trampoline, totem pole, hockey stick, wisps, extension cord, dog collar, turkey "wishbone", lead paint, gunshot riddled satellite dish, contact lense, hairball, egg crate shin protector, concrete overpass, sun, chain wallet, crew cut, leftovers, taxidermy, living graveyard, metronome, shelf, unknown uncle, widow, armored car, mailbox, oppossum skin, deodorant, chicken wire, masking tape, attic, j.b. weld, ant hill, fiberglass, cuticle, deadly weather.

wut wus i to write this poem for

to bore to bore to bore,

but just to make for sure for sure

i write even more more more.

plaid, cough syrup, coat hanger, oil, comic writer, cartoon reader, storm drain, earth sex, earthstiality, colander, boringa, deep fried tofu, shredded money, potatoe crisis, garbage can, ocean, rooftop, headphone, alcohol*)(there, i fooking said it.

p.s.we have hair, really just savin the whole bio thing for A&E, intersection, blinking light, column, death sqaudron, dumbell, anvil, paper weight, margarine, pogo stick, snow, eyeliner, eye patch, mystery dildo, kite, lettuce, hood ornament, lysergic diethylamide, knuckle sandwhich, family tree, cup holder, rocking horse, plywood, chocolate covered bad people.

A first Review -- Not Too Saabby

Mouser / Quiet Hooves

Snakemouth Maintenance Man

Party Party Partners

Record Reviews

Athens' own Mouser starts out this collection with four songs. The tender, darkly textured "Hear God" comes first and is gorgeous in both its arrangement and simplicity. And sadly, that's the last good thing we hear from Mouser on Snakemouth Maintenance Man. "Liquor Kitty" opens with a solid 50 seconds of staccato horns, which lead into a full-on staccato rocker which, except for brief blasts of a genuinely propulsive chorus, is completely irritating. "Netherlands," on the other hand, utilizes its horn arrangement intelligently even when breaking down at certain points. The four-chord guitar lines feed the song through a marching-band psychedelia and the track is solid, although it could do without the slowed-down afterthought of an ending. The final Mouser song, "Far Tart," is much too close to a Neutral Milk Hotel interlude (namely "The Fool" from In the Aeroplane over The Sea) to even really merit consideration.

[Mouser] has the ability to produce moving, intensely emotional music, but unfortunately, you'll only find scattered examples of that on Snakemouth Maintenance Man. [Mouser] would be vastly improved if it would dump the horns. Their presence is a musical crutch, and winds up weakening songs which could've been much stronger.

Gordon Lamb, Flagpole Magazine