February 2009
25 posts
RIFF MARKET: RE HIPSTER RUNOFF'S ANIMAL COLLECTIVE... →
offnotesnotes:
I’m really, really glad Nick wrote this.
Was going to post this earlier, reblogging it now since it needed to happen.
this post is about how the last few weeks have...
Because they have been. plus:
The Walkmen/Beach House/Johnny and the Moon - Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR, 1/23
We showed up towards the end of Johnny and the Moon’s set. Peter liked the last couple of songs, they didn’t do a whole lot for me. I lost interest pretty quickly and the sound wasn’t particularly good. Moved up closer, found a place to put our winter clothes since...
this post is about how they just keep doing it to...
“very reminiscent of a younger James Blunt but with a little more John Mayer flavor.”
This just isn’t fair to anyone involved. Especially me.
January 2009
27 posts
this post is about turntable insanity →
I knew it was a quality product when I saw that cartridges started at $10000. Also four tonearms.
this post is about how "prom queen" is pretty...
because it is. I’m not posting a link because if I do bad art/Lil Wayne’s commitment to terrible auto-tuned alt-rock wins. And this shit is probably going to be huge. I already made the mistake of perpetuating Brokencyde and I can’t decide if I’m doing the right thing in even writing about this.
So yeah, The Rebirth is probably going to suck.
this post is about another sentence that makes me...
“As if the love child of RADIOHEAD and PEARL JAM hooked up with the offspring (not The Offspring) of THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS and PORTUGAL THE MAN…and then that thing went and had a pint with QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE while listening to AT THE DRIVE-IN…”
One sheets: this week you’re bringing me down.
Movies that are not meant to be watched with your...
tylercoates:
(via everyone)
I SAW ELECTION WITH MY MOTHER IN THE THEATER.
Adding Murmur of the Heart to this list. Ow.
this post is about a terrible sentence
“Fires of Rome are best described as an ambitious musical venture made up of brilliant minds that have acquired immense musical knowledge and summed it up in a modernized version of that album they would have loved to hear.”
World: please never write this or anything like this on anything I’m supposed to take seriously. It’s terrible, tells me nothing, and makes me really...
this post is about the Beatle Barkers
I’m pretty sure that animal sequencer music is one of my greatest weaknesses. This particular album of animal sequencer music is fantastic, since unlike all the others I have copies of - Jingle Cats, Happy Clucking Holidays, and A Froggy Evening - it’s not a Christmas record. It is, however, Beatles instrumentals and a mess of dogs, sheep, and other nonsense replacing the vocal...
Watchhuh, the Wachowski brothers did a video for what’s probably the most immediately rewarding song off the pretty wonderful new Antony and the Johnsons record. Lazy 3 a.m. description prompts me to say little more than “that’s quite colorful.”
this post is a reblog about amazon user images
tylercoates:
youngmanhattanite:
How long till Amazon removes this “Customer Image” sent in for “Blood On The Tracks”?
User-submitted content on Amazon is the best content on Amazon.
“The word “fail” needs to be banned from all critical discussion for the next two...”
– David Uzumeri, on his Twitter. I concur. (via perpetua)
seconding this. Can we also do away with “awkward,” “shenanigans,” and “Radiohead?”
David Lee Roth + Microsoft Songsmith = Running'... →
Microsoft’s Songsmith is kind of fascinating and it looks like it’d be either sort of fun or utterly nauseating. I’m fairly certain that within three years there’ll be a celebrated indie singer-songwriter who will only write material using SongSmith, which both his fans and harshest critics will repeat to everyone who mentions his name for the two or three months in which...
“dgggg W. gave it a 10:
This was an amazing movie, sure it was dreary. But no,...”
– someone on Metacritic re: Marley and Me.
The 6ths - Movies In My Head
On repeat for the...
tomewing:
John Dowie - “It’s Hard To Be An Egg”
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this post is about how Eddie Argos is a ways... →
I did this for an entire winter once when I was seventeen. I’m still not entirely sure why.
And no, it wasn’t a particularly great idea, though it did keep me pretty warm through the minus something weather that season. I got really tired of my hair freezing every time I stepped outside and couldn’t find myself a hat that I was particularly fond of, so I went with what I already...
this post is also about the Sears air conditioner...
So yesterday I discovered that someone found the Sears air conditioner commercial that haunted me from March of last year until yesterday. Upon rewatching it, I’m confused. To begin, I don’t think the couple at the beginning of the ad and the couple at the end are the same people. This is likely a triumph of the brutal Searsian summer or the sweat that haunted these people in 1993. The...
this post is about how this might just be the... →
I’m going to begin by saying that I didn’t find this, but that someone on the Something Awful forums did. Then I’m going to say that I’m really confused by the fact that this guy has an internet forum on which registration is disabled, where only he has an account, where he has posted over 5000 times in the last ten years. This is the craziest, loneliest thing I’ve...
this post is about Mega Man 9
Jared and I tried to win a Wii a few weeks ago. Jared actually wants one, I just kind of want to finish Super Mario Galaxy (which I should be able to do soon anyway) and we wanted to play Mega Man 9 because sometimes potentially soulless revivalism sounds really appealing to us. It’s how we know we’re old.
So we made a Live account on someone else’s Xbox 360 and bought Mega Man...
