Found a good Bar in Coopersburg.  Bar and Restaurant, called Mc Cooles I think it’s called.    I have been there twice, and six out of ten people there were there both nights. It Reminds me of a Richard Russo novel.   The food is great too.  

About wolf parade:   Them and Modest Mouse sound more alike than any two bands that I own.   That’s not the end of the world, by any means- Much of the Modest sound is obviously production values- but Wolf Parade also puts out  lyrics like this:

 Well I've got a hand
So I've got a fist
So I've got a plan
It's the best that I can do
Now we say using god's hands
But god doesn't always have the best god damn plans does he?

 

Which, aside from being pretty damn cool, could be a lost verse from from Mouse's Bukowski.

Well we sat on the edge of the river
The crowd screamed, "Sacrifice the liver!"
If God takes life, he's an Indian giver
So tell me now why, you'll tell me never
Who would wanna be?
Who would wanna be such a control freak?

I ought to check the writing credits on those songs.

In another song, ‘Hearts on fire”  they sound like their country-mates The Constantines.  You could say that rather than sounding like each other, they both sound like the Boss, but given that both bands wrote a song called “Shine a light”, and that hearts on fire is pretty much the theme of every Constantines Song, It’s a safe bet that these bands know each other.

The stand out wolf-song  is “I’ll believe in anything”, which breaks away from the Modest mold by combining the vocal delivery and jubilant energy of Clap your Hands’ “Skin of my Yellow Country Teeth”  with the uplifting message of the Cheers’ theme song.   

I said nobody knows you and
Nobody gives a damn
And I could take another hit for you
And I could take away the trips from you
And I could take away the salt from your eyes
Take away skin and salt in you
And I could give you my apologies
By handing over my neologies
And I could take away your shaky knees
And I could give you all the olive trees
And look at the trees and look at my face and look at a place far away from here

Ok, it’s the anti-cheers theme song. But it does have quite a bit in common with Skin of Your Yellow country Teeth. See:

Far - Far away from West Virginia
I - Will try on New York City
Explaining that the sky holds the
Wind the sun rushes in and a child
With a shotgun can shoot down
Honeybees that sting
BUT THIS BOY COULD USE A LITTLE STING!

Oh, btw,  I'm famous.