April 6, 2008

Dear friends of 20 Minute Loop:

We are returning to the Starry Plough this Saturday:

April 12th, Starry Plough
(3101 Shattuck, Berkeley)
w/ The New Up, Silver Griffin
20ML headlines at 11:30 21+/$8

We once wondered whether a starry plough was an airplane.

Since then, people close to us have died, babies have been born, and a new recording has been completed.

We expect to have our album release show in July, for those of you keeping score well in advance.

“April is the cruellest month.” Yeah, that’s a T.S. Eliot quote, but now it’s a cliché, or an appropriated tagline for a print ad for TurboTax or H&R Block. Like Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” used as the bathetic soundtrack to a television commercial showing an overweight sports fan exhilarating in slow motion over his acquisition of Comcast during March Madness, his T-shirt hiking up, his belly rippling.

How about Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” used at conventional weddings performed in the trellised gardens of Napa wineries?

Or Monet’s waterlilies framed above the toilet tank in a middle-class home?

It makes us yearn for dogs playing poker.

Love,
20ML

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