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Thursday, January 24, 2008
FLORIDA
Modest Mouse
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Sony : 2007
[Buy It]
FLORIDA
Vic Chesnutt
West of Rome
Texas Hotel : 1992
[Buy It]
FLORIDA
The Shazam
The Shazam
Copper : 1997
[Buy It]
FLORIDA'S ON FIRE
Superchunk
Here's to Shutting Up
Merge : 2001
[Buy It]
LAND OF SUNSHINE
Faith No More
Angel Dust
Reprise : 1992
[Buy It]
TROPICAL HOT DOG NIGHT
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
EMI : 1978
[Buy It]
On Monday, Alex posted all about Alaska. That was the name of one of the alphabet books I used as a kid, "All About Alaska." It started like this: "Abundant Bear and Caribou; Deer Everywhere and Fishing, Too." I was highly suggestible, and so I imagined deer everywhere, showering in locker rooms, reaching their hooves into salad bars. I grew up in Miami. What did I know?
Florida has been in the news lately. I'm not sure why. Something about a primary? I plan to vote Democratic, but I watched the Republican debate in Boca Raton last night, because it's my home state, and my country. Probably because I disagree with most of what the candidates said, I found it more interesting than the Democratic debate. The current of hatred running between Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney was almost visible. Rudy Giuliani wore his underdog status like underwear two sizes too small. John McCain addressed global warming forthrightly and tried to emphasize his conservative bona fides. Romney seemed to control the first half of the debate and McCain the second half, which didn't look like it would shake up the Florida polls much. Ron Paul was there, which I didn't know until the end.
My wife and I let my two sons stay up and watch part of it, and I explained that the primary was closed, and that it was winner-take-all for delegates, and that it was coming up Tuesday. They are six and three years old, and they listened for a while and then their attentions drifted and they began to remind me about our trip to Miami last month, and especially the parts where they ran around outside and then came inside to hear me tell stories about running around outside--swimming in the pool, climbing on the roof, pulling the tails off of lizards. A little much, maybe, but they wanted details. At night, grandparents watched the kids, and my wife and I drove around--the adult version of running around--and listened to the radio, which isn't the radio anymore, but an iPod run through the cassette player. She's from Miami, too, and some of the music we listened to was from bands that she heard at clubs in the late eighties and early nineties, sometimes knew, sometimes worked with: the Goods, Mary Karlzen, Nuclear Valdez, the Mavericks. I haven't posted any of them, not because they're unworthy, but because I have an obvious mind sometimes. Instead, I decided to post songs about Florida by acts from Washington, Georgia (though Florida-born), Tennessee, and North Carolina, along with a pair of songs by Californian eccentrics that may or may not be about Florida but have plenty of sunshine and flamingos, respectively. This set of songs has a more contemporary bent than much of what I have posted; the debate put me in the mood to pander. Indie Rock the Vote! Thursday's temperature in Miami was 79.Labels: ben, indie
posted by Ben
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