9.8.2010

while i was a huge fan of alligator, and thought that boxer was a well-executed record, and have enjoyed a few songs from sad songs for dirty lovers, i never really cottoned to the national's most recent record, high violet.

i'm still not fully on board, but this is a pretty solid song (despite sounding like what a robot from the future would make if asked for a "national song"), and matt berninger's uncanny resemblance to a young, bearded william hurt in this video weirded me out enough to post it.

seriously. shave off twenty years.

...time travel. the only way.