It's absolutely criminal

that I haven't mentioned these guys yet. The Classic Flame:
http://www.myspace.com/theclassicflame

Unfortunately, they don't have a lot of stuff up on their myspace page. It's a shame, because I'm listening to their song "Broken Brain." It's great. The lyrics, the music... (the song that completely sums up Tuscaloosa...) Sounds kind of like the Antlers, but that's just a rough approximation of their sound. They're hanging around the same crowd. They're not the same people. Really, it's hard to exactly describe. It's completely deliberate. These guys know exactly what they're doing.

Seriously. Broken Brain is about, in part, Tuscaloosa. These guys get it. Sad happy beautiful ugly Tuscaloosa is just another chunk of the sad happy beautiful ugly stupid lovely South which is just another chunk of sad happy beautiful ugly stupid lovely America which is just another chunk of sad happy beautiful stupid ugly wonderful humanity. And, unless you are a self-aware machine (in which case I salute our new robot overlords), that should mean something.