Our songs are pop-like in form and twisted in spirit. We write happy music about sad things, and sad music about happy things. We think that songs and arrangements should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. We think that music, particularly live music, should be fun, and that you should be able to dance to most of it.
We are The Brothers Frank, and this is our website.
It’s apparently more difficult to hit a parked car than a moving one. Yes? So yesterday, after nearly getting hit by a bike, I decided to start behaving like a parked car and stop dead any time a cyclist might maybe come near me, thinking I’d be harder to hit this way.
But no, I nearly got hit by a bike three times today, and at least one of the riders gave me a look like I’d insulted him.
It occurred to me shortly thereafter that I had insulted him. His face said that most bike messengers are very good at avoiding pedestrians indeed, that they manage it all the time, that they’re used to people walking slowly in straight lines, and that, come to think of it, I’d lived in New York for three-and-a-half years before even almost-hitting a bike, and I’ve still never actually been hit by one.
So I’d come up with a bad solution to a problem that never really existed. And I’m beginning to wonder how often I do this without realizing it.
And beginning to wonder is probably as far as I’ll get, since already I can tell I don’t want to know.
posted 16 February 2010
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