The crescendo of indifference attending the Cod's Sifton Soundtracks project only affirms a sense that Sam Sifton, the subject of Sifton Soundtracks, sees the Cod as an adversary to match wits with, laying clever traps and misleading clues in an effort to distract this blog from the locating the correct song for each review. This week, Sifton's tactics reach a new low. In deucing Torrisi, Sifton constructs the entire review around Billy Joel's image and lyrics, Sifton effectively ices Sifton Soundtracks, compelling the Gurgling Cod to take a knee and chug a bottle full of swill.*
Fine.
*Billy Joel is terrible. Billy Joel has never not been terrible, and only the happy circumstance of his status as the Lynrd Skynrd of tristate hausfraus has kept him from starvation.
Billy Joel has not always been terrible. But then, I'm not as cool as the Cod.
Posted by: SOS | Wednesday, 09 June 2010 at 03:30 PM
Sweet heavens - and I thought I was a Sifton fan. I bow to your homage.
Posted by: Jen | Wednesday, 09 June 2010 at 03:58 PM
Joel started as a guitarist. Just think if he'd stuck with it. Quitters never win.
Posted by: daniel | Wednesday, 09 June 2010 at 04:36 PM
I can't speak for Sifton, but I'm not indifferent to your soundtracks, Cod, I dig them! Keep this fire burning until the world stops turning!
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