Nerd's Eye View: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
I've been trying to be less of a "blogger" and more of a "writer," which has meant spending less time posting on CGT and more time working on my short stories, poems, and scripts. I've also taken-up monthly writing gigs at Web In Front and Radio Free Silverlake.
More on RFS later, but my first Nerd's Eye View for Web In Front went up today. The premise behind NEV is to offer a CGT-styled "Collected Thoughts" type post on one national artist who is coming through town, ideally one who has been around for a while. The first Nerd's Eye View is on Ted Leo and The Pharmacists.
"How big of a geek is Ted Leo? His old band, Chisel, wrote a song called “Beta Ray Bill,” named for the alien Korbinite whose mind was transferred into cybernetic spacebeast’s flesh husk and who briefly assumed the power of Thor’s mighty hammer Mjolnir in the Marvel Comics universe."
READ THE REST AT WEB IN FRONT!
1 comments:
I'm with you on Ted Leo-being-awesome love, but not on the STS-being-the-best-thing-he's-done love. I think Pitchfork gave 'Hearts of Oak' and 'Tyranny of Distance' better scores than 'Shake the Sheets' because they're better albums. Everyone who I've ever met who knows/cares about Ted Leo thinks HoO/Tyranny are better than 'Shake the Sheets'. All great, though. Also, I'd rank a ton of TL songs above "Counting Down the Hours". Not even close to being the best track on STS IMO.
-steve
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