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Friday, May 27, 2005
the poz that (duh) refreshes
"Johnny H dropped me off at my friend's house, which was located in the backroom of a rundown thread and scallop factory that his family owned. With the mesmerizing whir from the embroidery machines greeting me, I found my two pals already hoisting the moist--a case of Blatz beer and a fifth of Southern Comfort. So we killed some time yakking up baseball, needling down some choice Three Dog Night cuts (what, you were expecting Sir Doug Saldana or Wild Man Fischer?) and rummaging through his baseball card collection. As a companion piece to my growing fluency with Blatz, I started draining some rhythmic shots of Comfort (I now realize how easy it was for Tiny Tim to fall into that horrid three-jar-a-day habit he had of drinking straight-up Ragu Spaghetti Sauce!). I had never tasted that Southern Comfort peach-flavored bourbon liqueur befueur, but "Godfrey Jack Daniels" it went down smooth. Smooth enough that before I knew it, I was more than a half a bottle in and half a bottle out of it. And BP time at the stadium was quickly approaching."
pancake!
couple of nice takedowns:
rude pundit on tom friedman
max blumenthal on christopher hitchens
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
not chopped ham
this is the bestest filibuster fallout summary ive read in the last, oh, three minutes.
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
x-winger
""It's one thing to put your faith in a religion founded by a real person who claimed divine revelation, but it's something else entirely to have, as the scripture of your religion, a storyline that you know was made up by a very nonprophetic human being."
....
Wha...? Your irony meters may have been spared if you didn't already know that Card is devoutly religious. Your meters are glowing heaps of radioactive slag right now if you knew that Card is a devout Mormon."
david cross is overwrought
"Top Ten CD's That I Just Made Up (and accompanying made-up review excerpts) to listen to while skimming through some of the overwrought reviews on Pitchforkmedia.com."
Monday, May 23, 2005
sigh ops
i eagerly await rupert murdocks "dressing down" for endangering our troops by enciting the enemy. or not.
"The Washington Post report on the preliminary investigation into the release of photos of Saddam Hussein in his underwear seems to be suggesting that the photos were released for military psy-ops reasons, rather than out of individual cupidity..."
Sunday, May 22, 2005
z2z
"We propose to acquire the rights to digitally duplicate and store THE BEST of every record company's difficult-to-move Quality Catalog Items [Q.C.I.], store them in a central processing location, and have them accessible by phone or cable TV, directly patchable into the user's home taping appliances, with the option of direct digital-to-digital transfer to F-1 (SONY consumer level digital tape encoder), Beta Hi-Fi, or ordinary analog cassette (requiring the installation of a rentable D-A converter in the phone itself . . . the main chip is about $12)."
Saturday, May 21, 2005
not a friend
Artist: Sebadoh
Date: 05.07.93
Venue: Cotton Club
Location: Atlanta, GA
cant explain
The WHO
"Fallout '73-Take A Little Too Much Dope..."
Cow Palace-San Francisco
20nov1973-Opening Night of North American Tour
Black & White-In House audio/video feed w/time code.
MPEG-2 w/2.0 Dolby
"A very significant piece of RnR history caught on the house system at The Cow Palace...Keith Moon collapses and is down for the count late into the first show of the tour...to be replaced by an audience member...who must have felt like the luckiest guy on Earth...at Keith's expense."
Friday, May 20, 2005
this is not greenday
"004: Neutral Milk Hotel
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
[Merge; 1998]
There are very few albums that resist categorization quite so effortlessly as In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. For forty staggering minutes, Jeff Mangum short-circuits all conventional modes of expression, forging a private language that is endlessly intriguing and haunting in the truest sense of the word. Mangum sings as if possessed, painfully conveying fractured and moving tales with the imagistic skill of a brilliant novelist. He gnashes his teeth at the fabric of time, then wraps himself in it like a blanket, channeling the violence of his personal past through a claustrophobic frustration with his dejected present. His band, whose contributions to Aeroplane remain criminally underappreciated, elevate Mangum's songs from chilling sketches into vibrant opuses, fully realizing the antique otherworldliness of Mangum's storytelling.
Opening with the achingly gorgeous nostalgia of "The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1", Aeroplane immediately plays upon a potent conflation of cultural and personal past. The world of Aeroplane is haunted by Anne Frank-- the specter of childhood's unimpeachable innocence amidst the unfathomable horror of the holocaust. In the feverish "Oh Comely", Mangum longs to save her in "some sort of time machine." By "Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2", the album's indelible and heartbreaking closing track, he seems to have resigned himself to loving a ghost, singing with a thoroughly unnerving blend of heartbreak and exhaustion: "In my dreams you're alive, and you're crying/ As your mouth moves in mine, soft and sweet." The way people have been affected by Aeroplane is ample proof of its power and uniqueness. Like all classic art, it is widely misunderstood; yet to some, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea has become a riddle the likes of The Wasteland-- an impossibly rich text that begs to be deciphered, yet continually evades any singular interpretation. --Matt LeMay"