SOUNDTRACK: BISON B.C.-“Two Days Booze” (2010).
Bison B.C. are a hardcore metal band from Vancouver. I was surprised to hear them on CBC Radio 3, but that’s one of the great things about the online radio station: the diversity is amazing!
Bison B.C. is heavy with growling vocals that I didn’t understand at all. In between bombastic notes, they had include some guitar riffs that broke the bombast. The biggest surprise comes at around the 4 minute mark (quite a long song for the genre, although it seems that all of their songs are at least 5 minutes) when the song slows down to a few single notes (and a quiet bass). That’s when the choir (?) of male voices sings an Oh, oh section.
I listened to a few songs from their earlier discs, and it seems that they are going in a far darker direction with this new one.
[READ: June 30, 2010] “Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel”
Before I start let me say that this article was my first chance to plumb the depths fo the New Yorker online (subscriber back issues services) and it’s really awesome. I printed out some great looking ads from the fifties and sixties! I also enjoyed looking at the very first issues of the magazine.
This short story article was bandied about among David Foster Wallace fans as being a pioneer for Brief Interviews and other DFW stylings.
It opens with an answer to a question, which appears to be a therapy session. And it’s quite funny. But from there, the story gets broken down into several sections. Each one is more Q&A (except the 4th one which is just a series of Qs. (more…)
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