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[holeymoley]

I finished reading Kim Cooper's book about Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. She did a very sweeping portrayal of the record and its genesis as a bunch of kids swapping mix tapes as teenagers. She infused a lot of quotes from people that were in Neutral Milk Hotel or from Athens, GA during the time leading up to the recordings

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[rootedfool]

For awhile I thought Palmer would end up as the new Ashbery, as far as influence goes. Look at the all-too-prolific Noah Eli Gordon, totally riffing on Palmer -- and there are others.

I don't know if I really dig Palmer so much but I respect the dude.

[rootedfool]

That NML album -- man, memories. Back in Dover, Delaware, the year 2000, I was living in a shitty dump, and I was mad for this ample-chested frizzy-frock-haired ditzy girl who, amazingly, really dug that album, and drew me into listening to it more and more. My my how I wanted to plunder (blunder) all up in that goofy softness of her. So, dig, that album takes me back and I don't like it back there, really, so I haven't heard it in years and years.

[holeymoley]

Motorboat.

[johnnyburma]

That book is rad.

That is a rad book.