DMB
Number of boxes packed today: 0
Number of boxes packed yesterday: 0 (was in DC most of the day)
Number of slices of Czech apple strudel eaten yesterday: 5
Number of friends wearing orange trousers yesterday: 1
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Who? I can hear all my British friends saying. The DMB?
I could not leave Middleofnowheresville without explaining.
Without a doubt, Dave Matthews is the biggest man in Nowheresville. Not because he has enjoyed remarkable success in competitive funnel cake eating contests, although the residents of Nowheresville naturally believe that if he had time to enter he would surely sweep all before him.
Dave Matthews is everywhere in town. He and/or his business manager (a shadowy figure named Coran Capshaw; it is common to see black clad men lurking around town at night muttering into cellphones "Coran is very clear about what needs to be done here..." ) own just about every decent eatery, music venue, and prime piece of real estate in town; run an internet retailing company, bankroll 28 local charities, and are probably, directly or indirectly, Nowheresville' second biggest employer after UVA itself.
But that's not his biggest claim to fame. Dave Matthews, Nowheresville's favourite son, is the front man of one of America's biggest "alternative" rock groups, The Dave Matthews Band, aka DMB). To put this in perspective: piece of evidence number one: the DMB over the last eight to ten years has been one of the highest earning bands in the US: they can apparently sell out stadiums of 100,000 people. Piece of evidence number 2: the other day in the South Street Brewery, we saw a Nowheresville girl who had persuaded the great man to sign her shoulder blade, and then had it tattooed in for posterity, complete with a Wall Street Journal esque portrait of The Dave etched alongside.
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Q. Is this man good looking? Is he a sex god? Is he Simon Le Bon? Er.. no. He looks like a completely anonymous bloke, pudgy cheeks, balding on top, but with a sort of pained artistic expression on his face.
Q. Is his music any good? Taking my life into my hands here, I would hazard to say that to my ears it is unrecognizable and instantly forgettable, almost dirge like. But then what do I know, I'm not a native daughter of Nowheresville. Someone, politer than I, described his stuff today as "laid back, so laid back you don't notice it's there".
Q. Why is the DMB totally unknown in the UK? Well, see above. Though, I would not be entirely surprised if I learned The Dave and his band did not possess passports.
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HUGE NEWS hot off the press: the Rolling Stones are going to play Scott Stadium (ie, the UVA football field) in 'Nowheresville this summer. Coran Capshaw (naturally) is already being given the credit for setting it up.
Number of boxes packed yesterday: 0 (was in DC most of the day)
Number of slices of Czech apple strudel eaten yesterday: 5
Number of friends wearing orange trousers yesterday: 1
***
Who? I can hear all my British friends saying. The DMB?
I could not leave Middleofnowheresville without explaining.
Without a doubt, Dave Matthews is the biggest man in Nowheresville. Not because he has enjoyed remarkable success in competitive funnel cake eating contests, although the residents of Nowheresville naturally believe that if he had time to enter he would surely sweep all before him.
Dave Matthews is everywhere in town. He and/or his business manager (a shadowy figure named Coran Capshaw; it is common to see black clad men lurking around town at night muttering into cellphones "Coran is very clear about what needs to be done here..." ) own just about every decent eatery, music venue, and prime piece of real estate in town; run an internet retailing company, bankroll 28 local charities, and are probably, directly or indirectly, Nowheresville' second biggest employer after UVA itself.
But that's not his biggest claim to fame. Dave Matthews, Nowheresville's favourite son, is the front man of one of America's biggest "alternative" rock groups, The Dave Matthews Band, aka DMB). To put this in perspective: piece of evidence number one: the DMB over the last eight to ten years has been one of the highest earning bands in the US: they can apparently sell out stadiums of 100,000 people. Piece of evidence number 2: the other day in the South Street Brewery, we saw a Nowheresville girl who had persuaded the great man to sign her shoulder blade, and then had it tattooed in for posterity, complete with a Wall Street Journal esque portrait of The Dave etched alongside.
***
Q. Is this man good looking? Is he a sex god? Is he Simon Le Bon? Er.. no. He looks like a completely anonymous bloke, pudgy cheeks, balding on top, but with a sort of pained artistic expression on his face.
Q. Is his music any good? Taking my life into my hands here, I would hazard to say that to my ears it is unrecognizable and instantly forgettable, almost dirge like. But then what do I know, I'm not a native daughter of Nowheresville. Someone, politer than I, described his stuff today as "laid back, so laid back you don't notice it's there".
Q. Why is the DMB totally unknown in the UK? Well, see above. Though, I would not be entirely surprised if I learned The Dave and his band did not possess passports.
***
HUGE NEWS hot off the press: the Rolling Stones are going to play Scott Stadium (ie, the UVA football field) in 'Nowheresville this summer. Coran Capshaw (naturally) is already being given the credit for setting it up.
posted by alranson | 9:28 AM
1 Comments:
I've heard of DMB. Thought they were pretty famous actually.
First time I've ever been ahead of the game on popular culture.
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