Excel Goes To Friesland
"A Death In Peacetime" affected me more than I thought it would; after all, the eponymous death is of a not very likable character whose real motives were unclear from the time of his debut in "But Loyal To His Own"*. All we really know about Major Joachim Steuben, as we follow him through his career as the MP commander (and presumably XO) of Hammer's Slammers is that he's an aesthete, a deadly killer with gunslinger's reflexes, a flaming homosexual, and utterly loyal to Colonel Alois Hammer. He is the antithesis of the clumsy, enthusiastic, inept yet basically good-hearted Excel, except that they have one thing in common: everything they do, they are doing for the one they love. Because loyalty, after all, is a kind of love.
On a more cheerful note, Blondie's Panic of Girls
is eleven tracks of awesome. Debbie Harry has lost NOTHING from her voice since Parallel Lines
, and if you like Blondie, you should go download this album NOW.
*And yet, he's the one my friends and I quote all the time, because David Drake gives him all the good lines.
On a more cheerful note, Blondie's Panic of Girls
is eleven tracks of awesome. Debbie Harry has lost NOTHING from her voice since Parallel Lines
, and if you like Blondie, you should go download this album NOW.
*And yet, he's the one my friends and I quote all the time, because David Drake gives him all the good lines.