Links for 25 August 2006
* John Mayer Strean of Continuum [Clear Channel] Dudes, I am serious when I say I am excited for the new John Mayer album. And if you like Sufjan Stevens then you are also excited for the new John Mayer album, you just don’t know or won’t admit it
Links for 24 August 2006
* MN Headhunter/Nerd Search: Northwest Airlines List Of 101 Ways To Save Money Northwest laid off a bunch of employees and included a list of 101 ways to save money in their goodbye literature. Number 46: Don’t be shy about pulling something you like out of the trash. I
Sufjan Stevens and David Byrne Did A Duet
I’m so tired, but I have to mention that David Byrne and Sufjan Stevens performed one song together tonight at the 826 NYC benefit. I am reviewing the show for Pitchfork soon, so I won’t write too much about it. But I WILL RELIVE IT IN MY DREAMS.
Links for 23 August 2006
* AFTERNOON PENIS – “Love Among the Stacks” Mouthus (Nelson) Solo [Noiseweek] * Sir Nenis Presents: Good As Gold Summer backyard jamz mix! * Blogwash: Decoding rapturous Internet praise “Regress-to-the-Mean Girls” This Village Voice hed indicated that there’s now a running column to dedunk internet hype. * Rolling Stone Original – Imogen Heap Imogen Heap,
Beirut Interview On P4k
My favorite part of interviewing Zach Condon, from Beirut, was teasing him about dating older women. There’s just one line about it in the Pitchfork interview, but there’s this directly after that part: JS: So you said when you played the hometown show, you were no longer Zach
Is anyone else weirded out about this?
It’s odd to me that the girl from the Weezer video for “The Good Life”: and from the Beck video for “The New Polution”: is that one girl from 24 and Magnolia and Little Miss Sunshine. Oh, and from this: Mary Lynn Rajskub, why you are kissing Rush Limbaugh?
Pitchfork Music Festival
Mark and I’s trip to Pitchfork Festival started out terrible, got worse, then got better, then got worse, then ended great. Thanks for the memories: 1-Arriving tired and with bags still in hand just in time to miss Man Man (making a liar out of me), Destroyer, Art Brut
Home Alone
Yesterday I accidentally left my computer playing music on mute when I left for work. I subscribe to my own last.fm RSS feed, so when I saw there were new tracks on my bloglines I got freaked out, like someone had stolen my computer, gotten it home, and started
Three Legged Race / Eagles Of Hair Metal
Three Legged Race, Eagles Of Hair Metal @ Tonic | July 22 2006 The L train was down, and I was working on more useless internet crap, so we missed the Bushwick arts thing, but still got to catch Keith Fullerton Whitman as part of the Eagles Of Hair Metal (with Alan
The Grates + Nylon
I did my first track review for Pitchfork this week. It’s on Thunderbirds Are Now!. I like them, really. I’m a featured contributor to Nylon magazine this month. I did an interview with the Grates, then was interviewed by someone for the blurb at the front. They asked
