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One morning when i was sprinting my way past the bronze plaque commemorating the deaths of one student and one motorcyclist, Ray floored the brake pedal of his Dodge as he closed in on me. Fifty-mile-an-hour traffic came to a screeching, almost murderous halt behind him. He leaned over and rolled down the passenger side window in one fluid movement. He dispensed with formalities while I marveled at the audacity of his driving a car and, tossing something at me, winked and said, "Here. I'm going to kill myself." He pegged the gas, departing a interestingly good patch of rubber for such a shitty car. Within the gutter, sugared with sand put down during the winter's last snow, I found written in red noticed ink on masking tape caught up to a smoky-clear cassette: "Smiths: Meats."A Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A period of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma episodes, and incendiary teenage infatuations. Infatuations with a girl (Allison), with a strap (The Smiths) and with an album, Meats is Murder, that was so fresh, so vivid and so melodic you could cling to it life a lifeboat in a surprise.Joe Pernice is the performer and songwriter for The Pernice Brothers. Their most recent album is called Yours, Mine and Ours. He has publicized a e book of poetry. This is his first work of fiction.33 1/3 is a new series of brief catalogs about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album alternatively than an artist's complete output, the catalogs dispense with the typical biographical qualifications that fans already know, and minimize to the center of the music on each album. The writers provide fresh, original perspectives - often through their usage of and romantic relationships with the key figures mixed up in recording of the albums. By turns obsessive, keen, creative, and informed, the catalogs in this series show many different ways of authoring music.
