What Alive Feels Like
The subtle politics and fraught generational tension of "Filthy and Fried."
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The HeAthens Homecoming hits keep coming: my interview with Feddun at the Nuci's Space fundraiser is live! On this episode of his Overeducated & Underemployed podcast, Feddun talks to fans and friends of DBT, including Teri from Nuci's Space, Courtney Francesca, Lorna from Glasgow, and me. Thanks for listening and thanks for reading.
When I set out to create a Drive-By Truckers newsletter, I cycled through about a dozen names before I settled on Mundane Mayhem — including Ever South (which sounded a little too “the South will rise again”-coded), The Punks and the Freaks (too long), Purgatory Playlist, The Dirt Underneath, and Sunny Side Down.
None of them felt quite right, and Mundane Mayhem was a good choice. It’s catchy, concise, and alliterative. The words look nice on hats and stickers. And turns out, when you crib your newsletter name from a song lyric, that song will be in your head a lot, which is why I’m surprised it’s taken me so long to write about “Filthy and Fried.”