gac's Full Review: 69 Love Songs [Box] by Magnetic Fields
Cap't Fabulous is on the brink of being a failed superhero. Everyone is younger, smarter, better dressed, with a super that is fabulously extreme, fabulously fabulous in a way he knows his is not and will never be. His fabulous is ugly dingey from too many laundromat Saturdays, box soap and quarters saved with loads combined. Cap't Fabulous sees this grey grime that coats his every thing clearly some days more than others and on those days he is upset all at once; he grips the steering wheel of his Ford Fiesta tighter, and smokes the last of another box of Nat Sherman Fantasia cigarettes. Sidekick Sad Girl Music at these times is unable to comfort him, but she doesn't really try either. In diner booths she looks at him over the rim of her coffee cup but does not say anything. In the car she looks at him every so often with sideways glances, and the radio plays softly to fill the silence.
His eyes are never still, nor are they vacant.
When they are not driving together, he is alone. Alone, during the day he wanders the city streets, mocked by women he desires and ignored by men he would befriend; faded denim jacket collar turned up against the ever present wind, Cap't Fabulous gives directions to the art museum for German tourists and tells the homeless who approach him over and over "sorry, can't help you." He has no words for what he feels; he is unable to help himself, either, and this leaves him empty.
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