Harvey Danger

So I've rediscovered Harvey Danger. Even though I've enjoyed "Flagpole Sitta" for years, I've never actually bothered to listen to their other stuff, assuming they were just another generic post-grunge, late 90s alternative band.  Ends up they are, but I really like their stuff.  I haven't listened to their third album yet, but Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? and King James Version are both really good, fun, enjoyable, witty and emotional.  All my favorite things!

Moral of the story? Don't write off someone just because they are a one hit wonder.  They might have more songs that should be hits.

Some random lyrics from them:

"I swear, I wish I could be less aware... now it’s absolutely clear to me that solitude is not the same as singularity, but that’s not why I’m lonely."- This reminds me about the fun of dividing the semantic space of "loneliness".  What is loneliness? What's the difference between solitude and loneliness? How else can it be divided? Or combined? I forget how I've divided up the space in various conlangs, if I have at all, but I know I made loneliness taboo for the Úīkmo Kīkxot. Well not loneliness perse, but bachelorhood and loneliness outside of set times. In fact one of their core religious tales is about how loneliness can drive someone to do evil things. It has two roots so far relating to loneliness, both with negative connotations (well sort of at least). One root is for humans, one is for other stuff. I dunno if this technically counts as suppletion, but TbKt has a pretty strong system of roots used only for humans and a separate root meaning the same thing for everything else. An essential part of insults is using the wrong verb form to imply that someone is less than human.

I think that the mountain tribes (one day I'll give them a name!) might distinguish loneliness from solitude by using the adversative particle.  But I dunno yet. Osogkum may use the volitional form to distinguish the two.  Again, I dunno, haven't hit that hill yet.

Speaking of alone, I just looked up it's etymology and it apparently came from "all one". Who would've guessed :p

"Friends will turn against you

People disappoint you every time
So if you've got greatness in you would you do us all a favor
And keep it to yourself?"

" Cast off the ego scars and let's go hit the bars
I reserve the right to hold my grudges
Friends like you, you know the rest
But all told, I hold on to my anger far too long"

"Some people will surprise you with a real depth of feeling
Others still may shock you with all that they're revealing
But one thing's sure: there's always more information than you ask
For."

"You can bash your head against a wall forever,
The wall will never change.
But if you start to like the bloody bruises,
The wall cannot be blamed."

And of course the classic:

"I'm not sick but I'm not well
And I'm so hot cause I'm in hell"

Among other lyrics and songs.

I like late 90s punk/post-punk/post-hardcore/emo/alternative/etc. Pinkerton is probably my favorite Weezer album, after all. In fact I was very happy to hear that At the Drive In is realizing a new album in a couple months. One of my favorite modern bands is Two Inch Astronaut. If you are somehow reading this blog and yet haven't had me try to get you to listen to them, you should go listen to them. And check out Exploding in Sound Records. I've been following this label since 2013 and they're starting to get bigger. Some of their bands even have wikipedia pages now! Though it makes me feel sort of band that I didn't grad early Speedy Oritz stuff before they got (relatively) big.

I like to ramble.  It makes me feel like there's thoughts in my brain.