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JUXTAPOSITIONS
Isaac Brock vs. Stuart Davis |
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Editor’s note: April is a big month for independent music fans. With the release of Good News For People Who Love Bad News, indie rock heroes Modest Mouse have returned with a follow-up to their critically acclaimed The Moon and Antarctica. Good News is a landmark in the troubled history of this troubled band, for singer-songwriter Isaac Brock – known for his angry exasperation and existential angst – has set out to create a feel-good record. Concurrently, Boulder’s own “punk monk” Stuart Davis has turned a new leaf in his own career with the advent of “Savoring Samsara,” his new weekly video feature on IntegralNaked.org (think David Attel’s “Insomniac” meets Road Rules meets Hardcore Zen and you’re halfway there). While these two recent developments are compelling on their own, what we at TM want to know is, who would win in a fight? Compare their positions (all taken from actual song lyrics) on the following issues and decide yourself…. |
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Isaac Brock | Stuart Davis |
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NAMESAKE
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British general Sir Isaac Brock, "The Man Who Saved Canada" | American abstract painter Stuart Davis |
| VOCAL STYLE | Sing-scream | Girlish shriek |
| STAGE PRESENCE | Sometimes drunk | Tells piss jokes |
| BIGGEST HIT | "Paper-Thin Walls" | "Only Changing Drugs" |
| CRIMINAL ACTIVITY | Accused rapist | Banned in Canada |
| GOD | "If God takes life he's an Indian Giver" | "Godhead gives good phenomena" |
| SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY | "And what about science? The kind of proof that lets you make your own decisions." | "It went to a hot spot and picked up a robot and ripped off all its, closed its eyes and fantasized it was just a human girl." |
| DEATH | "Are you asleep or are you dead? God I hope your dead." | "You know the saying, 'once you learn to ride a bike' well, that's what dying's like." |
| AFTERLIFE | "I'm in heaven trying to figure out which stack their gonna stuff us atheists into and Peter and his monkey laugh and I laugh with them." | "Now I dive into this mystery into this place that has no history, That has no face everything but water will erased as I dive." |
| LOVE | "My brain's the cliff and my heart's the bitter buffalo." | "You are within me but all my tunnels miss and anything I build You brings me emptiness anything I build You pulls you from my chest." |
| COWBOY SONG | "Standing in the tall grass thinking nothing, You know we need oygen to breath." | "They say I'm how the West was won, well that'sa goddamn myth. The West is what I'm One with." |
| SEX | "You're so hot, I would like to steal your digits and I'm so hung up on it I would like to move away from it." | "Everybody wants to taste a little something carbon- based Sex is proof the Holy Ghost crawls around in stuff that's gross." |
| NEW ALBUM'S MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT | "If God controls the land and disease, keeps a watchful eye on me, if he's really so damn mighty, my problem is that I can't see who'd wanna be? Who'd wanna be such a control freak?" | "I'm a bad ass cannibal a' this alchemical carnival I'm stuffin babies into catapaults to bomb the cathedrals." |
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| Punk monk Jason Motley once rode a bus from Detroit to Boulder, then went back to Detroit a month later by train. Somehow, he was still able to write for us. | ||
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