New Yorker excerpt

[jwgh]

This is from the current (December 13) issue of the New Yorker, from the section titled 'Pop Music':

Every college student who feels a little sad and sits down with an acoustic guitar to summon beauty and form hopes, whether or not she knows it, to come up with one of Keren Ann's songs. This, unfortunately, is not what usually happens. Right now, at a café somewhere, a guitar player is pouring out his acoustic vision in front of helpless diners who, bereft of legal protection, are silently praying for the robots to take over.

Comments

[plorkwort.livejournal.com]

It's when the college students with guitars start trying to find beauty and hope in songs about robot takeovers that we're in trouble. or saved. or something.

All's I know is

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

Graham Parker ain't NEVER going back to the Moloko Bar in Jacksonville, but you'll have to get him to sit down with a guitar trying to find beauty if you want to hear about it because he said he'd never record that song, either. Well, except then he did, (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:a9u1z87anyi3) apparently.

[boutell.livejournal.com]

Her name is Yoshima, and I have no idea what you're talking about.