Thursday, August 11, 2005
 
One's-self I sing - a simple, separate Person;
Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse

- Walt Whitman, 1855

Hi, everybody!
I'm Archie Bell and the Drells

- Archie Bell & the Drells, 1968

Q: Are we not men?
A: We are Devo!

- Devo, 1978


I'm sure the Germans have a word for the inability to distinguish one's self from the selves around you, but I can't come up with an English equivalent. In the meantime, Moistworks' Astoria Bureau is closing up shop for the summer, and I'm off to Africa for the month - a well-deserved vacation, if you ask me. Thanks to R. Blood for taking me to see Devo last night. They only played for fifty minutes. The new drummer, a veteran of the early-eighties hardcore wars, hurt his hand and played the last four or five numbers with just one stick. It was heroic.

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