halfway home

so in scrambling to assemble a half-as-long-as-it-should-be list for the best records of the year at the halfway mark, i thought i should check out riemenschneider's list to make sure i wasn't cribbing anything from him and found this:

The Plastic Constellations, "Crusades" -- "We started so young and so thrilled we could burst," TPC co-leader Jeff Allen sings in "Sancho Panza," a 23-year-old reflecting on his band's 10-year existence. They're not as young as they used to be, but these four childhood friends from Hopkins are bursting like never before on their third and best CD. Imagine all the pent-up, Fugazi-like roar of today's emo bands minus the whiny vocals and melodramatic lyrics.

i guess chris doesn't read this blog, so this won't make a difference, but seriously: the song is about jeff's wife, allison, not the plastic constellations. funny, though, since pretty much every other song on the disc is either obliquely or literally about the band.