the doll's role was not to leave presents on your doorstep, hélas

"One of the more confusing facets of American independent music is that, all too often, its purveyors refuse to operate outside the confines of California and New York. Like scattering insects, record labels and bands head for the nation's extremities when they get the itch to hit it big, leaving the red meat in the middle of the USA fattened with nothing but country acts and regional hip-hop groups. For an art form purportedly devoted to the rise of authentic sound, indie's hotbeds are certainly skewed."
-Cord Jefferson
("OK in OK happy with Other Lives."
Filter Magazine, Holiday '08.)

AMEN.