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| The National – City Middle Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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worth noting that don delillo's "white noise", which deals extensively with the idea that the modern matrix of information and sensation overwhelms us, has a chapter in which several academics discuss pissing in sinks as a way of getting in touch with the folklore of america -- and then, two chapters later, tenessee williams is mentioned. i'm certain that the song has nothing to do with the book, but it's entirely possible that berninger was reading it or flipping through it at the time. |
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| Modest Mouse – Cowboy Dan Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Anyone who thinks that Cowboy Dan represents "the American spirit" or "freedom" or anything like that has said the pledge of alleigance one too many times. There's certainly never been anything inherently pro-American or nationalist about Issac Brock's writing. Cowboy Dan is one of the most dispicable characters evoked in Modest Mouse's music. He represents everything that Brock hates about white people in the modern day west; overconsumption, arrogance, greed, and cruelty. The image of a "cowboy" gives Dan a truly all-American persona; a beer swilling, barfight-starting manly man. The song is an indictment of Americana, not a diatribe in its favor. |
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