What he links to – not the softer Beefheart either.

“High voltage man kisses night to bring the light to those who need to hide
their shadow deed.”

Read No Wrong by Ash Tree

All action is reaction
Expansion
Contraction
Man the manipulator

Underwater
Does it matter
Antimatter
Nuclear reactor
Boom boom boom boom

Who’s your mother
Who’s your father
I guess everything’s relative

I’m a janitor
Oh my genitals
I’m a janitor
Oh my genitals
Oh my genitals
I’m a janitor

All action is reaction
Expansion
Contraction
Man the manipulator

Underwater
Does it matter
Antimatter
Nuclear reactor
Boom boom boom boom

Who’s your mother
Who’s your father
I guess everything’s relative

I’m a janitor
Oh my genitals
I’m a janitor
Oh my genitals
Oh my genitals
I’m a janitor

I am so totally obsessed with isolated tracks that I’ve started a blog devoted to it.  I had the impulse to post everything here because it’s all amazing, but that doesn’t make sense, so: studiomultitracks.com.

Experiencing Sebadoh was, for me, not unlike the effect The Beatles might’ve had on a kid in the front row in the early ’60s: watching each member trade instruments and exhibit their own style under one banner of musical freedom in what seemed to suggest a boundaryless attempt to investigate yourself in the format of a 3-minute song. If I had to boil down Lou’s contribution for future generations I’d say that, using the basic/minimal ingredients of home-recording, he expanded the template to some of its most orchestral and beautiful pinnacles in songs like “Total Peace”, “Kath”, “Hassle”, “Subtle Holy Gift”… The list is endless really.

I tried to find something that typified my own attachment to Lou Barlow, and had a hard time, but Lou Barlow basically has a place in every song I’ve ever written. This comes close:

Also good by the same guy: Beatles/Ramones

Source: Prelude to 110 or 120/Women of the World.

Graffin also has a PhD in zoology from Cornell.   When he is not on stage, he teaches evolution at UCLA.

Graffin is an atheist who doesn’t like to characterize himself as an atheist. “I bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you’re a naturalist it gives people a conversation point to talk about what you actually do believe in instead of when you say you’re an atheist and it’s really just a statement of what you don’t believe in,” he said.

Though the icon of his band is a Christian cross slashed out as if it was a cigarette on a no smoking sign, Graffin never outwardly attacks religion in his book.

His great-grandfather Zerr was a brilliant theological scholar, a legend in Graffin’s family, and Graffin alludes to a familial rift over Zerr’s strict fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible….

LaMonica: Voltaire said, “God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”  Is that not your view of nature?

Graffin: *laughs* No, I don’t think so.  See that implies there’s a design and of course Voltaire was a deist and a famous one at that and I think he thought that there was some design but I would say that there is no design to nature.

Continues…

Gives me an excuse to post my life story:

While I’m here:

Putting it in perspective:

Tonight’s the night that we got the truck
We’re goin’ downtown gonna beat up drunks
Your turn to drive I’ll bring the beer
It’s the late, late shift no one to fear
And ride, ride how we ride
We ride, lowride

It’s roundup time where the good whores meet
Gonna drag one screaming off the street

And ride, ride how we ride

Got a black uniform and a silver badge
Playin’ cops for real/playin’ cops for pay

Let’s ride, lowride

Pull down your dress here’s a kick in the ass
Let’s beat you blue ’til you shit in your pants
Don’t move, child got a big black stick
There’s six of us babe, so suck on my dick

And ride, ride how we ride
Let’s ride, lowride

The left newspapers might whine a bit
But the guys at the station they don’t give a shit
Dispatch calls “Are you doin’ something wicked?”
“No siree, Jack, we’re just givin’ tickets”

As we ride, ride, how we ride
Let’s ride, lowride