Sentence of the Day, 12/28
It was the perfect song, sweet and fast, corny but mean, high-pitched but definitely masculine. Charlo's theme song and he didn't know it.
Roddy Doyle, 1996
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Roddy Doyle is one of DC's favorite living writers. No one, living or dead, writes music like he does. Technically, I mean "writes about music," because it's literature I'm talking about, not songs. But to say "writes about music" would not do justice to the scorching immediacy with which the man writes music.
People think they know The Committments because they've seen the Alan Parker movie, or because their roommate or their parents used to play the soundtrack a lot. But if you haven't read that slim, exuberant, joyful novel, go read it and be delighted. Then read A Star Called Henry -- a fabulist revisionist epic of 20th Century Irish history -- and be amazed.
Roddy Doyle, 1996
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Roddy Doyle is one of DC's favorite living writers. No one, living or dead, writes music like he does. Technically, I mean "writes about music," because it's literature I'm talking about, not songs. But to say "writes about music" would not do justice to the scorching immediacy with which the man writes music.
People think they know The Committments because they've seen the Alan Parker movie, or because their roommate or their parents used to play the soundtrack a lot. But if you haven't read that slim, exuberant, joyful novel, go read it and be delighted. Then read A Star Called Henry -- a fabulist revisionist epic of 20th Century Irish history -- and be amazed.
posted by DC at 10:44 AM
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