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Links for 27 August 2006
* Hitler-Blog An easy way to keep up with continuing Third Reich culture. Add it to your rSS reader (sorry, best I could do).
Links for 26 August 2006
* Thanks for the add Out of all the stupid myspace ‘thanks for the add’ images, this one is least able to be interpreted as a joke or work of a 12 year old. * Antarctica Takes It – I’m No Lover Remember how Of Montreal used to sound all big and
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Out of all the stupid myspace ‘thanks for the add’ images, this one is least able to be interpreted as a joke or work of a 12 year old.
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Remember how Of Montreal used to sound all big and fey, but now they sound small and have drum machines and sound fey? [Fabulist.org]
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I think this will be their first time playing Brooklyn, except for that Soundfix instore, which doesn’t count because Soundfix is awful.
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PMS RSS invites you to click on whatever pill you’re on that day, then sends you RSS feeds to update you on your hormonal state as you go through your birth control pack. This makes me happy. Now I have an RSS feed to give me excuses for my own moody, volatile behavior. Leave me alone.
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
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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 yet.
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Brooklyn Vegan Dave was also at Revenge of the Book Eaters
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Great photos from the Bookeaters event, from a young lady named Kathryn.
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
- 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 also liked number 55: “Ask your doctor for samples of prescriptions.”
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The band I interviewed for Nylon a month ago will make another tour stop in New York with the Dears.
- A Year in Pictures of Working
Arnie, whose “A Year Following The Breakup” blog ended, has started a new one called “A Year in Pictures of Working.”
- +/- {Plus Minus} – Steal The Blueprints
Somehow I remember this band being more math rocky, but then again, I saw them nearly three years ago. + / – are also one of the only all (or mostly) Filipino indie rock bands I know of. [Absolutely Kosher]
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Make’s Blog highlights the Women Take Back The Noise package, which includes a circuit bent flower. I’m working on some review / interview stuff with the patient woman who put together all 1,000 packages.
- YYYs covering SY
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover Sonic Youth for an iTunes-only EP.
- David Byrnes And Sufjan Stevens – Saginaw, Michigan
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.
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. Kidding. Who needs dreams when Stereogum has shaky video? And I have subpar audio:
David Byrnes And Sufjan Stevens – Saginaw, Michigan (Lefty Frizell cover
Edit: Pitchfork is so totally on it too! Who else was there?
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,
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Mouthus (Nelson) Solo [Noiseweek]
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Summer backyard jamz mix!
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This Village Voice hed indicated that there’s now a running column to dedunk internet hype.
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Imogen Heap, eh. But holy crap look at that press photo. She dresses like Blossom crossed with your crazy ex-girlfriend, which is sort of like M.I.A. crossed with a high school drama student, IMHO(gen heap).
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So much less entertaining than Infinite Jest. From what I’ve heard.
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Bonkers Pre-war gospel [Said The Gramophone]
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Gnostic/noise blog out of Seattle
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
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 who dropped out of high school, but were you also Zach who dates older women? How does that become part of your…
ZC: No! I wouldn’t say so. It’s just an aside, kind of. You know.
JS: We’re not talking insanely older, right? You’re 19. You’re young. You’re 20 now
ZC: I used to date girls in their mid-20’s, so.
JS: Ok, yeah. Who else are you going to date?
ZC: It’s more just a reflection of my circle of friends. I’ve never been the kid in the group, but I’ve never hung out with people my age either.
JS: It seems like you spent a lot of time with your older brother, so maybe it comes from that.
ZC: He’s very much the one who brought me into that. And when you’re 13 with the 18-year-olds, you tend to stick with it.J
JS: Ok, I’m going to assume that you mean hanging out with friends, and not dating. Because that would be more unusual.
ZC: That would be sweet, though.
Zach was fun to interview, though I wish I could have put in more about his musical tastes (before he went over to Europe and discovered Balkan music he did IDM and loves Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin). Lately my favorite Beirut track has been their live cover of “Siki Siki Baba,” which Zach talked about in his MP3 list on Said The Gramophone.
EDIT: Beirut’s violinist (I don’t remember her name, but she’s very good!) said to me tonight that girls must have been quite excited to read that Zach dates older women. I doubt he’s interested in hooking fans this way. So I don’t know, is it bad that I tried to appeal to the lowest common denominator (as in, lots of people, not disparaging girls at all)?
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?
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? (Apologies if you already knew about this.)
Also, why is Juelz Santana’s “Fat Bitch” listed as one of my top all time songs? I haven’t listened to it in at least eight months.
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
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 and the Mountain Goats, but seeing the festival grounds for the first time and the loads of kids in tight gym shorts.
2-Watching Matmos make their album on stage. The floor had rose petals on it.
3-The Futureheads’ wall of harmony making it impossible to watch without earplugs.
4-Free water, beer, ice cream, and snacks is ultimately why I applied to write news for Pitchfork over a year ago.
5-Talking about tattoos with Derek and watching some crazy dude a few seats away laugh like a meth head at everything we said.
6-Locking ourselves out of Marcel’s master bedroom, which meant sleeping on the floor with no sheets. Picking the lock the next day with a credit card.
7- Day two: Missing Tapes ‘N Tapes but catching Danielson, then, afterwards, watching Daniel Smith walk around in the most dad-like outfit ever (collared shirt, tan shorts, black socks pulled high, loafers).
8- Jens Lekman playing with an all-female backing back like some sort of Euro Robert Palmer.
9- Lead singer of CSS stagediving, falling down twice, after the lead singer of Bonde Do Role just broke her arm jumping into the crowd on the same stage.
10- Devendra Banhart talking about how white the festival was, drinking burbon on stage, dancing topless to Os Mutantes later on.
11-Fred Armisen at every single show.
12-Possibly Nick Zinner in a sun hat???
13-Watching Ryan tackle Mark behind the Connector stage.
14-Meeting staffers that I’d only emailed before. Sightings of legendary Pitchfork staffers
15 – Getting free whiskeys and cokes then punching Ryan in the chest as way of saying “Thanks for putting on a good festival”
16 – Getting home w/o worrying about cancelled flights, missed connections, work.
EDIT: I just fixed maybe 10 bad spelling errors in that.
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
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 listening to every song I own, or at least that begins with A, then every song that begins with a number. Really, “99 Problems”, “9-5 (Original Mix)” and “8 Million Stories” isn’t the worst playlist you could come up with.