"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." - Carl Schurz

"The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time." - George Sutherland
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." - Edmund Burke

Friday, October 27, 2006

My recommendations 2006:
The Last Romance by Arab Strap

Arab Strap: The Last Romance
Transdreamer 2/21/2006

It took me about four or five listens before I started to get The Last Romance. Aidan Moffat's drowsy brogue conveys a strange kind of romanticism borne of unceasing degradation and cynicism. The protagonist in these tracks is downtrodden and liquor-soaked, but he still tries feebly to make a connection and express what he figures must be love in spite of having lost the emotional vocabulary. Much as those who have lost their sight experience a heightening of their other senses, his clumsiness in matters of the heart reveals wisdom that can only be gained through disillusionment.

Posted by Jonathan at 8:59 PM

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