The Brothers Foer: Who Loves Bright Eyes More?
What better way to round out our Jonathan Safrantastic week with a larger look at the family Foer? It seems that Jonathan isn't the only one with a burning passion for indie cover boy Bright Eyes; younger brother Joshua Foer is also a loquacious fan. From the Yale Herald, September 2002:
[W]hat this waifish w nderkind is doing is less destructive and far more sophisticated than self-sabotage. That first song, "The Big Picture," with its lo-fi hollering that sounds like it's pouring out of a blood-splattered shower, is both a self-referential homage to the raw pubescent angst that first brought a 13-year-old Oberst to the attention of the music establishment and a mature reflection on the album's central theme: the relationship between art and artifice.
Oy. Young Joshua is about two seconds away from spleening the fuck out of your sanity, no?
