via Pitchfork und äußerst schade.
Yesterday evening, a post appeared on the [B]Drag City message board titled [B]„Silver Jews End-Lead Singer Bids his Well-Wishers Adieu[B]„. In it, someone purporting to be [B]Silver Jews main man David Berman wrote that the [B]band’s January 31 performance at McMinnville, Tennessee’s Cumberland Caverns (to be broadcast on Nashville’s famed [B]WSM radio station), will be their last.
UPDATE: Drag City has confirmed that Berman did in fact author these posts.He wrote, „I guess I am moving over to another category. Screenwriting or Muckraking. I’ve got to move on. Can’t be like all the careerists doncha know. I’m forty two and I know what to do. I’m a writer, see?“ Then, „I always said we would stop before we got bad. If I continue to record I might accidentally write the answer song to ‚Shiny Happy People‘.“
In a second message board post, this one titled [B]„[B]My Father, My Attack Dog“, this same „DCB“ wrote a scathing indictment of [B]Richard Berman, the behind-the-scenes Washington, D.C. right-wing puppetmaster who, he says, also happens to be his father. „My father is a despicable man. My father is a sort of human molestor. An exploiter. A scoundrel. A world historical motherfucking son of a bitch. (sorry grandma)“
We haven’t confirmed that Berman himself actually wrote this, or if it’s just an imposter. But whoever it is, he or she certainly has adapted Berman’s trademark wit.
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