Pop the trunk, slam the door, peel off

[sovay]

The rusted ghost sign on the side of the Knights of Malta Hall which we discovered last year to date from the days of the Sheraton Upholstering Company has been removed. It leaves the ghost of a ghost sign.



I really enjoy the wall of sound on Bachelor's "Stay in the Car." I had encountered Melina Duterte and Ellen Kempner through their respective solo projects, but they are just ferocious together. Be the ice cream left out in her sun, plug into the speaker and put on our favorite song, run the A/C and sing along. Should you need a queer anthem for those brain-melting moments across a crowded parking lot, I think you could do a lot worse.

Faye Schulman has died. The partisan with the camera, the partisan with the leopard coat and the rifle, an invaluable documentarian of Jewish resistance during World War II. I have seen her photographs for years. I didn't know until this article that her name in those years was Faigel Lazebnik. I didn't know, either, that like Henryk Ross, she left her photography with the war. "And among the few other belongings that Mrs. Schulman was able to bring from Europe was her Compur camera, the folding bellows model that she had used in August 1942. She treasured it, her daughter said, but she apparently never used it to take another photograph again." Her memory—her pictures—for a blessing.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Shame they removed it.

No sense of history!

Since you like that sort of thing, here's a local one!

[sovay]

Since you like that sort of thing, here's a local one!

I do like this sort of thing, and thank you!

(spatch is hoping our sign was liberated by a fan as opposed to removed by the city, which just feels disrespectful.)

[radiantfracture]

I really enjoy the wall of sound on Bachelor's "Stay in the Car."

That has an awesome 90s pop-punk vibe -- that riff is so familiar. And then like a little Elliott Smith in the bridge.

[sovay]

That has an awesome 90s pop-punk vibe -- that riff is so familiar.

It does! It has the explosive dynamic shifts, too. (Which I know were pioneered by Mission of Burma, but remain most commonly identified with the Pixies and Nirvana, etc.) I've played it . . . a lot.

[radiantfracture]

I've played it . . . a lot.

Me too, now.

Whenever I hear "dynamic shift" I think of "Fountains of Wayne Hotline". (Which is not as good as "Stay in the Car," but makes me laugh.)

[sovay]

Whenever I hear "dynamic shift" I think of "Fountains of Wayne Hotline".

"Two sixteen-bar verses, the first one broken down, followed by a radical dynamic shift—"

"Oh, that Gerald."

That's wonderful. Thank you so much.

[asakiyume]

I like that! VERY nice sound, and I like how colorful the video is too.

Rest in peace and power, Faye Schulman.

[sovay]

I like that! VERY nice sound, and I like how colorful the video is too.

I am facing the prospect of having to get hold of the entire album.

Rest in peace and power, Faye Schulman.

I want to read her memoir.

[asakiyume]

I am facing the prospect of having to get hold of the entire album. There are worse prospects! I have found myself an obsessive fan of the singer Safara, and have been buying all her work. I came across her because she was the main artist for a remarkable soundtrack that featured sounds like this, but have come to realize I love literally all her stuff (plus she turns out to be a social activist and a teacher and an all-around cool-seeming person). The video for her song "San Antonio", in which a woman is praying to Saint Anthony for a boyfriend**, is very cute.

**I knew about praying to Saint Anthony to recover lost things, but apparently in some parts of Colombia (and elsewhere maybe?) people also pray to him for a lover.