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Muppet Meditation #35: Gangsta Monster
2008-01-28 06:07:00 Wherin we learn that the "Veggie Mons ter " thing is not only bullshit, but that Cookie Monster has had a diverse diet since the 80's."Cream of wheat. WORD UP!" More About: Meditation , Gangsta
45. Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail: For 400 Electric Guitars
2008-01-28 05:43:00 It's hard to comprehend how guitars work. It seems as though seven is the ridiculous limit for how many you can have in a band before it becomes frivolous, and you'd damn well better be playing "Freebird." Rhys Chatham ? Seven ain't enough for him. He needs 400. And they need to be playing melodically. Symphonicly. In harmony. An impossible task? Not in the slightest. 400 electric guitars, an absolutely breathtaking masterpiece.Sounds Like: The most beautiful landscape your eyes have ever seen, the most pristine snow your foot has ever graced, etc., etc., /lofty-praise.Key Tracks: There are only three.Download: Nope. They're all too big.Buy It! Amazon More About: Electric , Electric Guitars , Guitars
46. Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
2008-01-28 00:58:00 Once upon a time, there was a band named Les Savy Fav , and they delighted many a Pitchfork-reader with music that sounded like a prediction of some fad nine months away, only to return with an album that sounded nothing like it. Then they hung it up, left for hiatus, and everybody was left boo-hoo-hooing while this guy......developed a food fetish or something. Well, they came back, and the people did rejoice! Let's Stay Friends is less revolutionary than previous albums, but still packs a lot of punch. For not having done a thing together in years, the band is extremely polished. A couple of missed spots here and there, but honestly, just good rock music.Key Tracks: Pots and Pans, The Equestrian, Patty LeeSounds Like: Guitars, screaming, and bearded men covered with sprinkles.Download: Pots and PansBuy It! Amazon
47. Liars - Liars
2008-01-28 00:21:00 I was kinda-sorta on board for 2006's Drum's Not Dead, if only for the sweet, pencil sketch on notebook paper cover, but from the opening 30 seconds of Liars , I'm convinced that this is an incredible band making incredible music. To be honest, I'm not sure why this is so low on the list, lists being things that are made haphazardly and with an eye on filling space. Probably would have been top twenty had I listened to it when it came out.Key Tracks: Houseclouds, Freak OutSounds Like: Beck, but beaten to a pulp and thrown into a wood chipper for the hell of it.Download: HousecloudsBuy It! Amazon
More Best of 2007: Concerts
2008-01-25 22:47:00 Yep, January is almost over, but I never really had much time to reflect on my '07, which was a year dominated by music. I went to a ton of concerts, treked out to Bonnaroo (which I strangely never talked about), and saw my CD collection go from Led Zeppelin's discography to the random mess of stuff that it is now. Odds are, if I knew more people who were interested, I would have formed a band. In any case, I've got a few things for you all to download, and this is as good an excuse to post them as any.Best Concert (non-festival): Of Montreal (Southgate House, Covington KY, 3/20/07)There's really little I can do to sum up exactly how good this show was. I bought a shitty voice recorder specifically for the purpose of capturing what I knew was going to be a bad ass show. We missed the opener, or I don't remember the opener, or shit really wasn't all that important, but I went from liking Of Montreal to proclaiming them top five. Just about everything was fun, from the merch guy... More About: Concerts , Cert
Stumbling Thru Myspace: The Mathletes
2008-01-25 04:48:00 So yeah, there's this guy, right? And he does this blog, right? The one where he explains the shit that happens in Marmaduke? It hasn't been active for awhile (matter of fact, all but one of the blogs I link to appear dead), but still, it is a constant source of entertainment for all the children who are fortunate enough to click upon it. Gaze, if you will, at Marmaduke doing the moonwalk. Cancer and madness, indeed.I cheated a little to cover the Mathletes: they weren't on StumbleUpon...I added them myself. But hell, I StumbledUpon Marmaduke Explained, so I think it counts. Featuring songs like "2003: The Year Punk Pranced" and "Pinocchiobot (Rocky Roll vrsn.)," The Mathletes could be quickly written off as a joke band and discarded...but they're not. I'd like to think that having them on my iPod would prove that, but fuck, I've got Straight Outta' Lynnwood and Corn Mo, so the point is kind of lost. They're (really, just Joe most times) a quirky garage band made possible by... More About: Myspace , Stumbling
Whopper Freakout
2008-01-24 03:07:00 Other YouTube people are so much better than me. More About: Whopper , Whopper Freakout
Generic Heel Video Blog #1
2008-01-24 02:22:00 All my life, I've wanted to be a professional wrestler. Now, with the help of YouTube and a camcorder, I get to pretend!Hopefully he wins. More About: Video , Video Blog , Blog , Generic , Heel
Sweet Jesus, this movie looks awesome...
2008-01-21 07:33:00 The message behind it may be a bit blatant for my liking though. Who wants to go? More About: Jesus , Movie , Awesome , Sweet , Looks
Muppet Meditation #35: Sleepover
2008-01-21 05:59:00 Wherein we learn that Bert and Ernie's room is a living hell. More About: Meditation , Sleepover
Writer's Bloq: Northbound, I-75
2008-01-19 08:05:00 I remember driving to Wolverine with my sister in the backseat and our dog in his cage in the bed of our truck. He was barking, and we were doing everything in our power to make him happy – little fingers poking through the cage to scratch where we could. He kept barking until we were on the side of the road with the hazard lights on and a warning to not look back. We looked out the windows instead; there were hills in the distance. My father walked past in the snow and opened the hatch. An open cage, silence, one sharp bark. I’d never seen anything so white before.
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam
2008-01-18 21:12:00 Blogger thinks that I am a spam robot. The reason for this? Because I've moved every non-Heathcliff post from every blog I still hadn't deleted over on to here. Excited?"You will be...you will be."With this awesomeness comes a few changes, namely in your programing lineup. More excitement!MONDAY: Weekly Muppet Reflection - Because the path through enlightenment involves fucking candles on the shelf.WEDNESDAY: Paul Arrand Rodgers Makes Jon Arbuckle Go Crazy - Because I have nothing better to do than erase Garfield's thought balloons.Friday: Stumbling Thru MySpace - Because it was a really good idea I never got around to.Also, I'm going to be finishing out the top 52 of 2007 (because I can) and will probably, eventually, God willing, finalize my list of top 10 rapes (even Caleb needs something to masturbate to). Oh, and if you count Heathcliff as part of this blog, I've just hit 300 posts. More About: Spam
Is it alright...
2008-01-16 04:40:00 ...to go completely crazy? I think I have. As a result, I feel like shit.In any case, I have an announcement: I randomly drew two blogs from a hat, all others, the Borg will assimilate. The two blogs surviving the assimilation are CWTB,E and PARETH, unless Heathcliff continues to be repeats; in which case I'll move it on to here so I don't have to be soul-crushingly depressed by all the extra work I do (none, really).The reason for this? I need to declutter a lot of things in my life right now, and I think that by throwing them together in a big, convoluted pile, you all can laugh, I can stop the bleeding, and maybe I'll be interested in living life as I used to: loudly, annoyingly, and with much blog for all.So...in the next few days, you'll notice my post count going up a ton. I am a very skilled cheater, as well. In the end, I imagine I'll be Jon Arbuckle, this blog will be Garfield, and the rest of the things I do will wind up tossed upon it, like so:P.S. No, it isn't just... More About: Alright
The Therapy of Quitting Your Job
2007-10-05 07:34:00 I am a cocky asshole.Just about anybody who knows me knows that just about the only thing bigger than the size of my waistband is that of my ego, so I typically take on much more work than I am physically or mentally able to. For example, Senior year of high school, on top of classes, I take on a role in play, become debate team captain, take math and science classes when I really don't have a need for them. I barely escape with a 3.0 (honestly, I may not have gotten a 3.0 that semester).Last year of college was a learning experiance for me, in that I quickly found out that my past study habits (read: none) would not pay off in this new and exciting setting. I closed out the year with a 2.9, which meant that my scholarship was going to be given to me on a prohibitionary basis...if I didn't raise my GPA to a 3.0 or above, I'd lose $10,000 a semester, $20,000 a year, and pretty much be skullfucked out of Mount St. Joseph. No worries...I'd take a full load of classes, ace the hell ... More About: Therapy , Quitting , Thera
WHY????
2007-09-26 16:16:00 Oy vey...ISOhunt is blocking US users from downloading from its trackers. Needless to say, not having it makes downloading very, very slow...and based on a few other sites...the blocking of US users will be continuing in the future. I could weep.
Picture: Dela Hoya...one sexy dude.
2007-09-21 22:23:00 Does anything need to be said? More About: Dude , Picture , Sexy
What makes Phil Collins tolerable?
2007-09-17 21:06:00 Apes. More About: Collins , Phil , Phil Collins , Coll
TRIUMPH
2007-09-17 15:08:00 It's only 2-0, but I can't remember the last time the Lion's won a game in OT. Or were 2-0. Kitna's joy seems genuine...the look on his face makes me smile. More About: Triumph
Hail to the Victors?
2007-09-16 04:36:00 Against Appalachian State, I found Michigan's performance laughable, thinking that they were just not in the game...that losing to an inferior team would be the proverbial kick in the ass needed to get them over the hump.Turns out it was a shot to the nuts.I've stopped following College Football as religiously as I did in my youth, but I still give a damn about the first local team I ever watched win a championship of any national importance.This is no longer that team.I just got done looking at the Michigan-Oregon affair, and it's looking like Appalachian State didn't so much upset Michigan in week one as much as beat one of the worst teams I have ever seen play the game.Ten years ago, Michigan won the National Championship. One year ago, they were contenders for the National Championship, meeting in an epic #1 vs. #2 battle the week of Bo Schembechler's death. Two weeks into the season, and Michigan has been fucked in the ass by a stranger.It's a sad state of affairs when th...
Feedback, plz.
2007-09-15 07:35:00 This cobblestone street holdsso many storiesheroes of the past. Rubber meets roadthe contact between tire and rockbump bump bumprough familiarityroguish charm.I stand in the shadows of giantsSixty-four and Eighty-fourbless those boyswhile nature ruins their accomplishments.Another giant across the wayformerly a captain of industrya placeto disembark.Great glass windows lie shatteredlike teethbroken by the slingshot of David.Michigan and Trumbullonce the center of a great townwait for the wrecking ballthe destroyer.Down the road, a crowd roars. They too have forgottenor perhaps not.The old man who remembersthe riots his brick housewith his wife and daughterswho have since left for destinationunknown.He is like this cityof smokestacks and factoriesthe big three and hitsvilletriumph and junk stock’64 and ‘84Michigan and TrumbullThere are stories in the cobblestone roadthat certain men rememberand for a time, the ghostsof Detroit comealive.Bump bump bump.For most though the windowle... More About: Feedback
I'm Tired of Skullfucking.
2007-09-13 20:11:00 Live From Congress: The Skull Fucking Bill Of 2007 More About: Tired , Tire
Read a Book
2007-09-06 06:28:00 The opening line pretty much states everything you need to know about the devolution of hip-hop. That, in and of itself, makes the fact that BET commissioned this all the stranger, because BET is the foremost proprietor of shitty rap. Unless they've gotten tired of it, and hope that insulting their base demographic will get people to pick up a copy of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back... More About: Book , Read
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2007-08-22 05:29:00 I feel like I've betrayed the trust of my best friend...the dog who was always there for my sister and myself. That he spent two days looking for me while I was setting up for the coming school year before being put down Monday was rough, to say the least. To go home Thursday and not have him run to the door to greet me will be torture.For 11 years, this dog was family to me, to my sister, and even my mom. Now he's gone, and I didn't get to say goodbye. He never found me. 11 years, and at the end...I'm not there. What a friend.I'm sorry.
The Greatest Songwriter of All Time.
2007-07-25 22:23:00 Tay Zonday. Never heard of him? I didn't either...but with dope piano driven songs like "Chocolate Rain," "Get It Back," and "Demons on the Dance Floor," there is no doubt that this deep voiced bastion of everything that is right with the internet will eventually have a million hits on his YouTube page...Chocolate RainBest Lyric: Chocolate Rain/Dirty secrets of economyChocolate Rain/Turns that body into GDPChocolate Rain/The bell curve blames the baby's DNAChocolate Rain/But test scores are how much the parents makeDemons on the Dance FloorBest Lyric: Has a secret fetish for cartoon porn/Keeps a naked Martian in her top drawerGet it BackBest Lyric: I'm the master of money/'Bringin home milk and honey'Eatin ketchup/So I can save for a 'HummeyAlso awesome is how he pronounces "Turbotax" as "Surbotax" for most of the song. More About: Time , Songwriter , The G , Greatest
It's Time...
2007-07-21 00:52:00 Roddy Piper has magic sunglasses that can see the dead. Sadly for the dead, he is all out of bubble gum. More About: Time
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More articles from this author:2007-07-21 00:24:00 lol, haikus. I decided that I wanted to write five a day, for no other reason than to write five a day. Here is the first batch. Hopefully, they improve.Citrus and liquor meet,Bubbles rise, eyes darting round,Two people. Now one.Evergreen dress hangsLimp from shoulders heaving. Regret.Tears. Innocence lost.Tea leaves of green brewQuietly in the morning.The night ends too soon.Girl, dreaming awakeLoses sight of White Rabbit.Wonderland, no more.Walking Earth once moreDust shaken from ragged clothesWhat was dead now lives. 1, 2 |
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