker, no party animal, just a small town kid pretending to be cool. Your essay did quite the same to me as the album itself - it reached a point in my subconsciousness where the facts don't matter that much as the feelings, and I guess it touches this subtextual spirit of WASBH pretty well.

Needless to say that I like the other essays as well, there's pretty much to be learned here about this great band.

Cheers, Doc

Oh man oh man, these are all brilliant works. So much to think about, it's fantastic what different ears and minds take from these albums. I appreciated the WSABH essays back to back, and I'll have more thoughtful comments when I've had a chance to digest them a little.

I've got about a dozen pages of notes for mine, hope to have it in your hot hands by Wednesday. Glad to know some of the more personalized style is going over well, because AFG is pretty close to my heart. It's been awesome to focus in on one album this way.

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new essay up today on Tallahassee, and there will be another one on Get Lonely up tonight or tomorrow. Check them out. Also, if you're enjoying read these awesome pieces, consider joining the site as a follower so you can get e-mails on new essays, particularly because i will probably not pop in here for every essay that is posted going forward. don't cost nothing anyhows.

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Mine will be with you this week, WC...
Just doing some edits.

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recipes for cake!!!

I'll hopefully have my Sunset Tree essay finished by next week, I went back to school recently and I'm a bit busier than I thought I would be but I'm working on it!

looking forward to reading them susan and darkshines!

also, in just over 2 weeks, we have had over a 1,000 hits on the site! i know that's not so much these days, but i think it's pretty cool.

new essay by fever coming up soon.

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I'll hopefully have my Sunset Tree Tallahassee essay finished by next week, I went back to school recently and I'm a bit busier than I thought I would be but I'm working on it!

Same. It will probably end up being just an essay about "No Children" and my introduction to the Mountain Goats, if that's cool.

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I'll hopefully have my Sunset Tree Tallahassee essay finished by next week, I went back to school recently and I'm a bit busier than I thought I would be but I'm working on it!

Same. It will probably end up being just an essay about "No Children" and my introduction to the Mountain Goats, if that's cool.

however you want to write it, that's cool with me. I don't have any essays on deck, so if anyone has one they are finishing up, i can put it up pretty quickly. thanks!

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-- Current list of proposed submissions --

* if an essay is crossed out, that means it's posted already. if i missed somebody let me know.

1. P. William Grimm -- Satanic Messiah

2. N. Turcotte - Isopanisad Radio Hour

3. Jamison Murphy - All Eternals Deck

4. starlingtattoo - transjordanian blues

5. susan and her notebook - Tallahassee

6. Carolina Cordero - The Sunset Tree

7. J. Brindle - the Life of the World to Come

8. Matt Puppington - AHWTX "No Children"

9. Clementine - Full Force Galesburg

10. El Nombre - New Asian Cinema

11. JOTS - Sweden

12. SWV - the Life of the World to Come

13. Fever - Get Lonely

14. Fever - We Shall All Be Healed

15. AKMA – We Shall All Be Healed

16. Killebrew – Heretic Pride

17. Lotus – The Coroner’s Gambit

18. Scelerata – All Eternals Deck (?)

19. Shlack – Hot Garden Stomp

20. Mkslider – Black Pear Tree

21. Mithel – Heretic Pride

22. BZ Thompson – “The Monkey Song”[/quote]

23. P. William Grimm -- Jack & Faye

24. Doc Sanchez -- Tallahassee

25. mostobscureMGlyric -- Plan-It X Festival 2011

26. Fever -- Eugene Sue (does not come with a free download:-( )

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My Eugene Sue essay, complete with lyrics. Going to listen to the song tonight.

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We belong dead.
[www.last.fm]
[sordidalley.blogspot.com]
[popwreckoning.com]
[blog.kexp.org]

"Going to listen to the song tonight."


Pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbttt!

Dash cheek, that, Fever! It isn't polite to rub it in that you live in the same town as the tape. For that, I'm going to only let you listen to the version that's the latest video JOTS and I made which includes people whistling along!

To paraphrase AKMA: Pbbbbbbbtt!

I see your Pbbbbbbbtt, and raise you a Pffffffffffffttt

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[www.last.fm]
[sordidalley.blogspot.com]
[popwreckoning.com]
[blog.kexp.org]

i'm going to be traveling for the next few days, so if you send me an essay and it doesn't go up right away, give it a little time. I really try to read them each before I post them and make comments/edits where appropriate, so it may take a little time. Headed to Atlanta to be with my family for my 40th birthday. 40, holy shit.

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Headed to Atlanta to be with my family for my 40th birthday. 40, holy shit.

Happy Birthday Michael!

thanks!

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Yeah, Happy Birthday, Michael!!!

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Happy birthday, Michael — have fun going to Georgia!

(I remember forty — dimly....)

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i'm going to be traveling for the next few days, so if you send me an essay and it doesn't go up right away, give it a little time. I really try to read them each before I post them and make comments/edits where appropriate, so it may take a little time. Headed to Atlanta to be with my family for my 40th birthday. 40, holy shit.

Shit, I'm turning 30 in October, and thinking about killing myself.. good luck, man.

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[www.last.fm]
[sordidalley.blogspot.com]
[popwreckoning.com]
[blog.kexp.org]

Yo, young people, getting older isn't that bad (fever especially). Different capacities, different burdens, different losses, different opportunities — but always lots more wonder ahead.

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Writing about Get Lonely might fucking kill me.

I hope you die.

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Lame "if it kills me" joke response

I hope you both die.



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Writing about Get Lonely might fucking kill me.

I hope you die.

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Lame "if it kills me" joke response

I hope you both die.

For better or worse, I'm pretty confident that not only will they both die, but we all will.

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Writing about Get Lonely might fucking kill me.

I hope you die.

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Lame "if it kills me" joke response

I hope you both die.

For better or worse, I'm pretty confident that not only will they both die, but we all will.

not to get too analytic, but consider the following: through children, a couple can theoretically live forever, or at least live on past their own physical existence. so, to say "i hope you die, i hope we both die," the Alpha Male is refusing to have children, i.e., no children, thereby killing her off, and indeed killing both of them off, if they stay together, even without literally killing her, or himself. if you accept that, then you can say that the second line, "i hope we both die", is his way of saying, i hope we stay together forever. i will never agree to get pregnant with you, but i will also never leave you. i like this interpretation, because I am one of those who don't see tallahassee as a break-up album, but as a stay together forever (albeit perhaps in misery) album.

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