SOUNDTRACK: FRANK BLACK-“Headache” (1994).
Frank Black is Black Francis from the Pixies. When the Pixies disbanded, Black set out on a solo career. He’s got some great songs under the Frank Black moniker and this is one of them.
This is an acoustic guitar rocker, that sounds perfectly nineties. It builds over a series of verses, getting louder and faster with backing vocals added as the song goes along. What’s interesting is that there’s no real chorus to the song. The verses are more or less the choruses, although that doesn’t quite seem right either. But after the verses, there are these quieter interlude pieces that are kind of bridges but not really.
But regardless of all of that, the song is catchy as anything (especially for a song that includes the word cranium–incorrectly used–“My heart’s crammed in my cranium”).
Wow, i thought that Black Francis has been quiet all these years, and yet I see that he has been releasing an album a year for a decade. Talk about under the radar.
[READ: Week of August 20, 2012] JR Week 9
Holy cow, this week starts off with a lot of fun chaos in the Grynzspan apartment. And there’s a return of lots of characters, too! The long story arc seems to return to whence it started–the “Bast apartment,” although there are many changes afoot there. And, for those keeping score at home, we finally get to return to the original Bast House–where kids have sex and shit in pianos.
But first the poor delivery man is back with his gross flowers. [Simon’s comments from last week have some great ideas about the plastic flowers, too, by the way]. But before that goes anywhere, Eigen shows up to the apartment–the first time he’s been here in a while. And as he’s coming in the door, he is given a summons for Mr Grynzspan (whom the police assume he is). Eigen tries to control the crowd and his temper, but he’s fighting with everyone. In particular, he’s fighting with Rhoda, who has some great lines here. When asked if she is Mr Bast: “Man look at these I mean do I look like Mister anybody?” When Eigen says her name “was Rhoda right,” she says “What do you mean was,” and every time Eigen puts his hands near or on her, “I said I can dry there myself.” Things settle down and Rhoda regales Tom with the story of the shipwreck they had last night, and she’s glad that Chairman Meow isn’t drownded (610).
Then Amy calls looking for jack. She’s back from Geneva but needs a few days to straighten out things before seeing him. Rhoda says that Emily is someone Jack doesn’t want to see Eigen says she’s the only think holding him together. They repeat the same statements about Gibbs’ book. Rhoda says that Tom is this “big important novelist” but he can’t see that Gibbs hates his own book and feels pressure from Emily/Amy. (more…)
