All Artists: Dylan Brody Title: Brevity Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Stand Up! Records Release Date: 7/14/2009 Genre: Special Interest Style: Comedy & Spoken Word Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 609461008411 |
Dylan Brody Brevity Genre: Special Interest
An award-winning novelist and playwright, Dylan Brody is hysterically funny, but in the most understated, beautiful, poignant, and well-wrought way possible. To simply call what he does on Brevity, his first studio album,... more » | |
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Album Description An award-winning novelist and playwright, Dylan Brody is hysterically funny, but in the most understated, beautiful, poignant, and well-wrought way possible. To simply call what he does on Brevity, his first studio album, stand up comedy would be to undercut each story's intricacies, glossing over what Brody remembers his father calling the difference between the truth and the facts. At the same time, storytelling is another too-narrow label, suggesting stodginess and boredom where Brody's listeners, instead, find goofy stories of this good Jewish boy eating peyote and going on a vision quest with the Penobscot at age 11, and hearing a joke told at his former prep school twisted into a literal attempt to solicit sexual favors from the entire student body. With his quick wit and paradoxically tangled but straightforward tales, Brody is insightful, hilarious, and well worth repeated listening. Hell, the guy's even owned a cat that could tell time. Who wouldn't want to grab a drink and hear that story? Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsThe Soul of Wit senryu | Los Angeles, CA USA | 07/16/2009 (5 out of 5 stars) "Hypnotically interesting and funny. Despite the seeming randomness of the stories Brody weaves, there is an overarching sense of a directed meditation on life. It's like spending an evening with a colorful old friend who's just returned from a life on the high seas and high jinks."
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