December 2008
158 posts
Death Cab for Cutie - The New Year (Live)
I love this game.
I’m not a total slamhound or anything, but it pisses me off if I go to a party specifically for ass and my target is passed out at 11.
Mark Kozelek (Sun Kil Moon) - Moorestown (live)
...
A thought.
Wouldn’t we have all known by now if Zooey Deschanel was in a committed relationship anywhere near engagement?
Or maybe somebody mixed up Zooey with Katy Perry* again? Just sayin’.
*Yeah, I know who she’s dating.
Frat me a Bronson
Neil: Tobi is having some major sales but nothing special at all I don't think.
Neil: Bro.
Chris: Yeah I saw that, and did anyone tell you that you aren't funny?
Neil: Seriously though. Jacket selection is lame.
Chris: I'm checking it out now.
Neil: Someone's pissed.
Chris: No, I just think calling someone bro is degrading under a certain inflection.
Chris: And you always use it when you're trying to make a point.
Neil: What are you talking about? I only used it with you...like twice including today.
Chris: No way.
Chris: Far more than anyone else has, that's for sure.
Chris: I don't think you even notice yourself doing it.
Neil: Oooo....sorry I must use the scenester rhetoric more around you. You know, lengthy descriptions that try to exhaust my knowledge of everything (artsy primarily) in order to make one simple point.
Chris: You're joking, right?
Chris: You say bro a lot.
Chris: That's all I'm saying.
Neil: Not to you
Chris: Well, more than anyone else says it to me.
Chris: Like, noticeably more.
Chris: And I think of this.
Chris: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bro
Neil: Like all two times.
Neil: HAHA! WOW! Proves my rhetoric theory right! HAHA!
Chris: What theory are you talking about, exactly?
Chris: I googled hipster rhetoric and the only thing that came up was my article about hipsters, which was a conversation that YOU and I had.
Neil: Oh shit...maybe I need to do an Urban Dictionary entry!?!
Chris: Maybe. They probably wouldn't approve it unless you got it right.
Chris: Plus, you aren't coming up with anything new. A lot of people - hipsters or not - try to complicate arguments with rhetoric.
Chris: And, if you weren't sure, that isn't anywhere near the opposite tactic of just saying "bro."
Neil: But hipsters have their special formula.
Chris: I don't even think you can define what a hipster is anymore.
Chris: The definition on Urban Dictionary is funny and effective but it's too specific.
Neil: Bro is a term of endearment. Now, 'son' on the other hand is not.
Chris: Those are totally different, I agree. But bros have always represented douchebags to me. The only person who I don't mind calling me that is my actual brother.
Neil: In reality, it's a part of Martin Luther King's dream. It's what the peaceniks of the '60's were about. It's what the soldiers fighting in far-away lands became if nothing else.
Neil: Brothers.
Neil: Sisters.
Chris: Are you equating your usage of 'bro' to Martin Luther King's Dream speech?
Neil: Yes, because I too had a dream. That we are all bro's [sic].
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Bob Dylan (50)
Why? (30)
The National (23)
The Killers (23)
Ryan Adams (23)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Bromance and The City
I don’t know if you realized what today is, but if you did then you’re probably just as excited as I am. Today, ladies and gentlemen, is the day that MTV will premiere the first two shows in its new lineup of faux-reality TV: The City, starring stick-figure beauty Whitney Port (of The Hills fame); and Bromance, a charming little competition show a la Paris Hilton’s New BFF...
Against Me - Thrash Unreal
I wish I had a voice...
God dammit!
I can’t believe I didn’t get nominated for a Tumblr award! I mean, I write such funny stuff and I always reblog ppl when they make posts about other ppl on Tumblr. What gives?
I even did SNPT once!
The Libertines - Music When The Lights Go Out
...
Leonard Cohen - Avalanche
Hunt:...
My Morning Jacket - It Beats 4 U
I really...
Sometimes I forget to try and impress people or care about what they think of me. And when that happens, life becomes much more enjoyable.
Oh, and I don’t condone drunk driving either. But I was next door, only about a quarter mile away, on a private road at one in the morning. So can it. And don’t drive drunk, not on public roads. Actually, just don’t do anything I do. It could get you in trouble.
Obviously, I’m still drunk.
If anyone offers you a shot of Van Gogh Espresso flavored vodka accept it; but only take one. Because if you take more than one you will begin to grow ill, your stomach churning in the wake of a gross amalgamation, caffeine and liquor. And no, it’s not like Red Bull and vodka.
I can’t remember how I got home last night; but I’m here and nobody’s come to wake me yet so I...
Sidewalks of New York.
As adults, Christmas starts to mean something different. For me, at least. I’m here with my family but to be quite honest, I feel a little bit lonely. The day has been wonderful, but truthfully, something seems to be missing. I mean, I just wonder whether I’m the kind of person destined to be here with my family and offering another, a wife or a girlfriend, a child or some children,...
this goes out to Christopher Reinhard.
Kevin: Hey, Daria, Jane. Notice anything different?
Daria: He's wearing glasses, right?
Jane: Why, yes, he's wearing glasses. Although, ironically, he doesn't need them. What's going on?
Kevin: Well, I got to thinking about what you said about glasses making you smart, Daria. And hey, you may not believe this, but I could stand to be a little smarter, so I got some.
Daria: You, a little smarter? Not possible.
Kevin: No, no, no. That's what I thought, too. But believe me, it is. You know, I don't want to be a brain or anything. I like having friends. So I got a pair without any lenses. See? (twirls glasses on his finger, which is poking through the empty lens) So now I'll be smart but not too smart.
Daria: Um, I'm not sure if it'll work without any lenses.
Kevin: Really?
Jane: Yeah. Why don't you try one lens and see how that goes?
Kevin: Great idea! Thanks.
(via Allison Jenna Price, my favorite native ***Californian***.)
(I always fancied myself a Trent.)
Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains
Pitchfork...
Sigur Rós - Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
This is...
"The Jeffrey Max Entourage"
Johnathan: Haa I have a plan with Allison and Trickah to make a special Jeffrey Max tumblr. it'll be like Perez Hilton for Jmax.
Chris: Whaaat.
Johnathan: haa
Chris: Just shit about him only?
Johnathan: haa yeah.
Chris: That ought to be good.
Johnathan: "We got reports that Jeffrey bought a volcano taco". "We hear Jeffrey didn't finish his diet pepsi."
Chris: Haha.
Chris: That sounds like a Twitter.
Johnathan: haa yeah.
Johnathan: I told Allison, hopefully we can generate publicity for him so he gets big and then we can be his entourage.
Chris: Haha, that'd be the most fucked up entourage ever. So much fun.
Johnathan: haa
Chris: That'd be the kind of entourage that sold oranges next to the highway.
Johnathan: haaaa
Chris: That'd be the kind of entourage who'd go to red carpets dressed as the Goonies.
Chris: Trickah could be Data.
Just a friendly reminder:
Tonight is holiday karaoke night. There will be much rejoicing.
Many one and onlies coming tonight include:
George Lind (of Second Day Crush and Urban Outfitters Melrose fame, and decidedly my duet partner for Weezer’s Say It Ain’t So)
Eli Berg (director of the critically-acclaimed Delivery)
Lexi Tinniswood (beautiful scourge of the LES)
Sean Foreman (of Corpsey and 3OH!3 fame)...
Ooh child.
It’s hit. I usually give myself the opportunity to avoid holiday cheer for as long as possible then BAM, let it take over my entire life for a few indulgent days. And today, as I walked in on John Denver and the Muppets belting “The Twelve Days of Christmas” all throughout the office, Miss Piggy’s glorious timbre echoing off the red and green walls, I knew it had begun.
...
Bloc Party - Flux
Bloc Party - Ion Square
For fun: here’s...
The War on Drugs - Taking the Farm
The War on Drugs - Arms Like Boulders
...
Why? - The Hollows
Straight. Honest. Dirty, but...
Why? - The Vowels Pt. 2
Though Alopecia...
Radiohead - Bones
A bonus from The Bends. Hard...
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
My favorite...
VHS or Beta - Burn It All Down
A music experiment.
I don’t have time to write much today, what with this social media assignment and my own personal quest to complete a Top 30 of 2008 list (with individual album writeups) bogging down my mind. That being said, I’m going to post one song from every record I listen to at work for the rest of the day. Tomorrow may be more of the same.
Here goes.
“yo, Santogold fine and she know how to kick it, but homegirl always smell a...”
– Notorious B.I.G.
All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell
I remember...
Kara-okay.
My first inclination for celebrating Christmas is to invite everyone who follows me on Tumblr to join in the karaoke fun this coming Tuesday, December 23 at the Ginn Mill in downtown Denver. I will be singing Sinatra, and I hope you will duet Weezer with me. Because what’s better than a little mental masturbation (yes, Say It Ain’t So) during the holidays?
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Bob Dylan (50)
Why? (30)
The Killers (23)
Ryan Adams (23)
The National (23)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sun Kil Moon - Tonight in Bilbao Give yourself the...
Yeah, never mind. I’m good. Thanks, walpaper.
The Pitchfork Top 50 of 2008 →
And the consensus is…not bad. Some glaring issues with Kanye, Vivian Girls, and the placement of Cut Copy, but all in all I guess this is the best list they’ve ever come up with.
The Anniversary - Sweet Marie
A man and his son were standing outside Limon, where we’d gone for Carmel’s going away dinner. She’s leaving, indefinitely, for San Francisco. None of us know when we’ll see her again. Yet Krystal noticed the man and his son standing outside in the cold and went out to talk to them. She discovered they’d been on a bus for two and a half days, implants from Seattle,...
Chris: http://www.tmz.com/2008/12/18/shark-commits-suicide-on-waterslide/
Eli: Sad.
Chris: I know!
Eli: We live in a strange time.
Chris: When sharks can take water slides.