Architecture about dancing
Some metaphors and other ill-advised language from my review of St. Vincent, Foreign Born, and Basia Bulat at the Middle East this past weekend:
- like a frantic marionette (or somebody who learned to dance from John Linnell)
- tightly-coordinated assault
- pale girl-on-girl action
- 36%-milkfat vocal harmonies
- pluckables
Rightly omitted:
- St. Vincent mêlée
Feel free to click on "Recommend this!" despite your understandable reservations.
See also: Phrases I had the good sense to leave out of my Joanna Newsom review.
Pictured: Annie "St. Vincent" Clark (top), with the microphone that sounds like a poorly-connected telephone calling from Paris while it's burning; Basia Bulat (middle); Foreign Born (bottom). See my flickr account for more photographs of the show.



"St. Vincent mêlée" is good bonus material.
When I read "36% milkfat" I felt like vomiting and/or becoming constipated. Very evocative.
Posted by: rick | 05 March 2008 at 12:28 PM
what do you have against heavy cream? it is delicious.
Posted by: sushiesque | 05 March 2008 at 12:53 PM
delicious and indigestible!
Posted by: rick | 05 March 2008 at 02:56 PM
whatevs. I just ate a pile of shahi paneer.
Posted by: sushiesque | 05 March 2008 at 03:00 PM
and i just ate half a pound of fromage d'affinois but am prepared to suffer.
Posted by: rick | 05 March 2008 at 03:05 PM
god, I adore that stuff.
Posted by: sushiesque | 05 March 2008 at 03:23 PM