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Pretty Girls Make Graves were a pretty good band to begin with, their first E.P. which this song is from is consistantly pretty O.K.
Their first album which was pretty consistant, had a couple of songs that were slightly more poppy and entertaining, with good catchy guitar, (thinking about it the main reason they probably got so much press attention back in the day was because they had "girls" and "graves" in their name rather than the fact that they had a girl singing, which isnt that weird).
That album got them big and then.. I think they moved to seattle and got all about the songwriting, and got some people from the band Murder City Devils. went all downtempo and and decided against guitars (which are for boys and not pretty girls)and lost the pop, the first single off their last album had wistles, not in a good way as the main instrument(!) .
Saturday, 10 November 2007
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Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Geek fiction serious
http://community.livejournal.com/hp_essays. Has some essays that go into quite alot of almost academic depth about Harry Potter etc,
There seems less antagonism toward popular fiction and "geeking out" in public, and "prevailing cultural trend of the assumption of the all emcopassing cultural influence cache that serious literary fiction in the public realm porports to exert" doent seem to go anywhere...
Arguably there is more depth and subject matter in many of these works that can be explored due to there being more periodical and less closed narratives than some of the more literary end of things.
All the great novels were published weekly.
Angel and Buffy (yeah), have probably hads the odd academic paper written about them. Some of the more recent popular geek fiction has pretentions toward being "politically resonant" and "spirtual" though you'd think seeing as this ..stuff would have such an impact on culture that they'd be studied, maybe not taken serious but studied.
There seems less antagonism toward popular fiction and "geeking out" in public, and "prevailing cultural trend of the assumption of the all emcopassing cultural influence cache that serious literary fiction in the public realm porports to exert" doent seem to go anywhere...
Arguably there is more depth and subject matter in many of these works that can be explored due to there being more periodical and less closed narratives than some of the more literary end of things.
All the great novels were published weekly.
Angel and Buffy (yeah), have probably hads the odd academic paper written about them. Some of the more recent popular geek fiction has pretentions toward being "politically resonant" and "spirtual" though you'd think seeing as this ..stuff would have such an impact on culture that they'd be studied, maybe not taken serious but studied.
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
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