There are times when I can sound like a know-it-all. Truth is, I do know a little about almost everything, but not a lot about anything. It's those years to talk-radio and hunting for stories. There aren't too many topics someone can bring up that I haven't a) done an interview about, or b) read something about.
I've done enough medical interviews on diseases of the world that I should hold a medical degree.
Political issues? Paint me Lennox, Ph.D.
Just don't go deeper than the first few questions.
I mention it because of an interview I caught this morning on NPR's Weekend Edition.
It was about a band, but I kept missing the name. Hotel? Nuro? WTF?
Google to the rescue. The band was Neutral Milk Hotel.
Who?
Never heard of 'em.
Yet the multi-trionaire author of the Harry Potter series described them as her favorite band! I found they even played a few block away from my Birmingham home in February of 1998.
After reading some online material, I think I've figured out how I missed their ten-year career. It was like 1990 - 1999..the last years of my own radio career and my first in TV. It was a period in which I moved from Birmingham to Montgomery..blah blah blah.
In other words, I was too busy rediscovering myself to pay much attention to an Indie band with a weird name.
This rainy Sunday morning though, I spent time listening to samples of their work, and though I loved some of the lyrics, they probably wouldn't have been one of my favorites, even if I had been paying attention that decade.
Neural Milk Hotel. At least I now know enough about 'em for that three-question-deep party conversation.
I've done enough medical interviews on diseases of the world that I should hold a medical degree.
Political issues? Paint me Lennox, Ph.D.
Just don't go deeper than the first few questions.
I mention it because of an interview I caught this morning on NPR's Weekend Edition.
It was about a band, but I kept missing the name. Hotel? Nuro? WTF?
Google to the rescue. The band was Neutral Milk Hotel.
Never heard of 'em.
Yet the multi-trionaire author of the Harry Potter series described them as her favorite band! I found they even played a few block away from my Birmingham home in February of 1998.
After reading some online material, I think I've figured out how I missed their ten-year career. It was like 1990 - 1999..the last years of my own radio career and my first in TV. It was a period in which I moved from Birmingham to Montgomery..blah blah blah.
In other words, I was too busy rediscovering myself to pay much attention to an Indie band with a weird name.
This rainy Sunday morning though, I spent time listening to samples of their work, and though I loved some of the lyrics, they probably wouldn't have been one of my favorites, even if I had been paying attention that decade.
Neural Milk Hotel. At least I now know enough about 'em for that three-question-deep party conversation.
2 comments:
Don't feel bad about this, Tim. I lived in Birmingham (well, Cahaba Heights, which was technically unincorporated until it voted to join Vestavia Hills) 1996-2005,
And I swear that I never heard of that band nor listened to them, either.
They were a kind of offbeat indie band that had a greater influence on other more popular indie bands such as Drive-By Truckers and Jason Isbell. Check out DBT if you have not done so. Kind of like Faulkner for the 21st century musically.
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