Word: listenerers
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"We buried my sister today," the old man sighs from the backseat. "She was a veteran of the war." The driver, Artyom Dobrovolsky, glances at the rearview mirror and nods. He has a talker. As he dodges the ubiquitous potholes and noses ahead of less intrepid drivers, Artyom settles into...
So you do the only thing your silly ignorance will let you do to escape the momentary bind you're in: wave your hand in the general direction of the truth, tighten your shoulders vaguely and shrug, "oh, you know what I mean." Quickly, quickly, you pass the buck on...
The hope is that the listener will be too cowardly to admit his or her ignorance. The hope is that we can discreetly displace responsibility for our position, ignorant, slack, uniformed as it is.
Like all serious evils, this behavior takes many forms. One instance of this rhetorical recklessness outstrips most others in sheer power and elan. In one deployment it works all kinds of slick magic: it saves the speaker from accountability, establishes (wink-wink) an intimacy with the listener that only a...
Which makes the listener wonder why they have included the relatively flimsy "Girl Afraid" in the second album. The song's stock theme of boy-girl misunderstandings detracts from the mood of raw bleakness induced by songs like "The Headmaster Ritual" and "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now." Furthermore, the...