The duo Orbital, veterans in the music business, will be releasing a new album. This will be done in the month of April. The album will be called Wonky, and it is their first since their Blue Album that was released eight years ago. The new LP will count nine tracks, and one of the tracks features Zola Jesus. This track will be titled ‘New France’.
Some artists, who had escaped other countries to go to the artist’s haven that was Paris, nearing the end of Paris’s tenure as culture capitol, lamented that perhaps, they should start a new France. A France akin to the France of ideas, possibilities, and diversity as it was then, with the greatest thinkers, musicians, etcetera. Two of the main proponents of this movement were Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. Their first hurdle was what to transfer to the new France. Baguettes was an easy one, and croissants they agreed on as well, though the first disagreements started when the question was Camembert or Roquefort, with Hemingway opting for Camember being just honest to God cow milk whereas Stein wanted the more peculiar Roquefort made from the milk of Ewe’s.
More friction came on the question whether to tout Napoleon or Jeanne d’Arc, with Stein saying one had to love Napoleon’s ambition and Hemingway saying, Yes, but you got to love Jeanne’s tits. Stein almost literally threw Hemingway out of the door when he suggested that to really restore the New France to the old France’s former glory perhaps they should colonize some Northern African countries. You can’t colonize them, Stein cried, They are legit countries with legit borders. Hemingway waved it away, saying they did it once, they can do it again. So what do you want to do, Stein asked, just barge in and claim their land? Yes, Hemingway said, and then just shoot one half and punch the other half in the nose. I’ve shot lions in Africa, they’re more dangerous than people. I even have some mounted.
This almost led to a syntactic discussion, for Stein proposed that, with that grammatical construction, he’d have people mounted, and surely that wasn’t the case. The discussion was luckily quickly thwarted by Hemingway though, as he agreed that Stein was right. Indeed this sentence structure would mean he’s had people mounted, and this is exactly what he wanted to say, so he didn’t quite understand the confusion. This was the point Stein wanted to throw Hemingway out, but failed to do so on the account that Hemingway was too heavy, and that the door would automatically close if no one immediately stepped through it.
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