Tuesday, March 30, 2010
WORDWANGLER
MORE STUFF. From me. In various places. IT AIN'T NEVUH GONNA STOP.
1. PAX East was a thing here in Boston this past weekend. I wrote about it for the Herald. PAX is basically the San Diego Comic Con for games, and it attracts an absolutely ridiculous amount of people. I had a pretty good time even though the floor was uncomfortably packed, but then I think I spent more time drinking with writer friends from the internet than I did at the event.
2. I wrote a review of MLB 10: The Show for the Boston Herald.
3. My review of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is in this month's issue of Paste; it's also up on Paste's site.
4. Finally, last week's Weekly Dig included my review of Endless Ocean: Blue World.
MORE STUFF. From me. In various places. IT AIN'T NEVUH GONNA STOP.
1. PAX East was a thing here in Boston this past weekend. I wrote about it for the Herald. PAX is basically the San Diego Comic Con for games, and it attracts an absolutely ridiculous amount of people. I had a pretty good time even though the floor was uncomfortably packed, but then I think I spent more time drinking with writer friends from the internet than I did at the event.
2. I wrote a review of MLB 10: The Show for the Boston Herald.
3. My review of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is in this month's issue of Paste; it's also up on Paste's site.
4. Finally, last week's Weekly Dig included my review of Endless Ocean: Blue World.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Radio Undefined playlist 3/29
The National - Bloodbuzz
The Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Mighty Sparrow
Blitzen Trapper - Heaven and Earth
Neil Young - Walk On
Slow Club - It Doesn't Have To Be Beautiful
Rose Tattoo - Nice Boys
David Bowie - Young Americans
Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee
The Amboy Dukes - Baby Please Don't Go
LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls
Pylon - Cool
Gorillaz - Some Kind of Nature
Archie Bronson Outfit - Shark's Tooth
Joe Jackson - I'm The Man
Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La
Surfer Blood - Swim
Julian Cope - Sunspots
Codine Velvet Club - Hollywood
Unrest - Suki
Fang Island - Daisy
Iggy Pop - Fall In Love With Me
The National - Bloodbuzz
The Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Mighty Sparrow
Blitzen Trapper - Heaven and Earth
Neil Young - Walk On
Slow Club - It Doesn't Have To Be Beautiful
Rose Tattoo - Nice Boys
David Bowie - Young Americans
Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee
The Amboy Dukes - Baby Please Don't Go
LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls
Pylon - Cool
Gorillaz - Some Kind of Nature
Archie Bronson Outfit - Shark's Tooth
Joe Jackson - I'm The Man
Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La
Surfer Blood - Swim
Julian Cope - Sunspots
Codine Velvet Club - Hollywood
Unrest - Suki
Fang Island - Daisy
Iggy Pop - Fall In Love With Me
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Radio Undefined playlist 3/22
Fang Island - Daisy
Jesus & Mary Chain - Snake Driver
Big Star - The Ballad of El Goodo
King Khan & the Shrines - 69 Faces of Love
The Cramps - I Can't Hardly Stand It
Nodzzz - True to Life
Jonsi - Go Do
Can - Fall of Another Year
Gorillaz - Some Kind of Nature
Albert Hammond Jr - Hard To Live (In The City)
Joe Walsh - Turn To Stone
Codine Velvet Club - Hollywood
The Know - I Like Girls
The Pogues - A Rainy Night In Soho
Nada Surf - Electrocution
Steve Miller Band - Swingtown
Surfer Blood - Swim
Here We Go Magic - Collector
Bad Brains - I and I Survive
Mos Def - The Tournament
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - I Learned The Hard Way
The Clash - Police and Thieves
Fang Island - Daisy
Jesus & Mary Chain - Snake Driver
Big Star - The Ballad of El Goodo
King Khan & the Shrines - 69 Faces of Love
The Cramps - I Can't Hardly Stand It
Nodzzz - True to Life
Jonsi - Go Do
Can - Fall of Another Year
Gorillaz - Some Kind of Nature
Albert Hammond Jr - Hard To Live (In The City)
Joe Walsh - Turn To Stone
Codine Velvet Club - Hollywood
The Know - I Like Girls
The Pogues - A Rainy Night In Soho
Nada Surf - Electrocution
Steve Miller Band - Swingtown
Surfer Blood - Swim
Here We Go Magic - Collector
Bad Brains - I and I Survive
Mos Def - The Tournament
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - I Learned The Hard Way
The Clash - Police and Thieves
Friday, March 19, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
comments might be going away soon
Haloscan went tits up a while back and the new replacement service is only free for a month. Comments can be a glorious thing but not when they cost a single cent. I'll probably just switch over to whatever commenting system blogspot offers. That'll wipe out the last six years worth of comments but oh well.
Haloscan went tits up a while back and the new replacement service is only free for a month. Comments can be a glorious thing but not when they cost a single cent. I'll probably just switch over to whatever commenting system blogspot offers. That'll wipe out the last six years worth of comments but oh well.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
RIP Alex Chilton
UPDATE: I wasn't going to post a video but this 1985 piece from 120 Minutes is really good.
Aw Jesus what miserable news. He was one of the most talented guys ever, and 59 isn't that old. Gonna go blast Like Flies on Sherbet now if you don't mind.
UPDATE: I wasn't going to post a video but this 1985 piece from 120 Minutes is really good.
Aw Jesus what miserable news. He was one of the most talented guys ever, and 59 isn't that old. Gonna go blast Like Flies on Sherbet now if you don't mind.
WORDWRANGLER
Things continue to be written by me.
1. I've got a piece about the Rock Band Network in today's Boston Herald. This is the freshly launched service that lets bands and labels turn their music into downloadable Rock Band tracks while also rapidly expanding the game's potential song catalogue. Authoring a song is a mighty damn complicated process and I'm not sure if I'll ever finish either of the Je Suis France and Reports songs I started work on. It's also a potentially great source of embarrassing music. Most annoying thing I've found on RBN: a song by the band Broadcast. Okay, not THE band Broadcast but A band called Broadcast, namely a midwestern emo-ish group who've apparently never heard the English Broadcast who've been putting out records since the edges of my mustache still didn't quite reach my beard.
2. I had a few comic reviews in yesterday's Herald, with brief notes on Mome Volume 17, Hotwire Comics #3, and Newave! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s.
3. This week's Herald trifekta launched with Monday's review of God of War III.
4. Finally I also have a short review of the latest Aliens vs. Predator game in this week's Weekly Dig.
You think this shit is boring to read, imagine what it's like writing it all.
Things continue to be written by me.
1. I've got a piece about the Rock Band Network in today's Boston Herald. This is the freshly launched service that lets bands and labels turn their music into downloadable Rock Band tracks while also rapidly expanding the game's potential song catalogue. Authoring a song is a mighty damn complicated process and I'm not sure if I'll ever finish either of the Je Suis France and Reports songs I started work on. It's also a potentially great source of embarrassing music. Most annoying thing I've found on RBN: a song by the band Broadcast. Okay, not THE band Broadcast but A band called Broadcast, namely a midwestern emo-ish group who've apparently never heard the English Broadcast who've been putting out records since the edges of my mustache still didn't quite reach my beard.
2. I had a few comic reviews in yesterday's Herald, with brief notes on Mome Volume 17, Hotwire Comics #3, and Newave! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s.
3. This week's Herald trifekta launched with Monday's review of God of War III.
4. Finally I also have a short review of the latest Aliens vs. Predator game in this week's Weekly Dig.
You think this shit is boring to read, imagine what it's like writing it all.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Radio Undefined playlist 3/15
GORILLAZ - SOME KIND OF NATURE
PAVEMENT - SPIT ON A STRANGER
JANELLE MONAE - TIGHT ROPE (FEAT. BIG BOI)
TITUS ANDRONICUS - A MORE PERFECT UNION
TELEVISION - SEE NO EVIL
THE STRANGE BOYS - FRIDAY IN PARIS
DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE - GRIM AUGURY
AIR - PLAYGROUND LOVE
THE MORNING BENDERS - PLEASURE SIGHS
SPOON - TROUBLE COMES RUNNING
BLACK SABBATH - WHEELS OF CONFUSION/THE STRAIGHTENER
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - OH YOU (CHRISTMAS BLUES)
TEENAGE FANCLUB - METAL BABY
THE SOFT PACK - MORE OR LESS
HAWKWIND - SILVER MACHINE
ZZ TOP - JUST GOT PAID
DELTA 5 - MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS
SURFER BLOOD - SWIM
THE LIGHTNING SEEDS - PURE
THE FRESH & ONLYS - DIAMOND IN THE DARK
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS - EVEN THE LOSERS (LIVE)
DEERHUNTER - OCTET
GORILLAZ - SOME KIND OF NATURE
PAVEMENT - SPIT ON A STRANGER
JANELLE MONAE - TIGHT ROPE (FEAT. BIG BOI)
TITUS ANDRONICUS - A MORE PERFECT UNION
TELEVISION - SEE NO EVIL
THE STRANGE BOYS - FRIDAY IN PARIS
DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE - GRIM AUGURY
AIR - PLAYGROUND LOVE
THE MORNING BENDERS - PLEASURE SIGHS
SPOON - TROUBLE COMES RUNNING
BLACK SABBATH - WHEELS OF CONFUSION/THE STRAIGHTENER
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - OH YOU (CHRISTMAS BLUES)
TEENAGE FANCLUB - METAL BABY
THE SOFT PACK - MORE OR LESS
HAWKWIND - SILVER MACHINE
ZZ TOP - JUST GOT PAID
DELTA 5 - MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS
SURFER BLOOD - SWIM
THE LIGHTNING SEEDS - PURE
THE FRESH & ONLYS - DIAMOND IN THE DARK
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS - EVEN THE LOSERS (LIVE)
DEERHUNTER - OCTET
Friday, March 12, 2010
Jerry Fights With Death on the Way to Live 8 in Berlin
JERRY: Alright, Death, take another step and I’ll stomp your fucking ass into powder. I’m going to Live 8, and nothing will be capable of stopping this!
DEATH: But Jerry, it is the time for your bodily functions to cease!
JERRY: I don’t care, I’m not missing Die Toten Hosen, the opening band, for anything! Now get out of my way, Death.
DEATH: Jerry, the world must work in certain ways. This is one of the ways in which the world must work. You can not change this world, friend, no matter how strenuously you exert yourself!
JERRY: I refuse to miss Green Day’s punked-up cover of Queen’s “We Are The Champions”! I say this again, and heed my words well, Death: I will stomp your smooth ivory bones into powder!
DEATH: I feared it would come to this. When one refuses to travel with me willingly, we must resort to the basest of violence, engaging in fisticuffs like vile and racially insensitive cartoon Irishmen.
JERRY and DEATH fight. One of them wins.
JERRY: Alright, Death, take another step and I’ll stomp your fucking ass into powder. I’m going to Live 8, and nothing will be capable of stopping this!
DEATH: But Jerry, it is the time for your bodily functions to cease!
JERRY: I don’t care, I’m not missing Die Toten Hosen, the opening band, for anything! Now get out of my way, Death.
DEATH: Jerry, the world must work in certain ways. This is one of the ways in which the world must work. You can not change this world, friend, no matter how strenuously you exert yourself!
JERRY: I refuse to miss Green Day’s punked-up cover of Queen’s “We Are The Champions”! I say this again, and heed my words well, Death: I will stomp your smooth ivory bones into powder!
DEATH: I feared it would come to this. When one refuses to travel with me willingly, we must resort to the basest of violence, engaging in fisticuffs like vile and racially insensitive cartoon Irishmen.
JERRY and DEATH fight. One of them wins.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Radio Undefined playlist 3/8
Broken Bells - Vaporize
Bruce Springsteen - Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
Phosphorescent - It's Hard To Be Humble
Woven Bones - If It Feels Alright
Dave Edmunds - Queen of Hearts
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Mighty Sparrow
Born Ruffians - Sole Brother
The Fall - Crop-Dust
Pavement - Killing Moon
The Who - Pure and Easy
Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La
Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song
The Strange Boys - Friday In Paris
Surfer Blood - Swim
Gun Club - For The Love Of Ivy
Liliput - In A Mess
Cults - Go Outside
Let's Active - Every Word Means No
Riff Raff - Romford Girls
Davila 666 - Dimelo Ya
The Rolling Stones - She's A Rainbow
The Coasters - Down In Mexico
Broken Bells - Vaporize
Bruce Springsteen - Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
Phosphorescent - It's Hard To Be Humble
Woven Bones - If It Feels Alright
Dave Edmunds - Queen of Hearts
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Mighty Sparrow
Born Ruffians - Sole Brother
The Fall - Crop-Dust
Pavement - Killing Moon
The Who - Pure and Easy
Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La
Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song
The Strange Boys - Friday In Paris
Surfer Blood - Swim
Gun Club - For The Love Of Ivy
Liliput - In A Mess
Cults - Go Outside
Let's Active - Every Word Means No
Riff Raff - Romford Girls
Davila 666 - Dimelo Ya
The Rolling Stones - She's A Rainbow
The Coasters - Down In Mexico
Monday, March 08, 2010
MORE LINKS TO STUFF I DID
1. I just posted this short review of God of War III to Creative Loafing's blog like twenty minutes ago. The embargo was up at noon and I wanted to hit that shit as tightly as possible. Oh yeah, this game is great.
2. Frogger Returns isn't.
1. I just posted this short review of God of War III to Creative Loafing's blog like twenty minutes ago. The embargo was up at noon and I wanted to hit that shit as tightly as possible. Oh yeah, this game is great.
2. Frogger Returns isn't.
Monday, March 01, 2010
Radio Undefined playlist 3/1
TED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS – THE MIGHTY SPARROW
THE SMOKE - MY FRIEND JACK
THE RADIO DEPT. - HEAVEN'S ON FIRE
FRIGHTENED RABBIT - NOTHING LIKE YOU
THE FLAMING GROOVIES - I CAN'T HIDE
THE CHURCH - THE UNGUARDED MOMENT
TWIN TIGERS - PASSIVE IDOL
WEEN - YOUR PARTY
ZOLA JESUS - NIGHT
MIDLAKE - ACTS OF MAN
DEEP PURPLE - HIGHWAY STAR
SURFER BLOOD - SWIM
THE PLIMSOULS - ZERO HOUR
THE STRANGE BOYS - FRIDAY IN PARIS
PLASTIC BERTRAND - CA PLANE POUR MOI
THE TREMELOES - EVEN THE BAD TIMES ARE GOOD
TEEN SHEIKHS - GERMS
BAND OF SKULLS - FRIENDS
TOMORROW - MY WHITE BICYCLE
SPOON - TROUBLE COMES RUNNING
FAIRPORT CONVENTION - PERCY'S SONG
COMETS ON FIRE - HATCHED UPON THE AGE
GUIDED BY VOICES - A SALTY SALUTE
TED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS – THE MIGHTY SPARROW
THE SMOKE - MY FRIEND JACK
THE RADIO DEPT. - HEAVEN'S ON FIRE
FRIGHTENED RABBIT - NOTHING LIKE YOU
THE FLAMING GROOVIES - I CAN'T HIDE
THE CHURCH - THE UNGUARDED MOMENT
TWIN TIGERS - PASSIVE IDOL
WEEN - YOUR PARTY
ZOLA JESUS - NIGHT
MIDLAKE - ACTS OF MAN
DEEP PURPLE - HIGHWAY STAR
SURFER BLOOD - SWIM
THE PLIMSOULS - ZERO HOUR
THE STRANGE BOYS - FRIDAY IN PARIS
PLASTIC BERTRAND - CA PLANE POUR MOI
THE TREMELOES - EVEN THE BAD TIMES ARE GOOD
TEEN SHEIKHS - GERMS
BAND OF SKULLS - FRIENDS
TOMORROW - MY WHITE BICYCLE
SPOON - TROUBLE COMES RUNNING
FAIRPORT CONVENTION - PERCY'S SONG
COMETS ON FIRE - HATCHED UPON THE AGE
GUIDED BY VOICES - A SALTY SALUTE
see I do do stuff
HEY: my review of Heavy Rain is in today's Boston Herald. I didn't much dig it. The score I gave it starts with a D.
HEY: my review of Heavy Rain is in today's Boston Herald. I didn't much dig it. The score I gave it starts with a D.
