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Hey, what’s more interesting than reading my boring blog? Reading ABOUT my boring blog. Seriously. My sister was very concerned today because someone spent a long time looking at her blog, and they got to her blog via mine. Hyperlinks! Anyhow, we talked about the IP address, which I won’t publish because that’s bad form, […]
Big news! Big news! Early this summer I bought a Love As Laughter CD called The Greks Bring Gifts and it was good. I mean, really really good. I listened to it about a million times, conservatively. In my car, on the computer, on my iPod working out, whatever. A couple weeks listening to it […]
New for me: Mint Chicks video for “Walking off a cliff again”
Sunday , 23, September 2007 Music Leave a commentI guess it came out sometime in July. I don’t like it as much as I liked their previous video, but it’s still pretty neat.
This week’s favorite record is The Brave and the Bold by Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Tortoise. B”P”B is pretty well known, but in case you don’t know him, he’s most well known from his work in Palace, a lo-fi country project, and his solo work, also sorta country but less lo-fi and generally less rocking, […]
Yesterday, a summary of all the major newspapers was posted on Slate.com, as they frequently do. Why is that remarkable? The author of the summary managed to reference four REM albums in the title/sub-title: Murmurs of a Reckoning: Is Petraeus out of time for his fables of the reconstruction? In the comments for the article, […]
I was just raving about how awesome London Calling is and how it took me forever to really get it. Seriously, I probably owned that record for 15 years and only now, in 2007, am I as stoked as I should have been. Anyhow, there was apparently some limericking going around, it all started here, […]
The Rentals have a new EP coming out, called The Last Little Life. This album’s been talked about for awhile, so I’m glad that it’s finally coming out, though I get the impression that it’s only a handful of tracks. They’re playing at the Metro next month, so maybe I’ll scrounge up some dollars and […]
So I’m about to drop a bomb that’s going to require going majorly in debt re: hipster credibility. I’ve been listening to London Calling a lot recently, and the Clash in general. I’ve never been a super fan, but just sort of instinctually knew it was awesome, without ever having really thought about how great […]
Henry Rollins defends using punk rock songs in ads: These bands are not being co-opted or selling out at all. Selling out is when you make the record you are told to make instead of the one you want to make. I wonder if it ever occurred to these people that the reason the music […]
Party Downers, Sweet Cobra, Frontside Five @ The Empty Bottle
Friday , 29, June 2007 Music Leave a commentLast night, The Party Downers, (remember? beer rock?) played the Bottle with Frontside Five and Sweet Cobra. It was a great show, and they finally got back to their roots and played a cover. (“We’re an American Band” by Grand Funk Railroad.) I didn’t get any pictures of them because I was too busy screaming […]