January 2011
41 posts
OSCAR RACE: Harvey Weinstein Q&A →
Vulture has a great sum-up of this ridiculous interview with Harvey Weinstein, where he does his best to argue why the veteran major-minor Oscar pumper shouldn’t have his little crowdpleaser be snuffed out by the mean ol’ Social Network monolith (I haven’t seen either film myself, and I’m rooting for a Mr. Pibb to win this cola war). But there’s even more middlebrow...
Electric Six, "Riding On The White Train" →
I see no point in trying to get you listen You’re hypnotized by the camera you’re kissing My dogs are barking and all your cats are hissing tonight Nothing gets settled when our animals fight
Electric Six song of the week.
Nicole wrote a pretty awesome Easy A slam that’s refreshing in its depth compared to the two-star blurbs I saw a lot of when it came out. But I have to quibble with the issue of Olive’s motivation. Yeah, it’s a bit of a mess: she loves some people, wants to piss some other people off, wants attention but hates cliques, knows there’s a world beyond school but wants to rule...
“It’s not obscure - it was on the Now & Then soundtrack!”
– Leila, taking me to school.
Recommend Me An Album From 2005
I’m OCD about my music collection in a rather bizarre way - I only allow myself to keep 20 albums in their entirety from any year. All that fail to make that admittedly arbitrary list get shrunk to their essential tracks and placed on CD-Rs. It’s actually kind of awesome - I wind up with awesome mix CDs and my shelves aren’t filled with albums that I wouldn’t really want to...
WatchDismemberment Plan, “What Do You Want Me To Say?” (Live on Fallon)
When google-searching to see if I already told the story about how these corny pop-proggers grossed me out when I saw them play Penn State in 1999 (drummer wore gloves, bass player did a jam-band shuffle, singer was disturbingly Up With People, audience members at the front - allegedly shipped in from DC - had a...
Thoughts On The Pazz'n'Jop Top Ten Albums
Kanye may well have made the most ambitious pop album of the year.
Or maybe Janelle did, for what it’s worth.
It’d be nice if the Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem could pop out 40+ minutes of music a year instead of a big ol’ bloat every three, but they respectively paid solid, thoughtful tribute to 80s College Rock and 80s College Dance.
Even if Ezra Koenig never outgrows the...
Thoughts On The Pazz'n'Jop Top Ten Singles
My number one DO NOT UNDERSTAND is Ariel Pink’s “Round & Round.” That such a sloppy, overlong take on ’80s swank could be the indie song du jour is just baffling. Is this how fans of ’70s pop-rock felt when ’90s kids like myself were pushing Guided By Voices?
The National is admittedly pretty good for a band led by a dude whose sexy, smoky growl of a voice...
Xgau Sez →
A must-read if you like the English language and awesome rockcrit.
Vampire Weekend And The Black Keys Sell Out And... →
Watching Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend (the smartypop band you listen to when you run out of ’80s smartypop) face off against the Black Keys (the blues-rock duo you listen to if the White Stripes aren’t boring enough for you) to win Stephen Colbert’s vote for Best Alternative Rock Album (“for the squares out there, alternative refers to the independent, under-the-radar...
Fuck Yeah, Time Warner Cable Descriptions →
As I’m the guy in the apartment with the vested interest in finding out what’s on TCM and the other channels that show movies without ads each week, I’ll undoubtedly be contributing to this blog. But the Mizz will be the one deciding which descriptions are worthy of inclusion.
Electric Six, "Watching Evil Empires Fall Apart" →
When they write my history will they include all your conquests of me?
Just another Napoleonic power ballad, and your Electric Six song of the week.
Electric Six, "Your Heat Is Rising" →
I didn’t do anything last year, except for dreaming of doing nothing this year.
Electric Six song of the week.
