Peripatetic

In reconstructing the damn blog, I re-read my Dolorean post and decided that further listening (lots and lots of further listening) to Violence in the Snowy Fields indicated that my initial assessment of the lyrics missed the mark some. The Christian imagery in the lyrics, in particular, eluded me at first, I think. I know there are some who prefer the more elliptical and cryptic lyrics of the first-actually-second record, Not Exotic, and I’m not knocking those at all, but the lyrics as well as the melodies on Violence are something else entirely.

It ended up very close to being my favorite record of the year, though in the end I just couldn’t give the nod to anyone but the Delgados. Regardless, I think it’s an astonishing achievement, and I’ll have more to say about them soon.

I was *this* close to giving up on Wordpress (and I still have to admit I’m not thrilled with their support, but it’s churlish to complain about poor customer service for a service that a) produces great-looking pages, b) had functioned perfectly for weeks, and c) is entirely free). Everything’s happy now, though–apparently version 1.3 plays much more nicely with my version of PHP than version 1.2.2 does, so here I am. Now to reimport my old Blogger posts and cut and paste in the stuff I’d written in the interim while the blog was down.