Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With a nod to Radiohead here and to Sunny Day Real Estate there, The Sheila Divine's nine-song set began and ended in sweetness. They started the evening with "The Amendment," a precious ballad that allowed Perrino a warm up before exploding into the kind of fervor needed for the later "Modern Log" and "Opportune Moment." Except for the ballad, the songs were similar in form; they began with a Belle and Sebastian like delicacy and built up to a passionate central moment that belied the simplicity of the band's instruments (drummer Shawn Sears plays only a bass...
...made sandwiches at the Student Union, and when the three moved to Boston in 1997, The Sheila Divine was born. ("Sheila" is slang for "boy who is not tough" in Australia.) They were signed by Cherry Disc Records after sneaking into the president's office and putting their two-song demo tape in his deck. Perrino recently quit his job as an office-boy at a real estate agency, and the band's first full-length album, New Parade, will be out this April...
Both the beginning and ending poems of Vita Nova are themselves titled "Vita Nova," bookending a sequence of 32 inter-locking poems. It is a deeply reinforced whole--one of the last poems likens grief to the dark wood of a lute, referencing and earlier poem, "Lute Song," in which Gluck discusses the construction of the "overwhelmingly beautiful" out of "terror or pain." All of the poems address the problem of a new life, and the more obscure ones benefit from their embedment in the Vita Nova sequence...
...remorse and is thus ostracized from the group. Truly a person left to "the Karen Carpenter table, "Cue camerapan over to a table containing several emaciatedgirls sitting bleakly with no food in sight. Moresubtly, as the girls create a crime scene in Liz'sbedroom with the corpse, the song blaring in thebackground is, ironically enough. The Cars "LetThe Good Times Roll." It's at those moments whenJawbreaker lives up to the classicdefinition of a "black comedy...
...Thorndike Smith: It's as easy as this really...I was born listening to baroque music, after that I'd say the theme song intro to Howdy Doody and, following that, perhaps, Duran Duran and Erasure...