Where, oh where, shall I start? Brought up in the crossfire of constant urban gang warfare, the Dishonest Mailmen learned at a young age how to provide for themselves. Looking back on the matter, drummer Greg Dobbelsteyn mentions the constant state of youthful angst and depression he experienced: "It was like, everyday I'd wake up and wonder why I was alive. I mean, I understood the actual physical process behind it, but you know what I mean."
They say that only through profound tragedy can meaningful art be created. Such is the case with the Dishonest Mailmen. The music describes a coming of age in an age when the majority of the youth was too involved in binge-drinking, illicit-sex, heroin addiction, and reality television to create anything of true beauty. Enter the Dishonest Mailmen, a.k.a. the saviours of modern music.
"And they were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth"
Thus, it began. And the conquest had only just begun, for the Dishonest Mailmen would continue to sweep across the land, annihalating all that opposed them.
put them into a fire
I see the flames, etc.
They burn everything I have, or what little
The poem supreme, addressed to
necessary. This is something� -Robert Creeley, "The Dishonest Mailmen" |