I’ve Got No Patience For The End

Hand Fed Babies “The Fisherman Feels It” – Paraphrasing: Worrying about the End Times is for the lazy and idle! I’m not inclined to disagree. Gorgeous bass on this track, by the way. The whole thing sounds a bit like someone trying to make a screwed version of the Silver Apples with agitated vocals thrown in for a purposely jarring effect. (Click here to buy it from Hand Fed Babies’ MySpace page.)

Sir Alice “L’Amour Made In Taiwan” – Over the weekend, my roommate and I watched Noah Baumbach‘s debut feature Kicking and Screaming (not the Will Ferrell soccer movie, btw), in part because of the fact that we both enjoyed his current movie, The Squid and the Whale. Despite what you may have heard, Kicking and Screaming is a pretty awful film, especially in terms of the 90s Indie Flick About Hyper-articulate Angsty Upper Class White 20somethings subgenre. As with many films of that type, a certain level of narcissistic identification is necessary for a person to develop any kind of sympathy for its relentlessly unlikeable characters, and though this is not always a sign of bad art, I think that one would have to be a wanker of epic proportions to relate to the toxic levels of clueless douchebaggery found in all of the film’s protagonists. I actually feel quite relieved that this was clearly not a movie for me. Anyway, I mention this movie because, if nothing, it is a funny cultural artifact of the mid-90s, and as such, features some amusing cliches of the time. One of them being Friedrich, a black-clad, trenchcoat-wearing guy who just came back from a semester in Germany and has suddenly become an intense pseudo-Eurotrash hipster with a silly affected accent who has his eye on seducing Parker Posey. I imagine that Friedrich would really like this song, and I’m not sure if that’s a positive or negative comment on its quality. (Click here to buy it from Soul Seduction.)