Big fittay

The Doc at a local book signing.

Welcome to my 50th post.

I jumped in here to report something that I never realized in some favorite music of mine. See, tarafina introduced me to The Postal Service, which is a beautiful collab from the minds of Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello. It's such a great sound, a pure collab genius that it makes me excited to sit down and listen. It can go from work-inducing background to forward-thinking brain-food and really is one of my favorite complete albums. Check the bio on the link for further details, it's a cool read.

So there's a track called 'Nothing Better' that has this great line in it that I feel like I really heard for the first time. The song is about the procurement of a breakup between the singers. Guest vocals by one of the contributing Jen's (again, linkage please). The set-up goes that he isn't ready for the breakup and she has it all thought out and planned and even states, cooly and professionally, that she has prepared charts, graphs and a lecture. The line is that he will "guard the door like a goalie tending the net in the third quarter, in a tie-game rivalry."

Now this may not seem like much but I had a couple of lunch epiphanies today through some good reading and green tea and was very spongy and susceptible to anything. It may be just semantics, but there is no third quarter in hockey. It's called a period. "Big fucking deal, it was missnamed, move on fanboy", right? Well certainly SOMEONE would have caught it or at least the fact that the reason there are no quarters in hockey is because they only have three periods in hockey.

So you think I'm just being picky? Well I'm not. I'm clearly being a dork. Immediately the question springs to mind, why? Why is it that they decided to put or leave this in? So they're not sports fans, maybe? I doubt that that's the reason. Someone in the whole schema of music making at sub-Pop HAD to have made a note of it. Things like this rarely 'slip by' -especially between the fingers of these two musical geniuses. So again, why? Is it to trip me up, to pull me out of my little world for a bit? Or is it designed to make you negate the rest of the song because it really was the other way around in the situation? Was she the one blocking the door and he the one bringing charts and graphs to the breakup meeting? Who knows, but I can say one thing for sure. I plan on asking one or both of them someday.

I am marking my 50th post with a goal. I want to have a photograph of mine on the cover of a national publication, sell a photo to a major newspaper and sell a piece of art in the same year. This could easily be the year, but I better get on it.

Thanks for being here.

Ked