Once in a while I see Joe Oestreich around Coastal Carolina University's English Department office. He's an assistant professor at CCU and member of the Ohio-based band Watershed. I downloaded Watershed's album Fifth of July from iTunes three days ago, and I'm listening to the song "5th of July" over and over again. Here's a clip with a link to purchase:
I think everyone probably knows a feeling -- probably from younger years in life -- of wanting to be close enough to a certain someone to fantasize about the possibility of a romance, while not wanting to take it all the way, not wanting to commit. It seems more fun to live in the possibility than to risk the reality of the relationship. Katie Herzig captures that sense in her flirty, sexy song "Hologram." I found it on the Paste magazine CD Sampler (Issue 44). Here's a link to purchase it on MP3.
Brandon Stosuy says rockers The Hold Steady are channeling the late poet John Berryman in this PoetryFoundation.org article: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/feature.onpoetry.html?id=179023
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