SOUNDTRACK: BECK-“Defriended” (2013).
In 2013, Beck released threes singles that are likely not going to be released on albums. They were released as digital downloads and they are each very different.
“Defriended” opens with a slow, backwards sounding keyboards with purposefully electronic drums. The riff is catchy and there are some nice clean vocals on it.
It is certainly catchy but doesn’t seem like a comeback single. It’s doesn’t resonate as a big “hit.” This feels more like a testing the waters single.
[READ: April 1, 2013] “How I Read as Quickly as Possible Through My Back Issues of the TLS”
I am once again confused by Lydia Davis.
I have enjoyed her short fiction, but when she releases something like this I just feel like it’s a list. Yes, we gain insights into her (or her narrator anyhow), and yes there is some humor involved, but the whole piece is just a series of things that she does and does not want to read in her issues.
I do not want to read about the life of Jerry Lewis
I do want to read about mammalian carnivores
I do not want to read about a portrait of a castrato
I Just Read About That... 