Wet Nurse Listening to Beach Boys Scribe Peter Ames Carlin
By DJ M on May 22nd, 2006
In Brian Wilson/B. Boys
NONLINEARGIRL BLOG "On a recent 'night out' I heard PETER AMES CARLIN read from his new biography of Brian Wilson. The reading made me realize that there are some hard-core Beach Boys fans out there and that they take the band's music really seriously. Growing up in southern cal, I'd never thought more of it than the background music to those montage scenes in movies where the kids frolic on the beach while their parents think they are at school."
"I guess I should not have been surprised that people take the Beach Boys seriously. Take any band and you are likely to find adherents who adore everything the band has done and take great offense at any suggestion that the band is less than perfect. Take AC/DC fans. I have nothing against AC/DC, but man, those people have no sense of humor."
"While I'm unlikely to spend a lot of time playing and replaying Pet Sounds, or trying to parse Smile lyrics any time soon, listening to Carlin speak did get me in a bit of a Beach Boys mood. Today I found myself carrying Ada to the couch, singing 'Everybody loves nursing, nursing U.S.A.'"