June 2009
191 posts
Chris Bell: “I Am The Cosmos”
Now...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-28) →
Brinsley Schwarz (75)
Syd Barrett (73)
The Jazz Butcher (73)
The Jam (66)
R.E.M. (39)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey: In Review
There was a sparse crowd scattered about Cat’s Cradle when we got our hands stamped on Saturday night, rolling in just in time to catch the second opening act. “We’re American Aquarium and we’re from Raleigh,” singer/guitarist BJ Barham said before kicking into what proved to be an enjoyable set stacked with beer and broken hearts and girls who left for guys who didn’t play guitar. On the...
The GoGirl →
Urine is sterile, and GoGirl’s medical grade silicone is germ resistant, but the product can come into contact with bacteria during use, so take care in cleaning. It’s sturdy enough to stand up to multiple washings. (One enthusiast gleefully reported that GoGirl stood up to her dishwasher.)
Look, call me old-fashioned or OCD or some other term that begins with an O, but I have a rule about trying...
The Jags: “Back of My Hand”
Now that...
R.I.P. OxyClean
Somebody needs to build a protective enclosure around Tony Little IMMEDIATELY.
“I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be—and...”
– —Lady Gaga
I don’t really dig on her music but that’s an attitude I can absolutely get behind.
“Oh yeah. John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down. I...”
– —Kurt Cobain
I made the mistake of going to a used book store yesterday and came out with a giant bag on my back, hunched and straining like the old man on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV. This quote came from one of my purchases, an anthology of Rolling Stone interviews.
I also snapped up...
“They asked Mark Twain what it took to be successful, and he said,...”
– Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks, paraphrasing and waxing philosophical.
Finding My Goddess →
This wackjob has written a dating manifesto that includes his requirements for the ladies, things like:
3.2. Body:
She is extremely attractive. She’s HOT. She turns heads wherever she goes.
She is sexy. VERY sexy.
She is beautifully dressed and beautifully groomed.
She has excellent posture.
She has a trim waistline. Alternatively, if her waistline is ALMOST (but not quite) trim,...
Chris Stamey (with Alex Chilton): “Summer...
Meet & Greet →
Unfortunately, the only thing standing between me and an adoring crowd is, um, writing a book. That, and talent. Sometimes I think assembling something with chapters would be a great idea. Other times I realize it would be impossible, since my attention span is shorter than most seizures. Considering that—just this morning—my waffles caught fire when I got bored by their two minute...
When a King Dies
coketalk:
Soak it up, kids. This is our “Elvis is Dead” moment. You only get this once in a generation.
It doesn’t matter if you thought he was a freak. It doesn’t matter if you didn’t like his music. It doesn’t matter one bit what you thought of him. He was a king, and when a king dies the world is never the same.
The media circus we will witness in the coming days will seem cartoonishly...
Holy Shit.
Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett AND Michael Jackson?
UPDATE: CNN has now swapped headlines to “Michael Jackson Suffers Cardiac Arrest”. They’ve also carefully noted that he was from Gary, Indiana, which seems like such a bizarre detail, like if the Mall of America burned down and they mentioned that it once had a Sunglass Hut.
The dB’s: “Black and White”
...
Now I Wish I'd Super Sized It →
I’m pretty sure that I heard the robot judging me when she gave the one-sided recount of the purchase that sent my net worth into the negative numbers and it didn’t brighten my spirits to shout “YEAH, WELL AT LEAST I HAVE ARMS” before throwing my phone into the sofa cushions. Usually it does.
On today’s episode of the Tangle of Misfortune I call my life, I’ll...
Five Bands to Watch →
These dudes from the Jersey shore have described their sound as “like Bruce Springsteen singing for a Cure cover band, with a tinge more aggression.” That’s appropriate, since many of the tracks on The ’59 Sound pulse with the kind of “baby, we’ve gotta get out of this place” urgency that Bruce used to have back when Gerald Ford was in the White House.
My contribution to BitchBuzz today is...
Hockey: “Learn to Lose”
...
Tumblr Talent Show
So apparently it’s happening today and, unfortunately, I appear to have left all of my talents boxed and stacked in that storage place that looks like the opening credits for a Lifetime movie about a small town serial killer.
Anyway.
Things I Have Done In Actual Talent Shows:
1) A Choreographed Dance to Paula Abdul’s “Opposites Attract” (Fifth Grade): The day of the...
'Roo-ing the Last Day & Summer Festival Tips →
Later in the afternoon, someone propped 72-year-old Merle Haggard onstage, a dude who illustrates his name better than anyone this side of the Garbage Pail Kids. Neko Case followed shortly thereafter, with a tight set stacked with songs from her latest, Middle Cyclone. I admittedly gave less than my full attention to Ms. Case because HOLY CRAP, Bruce Springsteen and his equally handsome, equally...
Graham Parker: “I Want You Back”
A...