(Friends with Benefits) Deerhoof's Ed Rodriguez on his dad

“You know a man’s ear is not really attached to his head. He tends to back off if you show him his own ear.” My dad always gave the strangest advice. A line like that should have been in a Clint Eastwood movie, not given as a life lesson to a boy who hadn’t yet made it into double digits. I was named after him but in an attempt to Americanize me the romantic moniker Eduardo Reynaldo was changed to the clunky Edward Rodney. Back then I felt much like our names, I was a tamed down versio...

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