Is DevBan a peterass?

the only boys we were suckin on were TallBoys..and th occasional whiskey

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music/devendra/webster/12.jpg
i do like to give a helping hand tho

Creative use of spelling in the title question.

how the fuck do you spell peterass?

"Pederast".

J-A-C-K-S-O-N

I was surprised that this thread hadn't already been started. I wasn't going to be the one to do so.

oh, shit. well, that's embarassing. I had only ever heard the word, I swear.

ILX in FBI probe shocker

apparently pitchfork's world is getting smaller and smaller. (I think this is my first anti-pitchfork post!!)

"see saw" is on rejoicing in the hands, yo

And perhaps strangest of all, "Little Boys," a bluesy romp with a lyrical kicker in Banhart's typically quavery voice: "I see so many little boys I want to marry, I see plenty little kids I've yet to have."

If the line feels out of place on an otherwise eccentric but earnest album, that may be the point. "I was with this guy from the band Bunny Brains and he was saying, 'I heard your record, man, it's gonna be in, like, Starbucks, whatever.' And I was like, man, I don't want it to be in Starbucks! I'm going to write a song that will guarantee that it is not in Starbucks."

Jack L. in learning-words-from-Coen-Brothers-films shocka.

1) There is ample evidence that Cat Power has emotional problems.

2) Fiona just got too famous too fast too young and seems to be OK now. I think she realized the "emotionally fragile / kind of kooky" thing is a hook and plays to that a little while also staying generally stable.

3) "If Fiona Apple wrote and performed "Little Boys", she'd be featured on Fox News, facing the boycott threats of Bill O'Reilly." -- I remember people saying this about MIA too.

My secret has been revealed. Less Lebowski, more dictionary.

Yeah, Nabokov was a paedophile too. Artists should say what they mean.

I wrote a whole article about that Cat Power thing, and that Ott quote, and the whole fragile/brilliant have-sex-with-and-protect her thing that goes on there, the whole "cowed by irrational female emotionalism" deal -- but it never published! Beaten to the punch.

"Critical consensus maintains that Devendra Banhart kick-started the recent "freak-folk" revival. DevBan is not folk for several reasons. By definition, "folk" music comes from ordinary people, passed down by tradition. Folk music reflects reality."

This is wrong. for a start by DiCrescenzo's own definition he's freak-folk, not folk, which in itself suggets a rupture with tradition. And then what are 'ordinary people'? Everyone except Banhart? And all folk 'tradition' is now in some way a recreation of tradition, a revival. What is tradition in an age of recording and printing of gtr tab and a break from sounds belonging to strictly local areas (and that's by mid-last century.) Folk music in the twentieth century was at it's strongest and most creative when the traditions were called into question and contested and remade (periods which then became set as new orthodoxies with the divisions consequently less visible.)

And there's loads of utterly fantastical folk music about goblins and witches and fairy kings etc. Songs about frogs marrying mice! (all of which actually 'reflects' reality, just like Banhart's music does.)

By these standards this feller must think Dylan has no connection to folk music either.

And he makes out no-one mentions Brian Wilson's mental health problems!