Thursday, November 04, 2004  

Leave Your Masterpiece Unfinished

My Favorite, "The Suburbs Are Killing Us"
My Favorite, "The Suburbs Are Killing Us vs. Double Agent"
My Favorite, "The Suburbs Are Killing Us vs. Leisure Enthusiast"
from The Happiest Days of Our Lives: The Complete Joan of Arc Tapes (Double Agent, 2003)

I really owe My Favorite an essay. I really owe them a phone call. I really owe them a 7-inch on Audrey's Diary. Alas, as I seem incapable of writing these days due to a death in the family, ongoing work insanity, and NBA tipoff---not to mention that the phone is an anathema to me, my record label is expired, and the 7-inch is all but extinct---I may just have to honor them by illegally giving away their music for free in hopes that you, dear reader, will follow up with My Favorite and write them an essay, give them a phone call, and release their music. Or at least buy their music, read their essays, and dream of phone calls from the band. It's the least you can do. I, however, should do so much more. My Favorite and I have a deep connection---one that preceeds this Web site and the E-Mail Age; one that came before our first letters to each other more than a decade ago; one that goes back to the '80s and high school, in different parts of the States, before we knew each other at all, when we spent our nights cruising from anywhere to nowhere on the two-laners in hand-me-down cars in hand-me-down towns, dreaming of what life was like somewhere, anywhere else. No essay, no phone call, no matter. Sometimes there's a light that will never go out.
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My Favorite can be found by the Lost Detective, and s/he hosts more MP3s as well as videos and Michael Grace's wonderful late-night communiques.
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Double Agent sells My Favorite discs and perhaps some of your favorites as well.

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