Archive for July, 2007
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
It Ain’t That Barbie Doll
There is an essay in the new American Scholar by a poet named Christian Wiman (I’d never heard of him, but he is the editor of Poetry magazine, if that means anything to anyone out there) that is basically a description of Devastationalism and his subsequent deliverance from it. I wouldn’t normally read a journal [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Non-Musical Devastionalisms by Philip
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Everybody’s Gotta Have Something
I wrote this song in my head wandering home drunk after work one night — from 97th and Madison to the East Village. Sometimes when you have a band, it makes it easy to write this way — what’s playing in your head will somehow be pre-tailored to the musicians’ individual styles and strengths, anticipating [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Studio, The Nightmares by Philip
Monday, July 16th, 2007
It’s Not The Money, Man
This is a “lost” song from the try-anything time just before the Nightmares were formed. It was recorded for a vinyl compilation of Columbia bands some guy was putting out. I didn’t have a band at the time, so Gid and I just put it together ad hoc with whoever was around from the uptown [...]
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Perhaps It’s the Color Of The Sun Cut Flat
Just the other night (over chilled melon soup swimming with huge chunks of fresh Maine lobster), we were talking about music and I was extolling the virtues of a certain famous singer whose recent work evinces a newfound generosity of spirit. It does seem people get kinder as they grow older (though some, alas, succumb [...]
