March 2011
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Sit down, Matthew Perpetua.
Watching people pick their pop targets is very interesting, so watching the “discussion” around Jessie J unfold has been an exercise in furrowed eyebrows. Latest case in point: Perpetua’s Pitchfork reviews. To me, Jessie J seems no less dangerous than Katy Perry - in fact she seems far less dangerous because she has so little influence. Yet this month everyone’s going...
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“By contrast, even pieces that’re ostensibly in favor of “Friday” like Matthew...”
– From a first draft.
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52 Albums: #11
One time I was gchatting with a friend, in some deep-and-meaningful capacity that comes with gchatting on wine at whatever ungodly hour it would’ve had to be for our timezones to match, and she said “we don’t have to talk about this, sorry. what’s the best talking heads album?” I have no idea what we were talking about (that’s a lie, gmail tells me it was about a girl from September last year)...
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52 Albums: #10
Michael Saba has saved me from doing The Mountain Goats a disservice by writing about them all week over at One Week, One Band. Lucky me/lucky everyone!
But out of self-interest, a little bit about my listening history with the band: The first time I heard The Mountain Goats was just after the release of Heretic Pride, which was recommended to me with the sentiment that they were similar to the...
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How To Tell If What You're Listening To Is...
Vwomp vwomp vwomp vwomp
AND/OR
Doof dooftschhh.
THAT’S IT.
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Let's Play A Game: Noel Fielding Or Charlie Sheen!
The other day in a heated and highly contentious debate between QED and myself I compared the amusement derived from Sheen’s quotes to that of Mighty Boosh dialogue. I’m not particularly invested in the Charlie Sheen debate anymore - I’m at least concerned for his health, but obviously find some of the things he’s said incredibly hilarious - so let’s have some fun...
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The Success of Music Piracy, The Death of Music.
From reading a review of an album to downloading it took about three minutes. A minute later I thought “Oh yeah, I gotta get that album.” It was such an easy, thoughtless process I’d already forgotten I’d done it.
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“The media blew [The Strokes] up out of proportion even before the kid on the...”
– Lee Ranaldo. SEE, MARTIN? I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN’T CARE ABOUT THE STROKES (via supcakes)
I had my Strokes phase halfway through last year coming off a Libertines phase, and now I’m just pretty bored by them. Julian Casablancas seems like a normal dude at best and an arrogant dick at...
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52 Albums: #09
By now you’ve concluded - assuming you possess the near-prophetic powers of deduction I give all my friends credit for, combined with undivided interest in my life and activities - that I’m reading a book that’s called Psychotic Reactions & Carburetor Dung. Its content was written by Lester Bangs and it was collated by Greil Marcus, and it has that Lou Reed interview. “Let Us Now Praise...
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Juliette & The Licks - “20 Year Old...
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“010010010010011101101101001000000110101001110101011100110111010000100000011000010...”
– R2D2 signs up for OKCupid.
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“Just for the record, I would like it known by anybody who cares that I...”
– Lester Bangs, Gig, 1978
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