Dylan Brody - A Twist of the Wit (CD)

A Dylan Brody performance has all the best qualities of a hot toddy. Classic, clarifying, bracing. Mellifluous in the literal, figurative, and onomatopoetic senses all at once. Brody takes living stuff, his experiences large and small, and lets it ferment, distilling, as his father's said to have said, the truth from the facts. The final product is, astoundingly, smooth, reflective, nostalgic, and sharp. The finishing touch is the ''Twist of the Wit.'' A poignant, uproarious concoction, Brody's new, live CD marks the purveyor of fine words and phrases' third turn with Stand Up! Records. It also, it must be said, marks not the first time we've doubled over with laughter at the repeated use of the word ''poopy,'' but certainly the first we've done it over ''onomatopoetic.'' (Use the word twice, it's yours forever!) With twisting tales of love among dogs and humans, Stephen Hawking's use of sarcasm, and self-presentation and preservation from the teen years on, Brody reminds us all why