stylus magazine on reunion tour by the weakerthans. i bought the first half of the record today. always a couple songs grab you, and those songs try to convince you to learn to love the rest. “relative surplus value” is whispering in my ear about that.
it makes me happy to see the weakerthans, because everyone at the show is young, they all seem to care about music, and they seem nice. clearly my rock n roll cred is in danger. i learned about the weakerthans from sonya, who doesn’t write on her website much anymore.
(via osmium)
The only Weakerthans song I know is one that Sonya put on a mix she made for me back in 2003. It was called “Songs for Being Sad and Destroying Villages,” and had a crying T rex knocking over houses drawn in pencil on the front. I listened to it for the first time after one of those two-hour, middle of the night bad-idea conversations with an ex, after I’d cried in the bath, while I sat on the floor of my apartment and ate crackers and drank Sprite while the sun came up. It was the perfect mix.