Eliza Evans

merlin:

The Swell Season covers  Neutral Milk Hotel | Music | A.V. Undercover | The A.V. Club

Sweet maui onion, that motherfucker can sing.¹

What an ambitious and revered song to cover, but, holy shit, does he ever hit the 3-pointer.

Sure, I’d probably listen to Glen Hansard sing the ingredients on a shampoo bottle, but this is, you have to admit, pretty great.

Bonus: The Mighty Mangum playing 2-HB solo/live in 1998.

[Swell Season via sorry I totally forget who sorry] [struck @ 2010-08-13_12-13-31PDT]

[Swell Season via The Bacon Review]²

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1. Well. Eventually, he sings. First there’s a goddamned pre-roll beer commercial, then a spoodeley theme song, then an explanation of the “Undercover” project, then a kinda-cute interview, then I blacked out for a while, but I’m pretty sure I heard a song and saw a guy in a hat. It’s all kind of fuzzy now. My Lord, how the web breaks so hard when your chrome outshines your gold. Kind of like the delicious gold you’ll find inside every bottle of Budweiser®. Budweiser® America’s Great Liquid Error.™
   (Budweiser is brewed to be enjoyed responsibly by adults. © 2010 Anheuser-Busch, Inc., Budweiser®, St. Louis, MO. All rights reserved.) ↩

2. royalbacon says: “I’m reblogging this for two reasons: 1) Jeff Mangum live! and 2) I think Merlin found this because of me, and he just forgot because he’s a busy guy.”
   1. THANK YOU! (Thing is, I scoured my Dashboard and Reader subs and couldn’t turn it up. Apologies that you were overlooked, and thanks again.)
   2. Also? I’m not busy. I’m just disoriented. And that makes me look busy. Because my brow is furrowed, my eyes are crossed, and my cocksucking motherfucking book still isn’t done. Self-loathing is a hell of a drug. ↩

Lovely! Even if I did have to watch it through Safari. 

Other things I enjoyed: the small, round room painted like a Chicago flag; Hansard’s guitar, all beat up where he hits it with his pick.