audiOfile, part 2

SO MANY IMPORTANT AND PERMUTATIOUS SONGS ABOUT BALTIMORE!

so Wayward O is happy to give you second installment of audiofile, featuring stephen malkmus' latest track, eponymously named....

baltimore*
it's a fine song with lots of guitars and HARBRINGERS OF PORTENTIOUS TRANSPIRATIONS. So let us have look at LYRICS (in italics) and take shot at ANALYZING MEANING:


Verse No. 1:
you come on like gangbusters, laying it thick
arboreal Sleestack, lost in the sticks
it's warm for a witch trial. don't you agree?
cold are the hands that would ever touch me.
this verse is primarily about Peter G. Angelos, but also about how sometimes fans get false sense of hope about team during spring training.


Verse No. 2:
you got the energy of a classic creep.
with sex vibe for miles and shark eyes asleep.
no intuition, no need to sleuth.
poor is the man who would sully my view.
it is very difficult for Wayward O to say what verse two is about. but he thinks it may have to do with Rick Dempsey.


Verse No. 3:
a one-minute story is all that you are.
a song undeveloped, beyond the first bar.
for all of your hustle, what did you win?
woe is the man with the Cheshire Cat grin.
verse three is clearly a paean to new Manager.

Verse No. 4:
you criticize life, you criticize pain
you criticize situations you've never been in
but dawn for the dilletantes will come soon enough
alright!
verse four is about how Melvin Mora feels after being thrown out trying to steal third with two outs.

Verse No. 5:
the panic is leaking through every clear pore
your animus weakened, acetylene torch
so root for the crucifix on the skull full of rot
alright!
i'm in love with the people
i'm in love with a saint
i'm in love with a soldier from BALTIMORE!
this last verse has something to do with how the team tanks every august and how Halloween is a time for Crabtown to embrace SEASONAL CHEER instead of WORLD SERIES.

* from this fine, album to be released soon, which wayward O and you should purchase

jeffrey maier i see yOu!

pOems for miguel

Quoth Drayton McLane nevermore!

Wayward O is proud to introduce new form of Internet pOem called HaikUrl.*

And who better to honor with world's first four HaikUrls than the man, the enigma, the inspirational short stop, No. 10?



1.
miguel in trouble
astros in holding pattern
blowback in crabtown?

2.
'a terrible day'
miguel vows to keep playing
he lost his brother

3.
¿investigación?
newspaper's wishful thinking
tarjeta verde!



4.

The thousand-yard stare
Dark, pensive, Dominican
Flip baseball to Kaz

* Haiku + Url = HaikUrl

audiOfile, part 1

as diaspOra salivates over maybe trades and hangs on each tiny snippet and rumor, and as we wait out winter time ahead of "next year" we start by officially crediting Sun writer Dan Connolly for COINING NICKNAME for upcoming year:

2008: the LOST SEASON

So ... CONFOUNDING. So ... MYSTERIATING. So ... EPIC and yet UNDERSTATED! LIKE IF EDDIE MURRAY WERE SUBJECT OF CORMAC McCARTHY NOVEL ... wandering barren earth with MUTTON CHOP SIDEBURNS AKIMBO.

But Wayward O must ask: If team plays kids and finally put oldsters out to pasture and develops a core of YOUNG LOYALISTS, to ride into battle alongside YOUNG SAVIOR, would that be a LOST SEASoN? to wayward O's way of thinking that would in fact be a FOUND SEASON.

anyway, so to soothe speculative pain of LOST SEASON, Wayward O, feeling very fancy, is instituting a NEW OCCASIOnial feature on baseball blog, which will highlight CRABTOWN MUSIC for Os Fans. Here is INAUGURAL OFFERING...

wachoo know about baltimore? *

"People don't realize what they about to do in this city..."

* from here. please purchase immediately!

diaspOra, part 5

Name: Natalie Black
Location: the Internets
Status: Os Fan
Gear Choice: Video equipment & Anything with No. 21 on it
Quote: "i am a HUUUUUGE Nick Markakis fan, and its been my hobby these past 2 years to collect pics of him from games and other random places. I took a movie-making class in school as an elective, and then I was playing around with a program, and i decided to put all my Nick pics to use! So I did it and then thought it would be cool to post it on youtube. Im soo happy people are likin it!"
Wayward O Says: With fans like this, we must never lose hOpe! After Wayward O posted her Youtube paean to the Young Savior on site (see below) he received many inquiries -- including some from HIGH PLACES -- regarding talented person who produced video! So the Wayward O sent message via the Youtubes and discovered young superfan coming up in INTERNET ERA.