Ever have wisdom teeth impacted into your sinus cavity? Infection, sickness, disease. I’ll be dead in a week.
On the bright side, I saw Supersystem (formerly known as El Guapo) play in Hamtramck last week. They opened for the always entertaining Thunderbirds Are Now!. (do I use double punctuation there?) Anyway, guess they’ve been around for almost ten years but I’d never heard their stuff before. Picked up the new cd at the show, been on repeat in my car ever since.
Even the impossible to please indie-yuppies at Pitchfork can’t pretend to not like the track “Born Into The World,” which they (and Ed McMahon) give 4.5 stars:
” . . . what do we do when Supersystem (of El Guapo fame) drop “Born Into the World” on us like a fucking nuclear bomb, trickling evil liquid surf guitar over Dr. Dre organ stabs and John Carpenter keyboards and monstrous rolling bass and nimble disco cymbals and stupid-dumb conga breakdowns and breathless epic nonsense lyrics? What do we do when this thing crushes our frontal lobes like Godzilla stomping through Tokyo? We shut up. We dance. That’s what the fuck we do. ”
This site’s going to suffer over the next week or so, as stray teeth push their way towards my brain and I try to keep myself from extracting them in my kitchen with a steak knife. Or make a dentist appointment. Can’t decide which is less painful.
