An Unlocked Door and a Loaded Burglar Alarm
The fan-fiction of “Sink Hole” and other existential threats to the family.
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In a few weeks, I’m heading to ShoalsFest in Florence, Alabama, where Drive-By Truckers and Jason Isbell will reunite to play Decoration Day in its entirety. After that, I’m celebrating the one-year anniversary of Mundane Mayhem, which will include a very special DBT contest and giveaway.
Since Decoration Day was the first DBT album I ever heard — and one of my favorites — I’m revisiting a few of those songs, starting with “Sink Hole.” (Check out my earlier essays about “The Deeper In,” “Hell No, I Ain’t Happy,” and “When the Pin Hits the Shell” / “Do It Yourself.”)
Written by Patterson Hood, “Sink Hole” is inspired by The Accountant, the Oscar-winning short film by Ray McKinnon, who went on to create the outstanding TV series Rectify. Starring McKinnon, Walton Goggins, and Eddie King, The Accountant is a darkly funny anticapitalist fable about two brothers trying to save their family farm with help from a charming and mysterious accountant who can drink and do math.