If my favorite MTV Unplugged has always been 10,000 Maniacs, that may be because they look like a band started by my fellow graduate students.
“Hey, that’s the dress Natalie wore to the English department Christmas party.”
“Yeah, but she finally got a good haircut. You know, I’m pretty sure that the lyrics to ‘Candy Everybody Wants’ come from something I said in our Modern American Lit seminar.”
“Wow. How do you feel about that?”
“It’s complicated.”
“I guess so…. Um, is it just me or are … are they really great?”
“Yeah. Yeah, they are great.”