Robert Pollard: Robert Pollard Is Off to Business

Copy at Case Memorial Library
Contents: The original heart — The blondes — 1 years old — Gratification to concrete — No one but I — Weatherman and skin goddess — Confessions of a teenage jerk-off — To the path! — Western centipede — Wealth and hell being.
Sample lyrics: "The years have gone by / Without you / Without me …" ("Original Heart").
Stripwax wrote in the New Haven Advocate: "[Ivan:] Do you know who I'd like to be when I grow up Natasha? [Natasha:] Who? [Ivan:] Robert Pollard! He's like a song-creating force of nature! The music of Guided by Voices and his solo work are like the fallen snow after a blizzard … an overwhelming and difficult to navigate mass of rock and roll! But Pollard's songs, upon closer inspection, each hold their own unique intricacies … just like individual snowflakes, some are less perfect than others, but his persistence is awe-inspiring! Someday I hope to blanket the earth with my own snowstorm of song! [Natasha:] Only Ivan could get me to think about the importance of a sturdy snowplow on the first day of summer …" (6/12/08, p. 47).