October 2009
47 posts
Venturing out into public as Astronaut Jones...
Writing and Rejection.
This whole thing is terrific. I was going to excerpt just the 4th and 5th paragraphs of his post, but decided the context is important as well. I’m still not sure if I am adequately equipped to handle rejection the way I should, but his point of being (at least metaphorically) in the same room as his writing heroes makes complete sense to me.
In other words: reblogged as a personal...
perpetua:
Lily Allen “The Fear”
Vapid, cynical, hyper-consumerist neo-celebs of the Paris Hilton/Heidi Montag variety are utterly loathsome, but when we tear into them in comedy and art, it can often seem too easy and overly mean-spirited in way that eclipses any righteousness we could hope to claim in calling out their grotesque antics. Yes, they are clearly villains in the context...
Free Snuggie Blanket | Suzzly Market Research →
I’m trying to decide if having a Snuggie to give as a gag is worth giving away my contact information.
“On the song “Empire State of Mind”, Jay-Z raps, “Shit, I made...”
– Pitchfork: Jay-Z to Perform at World Series
Somebody get ?uestlove on the phone…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25) →
Elliott Smith (4)
Amy Winehouse (4)
Teenage Fanclub (2)
Poe (2)
Dirty Projectors (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Romance Is Boring →
New Los Campesinos! album out on February 1!
andrewmcclain:
somesongsconsidered:
…and having a character who spends his entire time on screen singing Bowie songs without a single line of dialogue (it’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie, so correct me if I’m wrong) feels excessively odd.
Yeah, Seu Jorge has a few lines - “I like her hairdo” is the only one I can think of. Ordinarily I’d never nitpick like...
Pitchfork: The Hold Steady's Craig Finn Co-Writing... →
Well that’s only going to make this more divisive!
“To all our customers that have supported us for the last three years thank you...”
– A now-shuttered Pennsylvania espresso bar is not too happy about the reasons for its demise. (via maura)
Granted, they were too lazy to proofread their kiss off.
Remembering Jasper Howard as a Friend and Teammate... →
This has been seemingly everywhere around here in the past few days, and it keeps striking me as profoundly sad. This afternoon alone, I listened to local talk radio callers call in dumbfounded, Connecticut’s coach recount the players meeting with the family, and now this ex-teammates account of grief and (somewhat tangential) regret.
“Whereas he was once the Milhouse Van Houten to Malkmus’ Bart Simpson,...”
– Pitchfork: Album Reviews: Spiral Stairs: The Real Feel
I realize I’m the target reader for this review, but this is such a wonderful takedown that it almost makes up for the bummer of Spiral Stairs’ album being sub-par.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18) →
Wilco (5)
Japancakes (4)
The Who (4)
The Clash (3)
Los Campesinos! (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Go get your money, Tumblr, But please make your ads less offensive.”
– Abby Jean (via bmichael)
Agreed. This is a far more eloquent way of putting it than I stated it.
“People really think narrowly when it comes [to]…the idea that something has to...”
– Jeff Tweedy Comments on His Internet Commenters :: Music :: News :: Paste
Hi Tumblr
I maintain my position - if selling T-shirts = stability, then I’m ok with it.
But as long as I have to sit and wait 10 minutes to upload a post, get that fucking T-shirt ad off my dashboard
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Bob Dylan GPS Voice... →
Also, “you missed your turn, but it’s alright. I’m only bleeding.”
gifparty:
Wet Hot American Summer on a frigid, damp October morning gets a reblog.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Miles Davis's... →
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“Oddly, what’s made this music last are the same things that made the Beatles and...”
– One nation under a Moog | Music | The Guardian
Oddly, these are the very things that music critics usually seem to have the hardest time discussing. “Oh, I dig that new x because it’s catchy and it makes me feel y!” How often do you read a review and have a sense of how the music makes the...
Veckatimest Special Edition →
misterpeace:
bwall05:
OK, so every time I see a special edition of a recently released album (reissues of old albums are a different bird, for another post) I interpret it as one of the following:
A way of enticing fans who didn’t buy it the first time (re: grabbed it from a torrent) to buy the album by adding extra tracks.
A way of milking die-hards by making them buy the same album again...
Veckatimest Special Edition →
OK, so every time I see a special edition of a recently released album (reissues of old albums are a different bird, for another post) I interpret it as one of the following:
A way of enticing fans who didn’t buy it the first time (re: grabbed it from a torrent) to buy the album by adding extra tracks.
A way of milking die-hards by making them buy the same album again in order to get the...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-11) →
Slowdive (15)
Girls (12)
Eddie Vedder (12)
Alice in Chains (8)
R.E.M. (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Man's Facebook Status Given Book Deal | The Onion... →
Guess they ran out of Tumblrs
When Twitter is Down
Where do I tell people how “Band on the Run” is fueling my afternoon?
Tumblr it is.
David Letterman’s Week Gets Worse After Receiving... →
Somewhat related thought that came up while reading that article: the lawyer for Halderman (the guy who tried to extort Letterman) says that he intends to unveil evidence in court that “proves Dave sexually harassed an untold number of his employees.”
If true, Letterman deserves whatever punishment comes down, but that’s not the point - isn’t Halderman the one on trial...
No one ever made me a mixtape.
Somewhat related thought - I’ve been a member of the Replacements mailing list Skyway for the better part of the last decade. Every December, they arrange a tape / CD / etc trade - people who want in send their address, the listmaster scrambles them, and then people contacted their partner and sent away a mix, a music artifact, whatever.
I’m not volunteering to put this together...
“Albert Belle doesn’t want to manage the Indians, in case they were...”
– Odds & Ends: Rays, Marlins, D’Backs: MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
Every year during a fantasy baseball draft, someone suggests using a first round pick on Albert Belle. Against all odds, it is still funny to me.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-4) →
R.E.M. (18)
Sigur Rós (13)
Miles Davis (11)
MC5 (7)
DJ Shadow (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
gifparty:
So, anyone else see SNL this weekend? Lady Gaga’s 2nd performance was so unexpectedly wonderful. It made me ask whether it was planned - the way for someone so quirky to grab the spotlight is to sit at a piano and belt out parts of your songs playing against type.
Then again, I’m cynical. Non-cynically, it was terrific.
Tumblr Dashboard vs Google Reader
So we all know the feeling: you’re busy living life for a few days and come home way too far behind to catch up on the things people have been posting. I’m not complaining (obviously) but I like keeping up with the wonderful things you folks write/post/share.
So does everyone use just the Tumblr dashboard, or do some of you subscribe to some tumblrs in a feed reader (like Google...
“[Jeff Tweedy]There’s different things that I can only observe and comment...”
– Jeff Tweedy interview with the Austin Chronicle
A great interview, mostly because Tweedy gives some honest and thoughtful answers despite the writer trying his best to derail it by changing the subject to the Beatles several times.
This idea in particular - conversation through coincidental...
Who else is having audio upload problems?
(via raptoravatar)
Very frequently, especially between 10:30 - midnight on the East Coast. There was at least one night where I stayed up a half hour later than necessary to keep trying to upload an mp3.
kathlellen:
delbertshoopman:
Tracy Jordan:...
“I actually think it might be their best. Better than OK Computer, better than...”
– Mark Pytlik on #21 In Rainbows
Pytlik here desediments a kind of presupposition that’s been nagging our critical understanding of Radiohead, and he does it really well. It’s almost a given that Kid A will be in the top-five. It may even be #1. But it’s clear that what we listen to when we...