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All three episodes of Ren Faire are available now to stream on Max (the place for HBO).

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842 - Fleet Weak feat. Alex Nichols (6/17/24)

I go everywhere with this giant 
Beard hanging from my chin. 
It appalls proper people everywhere 
Who believe in... 

I have a rather obnoxious hairdo 
That hangs way down 
My back, between my buns, between my legs. My hairdo makes a 
Swishing sound. 

Makes a swishing sound 
When I walk around town. 

I have a metal comma I 
Stole from a store facade, 
And I have a pair of cars I bought from a 
Car store on North Broad. 

I bought a drawing of Bo Derek's butt 
Done by Bob Doyle. 
And I have a bottle, do I have a bottle of 
Eucalyptus oil. 

Eucalyptus oil, and a 
Petri dish of soil. 

I'm drinking too much at these casual affairs. 
I would really like to slow down considerable. 
And I would like to have 
This crazy ferris wheel stop on its 
Hub and get rid of me. 
Get rid of me. 
I go everywhere. 

I walk into bars with my hair and my beard 
And I brag 
About my comma and my cars and my Bob Doyle sketches. 
I've been called a fag. 

I've been called a fag. 
Vomited in a grocery bag 

From drinking too much at these casual affairs. 
I would really like to slow down considerable. 
And I would like to have 
This crazy ferris wheel stop on its 
Hub and get rid of me. 
Get rid of me. 
I go everywhere.
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from We Party Portugal Deluxxe, released 12 November 2014 
Words adapted from a poem by Aaron Belz

I Go Everywhere

"..We Party Portugal isn't exactly elusive in nodding to its key influences. The band's ReverbNation page only has one band listed in the 'Sounds Like' section: Pavement. Not that you'd need to to be told of the legendary band's imprint -- the laconic and meandering (but always tuneful) guitar lines and detached vocals singing obtuse lyrics are all pretty good tells...
"... [T]hese are musicians who have so thoroughly internalized that style of outsider-alternative that it can't help but bubble up. Fans of wry, if low-stakes, indie rock will find something to like across these six songs.
" 'Untrodden Ways,' is the band's most gentle and its most winsome, spinning a tiny, oblique narrative amid some nicely poetic lines. The warm, unfolding production comes care of Joe Eisenbraun... and it's nice to hear his touch again on these recordings. The honking saxophones and cheesy organ fill out the pure-pop 'In the Garden of Eden, Baby,' which works off a twee groove, thanks to bubbly bass and falsetto backing vocals.
"The self-titled EP is also accompanied by the 'Deluxxe' version, featuring four more songs that are at times sillier and more darkly discursive than the proper album. 'We Have a Dracula' is insistent and charming, while 'My Love Is Like a Fire' (which includes the puzzling but era-appropriate rejoinder 'your love is like the Internet') is more dirge-like than the others, though the song's own bizarre internal logic keeps it rooted with the rest."
--Christian Schaeffer, _The Riverfront Times_

I Go Everywhere

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