The Fabricator
Aging hipster way too into Steely Dan
Local aging hipster Dave Roberts has gotten way out of control with the new Steely Dan CD, friends and family say.
The CD, Two Against Nature, was released a month ago, marking the group’s first album in 20 years, and since buying the CD on its release date, Roberts has been playing and talking about it incessantly.
”He won’t shut up about it,“ said his girlfriend of two years, Ginger Harden. ”When we’re in the car, he’s playing it—and then he takes it into the house and puts in on there. I mean, I like it OK—some of the music is pretty—but I’m beginning to think he has a problem.“
Co-worker Bob Shook, whose desk is in the cubicle adjacent to Roberts, has started avoiding him whenever possible.
”He just goes on and on about it. I told him I’d heard that song on the radio about the guy trying to make it with his cousin, and he says, ‘Hey, man, that may be the weakest song on the record.’ He still calls it a record. And then he goes on and on about the saxophone solo at the end of the last song and how brilliant it is. I wish he’d shut the hell up.“
Roberts, however, defends his actions.
”I may be a little over the top, but this record has earned my enthusiasm,“ he said. ”I listened to Steely Dan in high school, and I knew even then that their music was something special. Two Against Nature just brings it all back to me. I’ve even gone back and gotten out a bunch of my old Steely Dan on vinyl, and I’ve changed my computer password to the name of one their albums—but I guess I shouldn’t say which one.“
”He says listening to this stuff makes him feel like a cool teenager again,“ said his girlfriend Ginger with disgust. ”Well, he’s not a cool teenager, he’s an uncool middle-aged guy. I tried to tell him that, but he had the sound up so loud I don’t think he heard me.“
