SOUNDTRACK: KACY & CLAYTON-“How to Fight Loneliness” (from WILCOvered, UNCUT Magazine November 2019).
The November 2019 issue of UNCUT magazine had a cover story about Wilco. It included a 17 track CD of bands covering Wilco (called WILcovered or WILCOvered). I really enjoyed this collection and knew most of the artists on it already, so I’m going through the songs one at a time.
I was not familiar with Kacy Anderson and Clayton Linthicum (a Canadian folk duo).
This song has a bit of menace in the delivery. I’m not sure if it’s the way Kacy sings a bit like Aimee Mann or in the bass/organ combination. The original is a bit more spare (although still minor key).
The guitar work (from Clayton) is very pretty, both the initial acoustic and then the sharper electric. There’s a great guitar solo mid-song.
I really like this version and will definitely check out more from this duo.
[READ: February 19, 2020] Princeless: Book One
After heaving read book three in this series, I figured I should go back and see how it all started. This book collected issues 1-4.
This book opens with a cartoony drawing of a fairy tale. A princess in a tower is saved by a handsome knight and they get married and live happily ever after.
On the next page, the little girl hearing the story says it is complete hogwash.
Then the girl, who is our heroine, Adrienne, lists the plot holes:
What kind of dragon dies from one blow?
How does the prince get the princess from the tower. He climbed? And then climbed down with her? Because she sure didn’t with those toothpick arms.
And who would put a princess in a tower, what kind of grudge would you need against her to do that?
Plus, the cost of a tower would be more than her dowry!
You’re gonna put a dragon, a wild animal, in charge of your daughter. What if it wanders off? What if it kills her?
All she knows is when she turns 16 her parents better not put her in a….
cut to next page tower. We see poor 16 year-old Adrienne locked in a tower guarded by a (very pink) dragon. The dragon is named Sparky and this dragon is not too scary. Well, she is since she is a dragon, but she’s not as scary as some dragons. I mean, she does manage to eat all of the knights who try to rescue the princess. (more…)
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