March 2012
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“I remember he said to me, ‘You do stand up comedy! That must be really hard to...”
– There’s a movement to name a laneway in St Kilda after legendary Melbourne-born musician Roland S. Howard. I think it’s a great idea, we should do it more often. We’ve already got ACDC Lane, home to the incredible Cherry Bar, but imagine Skyhooks Street, Go-Betweens Station and the...
February 2012
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First Week Back Stuff.
University’s back. Here’s some stuff I wrote in a cool notebook a friend bought me a few weeks ago.
Monday 27/02/12
Smoked two cigarettes between the station and campus. Hand was shaking so much I had to hold my face just to inhale. Probably better than last year’s method of drinking half a bottle of wine before leaving the house. Started feeling less anxious after talking to...
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darkydarkness-deactivated201208 asked: I think its important you know that somewhere in essendon a 17 year old girl at a catholic single sex school didn't want to talk to her friends at recess and instead locked herself in the bathroom and read your blog. Really, really important.
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“It’s strange to think Kanye and Lady Gaga could have anything in common other...”
– Me, a while ago.
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“And I don’t want to scoop myself, but basically I’ve been flirting...”
– Nick Sylvester
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“My favorite moment, the one that resonates the most and encapsulates the album...”
– Tom Breihan on Stay Positive. I finished with Puritan Blister.
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I’m enthralled by this GIF. I stared at it for several minutes while listening to “Oblivion” on repeat. Grimes didn’t immediately capture me - someone blogged about her at CMJ so I checked out “Vanessa” and was underwhelmed - but I started listening to Visions last week and the more I find out about her, the more I appreciate the music. This video interview is...
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“Decided to turn my iPod off in the gym, you know, to engage reality/humanity and...”
– Still slowly working my way back through Puritan Blister.
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“Everyone makes mistakes.”
– YouTube user berotti1 on Lou Reed’s “The Original Wrapper”
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douglasmartini replied to your quote: If Treats was the party, Reign Of Terror is waking…
I’ve been (conspicuously) mum with my opinions on Reign of Terror, simply because I felt like the only person in the world who didn’t like Treats to begin with.
You crazy for this one, Rick.
rawkblog replied to your quote: If Treats was the party, Reign Of Terror is waking…
I was about 3 songs...
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“If Treats was the party, Reign Of Terror is waking up hungover to find that...”
– I’ve been trying to get on board with the people coming around on their knee-jerk negative reactions to Reign Of Terror as a knee-jerk negative reactionary myself, but after a week of listening, it’s not looking good. I mean, that’s fine, but also it sort of isn’t because...
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Friday afternoon: By some mystifyingly rapid confluence of events I find myself sitting in an outwardly non-descript warehouse in Brunswick in front of four cameras, excluding the ones in the hands of the photographers documenting the experience, and next to one half of a big-in-the-late-2000s pop duo. She’s grabbing my right nipple. “Yep, bigger than mine,” she says. At moments...
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“Still, it’s a strangely tragic moment, that point in one’s life at...”
– William Bowers
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Lazy Meme
Music Critics:
What society thinks we do: [picture of someone furiously masturbating into a mirror]
What our parents think we do: [picture of someone idly browsing Facebook]
What our friends think we do: [picture of Rob Gordon sitting in the middle of a stack of albums]
What musicians think we do: [picture of someone taking a sledge hammer to, I don’t know, the Mona Lisa or something]
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Headphone Recommendations
My current headphones, despite being quite adequate for train rides, get painfully uncomfortable after a few hours of listening so I’m looking for something in the sub-$100 area that I can wear for a whole day without needing to rub aloe vera on my ears. They don’t need to be, like, studio-level quality because they won’t be hooked up to particularly high-end equipment and it...
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“It doesn’t make a lot of sense to spend my life writing about things I don’t...”
– Chuck Klosterman is actually a hilarious and wonderful, like, being. Do I contradict myself? Very well then! (via bmichael)
Part of the fun of writing about things I don’t understand is learning to understand them in the process. That old Didion quote comes to mind, “I don’t know...
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“Pitchfork originally gave the Flaming Lips album Zaireeka a scathing 0.0/10 in a...”
– Pitchfork Media#Criticisms
I will go to bat for Pitchfork in most cases, which is easy to do given that the arguments against are often pretty childish, but this is my least favourite thing about the site and I think it’s indefensible. It just seems bizarre to actively deny evidence of the...
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“If I had to move, I would move to Melbourne.”
– Chairlift’s Patrick Wimberly, to me, this morning, on the cold balcony of a hotel in Parkville.
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Sadcore
jennpelly:
I meet a friend for dinner. He asks, “How do you feel about Lana Del Rey?”
I am wakened by a ping at 2 a.m. A friend asks, in a text message, “LDR?”
I go to work: LDR.
I check Tumblr. LDR.
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airgordon:
One Week // One Band: One Week // One Band: One Year
oneweekoneband:
Apologies for briefly interrupting Dave, but it was a year ago to the day we kicked off this blog series on showcasing our musical passions with a post onThe Replacements’ Bastards of Young — and now we’re here, fifty-two weeks & bands later!
It’s only a year of hopefully many more to come, so we’ll keep the...
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I confess to a disconnect with any sort of dubstep scene. The most obvious and popular is the mainstream, bass-heavy down and dirty dubstep that’s been crassly titled ‘brostep’ by purists - about the stupidest thing one can be among music - that’s captured the robot hearts of the era’s yoof. That’s more my younger sister’s bag. The other side of the coin...
