Battleship (Photo credit: stevegarfield)
… wherein a hapless kid re-enacts militarized geopolitical conflict by knocking himself off a pier. In 1967, the retired battleship New Jersey was re-comissioned and set sail for the waters off Vietnam.
In 1986, long-haired Atlantans described the pleasurable pain of being simultaneously constrained and embraced by battleship chains.
DO YOU REMEMBER? Pop-punk legends Husker Du warns us about the lonely repercussions of sitting around and reading books about UFOs (1985).
Was it an explosion of the embedded subliminal messaging that jogged my repressed memory of the ’70s commercial and Husker Du? Or was it the release of Grant Hart’s (Bob Mould’s on again/off again partner in the band Husker Du) newest album, The Argument (2013)?
