Ligesom godt

This weekend I was pretending to go grocery shopping, which meant I couldn't let any of the music I was listening to get scrobbled to last.fm. (Not that I have to worry about such a thing now, since last.fm has quit working. I am intensely annoyed.) Instead of merely moving my finger a couple of times and turning the audioscrobbler off (which, adding to the oddness of this behavior, I do quite regularly) I decided to listen to all of the mp3s Stytzer has up in anticipation of the upcoming Vesterbro Festival. This was fitting though, I guess, because we just read about Vesterbro in the new (and incredibly depressing) Danish text.

Anyway, Stytzer is a big fan of this band called Kind of Girl. While I usually take his advice -- especially after I've seen that he's talked about something more than once -- for some unknown reason, I've been resisting listening to Kind of Girl. However, it was my good fortune that Kind of Girl is playing Vesterbro; thus, about halfway through the list, I wound up listening to one of their songs, Poetry Boy. And oh my god, is it good.

You must know now that I hate poetry. Some people think this is odd, because, they say, songs are really poems. That's true, kind of -- however, songs also have music, and that makes the difference. Anyway, after listening to Poetry Boy only once, I wanted to go find and read a book of poems. Well, not really, but a very romanticized perception of poetry did cross my mind, and I briefly considered adding reading poems aloud to the acceptable activities paradigm. However, after careful consideration, I decided that not even a song as awesome as Poetry Boy could make me like straight poems. Besides -- the lyrics actually go "sing me some poetry," so I think music will be quite good enough.

Even though I haven't quite comprehended all the lyrics yet, Poetry Boy is now on par with Idyllwild (from Trembling Blue Stars' wonderful new album The Last Holy Writer), topping the list of songs I love because they are not just beautiful -- they are sad and beautiful. The other Kind of Girl songs I've heard are not quite as good as that, but, well, Poetry Boy is a lot to live up to. They're still really nice. And the album they're on -- it's called Lonely in a Modern Way. Even better.

Plus, Kind of Girl has the most informative myspace ever (it's better than some bands' official sites), and they'll even give you a ring tone for your phone. You can download two other real songs there, too.

Også, Josh, hvis du har skrevet brev til mig, det er meget godt, men nu du måtte lægge det i et konvolut og sende det til mig -- og husk, frimærker koster nu mere. Fordi, det er ikke noget godt -- for dig eller mig -- hvis brevet sætter på din bord for altid, jo?

--DL--
Poetry Boy (Kind of Girl)