The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.
Douglas CouplandI find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
Douglas CouplandI mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.
Douglas CouplandOnly losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
Douglas CouplandI thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.
Douglas Coupland