27th Apr 2004
Surfer Rosa
I’ve been getting back into a great band, that would be Pixies. You can trace a couple of careers back to them: Frank Black and his heavy surf/punk guitar sci-fi laced work, Kim Deal and the Breeders, and of course Kurt Cobain remarked on the Pixies influence on his own writing.
The Tech Angle is that the iTunes Music Store made it pretty easy to get a couple of old Pixies albums. The City Angle is that you should go into Bleecker Street Records if you are ever near there (West 4th Station, 1/4 of the trains in New York seem to go through there). They have a lot of music you won’t find elsewhere … lots of B-sides, concerts, and so on.
And just to tie this into a bow, I need … no, I would like … I would like to get some new earphones. I left my iPod buds in California. My Sony buds are not cutting it. The Apple ear canal buds just scare me. I don’t want anything that deep in my ears. Any suggestions?
Back to the Pixies: somehow they really remind me of California (turns out they are from Boston). Must be all of the surf guitar! Mixed with a couple of Guinness, mouse reaching for the JetBlue flight reservation web page… dreams of the coast, of sand, sun, the bike path through Santa Monica, waft of surfboard wax and tanning oil, watch out for jellyfish and riptides …
