Ted McCloskey is slowly coming to terms with being out of love. His debut solo album, ONE MAN MISERY PARADE, is a cathartic expose of every exposed nerve that McCloskey has felt during the past year and a universal document of pain and confusion. "It took about a year from heartache to consumer product," McCloskey chuckles. "It was all recorded here in my living room between the lonely hours of 2 A.M and 8 A.M, one instrument at a time. Once the process started, it consumed me." From such a dour mindset was borne a sparkling, upbeat sounding album, that belies its' downbeat subject matter. ONE MAN MISERY PARADE combines raucous, impassioned guitar-based music (think a mutant step-child of Keith Richards and Johnny Marr) and the lyrical and melodic gift of Paul Westerberg. Lines like; "Give me a lie that I can swallow," from Everybody's Sorry, and "I'm too proud to walk back home and too foolish to take a knee", from The Siamese Sisters, illustrate McCloskey's songwriting style. Everything seems to b