Exactly 11 years ago, Miles Zuniga was jetting off to Amsterdam with his Austin-based alt-rock outfit Fastball to try to put some touring muscle behind its latest release, The Harsh Light Of Day. Expectations were high, given the surprising mainstream success of 1998’s All The Pain Money Can Buy, which the band milked for almost two years. Fast-forward to today, and Zuniga has humbler aspirations for his first solo effort, These Ghosts Have Bones (33 1/3), a wrenchingly personal, fitfully melodic ode to the breakup of his 10-year marriage. Though Fastball is still very much a working entity, Ghosts’ quirky centerpiece, “Marfa Moonlight,” would’ve undoubtedly been a much different animal with bandmates Tony Scalzo and Joey Shuffield involved. The same goes for the rest of this inward-looking song cycle. Zuniga will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with him.
Zuniga: Bedazzled. The movie. The original from 1967 with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, not the pointless remake from 2000. It has two great songs in it. “Love Me” and “Bedazzled.” It’s got Raquel Welch in a red bikini as Lillian Lust, the Babe with the Bust. It’s very dry, very British humor. Moore, given seven wishes to do whatever he wants with, uses them all chasing a girl. Silly man. The film reminds us that Lucifer was, at one time, God’s favorite angel and that Adam and Eve were happy. Because they were pig ignorant.
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