Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
GAH!!!!
The man Tacoby Bellsbury hisself is gonna be at the Taco Bell I ate at just three days ago today at 3 pm. I am PISSED that I can't make it to this. Although I'm sure it's gonna be painfully cramped, and it's at Cambridgeside, so somebody will probably wind up stabbed or something, but STILL. SHIT WORK FUCK.
x10
The man Tacoby Bellsbury hisself is gonna be at the Taco Bell I ate at just three days ago today at 3 pm. I am PISSED that I can't make it to this. Although I'm sure it's gonna be painfully cramped, and it's at Cambridgeside, so somebody will probably wind up stabbed or something, but STILL. SHIT WORK FUCK.
x10
Friday, October 26, 2007
TEN YEARS AGO LAST NIGHT
The France existed in public for the very first time.
WE ARE WIZENED PROS! and/or grizzled vets.
The France existed in public for the very first time.
WE ARE WIZENED PROS! and/or grizzled vets.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Psychedelic Horseshit vs. Atlanta bands
Psychedelic Horseshit are awesome. Here's a semi-entertaining interview with the frontman that briefly touches on a couple of semi-popular bands from Atlanta.
Some of the good bits:
Psychedelic Horseshit's album Magic Flowers Droned is out today on Siltbreeze.
Psychedelic Horseshit are awesome. Here's a semi-entertaining interview with the frontman that briefly touches on a couple of semi-popular bands from Atlanta.
Some of the good bits:
WF-So lots people in Columbus talk about something that went down between you guys and Deerhunter. Someone said, you said like ‘Fuck Deerhunter” on stage in Atlanta or something. I told you how I ran into Cole from the Black Lips and asked him about you and he was like ‘those Psychedelic Horseshit guys don’t like us for some reason’. What is the whole story behind that?
MW-The Deerhunter thing was… We got a hold of one of the main Deerhunter guys to set up a show for us in Atlanta. He was real snotty. He was like “any knowledgable bands can contact this person and he will hook you up with a show”. Just really snotty. We finally got this shitty-ass gig in Atlanta at this crap art gallery. Every fucking member of their band showed up to it. So it just kind of pissed me off. I didn’t know any of them were there when I started talking shit. I just knew I was in Atlanta and some of their friends were probably there. I just talked shit. I didn’t sit between songs and talk shit. I put it in the lyrics to my song. I just slipped it in. It wasn’t just me talking shit. I was trying to be funny. It caused this big drama with the guy we were staying with, The Black Lips tour manager. Everyone was pissed off. Then everyone ended up buying us coke and shit. And like divulging secrets about the Black Lips. About how their live album was recorded in a studio. That live album is not live.
WF-When I type this out. Do you want me to put it out there like that?
MW-That Black Lips album is not live. They recorded all but three songs were recorded in a studio.
Psychedelic Horseshit's album Magic Flowers Droned is out today on Siltbreeze.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
recent developments in music, film, comics, and video games
Man, I'm not doing ANYTHING lately. Other than Springsteen's Magic I haven't listened to any particularly good new music lately; the new Robert Pollard albums are kinda eh, the Wooden Shjips record is good but can't touch "Shrinking Moon For You", and everything else I've been listening to lately is kinda old. Plus my left ear has been stopped up for two days now, making headphones almost irrelevent and slightly painful.
I saw Darjeeling Limited a couple weeks ago, my first time in a theater (not counting drive-ins) since Superbad. Darjeeling was better than I expected; I had very low hopes, and figured it'd be an even more wayward mess than Life Aquatic (which does get better every time I see it, but still can't touch Wes Anderson's first three movies). It is self-indulgent, of course, and Anderson's style is increasingly just schtick, but the movie's salvaged by a couple of great performances from Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody. That last guy is the saddest looking person EVER, and that sadness is almost overwhelming when combined with Wilson's frustrated optimism and a story already seeped in sorrow. I think this guy's eyes alone made my wife cry.
Finally saw Hot Fuzz. It's awesome. The gore is really out-of-place, though.
Evan Almighty is a clear career lowlight for at least six different people.
Still readin' them COMICS. DC Showcase Presents The Metal Men Volume 1 is just about the greatest thing to ever happen to anybody anywhere EVER. Okay, maybe DC Showcase Presents Metamorpho Volume 1 was better, but the Metal Men remain unassailably amazing. The Metal Men accidentally take a blind orphan to a far-off planet where the domineering giant robot queen forces her male giant robot subjects to always walk on all fours and to basically serve as giant robot dogs. Lady Metal Man Platinum (aka Tina) is so lovestruck by Doc Magnus that she continually screws everything up. At least two other stories revolve around evil robot women cruelly fucking with the Metal Men. Clearly proto-feminism at its finest.
I've been slacking at this, too, but I still put up some comic-related thoughts over at the Kindercore weblog. Here's the link!
But shit, the main thing hogging my mind right now is video games. Which yes is pretty lame, but I've come to accept it. Metroid Prime III: Corruption for the Wii is outstanding. The controls are intuitive and elegant and perhaps truly revolutionary. I'm generally not a fan of first-person shooters, which, y'know, the Metroid series has never really been, but I think I'd be all over a true FPS for the Wii with Metroid-style controls.
Beyond Metroid I've been playing shit off the Virtual Console non-stop, like Sin and Punishment (way too hard), Gunstar Heroes (even damn harder), Adventures of Lolo (which I'm about to beat for the third time in 18 years or so), and Super Mario 64 (ramping up for Super Mario Galaxy next month). I also picked up the GameCube game Battalion Wars for eight bucks, to test out the series and see if Battalion Wars II for the Wii will be worth it. It's a fun real-time military strategy game, but the cartoonish presentation is a jarring contrast with the depressing realities of war. Normally I not only DON'T mind cartoonism, but actively PREFER it over realistic graphics (or at least the comic book / anime realism that predominates in video games). The combat in BW is semi-realistic, though, and, between the cuteness of the characters and the dialogue's utterly cavalier attitude towards death and war, the game is slightly kinda disconcerting. Still, fun as shit, and I'm looking forward to BWII.
Okay. Damn. That's all I gotta say. Yes sir. Awesome.
EDIT: And oh, fuck, between Bioshock, Mass Effect, and fuckin' Portal (LOOK AT THIS TRAILER!!!), I might just have to get an X-Box 360 some time soon.
Man, I'm not doing ANYTHING lately. Other than Springsteen's Magic I haven't listened to any particularly good new music lately; the new Robert Pollard albums are kinda eh, the Wooden Shjips record is good but can't touch "Shrinking Moon For You", and everything else I've been listening to lately is kinda old. Plus my left ear has been stopped up for two days now, making headphones almost irrelevent and slightly painful.
I saw Darjeeling Limited a couple weeks ago, my first time in a theater (not counting drive-ins) since Superbad. Darjeeling was better than I expected; I had very low hopes, and figured it'd be an even more wayward mess than Life Aquatic (which does get better every time I see it, but still can't touch Wes Anderson's first three movies). It is self-indulgent, of course, and Anderson's style is increasingly just schtick, but the movie's salvaged by a couple of great performances from Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody. That last guy is the saddest looking person EVER, and that sadness is almost overwhelming when combined with Wilson's frustrated optimism and a story already seeped in sorrow. I think this guy's eyes alone made my wife cry.
Finally saw Hot Fuzz. It's awesome. The gore is really out-of-place, though.
Evan Almighty is a clear career lowlight for at least six different people.
Still readin' them COMICS. DC Showcase Presents The Metal Men Volume 1 is just about the greatest thing to ever happen to anybody anywhere EVER. Okay, maybe DC Showcase Presents Metamorpho Volume 1 was better, but the Metal Men remain unassailably amazing. The Metal Men accidentally take a blind orphan to a far-off planet where the domineering giant robot queen forces her male giant robot subjects to always walk on all fours and to basically serve as giant robot dogs. Lady Metal Man Platinum (aka Tina) is so lovestruck by Doc Magnus that she continually screws everything up. At least two other stories revolve around evil robot women cruelly fucking with the Metal Men. Clearly proto-feminism at its finest.
I've been slacking at this, too, but I still put up some comic-related thoughts over at the Kindercore weblog. Here's the link!
But shit, the main thing hogging my mind right now is video games. Which yes is pretty lame, but I've come to accept it. Metroid Prime III: Corruption for the Wii is outstanding. The controls are intuitive and elegant and perhaps truly revolutionary. I'm generally not a fan of first-person shooters, which, y'know, the Metroid series has never really been, but I think I'd be all over a true FPS for the Wii with Metroid-style controls.
Beyond Metroid I've been playing shit off the Virtual Console non-stop, like Sin and Punishment (way too hard), Gunstar Heroes (even damn harder), Adventures of Lolo (which I'm about to beat for the third time in 18 years or so), and Super Mario 64 (ramping up for Super Mario Galaxy next month). I also picked up the GameCube game Battalion Wars for eight bucks, to test out the series and see if Battalion Wars II for the Wii will be worth it. It's a fun real-time military strategy game, but the cartoonish presentation is a jarring contrast with the depressing realities of war. Normally I not only DON'T mind cartoonism, but actively PREFER it over realistic graphics (or at least the comic book / anime realism that predominates in video games). The combat in BW is semi-realistic, though, and, between the cuteness of the characters and the dialogue's utterly cavalier attitude towards death and war, the game is slightly kinda disconcerting. Still, fun as shit, and I'm looking forward to BWII.
Okay. Damn. That's all I gotta say. Yes sir. Awesome.
EDIT: And oh, fuck, between Bioshock, Mass Effect, and fuckin' Portal (LOOK AT THIS TRAILER!!!), I might just have to get an X-Box 360 some time soon.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Thursday, October 11, 2007
biggest bummer this year
John Schuerholz is retiring. He'll be named Team President, and Frank Wren will be succeeding him as GM. Wren SUCKED with the Orioles in 1999. Hopefully he's learned some shit from the master.
John Schuerholz is retiring. He'll be named Team President, and Frank Wren will be succeeding him as GM. Wren SUCKED with the Orioles in 1999. Hopefully he's learned some shit from the master.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Did anybody get it today? How much did y'all pay? Thoughts?
Track 7 "Bodysnatchers" is the fuckin jam
Did anybody get it today? How much did y'all pay? Thoughts?
Track 7 "Bodysnatchers" is the fuckin jam
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
