The Brave and The Bold is the collaberation album between Tortoise and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. It unifies the stylistic diversity between the two artists, taking on 10 songs including covers of Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, The Minutemen and Devo.
Consider The Lobster is a collection of essays written by David Foster Wallace. Wallace takes on a wide range of topics with each essay reading as different as the last, with the exception of one common link, the extensive footnotes and endnotes. The narrative footnotes and endnotes drive the essays into a direction that never takes away from the issue at hand, but provides further information and humor. He covers the Academy Awards of Porn, the subtle humor in Kafka's writing, September 11th as perceived from a small town in Illinois, John McCain's rise and fall and rise and fall again in the 2000 presidential campaign, the relevance of ghost writers behind popular athlete's "autobiographies" and how the right wing has managed to dominate AM talk radio and will likely continue to do so regardless of America's political climate.
Both are well worth your time.
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Prince Billy and Tortoise? Why didn't anyone think of that before? It's a match made in soundclash heaven.
However, I've lately discovered that i no longer have any need for the broader currents of popular music, having found my fetish to lie within the complex melodic interplay and penetrating lyrics of Reggaeton music, which if it was popular in Spain, is damn near omnipresent out here.
Altogether now, "GASOLINA, DARME MAS GASOLINA!!"
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