Life moves quickly for those of us who barely look up from our computers, BlackBerrys, and iPods. But at least we have an internet full of music videos to remind us what the real world is like. This week, our video roundup spans an entire lifetime, from childhood to death and everything in between. We experience the ups and downs of young love with the Black Keys, Free Energy remind us what it was like to be stuck in high school, and Drive-By Truckers weave a cautionary tale about life’s unexpected turns. Fast forwarding through time, CoCoRosie envision their future as old willowy women, and Trent Renzor and wife Mariqueen Maandig’s new band, How to Destroy Angels, serenade us from beyond the grave.
, with a piece about the inherent lack of truth in interviews, especially his own, it only makes sense to skirt the straight-up Q&A and angle for something the man might not want to lie about. Sure, there’s a risk Klosterman might not take the bait (“I don’t feel it’s my obligation to respond to anything…”), yet 99 times out of 99, he probably will (“still, I provide answers to every question I encounter, even if I don’t know what I should say”). So, instead of asking him to answer questions, per se, and risk a variable truthiness, we thought we’d get a better bead on the word-worker at work if he told us what music he plays while he’s reading and writing.
