last days of radio (good things when short are twice as good)

it’s a process of elimination.  never using two words when one will do.  to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books.  brevity, as dorothy parker said, is the soul of lingerie.  parker that leftwing poet; that drunk wiseacre; that caustic blacklisted suicide.  what can’t be said in three minutes ain’t worth saying.  yeah?  fuck.  that.  what can’t be said in less than a minute ain’t worth saying.  these ten songs, they’re haikus; they’re tanka; they’re haiga.  short and goddam sweet. like shots of strega.  small and beautifully formed. like porno midgets.  listen.  they jam econo.

• wire: it’s so obvious
• tom waits: clang boom steam
• old man gloom: skullstorm
• mogwai: o i sleep
• misfits: braineaters
• magnetic fields: how fucking romantic
• guided by voices: wire greyhounds
• deerhoof:  the eyebright bugler
• bob dylan: talkin’ have negeilah blues
• be your own pet: lets get sandy

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