A nice write-up on the Dismemberment Plan’s final days. The D-Plan-as-the-Police, Travis-Morrison-as-Sting metaphor is a nice change of pace from the standard band metaphor, D-Plan-as-Talking-Heads, Travis-Morrison-as-David-Byrne.

Travis also has a great essay up on his web site (which really needs to start archiving past entries so they don’t get lost every time he updates). This week’s topic: why girls shouldn’t be punk. (Here’s a link to the Jessica Hopper/Punk Planet piece he references.)

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25 July | 21:52 | amanda

i'm seeing the plan on monday. you're jealous, i know. try to contain it...green is not a becoming color on you.

;)

27 July | 15:08 | manur

thanks for the washington post link !

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