September 2011
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They Qualified for the Gold Watch →
“I can’t see myself at 30,” R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe sneered at the start of “Little America,” a song written while the band sat wedged in the rear seats of a panel van during an early ’80s tour. Stipe was 24 when he recorded those eight syllables, so there’s no way he could’ve conjured himself as he is today, a bald fiftysomething with an ...
PAPELBLOWN.
Shit.
24 Hours Later
This time last night, I was at the Wilco show. Now I’m listening to the Sox—we’re blacked out of all possible coverage, from MLB TV to ESPN 3—who may as well adopt “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” as their official song.
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lindstifa asked: Boston: Eat at Stella's, Butcher Shop and B&G Oysters, all are in the North End. For bourbon drinks try Drink in Fort Point Channel (between Financial District and Southie). Butcher Shop is my favorite restaurant in all of Boston. If you get to Brookline at all try Zaftig's for lunch. Holy crap.
Wilco: Raleigh Amphitheatre
— The Art of Almost
— I Might
— Black Moon
— Ashes of American Flags
— Bull Black Nova
— I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
— One Wing
— Dawned on Me
— Born Alone
— Impossible Germany
— Say You Miss Me
— Whole Love
— Pot Kettle Black
— Handshake Drugs
— War on War
— Standing O
— One...
“We didn’t get out to see much of your city. We were all gathered around...”
– A very tongue-in-cheek Jeff Tweedy, who has been intermittently adorable tonight. “Join us,” he said earlier “In singing along with songs you don’t know yet.
“Yeah, I started seeing them back when they were Uncle Tupelo.”
– The guy behind me at the Wilco show, approximately every four minutes. It should be noted that he’s wearing a t-shirt that he purchased at the merch stand all of two beers ago.
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“I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates...”
– Mindy Kaling in this superb New Yorker piece.
“I HAD TWO MORE SIGNS BUT THE ACC STOLE THEM.”
– Sign being held up by a West Virginia fan during ESPN’s College Gameday
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“After one pleasant drink I considered that ’31 years…heavens!’. And then I...”
– R.E.M. producer Mitch Easter, on the band’s breakup.
Mister Easter was nice enough to endure a few of my questions about his early-eighties studio time with “The Boys”, as he called them. The rest of our interview—and his always-entertaining answers—will be in next...
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Anonymous asked: Are you okay with the REM break up???
Chapter 36
“Baseball, in its quiet way, was an extravagantly harrowing game. Football, basketball, hockey, lacrosse—those were melee sports. You could make yourself useful by hustling and scrapping more than the other guy. You could redeem yourself through sheer desire. But baseball was different […] When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you f—ked up, everyone would...
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Season 1, Episode 18
“I have been sexually rejected by not one, but two guys who later went to clown college. I get super nervous whenever I hear a vacuum cleaner because when I was a kid my mom used to turn on the vacuum to drown out the sound of her and my dad fighting, which is why I rarely vacuum my apartment, like never. I have had three donuts so far today. Once in college, I pooped my pants a little bit at...
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“F*** this s***.”
– “David Ortiz provides the most concise of summaries not just for the first game of the Baltimore doubleheader, but also for the last 18 games.”
—via
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