- This review of the new David Mitchell novel is pretty close. I would add this. Mitchell has total mastery of prose and microstructure, yes, but here he’s trying to be conventional and in many places I was just bored. I prefer Number9Dream with no attempt whatsoever at macrostructure. What should I read next?
- Somehow it’s more funny when phones do this than when my kids do.
- The Grateful Dead sing the star-spangled banner.
- Mother’s Day makes Mothers want to cheat on their husbands.
- Caffeine overdose calculator.
- Krakow prison tattoos preserved in formaldehyde.
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July 16, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Andy
The death metal version is superior: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKkLUfFM7bg
July 18, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Donald A. Coffin
Did you post the link to the Marvin Gaye version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvVzaQ6i8A) or was that somewhere else. The Dead’s version is pedestrian, conventional, and notable only because it’s the Dead. Gaye’s version is transcendent.
July 18, 2010 at 1:02 pm
jeff
i posted both yes. indeed marvin gaye did something totally new. i like the jerry/bob/vince singing though because there is some non-trivial harmony there, not something they usually do.