Everyone’s ex-girlfriends are moving to Austin next month.
Understandably all of us are experiencing some mixed feelings about this. We’ve all been thinking a lot about Texas, about the time when we were all 19 and took greyhounds through the state and all the buses seemed to keep breaking down and it took forever to get anywhere but how we all agreed that the sky was one of the prettiest things we’d ever seen.
Dirty on Purpose aren’t from Texas, they don’t even exist anymore (they used to be from New York). They are one of those great bands that never quite made it, the sort of band that we all forgot to pay attention to and so they just sort of quietly broke up and then years down the road you find yourself thinking about them again and realizing what a good thing you used to have going. For a band from New York their 2006 album Hallelujah Sirens (North Street Records) seems to evoke the idea of Texas pretty perfectly (it even has a song called Marfa Lights), the big wide open romantic Texas it’s easy to forget exists when we’re living in a place like San Francisco. Anyway, we’ve all got a lot on our minds right now so it’s good to remember these things.
Dirty On Purpose: “Your Summer Dress”
