How could anyone NOT like this band?

[T Roosevelt]

From Firewater's website:

Oren Kaplan's spiky guitar work has never sounded sharper. Calliope, carousel organ and casttanets, bazouki, accordion and stomping feet add color to The Man On The Burning Tightrope's film noir world. But in places producer Muskat has added by judiciously stripping away; some songs are so naked it almost feels like we're eavesdropping on an internal monologue.

Which brings us to the Fifty Dollar Question: Who is The Man On The Burning Tightrope? George W. Bush? The everyman? Or Tod A himself?

Typically, Tod A dodges the question. "That would be telling," he deadpans. I can identify with George Bush to an extent: I was lousy at school, plus I've had my problems with alcohol and the law," he laughs. But here, the singer says, the similarity ends. "Number one, I'm not an ignorant xenophobe, and I was eventually able to nail down a basic grasp of English. I'm a person who would happily trade a few blow jobs in the White House for a country which is not perpetually at war, in debt, and reviled by the rest of the world."

Huh. Oh, and any group that would have an album titled "Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire" is OK by me. ;)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/artist/glance/-/101604/102-7112431-8397705

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. LOL!

"Get off the Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire"

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[T Roosevelt]

2. Oh the things you stumble across on the internets