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Two very different takes on a Porchsleeper review in Flemish.

The Original:
Heren, dames, laat u niet misleiden. Het 'bambi' meisje op de cover heeft
niks te maken met de muziek. Dit is geen bambi-muziek en er doen zelfs
helemaal geen vrouwen mee. Integendeel, dit is stevige rootsrock, zeer goed
voorzien van oren en poten, dat wel. Son Volt op een hogere snelheid. Weezer
goes roots, zo zou je 't ook kunnen omschrijven. Soms moest ik zelfs aan de
Clash denken, er zit dus zeker wat punkrock in met een stevige, soms
meerstemmige zang. De lappen zijn aldus niet uit de lucht en het aardse
wezen dat hier niet door bewogen wordt heeft waarschijnlijk net een
transformatie ondergaan naar de orde der standbeelden. Deze muziek moet
aldus geconsumeerd worden met de nodige liters bier, waarna men dan vlotjes
kan overgaan naar het verplichte headbangen en shaken. Er wordt serieus
ingevlogen vanaf het eerste nummer om pas vanaf nr. 5 even gas terug te
nemen naar een iets meer 'Steve Earleiaanser' nummer: Jennifer Got Drunk. Nu
snap ik 'm ineens ook. Dat is natuurlijk die voos kijkende mie op de
cd-cover! Time To Kill heeft iets met Reckless Kelly, nochtans komen deze
heren uit het midwesten en niet uit Texas. Het tweede deel van de cd is over
het geheel duidelijk iets minder ruig en wat meer intimistisch, waardoor ze
toch wel een puntje meer scoren dan gemiddeld. Binnenkort dus zeker uit te
testen op een blauwzomerse dag on the highway to heaven. Leuk ceedeetje,
maar volgende keer toch een andere coverfoto kiezen, dit om niet vanachter
in het laatje te geraken van onoplettende, nietsvermoedende recensenten en
andere muzikale oren. (LL)

Jim "Tex" Manheim's mostly accurate translation:
Ladies and gentlemen, do not be misled. The "Bambi" on the cover has
nothing to do with the music. Instead, this is fast roots rock, very
easy on the ears(?) ... Son Volt at a higher speed. Weezer goes roots, you
might say. Otherwise I myself think of the Clash...maybe as if they had
sung punk rock in fast harmonies. If you don't get down to this, you may
have been turned into a statue. This music should be consumed with several
liters of beer, where one can easily go beyond the compulsory headbanging
and shaking. It starts out seriously flying from the first number to the
more Steve Earle-like number "Jennifer Got Drunk." Now I get it!
That is of course the girl lookin' at me on the CD cover! "Time to Kill"
is close to Reckless Kelly, as if they came from the Midwest rather than
from Texas. The second half of this CD is obviously less raw and a bit more
intimate, for which the band gets extra points. So be sure to take it
out soon for a test drive on a blue summer's day on the highway to heaven.
This nice little CD, maybe with another cover photo selected next time,
shouldn't be allowed to fall into obscurity, since I'm guessing it hasn't
been reviewed much elsewhere.

Jennifer got drunk and translated this one:
Here's my best translation, sounding it out like German:

Gentlemen, ladies, let me not mislead you. That 'bambi' messing up the
cover didn't make the music.

This is becoming bambi-music.... Instead, this is Steve's roots rock, very
good to see from hearing and strong as well.

Their world up in hoglike speed. Weezer goes roots, so it could be written.
Mostly I myself am thinking of the Clash, you see what punk rock in the
middle of Steve, with somewhat more voice.

The laps are old, not out of luck, and had become ass that here words had
maybe not undergone transformation nor the order understood.

This music should become old consumed with several liters of beer, if one
then could overgo Vlad could or had plucked headbanging and shaking.

There were serious involvements from the first number to number 5 even so
much to name the most "Steve Earlesian" number: Jennifer Got Drunk.

Now I snap into it. That is naturally my kike voice (!) on the cd-cover!
Time to Kill was it with Reckless Kelly, after dancing come these men out of
the midwest and not out of Texas.

That tweed deal from the cd is over, it was dweeb-like, it's less slow and
more intimate, it was instead well on point, more scored than in the middle.

Been on court too sure out to test if on a blue summer's day on the highway
to heaven. Looks like a cd, more fully cared if instead another coverphoto
were used, that around no fun actor out loud to racke from unplated,
unmodeled recession and other musical ears.

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Some terrifying Photos from "After the Party"

two are dirty...so be careful

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Tom's review of the upcoming Tim Monger record Summer Cherry Ghosts is up.
"He's crafted a sweetly nostalgic song cycle, filled with sketches of places and people he's loved, memories he treasures
— in short, the ghosts of summers past."

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Japan is crazy.

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Rasputin's Huge Weiner now pickled and on display in Russia.
of course with photo.

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Here is the story of The Neverending Story Van
Complete with murals of Atreyu, Bastian, and whatever that freaky flying dog thing was.

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Rumsfeld Fighting Techniques.

Sleeping Dragon Technique!

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Thanks Rob
Thanks Jennifer

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