"I have a hard time thinking of OBOS as a consciously constructed and prepared 'piece of work' that we did and presented to the world. More like this weird thing that just happened..." The Facebook "memories" thing has turned up some posts from 2011 in which I revisited my old albums, and the one today was on Our Bodies Ourselves. The comments are interesting. I've since learned more and some of my views have shifted. At time I was pretty much just sticking a toe in, after many, many years of not thinking about it at all. But it is a bit weird that the dates of these eight-year-old posts coincide with Mtx forever mastering... this was exactly how the whole thing started, with me trying to assess the records in this clumsy public-forum way to see what if anything could or should be done with them. Shortly thereafter, in March of 2012 I did a blog post called "Unfazed Cookies": "Trying to come up with a "best of" MTX track list. Twenty songs or so. What would you pick?" People responded and I kept track. My idea was not grand: I just wanted to upload a ripped-from-CDs compilation to the Orchard, because it was easy and free, mainly so anyone who had read my books and was curious about the band might have an easy way to check it out. And like so many things, nothing ever came of it. Till now. Sometimes it just takes eight years. Whatever its flaws, and I'd never deny them, this album, largely neglected at the time, seems to have become the counter-intuitive favorite of a certain cohort of MTX and "pop punk" fans, though it is not in the main line of the most popular MTX records and has very, very little to do with "pop punk" per se. What it has to do with, I don't exactly know. It was a stepping off point that concealed hidden depths evidently, at least that's what some people tell me. Post: https://www.facebook.com/frankportman/posts/10150270151641597 In addition to the quote in the title above, a few kinda sorta interesting things from me in the ...