Comments on: AD Presents :: Silver Jews, Echoplex, Sept. 26th

By: Deadhand

Deadhand — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:36:38 +0000

Something hits me hard in “How to Rent a Room”:

“You’re a tower without the bells; you’re a negative wishing well.”

“Chalk lines around my body, like the shoreline of a lake.”

“Now there’s a lot of things I’m gonna miss, like thunder down-country and the way water drips when you’re runnin’ for the door in the rain.”

Whoa. It’s not all lines – a lot of it is delivery.

By: Chanteuse Sanders

Chanteuse Sanders — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:43:52 +0000

I agree. The riddles are the one that drew me to the song. Aquarium Drunkard adds flair to their post images. *Love*

By: noah green

noah green — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:10:50 +0000

“you’re a tower without a bell. you’re a negative wishing well.”

By: Becky

Becky — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:03:40 +0000

“In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection.”

and

“There is a place past the blues I never want to see again”

and…just because i love this line:

“You were always at the dog track
With your brother and all his friends”

By: Justin Stone

Justin Stone — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:02:28 +0000

“What’s with all the handsome grandsons in these rockband magazines? What have they done with the fat ones, the bald & the goateed!?”

By: Avishay Artsy

Avishay Artsy — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:58:16 +0000

I’ll be in Los Angeles that night! I would love to see them! I love so many of their lines: “I wish they didn’t set mirrors behind the bar / cause I can’t stand to look at my face / when I don’t know where you are” and also “I know that a lot of what I say has been lifted off of men’s room walls / Maybe I’ve crossed the wrong rivers and walked down all the wrong halls” and then of course, “my friends, don’t you know that I never / want this minute to end / and then it ends.” God, he’s good.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:04:48 +0000

‘what looks like sleep is really hot pursuit’ is my current favorite line. great delivery.

would love to see the show

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:03:38 +0000

Black and Brown Blues from above is the clear winner. That’s what came to mind first. These soon followed…

In 27 years, I’ve drunk 50 thousand beers
and they just wash against me
like the sea into a pier.

The drums march along at the clip of an I.V. drip
like sparks from a muffler dragged down the strip.

There is a house in New Orleans, not the one
you’ve heard about. I’m talking about another house.

Repair is the dream of the broken thing
Like a message broadcast on an overpass
all my favorite singers couldn’t sing.

How bout a bunch of great lines from “Self Ignition”

gently thinking backwards
on the psychedelic promises god made to me in the dark
some of these kids don’t have words
they’re as helpless as parakeets in a park

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if dreams are your body telling you it’s confused
then i’ve got a dream i think you can use

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i don’t like magic, and i don’t like tricks
having a helluvah time believing we exist

the mailman dreams he’s paul revere
he wants the whole town to buy him a beer

and i have to remember that your not wanting me
doesn’t make me any less here

By: Dave R.

Dave R. — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:24:23 +0000

Dave Rock
emaildaverock@gmail.com
“People got to synchronize to animal times.”

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:56:50 +0000

one of the most classic ways to start out an album: “in 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection…..”

By: bryan

bryan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:55:15 +0000

No I didn’t really want to die
I only wanted to die in your eyes

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:58:26 +0000

i like the riddles….
“How does an animal see when the sun has set”

By: clobbox

clobbox — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:46:47 +0000

it comes down to

“My ski vest has buttons like convenience store mirrors
and they help me see, that everything in this room right now is a part of me.”

“Half hours on earth
What are they worth
I don’t know”

By: bristone

bristone — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:22:29 +0000

“When I go downtown
I always wear a corduroy suit
cause it’s made of a hundred gutters
that the rain can run right through
but a lonely man can’t make a move
if he can’t even bring himself to choose
between a pair of black and a pair of brown shoes”
Black and Brown Blues, 1996

man AD do i love me some joos, too – and i’d love to see them at the echoplex – but i lives in charleston, sc – a bit too far for a night out – thanks for the offer!