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Mar 1, 2009, 9:05pm Songs in the Key of Touche
Sure, it's at least a little pretentious for a band to name themselves after anything taken from a DeLillo novel. But damn if it isn't up there in my mind with Gatsby and Grapes of Wrath as holding some of the finest final pages of any American novel: The supermarket shelves have been rearranged. It happened one day without warning. There is agitation and panic in the aisles, dismay in the faces of older shoppers... There is a sense of wandering now, an aimless and haunted mood, sweet-tempered people taken to the [...]
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