…that Dinosaur Jr. might be one of the absolute best rock bands, ever. I just don’t seem to be able to get tired of their music. And I play the shit out of stuff I like.
That’s it. Nothing earthshaking, sorry.
Category Archives: lotus eating
Lately I’ve been thinking
July 12, 2008 – 5:34 pm
View from the balcony
May 13, 2008 – 6:08 pm
So, I watched some of Town Meeting from the balcony last night, and I learned something interesting: If you squint a bit, you can see which TMMs are reading comics.
(awesome image lazily lifted from Sam Hiti’s website without permission - hopefully it’s OK. Buy some of his stuff - I did!)
New Spiritualized May 27th
May 11, 2008 – 10:00 pm
Whoo hoo!
And a clip featuring a warehouse of medical equipment dating back to Victorian times…
Partisan songs
April 20, 2008 – 5:18 pm
To Repel Ghosts:
These songs are the record of our speculative forays into the dreamspace which has grown up in the cracks between the social myth of the Heroic partisans and the ugly reality of the war; in mapping that territory, it was not our intention to pursue any specific political agenda or champion any particular [...]
Snarking at BoBos
February 15, 2008 – 11:28 am
Stuff white people like:
#41 Indie Music
If you want to understand white people, you need to understand indie music. As mentioned before, white people hate anything that’s “mainstream” and are desperate to find things that are more genuine, unique, and reflective of their experiences.
Fortunately, they have independent music.
A white person’s iPod (formerly CD collection) is not [...]
George Bush the new Yoko Ono?
February 11, 2008 – 12:08 am
“Existential freakout“? Damn, I liked that band!
Indomitable?
February 1, 2008 – 3:25 pm
With the loose change found under the couch cushions of a third-tier Hollywood producer, France has launched its most expensive movie - sorry, “film” - ever: Asterix at the Olympic Games. TIME magazine tells us:
A Gallic national treasure, Asterix is revered and adored by the French far more than even Mickey Mouse is by Americans. [...]
Keep your spandex fetish away from my Hergé, please
February 1, 2008 – 3:13 pm
WTF is THIS? He-Man, Master of the Belgianverse?
“The thinking person’s heartthrob”
January 22, 2008 – 6:15 pm
Slipping mad props for one of your favorite artists into an only semi-related product review! Well done, anonymous Boston Globe Business writer, well done!
Janek Schaefer performances
December 27, 2007 – 6:50 pm
English sound artist / composer Janek Schaefer offers downloadable MP3s of two of his performances for sale: the recent The Sporting Guide to The Speed of Sound and the slightly older Recital in the old library. I’m not much for writing music reviews, but this guy got to attend the performance of TSGTTSOS and had [...]
Sim unclear on meaning of ‘retired’
December 27, 2007 – 6:49 pm
Glamourpuss. What’s it all about? Dunno, but it’s
The Haute Couture Magazine parody that’s so six months ago.
and it’s
An homage to the classic photorealism black and white “beyond noir” strips of the 1940s and 50s (Alex Raymond, Stan Drake, John Prentice, Al Williamson)
and it’s
The strangest superheroine comic of all time (”Do I have an origin? Certainly [...]
Balinese Gamelan
December 17, 2007 – 12:41 am
Cool:
A gamelan is a kind of musical ensemble of Indonesia typically featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums, and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings, and vocalists may also be included. The term refers more to the set of instruments than the players of those instruments. A gamelan as a set [...]
52,000 lessons in composition
December 10, 2007 – 6:57 pm
1000 Frames of Hitchcock: 52 movies storyboarded by screencap. Awesome!