I had been planning to write something really profound about my impending nuptials on Friday (and it is definitely profound in so many ways), but a moment last night really brought it all home. After a late night of doing some last-minute wedding preparations and errands in which copy machines played a critical role, we were driving when I cued up a Silver Jews album in the car.
(For those of you not familiar with the Silver Jews, their Wikipedia entry reads in part: “The Silver Jews were always a conduit for David Berman’s brand of sardonic, countrified indie rock.” Hmmm. . . . “sardonic countrified indie rock” is about as close to my ideal as one could imagine, suggesting the perfect mixture of Stephin Merritt‘s raised-eyebrow lyrics, Gram Parson‘s “Cosmic American Music,” and a nice dose of Bakesale-era Sebadoh thrown in for good measure.)
So, it only makes sense that when I put on track one of the Silver Jews’ excellent 1998 record American Water (9.9 from Pitchfork — whoa!), an album we had never listened to together or even discussed before, we sang the first wonderful sardonic-countrified-indie-rock line in unison, completely unprompted:
In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection
In that simple shared moment, I experienced the powerful feeling of knowing that things were just plain right.
So great. So great!
Gram Parson makes me weep.
Many, many, many blessings to you and Nancy.
That is just too much.
I’m sitting here feeling very happy for you.
Congrats to you and Nancy, and big love from all of your fellow Yahoo!s. Unison is a good state to be in.
sync sync sync
Congratulations, Chad.
A perfect moment! very cool — congrats.
Awesome how music has a way of saying the unsaid for you. Turn it up!
Congrats to you and your lovely bride Chad! I can definitely appreciate the awesomeness of that kind of moment.
I had Oak Barrel send a Black Death Stout kit over to your place, enjoy!
Here’s to you both. May you have long lives, contented minds, and little or no lower back pain.
That was cool
congrulations to your upcoming wedding and marriage!
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