January 2010
Guess what? Chicken butt! Oh, and I’m DJing at Old Oak Tap tomorrow. Please come by!
Jessica's review of the new Vampire Weekend is a...
Koenig is trying to have it both ways—to be the mocking outsider while telegraphing his exact position as an upper-class white aesthete through references that connote unfettered living and heavy beach play. If this all makes Contra seem like a fuckless episode of Gossip Girl written by Jimmy Buffett, then I’ve made my point. via chicagoreader.com Fucking A. Posted via web from...
Should auld acquaintance nea be forgo. Recently a girl I went to grade school in south Texas with found me via Facebook. It was a surprise since I moved from that area when I was ten, and we haven’t spoken in decades. It was a nice surprise though and afforded me a brief dash into my past including ruminating on what would have happened had I never left The Valley. Since then she’s...
via In Which I Add to the World's Surplus of iPad...
I’m a second-wave technology adopter. I geek out over gadgets, but it’s rare that my eagerness to own one wins out over the almost certain knowledge that an improved and most likely discounted second version will be out in a year. This is especially true of Apple, who aren’t afraid of fucking over the fanboys who line up to pay out the ass for what in retrospect will seem like a...
Lamest retraction of the week.
UPDATE: Just heard from Biz3 the track is fake, and there is no Justice album planned for this year. The e-mail “came from” promo@EdBangerRecords.com, which I realized at the time could have been a mask, but I was trying not to be cynical (#TeamCoco). Seeing it posted on URB.com and other reputable sites bolstered my opinion. I got punkd. It happens. The new Joanna Newsom song is...
And then the chill creeps into your soul. This weather is sapping all the motivation out of our house. Sure, I wake up all fine, make it to the gym, and have really productive days at the office, but once I get home I don’t wanna do anything. Don’t want to go see shows. Don’t want to read books or even magazines. I don’t even have the motivation to pick out a DVD to watch....
Change of Subject: Will `Lost' = `Twin Peaks'?
I’m intrigued by but haven’t followed the TV serial “Lost,” but much of what I’ve been reading/scanning about it suggests to me that this final season may end up being as big a letdown to viewers as were the concluding episodes of “Twin Peaks. via blogs.chicagotribune.com Yes it will be. As was Heroes. And every other TV show that started off with a really...
After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for...
In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall. The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up a pay wall, so in media circles it has been followed with interest. Could its fate be a sign of what others, including The New York Times, might expect? So, three months...
Words to live by. Two weeks ago, who would’ve thought Conan O’Brien would be embraced as iconic by a whole new generation of fans, albeit ones that came just a little too late to the party to save his late night hide?
Rehab! Party! Tonight! For those of you not in the know, Rehab — held at Debonair and hosted by Team Bayside High — is the best weekly party Chicago has to offer. In fact, it’s the best weekly party in the nation, America says so! In recent weeks the night has jumped in attendance — despite our bitterly freezing temperatures of late — so while the upstairs continues...
Heidi Montag's Album Sells Less Than 1,000 Copies
People need to remember: getting followed by paparazzi doesn’t mean you’re famous enough to sell records. It means mouth-breathers like me like laughing at you taking out the trash/failing miserably at selling records. via prefixmag.com Well, I’m no mouth-breather but I share this particular writer’s sentiment. Posted via web from Tankboy’s...
“All i ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people that...”
– Conan O’Brien.
last show. nice last words.
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Obama’s first year seen through two lenses. It is no secret I am a fan of Slate. BIG fan. So big that I made GalPal attend their first live Political Gabfest when we were in D.C. before the Presidential Inauguration last year. So it seem fitting that I share two of their latest videos portraying wildly different takes on how Obama’s first year in office went, as seen through the lens...
I like to think… …that the next frame of this shot involves Conan slapping Leno silly. A boy can dream.
Camera shy. I was talking to GalPal yesterday and realize I haven’t had my camera out since 2009. I haven’t shot any shows, no pictures of the pets, not even of our cool new kitchen island (oh the excitement!)* we recently got. I’ve taken a few cell photos, but my trusty SLR has seen no action. I will remedy that this weekend. Hell, I’ll remedy that now! *Quiet, it IS...
Keeping that brain limber and loose! When I had Alex Shakar as an English teacher he used to tell me of his days as a copywriter for a mammoth ad agency. He told me that while he worked that job, his creative side withered away, until ultimately he just had to quit the corporate world and go back to the world of academia where he could do post-graduate work and focus entirely on his writing again....
What does this mean? I saw this on the sidewalk in my neighborhood on my way to the gym this morning. What does it mean? Is it just an odd transposition of two recently discarded objects? Is it a critique of people trying to break religion down into easily digestible chunks? Or is it just a Bible in a microwave? You tell me.
Via ✖ALANA JOY✖: Music is the perfect drug.
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Redesign forthcoming. Since my Haloscan comments went kaput — they were bought out a while ago and are now forcing people to pay for the service and I refuse to be strong-armed, even if it means losing years and years of comments — and this current design has been around for approaching a decade, it seems as if a redesign is needed around these parts. I’ll probably just stick...
Delayed response. Why am I only JUST NOW noticing that Cleavon Little was in Fletch Lives? It’s been a lazy Monday.
Oh my. Do not click on this. Happy Friday!
Worst Current PR Trend?
leafblower:
PR people starting their emails with “People of Earth!”
Should We Put Leno On Suicide Watch? →
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GQ: “The best prank I ever pulled was I told a guy that—five years from now—I’m gonna give you my show. And then when the five years came, I gave it to him, and then I took it back almost instantly.”
By now, we’ve probably all seen the above. Jimmy Kimmel totally destroying Jay Leno on his own show. (To quote VERGE contributor Ari Voukydis: “He shot him with his...
Old school blue eyed soul meets new school blue eyed soul with pleasing results. I had something long and heartfelt I was going to share with you, but then Kip sent me a link to the video below and I realized it was far more important that you experience it instead of some emo bullshit on this fine Friday.
Changethethought™ | Gabriel Jeffrey
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Pavement "Quarantine the Past" and Declare the...
The comp will totally be one of the albums that you give your kids when they ask “Daddy, what were the ’90s like?” Way to go, Dad! When you give a kid a Pavement CD, they’re only a couple steps away from Television and Steve Reich. Before you know it, you’ll have a hipster for a child! via tinymixtapes.com Posted via web from Tankboy’s...
Yet another commentator weighs in on the whole late night talk fiasco. One thing this whole kerfuffle has been good for? Comedy.
1-D Movies!
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Ben Describes How to Brew a Good Cup of Coffee
DISCLAIMER: This video is meant to be a joke for my coffee industry friends. If you were to actually try this, it would taste nasty and probably make you sick. via vimeo.com Posted via web from Tankboy’s posterous | Comment »
Stuff White People Like#130: Conan O’Brien
The recent news that Conan O’Brien will be replaced by Jay Leno has caused white people to erupt with rage and hostility. You might even expect them to lash out and do something about it like take to the streets or write a letter to NBC to voice their dissatisfaction with the network. But no, white people will solve this problem the way that they solved the election crisis in Iran – through...
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The more times I hear it, the more I become pretty sure that original opening line of “TiK ToK” was “Wake up in the mornin’ feelin kinda shitty.”
I don’t think there’s any question that was the original opening line.
As if you even needed to ask… Team Conan all the way. However, a note to Conan’s guests — should NBC not pull him, like, tonight. Please stop telling him what a national resource he is and kissing up to him and letting him know how awful and unfair his situation is. We all already know that. And we also know that should Leno come out on top — and he probably will because...
#teamconan obvs
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A foursquare PSA: Go Off The Grid! Now that foursquare has made it clear people can check in just about anywhere and everywhere, I’ve decided to follow their rules and track my day’s progress even more closely. Of course this comes with two potentially huge downfalls I could a) lose friends and followers due to an overabundance of information sharing and b) I could allow creepy stalker...
Snow beagle. It’s been a hectic day, so let’s all take a moment to watch Betty the Beagle lick some snow.
How To Be a Better Music Snob
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(noone really listens to Captain Beefheart. NO ONE.)
being into music isn’t just an interest…it’s a fucking full time job for some folks. Music Snobbery is something that most people of a certain demographic will take part in from their late teens well into their early 30s. for most music snobs it was likely that during...
foursquare’s official stance on where you can and can’t check in is… Since I became a superuser on foursquare* I’m allowed to edit and close locations. I’ve long voiced my annoyance at people checking in at their desk, or on a bus, or in their jacuzzi, but it seems as if fourquare doesn’t mind it one bit. This is from the superuser instruction page:
Q: What...
fourfour: That'll do, Ke$ha - part deux
When Ke$ha sings about dancing with tears in her eyes and just fightin’ to get through the night, she makes me feel old. I have enough years under my belt to realize that when you find yourself in such a predicament, the sensible thing to do is go home. But I guess that would take you off display, and kill the chances to mock an old dude who’s hitting on you, as Ke$ha does in...
fourfour: That'll do, Ke$ha
All this is to say that Ke$ha wants us to believe she has is swagger. This makes her no different than most everyone making popular music today. However, I hear little on Animal to back up these claims, and when you have nothing behind your swagger, you walk alone. via fourfour.typepad.com I like Ke$ha, but Rich’s review — and this point in particular — is very astute. ...
I and the Thin White Duke thank you. Bowie Night was a HUGE success. We had a comfortable weekend sized crowd digging the jams last night, and I was so pleased to see so many smiling faces and hear so many requests. Other personal highlights included Ivan showing me his very cool Bowie-related tattoo (super thoughtful and totally not cheesy in any way, shape or form) and Val sharing her stories of...
