November 2010
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On another note:
New Kanye? Fucking marvelous. More on this later.
Don’t hate. Seriously. Your hating is just insubstantial.
A general query
Say you have a regular bedmate, inasmuch as you have someone you regularly sleep next to (let’s keep the scenario PG for now with some suggestive themes).
Now, say this person is ill. Not gravely, probably just a nasty cold or flu. Its also entirely possible your bedmate has been exhausted for the last few days, which might make them particularly susceptible to a bug that’s going...
Tomorrow’s show at the Blind Pig isn’t looking like it’s going to happen due to Melissa being massively ill. The Get Up is still on track, but I just want her better.
You know what I hate? When a band’s music video incorporates imagery from their album cover. It just feels like over-explaining.
For some reason, this is basically the first time in about a week I’ve felt able to sit down at my computer and just veg. Its one of those situations where I’ve been running around like a chicken with his head cut off and yet have almost nothing to show for myself.
On the plus side, THE NEW MATCH BY MATCH SINGLE IS NOW AVAILABLE! We’ll hopefully be releasing a few more before...
Two things I know:
It is TOO FUCKING EARLY.
Ann Arbor is TOO FUCKING COLD.
That is all.
MxM at UMA
Last night was pretty great. Nice to play before and audience that actually seems interested in music. Thanks so much to Matt (from the totally awesome band Gun Lake) and Bri for coming out as well as all the people Melissa had told but I didn’t know.
So yeah. Jack Johnson/John Mayer/Sublime is a PRETTY popular combination of influences for college dude who play guitar and write songs...
I just misheard the band name “Antony and the Johnsons” as “Auntie and the Dachshunds” which is probably the funniest name for a band EVER.
Ughhhh.
Stayed up too late mixing. Days like this you wake up drained and you never catch up. I feel like shit.
On the plus side, I’ve been vibing on The Smiths. I know the Mozz and Johnny Marr get a lot of credit, but that rhythm section is pretty nasty. Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce really groove.
Gray retires...
…Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” from being performed by a cappella groups. Or really, anyone.
Seriously, all of you: STOP IT. It’s bad. You sound bad. If I have to hear another group of cleverly named sophomores (Noteworthy, Looking Sharp, Tip the Scales, etc) over-pronounce “before I knew YA,” I will have Leonard Cohen come to your recitals and embarrass...
So truthfully, I’m getting into a funk.
I have no idea what is causing the funk or how long it’ll last. I’m hoping I can crawl out of it relatively quickly before I spend all my money on movies, food, and comic books. In the meantime, please forgive me if I’m short with you. I’ll likely regret it later.
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Best Coast on Sound Opinions
So I took a listen to the most recent podcast if Sound Opinions, a usually pretty quality music crit podcast, and who should I hear but the omnipresent Best Coast.
Now, I think in the past I’ve probably been a bit hard on BC as being part of this immense wave of 60s influenced fuzz pop that I find a bit disingenuous. Furthermore, their record just doesn’t do it for me. It feels too...
You know, there’s something I noticed that I feel has’t been properly discussed.
People working within the comic book industry (both publishers and retailers) are really, REALLY touchy about the idea of downloading comics for free on the internet.
This, of course, is reasonable. It’s a print industry and downloading does take away from comic book sales assuming the comic is...
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So apparently...
…According to the Adam McKay episode of WTF with Marc Maron (one of my absolute favorite podcasts), Adam McKay is currently rewriting the screenplay to Garth Ennis’ “The Boys”, which will be going into production later next year.
In my mind, this is pretty much perfect. The Boys is such an enjoyable book, with that perfect mix of ugliness, humor and heart that Adam McKay...
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What the FUCK is going on with music these days?,...
OK. “Witch House.” Or, if you prefer, “drag.”
I feel like I should like this. Or “get it.” Or at least have heard of this before now.
Let’s go down the list of shit I like, shall we?
Name of my favorite city in New England? Yes.
Vague aura of spookiness? Yup, check.
Cool halloween-y genre name. Mmm-hmm, got it.
Played largely by DIY, non-musicians?...
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coppolacabana:
Check out of my demo of “Home”...
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American Crowbar by Match By Match. I hope Titus...
Match by Match is BACK →
Match by Match is back. We’ve been lying dormant, dead and dreaming in our house under the waves, but that is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die.
Ahem. That is to say: We’re back, we got bitchin’ new tunes from our upcoming album “American Crowbar,” we have shows coming up later this month, and remember: this road never leads...
It is the ultimate in human arrogance that presumes that, upon contact with an alien species, their first impulse would be to anally probe us. It’s basically saying that every species in the universe wants to have sex with us.
A brief meditation on hot sauce
While I’m sure I’m gonna get a few h8ers on this, Tabasco sauce is kind of bullshit. It functions only superficially as a decent hot sauce, not hot enough to add real spice, but too spicy to be just a flavoring. It exists in bullshit limbo of condiments, taunting me as I eat my nasty, bloated burrito. Chipotle, you’ve bet on the wrong horse here.
Frank’s Red Hot 4 life.
“I worship music. If it weren’t for music, I would have become a deranged...”
– Krauser II, Detroit Metal City
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The Walking Dead
After having a few days to digest AMC’s new horror television show, the Walking Dead, I think I’ve come to a few satisfactory conclusions.
As both a horror and comic fan, my allegiances were already well in place coming into the prospect: I was really hoping it’d be good. That said, my growing distaste for zombies (despite their unquenchable taste for me) tempered my enthusiasm....
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Overheard in Retail →
Just starting, but an awesome idea for a tumblr.
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An Apology to most of the Women in the Modern...
As Halloween winds down for us working in the costuming retail business with increasing urgency, I feel a sudden and intense sadness and remorse about the state of the average, modern woman. While I feel my personal hand in the making of this creature is maybe not the most deciding, I recognize that my place among “mankind” (meaning, in this case, the male race) makes me culpable and,...