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Saturday, March 09, 2002 Acoustic Emo The poetry fest is over and it's back to random thoughts. Last night I must have listened to Matt Wertz's new CD, Somedays, at least five times. It's incredible stuff. What was funny, though, was that I figured out he must really like Jimmy Eat World, first from his lyrics and then from his music. One of the lines in "I'm Sorry, Mary" reads, "First star I see tonight," which comes from JEW's album Clarity (though I can't remember the actual name of the song right now); I thought Matt could have come up with that himself until I read a line from "Sell Out" that says, "We could listen to Jimmy, some clarity for our lives." So he likes one of my favorite bands, back when hardly anyone knew who they were! It was a fun little treat to discover buried in the album. Another fun aspect of Somedays is the music itself (of course, otherwise it wouldn't be worth listening to); some songs are your traditional folk/rock singer-songwriter fare, but others were an interesting mix of acoustic rock and emo (à la Clarity). Definitely take the time to check this guy out--he's well worth the effort. ^ Top | 2:26 AM | | | 
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