Do Androids Dance?

2006-05-09T22:37:00.000-05:00

You've got the wrong Eleanor Friedberger

2006-04-20T22:07:00.000-05:00

The RIAA: Abusing the Legal System Since 1987

If you don't know the Fiery Furnaces you should. Why? Because they rock. In the process of writing the review of their new record Bitter Tea, I came up with this name for the genre they belong in: Awesomecore. I mean, come on, what could possibly say more about a band than that? I would totally want my band to be in the Genre. But the Furnaces really do belong in a genre all their own, a kind of indie-rock paradise where they are lots of ponies and puffins (enough to get you through the end of may!) where the albums are multilayered and insane, there are blueberry boats and pirates and zombies, and even the sometimes incredible inaccessability of their music is forgiveable, because although the electronics can get in the way, the hooks come back, and they allow you to totally FREAK OUT!

Big Announcements, Albums Josh wants, songs for free.

2006-04-05T22:00:00.000-05:00

Ok so a few things.

Firstly an occasional series makes its appearance
Albums I want to own, and you should want to own to.

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs-Show Your Bones
Seeing as I am going to the CONCERT next week, I should probably own this, huh?

The Fiery Furnace-Bitter Tea
I CAN'T WAIT! This one is supposedly far better then the Josh-liked-but-otherwise-derided-Rehearsing Your Choir, and will make Josh happy when it comes out. Very happy.

The Secret Machines-10 Silver Drops
ditto above, but like times a million.

Margot and the Nuclear So and So's-The Dust Of Retreat
This is a unknown collective of Indie pop gods, kind of like

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin-Brooms

Songs That You Should Listen To (Some of Which are FREE!)

The Raconteurs-Steady As She Goes
The first song from Jack White's amazing new project. It's bass heavy and fuzz filled and is just a great, great tune.

The Secret Machines

Margot and The Nuclear So and So's-Skeleton Key
Atmospheric and mournful, with lyrics full of regret and sadness. A somber tune that has the Indie Pop version of a breakdown, and features a mood breaking, epoch shaking, totally awesome WOO! near the end that ties the package together. None of this making sense? It will.

The Fiery Furnaces-Benton Harbor Blues
A million times more accessable than the songs on Rehearsing My Choir, this tune is the epitome of what electronic and experimental pop should sound like.

WHAM BAM THANK YOU FRANZ

2006-03-10T17:53:00.000-06:00

A couple of good streams and downloads today:

Crazy In Love-The Magic Numbers
A Beyonce cover by Britain's preeminent nostalgia wave band.

Wuthering Heights-The Decemberists
In the wake of a recent Kate Bush cover by another favorite of mine, The Futureheads, i figured the Decemberists cover of Wuthering Heights was worth a listen.

Franz Ferdinand & Scissor Sisters-Suffragette City
Woah. How cools is this?
Avaliable for download here.

The Subways-Young For Eternity

2006-03-05T16:08:00.000-06:00

The Subways are a family band. Drummer Josh Morgan is lead singer Billy Lunn’s younger brother, and bassist Charlotte Cooper is engaged to Lunn. A recipe for destruction, indeed. On first listen, Young For Eternity appears to contain two separate albums, one of brilliant garage punk and one of mediocre pub rock. When it’s good, it’s very good, with a hard edge and irresistible hooks, but when its bad, its pretty awful. On those tracks the music sounds painful not only to listen to, but to make. I can’t imagine anyone thinking these tracks are anything but filler, and that they serve any real purpose. It sounds so forced, like the producer is holding a gun to their collective heads. The lyrics can be god awful, “Mary is my best friend/she makes me my tea”, kind of sounds like they paid a 12 year old to write the lyrics. One redeeming aspect of these songs is a rhythm that drummer Josh Morgan provides, even when you things can’t get any worse, Morgan saves the day with an ear for rhythm and a sense of when it’s needed most.

When the band begins to rock out, however, is when they begin to shine. Unfortunately for them, their strengths lie in the ability to jam out a good punk song, and not in the ballads they would like to write. “Rock And Roll Queen”, for instance, just totally lets loose, with the aforementioned ear for rhythm totally destroying his drum kit with a sonic barrage. Unfortunately, they choose to alternate the harder tracks with the softer tracks, disallowing any possible momentum the album could possibly benefit from. The most obvious example of this is in tracks 3 and 4, “Rock and Roll Queen” and “Mary”. The aforementioned punk rock stomp of “Rock And Roll Queen” leads you to expect something more from “Mary”, which it does not provide, and therein lies the problem. The record lacks a sense of pace, and the sense of urgency built up during the punk songs is just blasted to pieces by some of the slower numbers. Songs like “City Pavement” have a unique sneer about them, one rarely heard anymore, almost Johnny Rotten in nature, a statement of rebellion and youth. They do, however, attempt to be everything to everyone, and the strands of brit-pop and soft rock are not fitting of this band’s talents. Expect good things from the Subways once they find their way.

Subtract My Age...

2006-03-04T23:24:00.000-06:00

I know i haven't been so good to you. I have denied you your gothic playlist. But i still love you! To prove it, i will rant at you. First of all, i have writers block. I'm having a trouble writing the Destroy reviw i really wish to write. ::sigh:: I will right that Subways review though. I hope. Also, I am watching Fall Out Boy on snl, and attempting to write through the pain. Why? For Science! Speaking of science, for a man who is a doctor, and who knows science, go to DrMcNinja, quite possibly the most amusing webcomic I've seen in awhile. He is a doctor. And He Knows Science. But back to the real Science of directing a Fall Out Boy performance. My first reaction is that I never thought Sugar Were Going Down could sound any worse than it already did, but then I think about the first song they played, where it was just kind of YAAAY WE USED TO BE HARDCORE! FOB are actually decent musicians, HOLY SHIT PETE WENTZ THINKS HES PETE TOWNSHEND! Come on, Don't throw your guitar into the drum kit, dude thats old. My biggest problem with them is image. Oh, right, the are actually decent musicians, just the music they choose to play isnt. It's almost as if they choose to play bad music. Yes, so i feel that was a decent rant. Subways review soon, I promise.

Those Who Love Zeppelin Will Soon Betray Floyd

2006-02-16T18:49:00.000-06:00

First of all, if you haven't seen Max Temkin's last post on Mankind Minus One, you need to. It's a great pieceof social commentary, and all 4 of you who read this would like it alot, i think. Secondly, i have been on kind of a Gothic Fiction kick recently, which means i have been reading Sandman and stuff by Lovecraft and Poe etc. This, of course, means its time for a GOTHIC MUSIC PLAYLIST! I will post this playlist later. Thank you for your time.

Immaculate Sonics

2006-02-03T17:11:00.000-06:00

Once again, it is time for the list of CD's that i do not own, but should:

Artist goes first, than album name:

Immaculate Machine-Ones And Zeroes
One of those wonderful indie pop bands surronding the New Pornos, Immaculate Machine is the band of A.C. Newmans niece, Kathryn Calder, and sounds kind of like the New Pornos if someone had given them a keyboard, and they lost a couple of members
Check out this free and legal download:
Broken Ship

Destroyer-Rubies
Dan Bejar's project outside of the New Pornos, Destroyer takes the opposite direction of Indie Pop. Instead of turning each song into a semi new wave masterpiece, as IM does, he turns it into a longer form folk song. Bejar is unpredictable to say the least. His last album, called Your Blues, is a midi masterpiece, a far cry from the guitar rock that Destroyer now seems to be comfortable with.

The National-Alligator
This album was nominated for a whopping 6 PLUG awards, and, unfrotunately, won not one. This is an album of toned down hard rock, similair to the Strokes, except a lot more proficient, and twice as good. Unlike the Strokes, therr are some pop influences in there, especially on the song Mr. November. Check them out. Now.

This list will increas three fold come april, as there are a million amazing CD's coming then: 10 Silver Drops (The Secret Machines), Show Your Bones (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) Ringleader of the Tormentors (Morrissey), Elan Vital (Pretty Girls Make Graves. Also, concert in May. Cheap too, only 12 bucks.) That, and the new Belle and Sebestation and the tickets to the Franz/DCFC Show, which i assume will be hella expensive, are gonna make it an expensive few months.

Sometime this weekend ill rant about Bright Eyes and the PLUG awards, i just dont feel like it right now.

A Moment Of Silence

2006-01-28T00:51:00.000-06:00

Faye Macintire, a character in S*P, passed away earlier today.

Poor Fred.

A Couple Things

2006-01-26T16:42:00.000-06:00

1) If your in the Arctic Monkeys, i suspect you will have quite a start when you realise you might have sold more of their debut artist in the week of release than any other act in UK history. This is a country that within the last couple of years has spawned so many incredible one album bands its INSANE! Thats more then Bloc Party, more than The Futureheads, and almost TWICE as many as the first Franz Ferdinand album sold in the first week of sales. I haven't heard any of their stuff, although Pitchfork gave it a relatively high (for them) 7.4.

2)Death Cab For Cutie are not nearly as bad as i thought them to be, but they are still no where near as good as everyone likes to claim.

3) I rented Garden State. I'm going to have a Kick Booty weekend.

I Have Fallen For Thee

2006-01-15T00:47:00.000-06:00

I have fallen in love with a webcomic, and it is called Questionable Content.
It is a god among webcomics. It rightfully sits next to Something Positive and Starslip Crisis, and across from PVP and No 4th Wall at the webcomics dinnertable. The comic from the previous post? QC. And it is brilliant. Check it out. The link is on the toolbar. Thank You.

Random Wbcomic Day #2 Part 2

2006-01-15T00:23:00.000-06:00

Random Webcomic Day #2

2006-01-14T16:51:00.000-06:00

B.S.

2006-01-04T21:10:00.000-06:00

For a very, very long time, I have been told that Interpol is deravitive, and they are not worth listening to for this very reason. Now, i see that She Wants Revenge, which, while not being great like Interpol or legendary like Joy Division, are certainly both proficient and listenable. But while half the reviews are favorable, the other half decry the band BECAUSE THE CLAIM THEY ARE NOT "ORIGINAL". Originality, like Selling Out, is an absurd concept that is worshipped by those who are "into" music, but do not really understand the philosophy behind it.

Music is a growing, changing thing, this is true. But it is also true that every musician, every artist, ever singer, every group is to some degree, deravitive of what came before them. To say an artist is "bad" because they play music similair or the same to music from before means is akin to saying I shouldn't buy the new Chuck Klosterman book because it is going to similair to Fargo Rock City. It's a piece of rock elitist bullshit, and IT NEEDS TO STOP! If a reviewer has to hide behind the fact that he believes an album to be derivative, than he is either a)trying to hard to dislike said album or b)an idiot. Music elitism is well and good, but theres a point where it becomes stupid too. Yes, She Wants Revenge sounds almost EXACTLY like Joy Division, right down to the sparse drum beat, and the singers empty voice, but does that mean they "suck"

Sure, you can name any number of bands that have twisted a musical genre and taken it into a new direction (LCD Soundsystem, System of a Down, Nirvana, Joy Division, The Sex Pistols, The Smiths), but you can name any number of bands that may not be as legendary, but are good bands. For every Nirvana there is a Pearl Jam, for every Joy Division there is an Interpol. New music does not exist in a vacuum and should not be treated like it does; it took hundreds of thousands of years to reach the today's musical styles, and any missing link in the chain would change music to an unkown variable. It could be as simple as We Are Scientists hitting it big before The Killers, or it could be as drastic as The Sex Pistols never being formed, or even as modern rock and roll EXISTING.

The truth of the matter is, if you like the music, why should you give a fuck who the band is ripping off? If they can be totally original, good for them, but if they can't WHO CARES? Originality is not a measure of greatness, but is instead an ingriedient in the vast pot that creates legends. In ten years, is anyone going to listen to the Killers? It's doubtful. Are they going to be listening to Franz Ferdinand and System of a Down? Probably. Franz is great example of a band who are really not that original, but by whatever combination of luck, skill, and talent manage to be Great. Will they ever gain the noteriety of those in the know of the the Smiths or Joy Division? Probably not. Among metal fans, System probably will, because of their ability to stretch the genre into something it has never been before.

For those of you who want to skip to the point of this little tirade, it is this; music as a whole is very derivative. To criticize a band for being "unorginal" is besides the point. The real question is "do you like it?". If the answer is yes, good. If the answer is no, then have the decency to say so.

But hold on I'm only 5 ft 1 !

2006-01-01T23:39:00.000-06:00

In a fit of madness, yesterday, at aproximately 3:00 pm, i bought a song called "Ch Ching" by one Lady Sovereign, on iTunes. If you know any thing about SOV, you will realise this is the kind of music i do not usually listen to. That said, this must also be said, I enjoy this song immensly. SOV makes me dance, and very little hip-hop (from either side of the Atlantic) does this. It makes me regain my faith in medium that is mostly about doing crack off of the lower genetalia of ho's, while making sure said ho sees your gold plated scrotum.

Along with fellow Britons The Go! Team and M.I.A., SOV lacks the usual disregard for any actual flow or decent muscal style. M.I.A especially has become a hit among the indie kids, and this is a surprising, although not unexpected, event. For the ones who life to dance, at least, M.I.A. brand of rap is really not that far off from the Go! Team's brand of Rap/Funk, which is really not that far away from some of the more danceable indies guitar rock.

It makes sense that people would flock to both M.I.A and SOV, because unlike in rock, the rap is more than half the equation here. A good band can get away with a bad singer (see Kings Of Leon or early AC/DC) but you could put the beats Diplo gives to M.I.A under, say, Ludacris, and you still wouldn't have a half decent song. But since she can sound so good in a medium that requires not only an ability to rap, but the ability to think on your feet and control both rhyme and beat, and harness them together, M.I.A manages to attract the kids who like to dance.

jukebox jury

2005-12-30T15:07:00.000-06:00

Spin is probably the best mainstream music magazine for several reasons. These reasons are

Spin is actually a music magazine, unlike the behemoth that is Rolling Stone, and spends little to no time writing politics article that bog down the flow of the magazine.
The reviews are the most well thought out of the mainstream mags, and often make the most sense.
Chuck Klosterman.

But in the January issue, Spin does something so brilliant and amazing it makes me want to cry. jukebox jury is an article in the The Year In Music section, and it features Marc Spitz (Spin reporter, and author of How Soon Is Never?), Fred Armisen (SNL) and Carlos D (Interpol's Bassist) talking about some of the singles and bands of the last year. This combination means you get conversations like this one about My Chemical Romance

Carlos D.: It's also got that early 80's power-pop emo thing-just in a different dress. But i respect anyone who, in 95-degree weather, wears a S.W.A.T.-style vest onstage the entire set.
Spin[To Carlos D.]: When you first saw it were you a little pissed off you didn't think of it first?
Carlos D.: [Smiles] A little

Great conversations about how pop-smart the Killers are, how Weezer is losing it, and how uncool Europe (the continent, not the band) is, make me want to hug Spin, and they make me want to become a music journalist just so i can talk to these people.

BEST OF 05!

2005-12-20T01:27:00.000-06:00

10.Kings Of Leon-Aha Shake Heartbreak

The Kings Of Leon do not have an empty sound. They do a fine, fine job of combining the southern rock they took in while they were growing up as preachers sons and the garage rock coming out of New York as they began to play as a band. Everyone plays his part here, each band member taking an equal part of the weight when necessary. Not one member or another member seems to be better at playing the instrument of their choice, they are all simply THAT GOOD. The only possible weakness in the sound is the voice of lead singer Caleb, which can be inconsistent, but if the fire and brimstone howl doesn’t bother you, and it shouldn’t, because it adds a perfect garnish to the dish that is the southern rock of this album, this is an album that’s ready for the picking.

9.Stars-Set Yourself On Fire

Set Yourself On Fire is an album about loss, and the music is reflective of that. Ranging from the indie-pop of the opening track Your Ex Lover Is Dead to the almost industrial guitar crunch of He Lied About Death, Stars’ range is incredible, comparable to that of the Broken Social Scene collective lead singer Amy Milan is a sometimes part of. She paints pictures of both love and loss, and makes clear that in her mind, they are intertwined, and one is impossible without the other. The male vocalist has a standout track in What I’m Trying To Say, and the bubbly synth beat complements a whimsical and nonsensical refrain for an otherwise very typical Stars song, with smart drumming and vocals that are probably the best from any sector all year. Stars is an indie-pop twinkle that offsets the jamming crunch of the aforementioned BSS and the post punk of friends and fellows Canadians Metric, and the twinkle will go brighter as time goes on.

8.Sons And Daughters-The Repulsion Box

Sons And Daughters have an air about them; they choose not to mask their accents like country mates Franz Ferdinand and Belle and Sebastian, and one cannot help but wonder why this is the trend and not the exception. Adele Bethel’s vocals do not suffer, and her sneer sounds more genuine because of the lack of mask. The influences of both the post punk that the area around them currently calls home, and the Scottish Highlands music that has infused the area since the middle ages, are a brilliant, raucous celebration of Scotland’s musical heritage, both past and present. Musically, the rhythm section outshines the guitar, both the bass and the drums have their shining moments, as any good post punk record should, and Adele shows off her skills as a vocalist with a sneer few have been able to maintain to this effect. This is a corner to watch.

7.Beck-Guero

We get all of Beck’s many faces here. On the opening track, E-Pro, his alternative roots shine through, which is appropriate as this is probably his best record since Odelay. This motif carries most of the album, including what is probably the best track, the lyrically depressing, musically euphoric song Girl. The face that is most interesting is the Los Angeles native, the self proclaimed “puppet at Tang’s with a mullet and popsicle” that shines through on “Que Onda Guero” which is laden with beats worthy of the Go! Team, and the trip-hop Beck has before dabbled in.

6.The Kaiser Chiefs-Employment

Energy. It all comes down to Energy. What makes Employment so deathly entertaining is the bands absolute refusal to let up. Everyday I Love You Less And Less, and I Predict A Riot, come across with an energy that deserves a Gatorade. Even when the songs slow down near the end of the album, there is a ferocity there that you can sense behind the outwardly lethargic songs. The Kaisers will be the next big import out of Britain. They may not have the notoriety or skill of The Futureheads, nor will they need it, as the hooks are catchy enough, the songs discernable enough, the voice distinct enough.

5.Bloc Party-Silent Alarm

From the opening refrain of “It’s so cold in this house!” to the last beat of the kick drum, the Essex quartered combine the noise rock of Sonic Youth and the post punk of Joy Division and Gang of Four to create one of the best straight up dance rock records all year. Front man Kele Okereke weaves lyrics that can be both apocalyptic and joyful. The real strength of the album, however, lies in the rhythm, especially in the drumming of Matt Tong. This is some of the tightest drumming I’ve ever heard. The rhythm is actual and right up in the front of the mix, not hidden behind the synths that bands like the Bravery and The Killers use to hide what should be the true source of rhythm, the bass and the drum.

4.The Decemberists-Picaresque

Recently signed to Capitol (Why a major Colin? Why must you torture your fans so?) The Decemberists are an indie rock orchestra, and Picaresque is their triumph. Featuring power pop worthy of the New Pornos (Sixteen Military Wives), and a series of story songs so involved that if the acoustic guitar and piano were replaced with Moogs, they would fit perfectly into an ELP or Journey album, Picaresque needs no further enhancement, nor would any make the album better. The feel the songs provide create a kind of sonic set, a play for the ears. Even on the shorter songs, We Both Go Down Together, for instance, the music underscores the importance of each word, the lyrics become more than just part of the song, they are they actor in the play. And, my friends, it is an amazing play they take part in.

3.Metric-Live It Out

Metric’s sophomore album was a joy to some, a disappointment to others, and odd to everyone else. Emily Haines uses the first song “Empty” as a kind of call to the dance floor “Shake your head it's empty/Shake your hips move your feet”, a reveille for the Franz Ferdinand set. The rest of the album is a revolt against indie rock, a statement of what is danceable in genre that occasionally forgets its roots as a dance genre. The post punk jamming on Monster Hospital and Live It Out is one of the ways they choose to stand out from the crowd. Most dance rock bands choose to restrain the jamming to the purest and most distilled form, and while this is not a bad thing (see Bloc Party) Metric as a group seem much more joyful and proud of their music than Bloc Party. Metric’s true strength is not Emily herself, but the feeling that they are a unit. Some believe that this should be, and is for better or for worse, a vehicle for Emily to do as she wishes, but I disagree. Emily has proven she could have staying power by herself (like sometimes Broken Social Scene member Feist) but she chooses to stay with Metric. On Poster of a girl she croons, in both English and French, “Can't stand by myself/Hate to sleep alone”, and it makes me wonder; can’t she? Or won’t she?

2.The New Pornographers-Twin Cinema

A little slicker than anything Carl Newman and Co. have attempted before, Twin Cinema is the preeminent indie rock record of the year. Don’t give my Sufjan, the New Porno’s are a little more poppy, a little more danceable, and a hell of a lot easier to listen to. Aside from the opening of the album, this while still listenable, is not really up to par with everything else on the album. “Use It”, track 3, and one of the best on the album, begins the sing along that continues till the album closes. All of the players here are skilled, not one weak link can be found among any of the multiple players on the album, and one of the newest players, Newman’s niece, Kathryn Calder, provides the group with another female voice to back up Neko Case when she needs a little back up, and a piano that supplements the core of the power pop that is the base of the group.

1.Franz Ferdinand-You Could Have It So Much Better

Franz Ferdinand is all about destruction. The destruction of expectations, anyway. One of several discs on this list the leaps over the sophomore slump with a grace worthy of a gymnast, this one reaches the highest, goes the farthest, and its landing is perfect. From the opening refrain of “What’s wrong with a little destruction” all the way through to the bitter end, this is the opus, plain and simple. Alex Kapranos is much more angry on this album, much more preachy than on the first one. He clearly feels like he’s being treated as something he’s not, and it bothers him to no end. Lyrics like “And if you judge us, were all damned”, the opening lyrics mentioned above, ALL of Evil and A Heathen. But he also stretches himself in a new, almost Beatles like direction. Eleanor Put Your Boots Back On is a clear reference the his girlfriend, Eleanor Friedberger of the Fiery Furnaces, but the song brings to mind a whimsy that seems odd for the kings of the New New Wave, not a bad whimsy, but something new, and this is their ultimate success. They made an album similar to Franz Ferdinand, but not the same.

A Couple of Things

2005-12-19T17:59:00.000-06:00

I hope you guys caught the URL change.

In other news, if you havent yet checked out ITZAFUZZYWORLD go. I have some reviews up, and both Will and Fuzz are reviewers too.

Ill post a best of 2005 list when i get the chance, although it will probably be in the second half of break, cos ill be away for awhile.

News Later.

Three Important Pieces Of Information

2005-12-08T16:32:00.000-06:00

1. Kris Straub, if you're reading this, thanks for the comment.

2. CBGB is closing. Thats right, my friends, CBGB's is done on The Bowery. It will close on Halloween 2006. The owner, Hil Kristal, is looking for new locations in Manhattan, and might open one in Vegas. I know it's stupid, dont shoot the messenger.

3. The New Pantheon nominees have been announced. This award, created by one of the co-creaters of the now defunct Shortlist prize, will announce the winner during a concert in Febuary. Have fun checking out the list of nominees

Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche a Bamako (Nonesuch)American Analog Set - Set Free (Arts & Crafts) Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs (Righteous Babe) Animal Collective - Feels (Fat Cat) Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian) Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful (Red Ink) Arcade Fire - Funeral (Merge) The Ark - State of the Ark (EMI) Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having (Rhymesayers) Bettye LaVette - I've Got My Own Hell to Raise (Anti) Björk - Medulla (Elektra) Blackalicious - The Craft (Epitaph) Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (Vice) Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase (Warp) Brazilian Girls - Brazilian Girls (Verve) Brian Wilson - SMiLE (Nonesuch) Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Saddle Creek) The Bravery - The Bravery (Island) Broadcast - Tender Buttons (Warp) Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene (Arts & Crafts) Chad VanGaalen - Infiniheart (Sub Pop) Charlie Haden - Not in Our Name (Verve) Clinic - Winchester Cathedral (Domino) Damian Marley - Welcome to Jamrock (Universal) Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask (Epitaph) The Dears - No Cities Left (Spin Art) Death Cab for Cutie - Plans (Atlantic) The Decemberists - Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars) Deerhoof - The Runners Four (Kill Rock Stars) Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojo (Young God) Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill (Anti) Emiliana Torrini - Fisherman's Woman (Rough Trade) Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence (Temporary Residence) The Faint - Wet From Birth (Saddle Creek) Fantomas - Suspended Animation (Ipecac) Feist - Let It Die (Interscope) Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine (Sony) The Futureheads - The Futureheads (Sire/679) The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike (Sony) Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike (Side One Dummy) Inara George - All Rise (Everloving) Jamie Lidell - Multiply (Warp) Jamiroquai - Dynamite (Sony) John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt (Barsuk) Kaiser Chiefs - Employment (Universal) Kasabian - Kasabian (RCA) Keren Ann - Nolita (Blue Note) Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak (RCA) Langhorne Slim - When the Sun's Gone Down (Narnack) Laura Veirs - Year of Meteors (Nonesuch) LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem (Capitol) Le Tigre - This Island (Universal) Leela James - A Change Is Gonna Come (Warner Brothers) The Like - Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? (Geffen) M.I.A. - Arular (XL/Beggars) M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us (Mute) Maria Taylor - 11:11 (Saddle Creek) The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute (Universal) Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now (Lost Highway) Matt Costa - Songs We Sing (Venerable Media) Matisyahu - Live at Stubb's (Sony/Or Music) MF Doom - MM..Food? (Rhymesayers) Mia Doi Todd - Manzanita (Plug Research) Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic (ATO) My Morning Jacket - Z (ATO) Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll (Breast Fed) Nada Surf - The Weight Is a Gift (Barsuk) The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (Matador) Pinback - Summer in Abaddon (Touch & Go) Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas (Stones Throw) Ray LaMontagne - Trouble (RCA) Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute) Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures (Sub Pop) Roisin Murphy - Ruby Blue (Echo) Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters (Universal) Seu Jorge - Cru (Wrasse Records) Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (Sub Pop) Sons and Daughters - The Repulsion Box (Domino) Spoon - Gimme Fiction (Merge) Stars - Set Yourself on Fire (Arts & Crafts) Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty) Thrice - Vheissu (Island) Tim Robinson - Money in the Woods (CD Baby) Tom Vek - We Have Sound (Star Time) William Bolcom - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Naxos) Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (Sub Pop) Z-Trip - Shifting Gears (Hollywood)

Check out Pitchfork for the full stories

Blank Label Comics

2005-12-07T23:04:00.000-06:00

In case you are unaware of this wonderful endeavor, Blank Label Comics is quite possibly the greatest web comics syndicate out there, hosting Kris Straubs amazing sci-fi strip Starslip Crisis, Brad Guigar's brilliant comic about supervillians Evil, Inc. (You Can Get Away With More Evil If You Do It Legally), the consistently hilarious Ugly Hill, the occasionally disturbing but always engaging Wapsi Square. My two favorite strips Orneryboy and No 4th Wall To Break, are not BLC affialiated, but must be mentioned anyways. Ornery is full of darker humor, with drawings that are rather happy and bright in nature, which makes for a wonderful contrast and a great strip. No 4th Wall relies on its absurd premise (I dont even think the author is sure what its about), and its hilarius commentary on the world of comics in general. The characters often break the fourth wall and interact with the authors, giving the strip its name. Check out the pseudo reality of No 4th Wall right now. Go!

THE BIG TICKET

2005-12-04T00:30:00.000-06:00

My inspiration for starting this here blog
The Big Ticket
has his annual end of year playlist up.
Download and enjoy.
I know i will.

RIAA Bans Telling Friends About Songs

2005-11-30T18:22:00.000-06:00

LOS ANGELES—The Recording Industry Association of America announced Tuesday that it will be taking legal action against anyone discovered telling friends, acquaintances, or associates about new songs, artists, or albums. "We are merely exercising our right to defend our intellectual properties from unauthorized peer-to-peer notification of the existence of copyrighted material," a press release signed by RIAA anti-piracy director Brad Buckles read. "We will aggressively prosecute those individuals who attempt to pirate our property by generating 'buzz' about any proprietary music, movies, or software, or enjoy same in the company of anyone other than themselves." RIAA attorneys said they were also looking into the legality of word-of-mouth "favorites-sharing" sites, such as coffee shops, universities, and living rooms-The Onion

The Same Disease As Your Neighbors

2005-11-27T22:16:00.000-06:00

So here I am, in a hotel room in Cincinnati. It’s one in the morning, and I’ve been listening to Bloc Party and reading Douglas Coupland, and trust me on this, it’s not a great combination.

A little background information is in order I suspect, as this is going somewhere eventually, and since half of you probably won’t know who Coupland is, I guess I should explain. Let us start with Coupland. I guess the best way to describe him is a much darker Tom Robbins. Considering the adulation most of you have heard my heap upon Robbins, this is very high praise indeed. Clearly there are differences, Robbins is hornier, Coupland is darker, Robbins is close to 70, Coupland is about 40. Instead of Robbins’ Seattle, Coupland has North Vancouver, a place he calls North Van. He essentially termed the coin Generation X, although that term, and the book he wrote of the same name are not what concern me here. The two books that concern me here (which is a good thing, considering I have only read these two) are Hey, Nostradamus! and Eleanor Rigby. I am in the middle of the latter, but bear with me anyway. The axis on which Nostradamus! turns is a school shooting, taking place in North Van, which takes the lives of several students, but the one most important to the book is Cheryl Anway. Cheryl is a member of what is essentially a group of teenage religious zealots, Youth Alive!, and it is clear to me that this is a sad, sad picture of what some of these groups must actually be like. (While I am not enamored with some of the practices of my youth group, there is unquestionably some stuff on the wrong side of the moral compass going on here in the name of God) There is a phrase that Cheryl writes in her notebook shortly before her death that interests me greatly: God Is Now Here/God Is Nowhere. She writes this in her notebook repeatedly until her death, ending on God Is Now Here, and this is hailed as a latter-day miracle by the evangelicals who happen to be her friends. The book makes it clear that Cheryl is agnostic, not sure whether to really believe in God or not, but not really questioning the motives of the group around her. The main manifest of her membership in the group is not a belief in God, it is in fact Cheryl’s refusal to have sex with her boyfriend Jason, who ends up soaked in Cheryl’s blood on the cafeteria floor. Long story short, Jason ends up alone and cynical, with parents and stories to match.

Liz Dunn is a lonely woman. Everything else about the main character in Rigby is details. She is a very, very lonely woman. She is self describes as being allergic to beauty, works for someone she has termed “The Dwarf To Whom I Report”, and is essentially as jaded as Jason, although she has no friends by choice, not by circumstance. She lives in a small apartment in North Van, and has an illegitimate child, the father of whom is unknown, the result of a drunken night in Rome when she was 16.

The title for the book comes from the Beatles song of the same name. If you are familiar with the song, it is essentially a description of the lives of all the lonely people, manifested mainly in the title character. Liz Dunn is NOT Eleanor Rigby. Yes, she is lonely, yes she had no friends, but she does have some semblance of a life. She is not waiting to be married, she had come to terms with the fact that she will probably never get married, never fall in love, and never have a child.

Except Jeremy.

This is a kid who has lived through the hell that is the foster system, come out shattered and broken, abused and molested, but alive. This is the kid who redeems Liz from her monotonous state of being, a 20 year old so full of life that not even the MS that has afflicted him since he was 17 sucks the joy out of him. And, I suppose, he is the protagonist of the story. Yes, Liz tells the story, and yes, I would venture that she is it’s main character, but Jeremy drives the plot. The distinct impression is given that Liz would happily live out the rest of her days in her solitude if Jeremy had never come along.

And I suppose that brings me to my point. I have read what these books have to say, and I am scared. Not of school shootings, or Russian mobsters, or religious zealots, or being abandoned by the people who I call friends. I am afraid… that I will become Jason Klaasen or Liz Dunn. I have left the points of both of the tales purposefully ambiguous, because, with Jason especially, any detail will give away the key to his personality. But I can see myself in their place. I don’t mean geographically, or physically, or really vocationally either (I can’t say I’d enjoy working in a cube or as a contractor, but whose to say I wouldn’t enjoy it either?). Their emotional state is the key. I am afraid I will become a hermit, cynical and alone with the exception of a pet, my coworkers, or maybe my parents. The apparent waste land of life that meets both of them at the beginning of their tales is both frightening and alarmingly real.

Coupland is adapt at describing the condition of the members of Generation X, but that condition applies to me and many of the people I know as well. His characters are cynical and negative, but they revel in this bleakness, not in the I-must-be-a-martyr-for-I-must-be-strong sort of way, nor in the way that the Youth Alivers would have interpreted the idea, but instead in the manner of people who really and truly do understand themselves and their condition. Cheryl has the hindsight she is allowed, being dead, and Jason the hindsight that is allowed to a widower. Liz, on the other hand, lives in the present, not in the past that she was happier in, because, for her, there is no such past. She has always been the ignored one, the chubby one, the unpopular one. She is aware she does it to herself as much as other people do it to her, she could stand up for herself, she just doesn’t feel the need.

About halfway through the book Liz defines the word health as: having the same disease as all of your neighbors. Little does she realize, Liz is quite healthy, as I suspect most of the people I know are, as well. And that is the condition the Coupland devotes his dark humor to help define: health.

If Ever Called Upon To Make A Speech...

2005-11-16T21:58:00.000-06:00

I saw Capot today with film club. It is an absouloutely amazing movie, making you alternatly love and hate Capote, and his foil, the real protaganist of the film Perry Smith, the man who commited the murders that Capote writes about. The most amazing bit about it is the character of Perry makes you hate Capote. If Capote had never decided to attempt to save this mans life, then the serious of events that made him look like an anti-hero never would have occured, and Perry would still look like the bad guy, and Capote the good guy.
Interestingly enough, the film made me think about Mozzer. I realise that comparing one of the most effeminate and flamboyant homosexuals of all time with someone who is admits to being "asexual" is a kind of twisted and obtuse comparison, but hear me out for a second. Both of them changed the way a medium was percieved, Capote in writing "In Cold Blood" a non-fiction novel, as he puts it, and Morrissey, as a member of The Smiths, jumpstarting both the era of the remix, as well as the "Indie Method" that is the back bone of the modern music medium. Normally, this would seem like a huge deal, but for whatever reason, these two stick out in my mind. And i think it must have something to do with their words. The lyrics to the Smiths song Bigmouth Strikes Again go something like:

Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
when I said I'd like to
smash every tooth in your head

Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
when I said by rights you should be
bludgeoned in your bed

And now I know how Joan of Arc felt
now I know how Joan of Arc felt
as the flames rose to her Roman nose
and her Walkman started to melt

Bigmouth, bigmouth
bigmouth strikes again
and I've got no right to take my place
with the human race

By the end of Capote, Truman is left feeling alone and used, realising the complete and totally humanity of his perfect work. He realises that he helped kill not only his source, but a man who had, over the course of several years, become his friend. The pain this causes him, along with the writing of a story with thinly veiled versions of his celebrity friends caused him to become a recluse, finding refuge in drink and drugs, and not in writing. Unlike the Mozzer, who uses his pain as a way to channel his artistic ability, Capote allows his pain to block it. Thats why both where wordsmiths that should be remembered for generations, only one will have an artistic legacy that is extensive and based off multiple works.

This Is Our Birthright

2005-11-01T19:00:00.000-06:00

A band called Living Things has the free-song on itunes this week. That wouldn't be anything special except
a) For the first time in recent memory there giving away some more then decent music
b) Living Things are BEYOND amazing.
Similair to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, their album, titled "Ahead Of The Lions", got caught in LP
hell when there label got sold, to Geffen, and then they got dropped. But they didnt enjoy the massive success that Wilco did when they realesed YHF on the internet. In fact the only thing i heard of them in about 6 months was the SPIN article in which i learned about the band that recorded the album SPIN called the best of it's kind since Nevermind. And having listened to this single, it might be that dastratic, but it still is one hell of a song. So check it out.

Add "Ahead Of The Lions" to my list of albums to buy

Rehearsing My Choir-The Fiery Furnaces

2005-10-27T21:15:00.000-05:00

If any of you are aware, i am struggling with how to properly review albums. So genereally, i just listen to them on repeat until i feel comfortable writing a review. By the time you read this, i will probably have listened to "Rehearsing My Choir" so many times that i won't be able to listen to this piece of work for about a week. Now when i see this piece of work, i dont mean any offense, but the record, which is about the Furnaces grandmother Olga, is quite a piece of work. Thrown together in no particular chronolgical order, but somehow making sense nonetheless, this cd seems to be one long track. Never in any of my listens have i been able to catch when one song blends into the next. In this manner it plays like a stream of conciousness story told by a senile old woman. I wonder if this is how it is intended? With the Furnaces you never really know.
The narrative, which is cleary meant to be the main focus of this piece, works by intertwining the deep, time weatherd voice of Olga, and the higher voice of her granddaughter, one half of the Furnaces, Elanor. Olga plays herself in the present in this duet, whereas Elanor recites the lines of whatever characters need a player, as well as telling pieces of her grandmothers tale.
The third member of these repatory players is the other half of the Furnaces, Matthew. The instrumentals are the strength of this album. More interesting then the duet, for the simple reason that they almost become a character in and of themselves. They interact with the vocals, instead of merely being background noise for them. As Olga and Elanor describe the eight seperate priests at her wedding, (it looked impressive) and the discordant noise of all eight priests singing in seperate keys (but it didnt sound very good) the music becomes spastic and out of key, just like all the priests.
This is the kind of record the Mars Volta would have made if they had gotten into Indie Guitar rock instead of Salsa, and it does not suffer for it. Despite the overall weird and confusing nature of the narrative, it is nothing less then you should expect from the Fiery Furnaces. And i think this is why they gain so much negative press: people just dont know how else to respond
GRADE: B
edit: theres a really good review of this album here.

I THREW IT AT YOU!

2005-10-26T22:06:00.000-05:00

Could this be the end of Making Fiends?

Meet Me On My Vast Veranda...

2005-10-18T22:49:00.000-05:00

So. Decemberists Concert. Sweet Stuff.
The opening band, Cass Mccombs was ok, but almost so soft and quiet that it got to the point where people began talking over them. The Decemberists on the other hand. Whoa Boy. By far the best song of the night was "The Mariners Revenge Song" although my god did July July sound good. Colin Meloy walks on stage with a White and Red pinstripe suit banging a snare with a rock. It was perfect. The show was just as quirky as i thought it would be, with a klesmer interlude during The Chimbley Sweep, and several comments by Colin like:

"Were you falling? Did you fall of the balcony? Cos if your last words were a song request, that would be awesome"
"This song is about when i lived in a warehouse. A haunted warehouse. It was haunted by poultry"

He also stopped during the last chorus of Sixteen Military Wives, "Cheer them on to..." he stops. Gets a drink of water. Smacks his lips. And then he resumes. "THEIR RIVAAAAAAAALLLLSSSSS". Aside from how awesome a show it was, the music was awesome beyond expectation. As i stated above July, July was pereformed exquisitly, although SMW seemed kind of disappointing. But for the most part the music was amazing. The final song of the night "The Mariners Revenge Song" was simply amazing. We got to scream as if we were being swallowed by a giant whale, and there were giant paper whale jaws that pretending to eat the audience. As a show, it doesnt get any better than that.

Old Wolrd Underground! Thats Where You Went Off To.

2005-10-06T16:47:00.000-05:00

If you havent read my review of the Franz Ferdinand album, below, please do and comments are always appreciated. As to the reason behind this post, its time for my Semi-Occasional list; What Albums I Need. If you have access t0 any of these, help is always appreciated:

Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks-Face The Truth
The Magic Numbers-The Magic Numbers
Silver Jews-Tanglewood Numbers
The Smiths-Everything I Dont Own (not an album title, i just need everything i dont own by the Smiths)
Pavement-Anything By Pavement (again not an album title)
Stars-Set Yourself On Fire

Possibly to be added on to when i get home, but doubtful cos i have a massive amount of homework.

All The Things That Bring The Idiots Joy..

2005-10-04T17:39:00.000-05:00

The greatest way to describe it is... Woah Boy. The Glasgow lads that captured our ears a little over a year ago with one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, album all year are back. And this is no sophomore slump. Not content to take the success of their eponymous debut lying down, they bring another album so full of sonic inspiration, so joyous and witty, that once again the're in the running for album of the year. From the beggining, with "The Fallen", these boys bring everything there so good at back to mind. If anything, this is faster then anything on the first one, with the same danceable backbone that made them so popular in the first place. They also havent lost any of their wit, claiming that The Fallen are the virtous among us. Its biting stuff. On the lead single "Do You Want To" Franz follows that original formula to the letter, crafting a song that wouldnt seem out of place on the flip side of "Take Me Out". Thats not a bad thing either.
Franz seems to have better range this time, taking the manic post-punk that made "Take Me Out" so popular to the less energetic new wave-balladry that made the macabre "40"" the best song on Franz Ferdinand, to greater extremes. This is best demenstrated by songs 4 and 5 "Walk Away" and "Evil and a Heathen" . The former touches upon the leaving of the love of the narrators life, and, for Franz anyway, the song is slow, almot reflective, although he seems more worried about the state of his make-up then the state of his love life, but considering how fashion concious this band is, the two might hold similair status is Alex Kapranos' heart. "Evil and a Heathen" however, is a piece of manic gold. Just over two minutes long, the song burns itself out, and they seem tor recognise this, but Franz brings an intangible energy to the song that makes it perfect. The rhythm section is a huge part of this, as they bring a tightness to the music that very few other bands bring to the table.
The rest of the album is this study in extremes, the greatest leap being "Elanor Put Your Boots Back On" which is uncharaceristacally (sp) sparse for a Franz Ferdinand song, is a welcome experiment that explores something Franz knows they can do. They could become pop song smiths on the level of the Baetles or Ramones, and thats what seperates Kapranos and Co from the rest.

Report Card: A

Us Kids Know

2005-09-22T22:07:00.000-05:00

I know ive neglected this blog, although its not like any of you missed my, as noone really reads this piece of crap anyways. Im gonna try to design a site for this to go on, so the dam thing looks nicer and ill actually post important shit on it. That said heres whats up for the next week

1. Reviews of Franz Ferdinand and Metric albums
2. A couple of rants

so. Ya. Stay Tuned and spread the word.
I would appreciate it.

The last thing that your hands will feel...

2005-09-20T17:51:00.000-05:00

Three things

1. Does Anybody read this?

2. If havent been MKM1 yet do so now. This is the kind of website that will change your life, and honestly, it will change it for the better.

3. I ll post a review of Bloc Party later

Do You Want To?

2005-09-18T20:12:00.000-05:00

im listening to the new franz ferdinand album. And well....
Lets just say im a little worried. Updates later

Update 1 8:20:
After the listening to This Boy, i feel a little better

To Be Lost In The Forest....

2005-09-13T21:17:00.000-05:00

first of all, whoever thought up this idea is a genius!
GENIUS!

And if you havent seen the New New Pornographers video yet

go here

especially because David Cross is in it.

Speaking of David Cross, Arrested Developments season begins on monday i believe.

Check that out.

Im out.

I can't feel a thing my dreams are so tight...

2005-09-09T22:23:00.000-05:00

POST 50!!!
WOOOO
::fireworks::
ok now that that is out of the way
My special playlist entitled: My Dreams Are So Tight
1.Hustle Rose-Metric
Another gem from OWU, this is the song that makes me most excited for Live it Out. Music would be better if everybody knew this song.
2. I Predict A Riot-Kaiser Chiefs
This is a song that redeems brit-pop. With an 80's synth vibe, and the use of the word thee in the first verse, its a defintively retro track.
3.Londons Burning-The Clash
Nuff Said
4.In The End-MCR
This is my favorite song of Three Cheers, with a rhyming verse that could make a emo band turn green with envy, the music is TIGHT
5. Very Loud-The Shout Out Louds
Really cool song. Not sure how to describe it, thats how awesome it is
6. Stacked Crooked-New Pornographers
One of the best tracks on Twin Cinema, and thats saying alot, it features a horn section worthy of ian brown and a heavy dose of indie pop. Nicely done.
7.Carnival Kids-the Futureheads
I think this there best song. The tightest music, with the coolest the harmonies, its a great introduction to the greatest new band of the last year.
8.Sally Cinnamon-The Stone Roses
If you dont have any stone roses, shame on you. If you do, listen to this song. Now.
9.Evil-Interpol
duh
10.Love Will Tear Us Apart-Joy Division
see nine
11. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight-The Postal Service
Superior to Such Great Heights in every possible form, this is one ou should be listening to, even if your not.
12.First Wave Intact-The Secret Machines
Nine minutes of pure unadulterated space rock bliss.
13 Helicopter-Bloc Party
I love this band. I love this song. Good enough for ya?

Enjoy

Check out this band, former students at Hphs, and maybe better than Sad Panda. Dont hurt me!

this Modern Love..

2005-09-08T16:34:00.000-05:00

This is post 49 on Turning Into Myself, so i think ill do something special for the next post. Scandalous? Maybe. Awesome? Maybe. Bloc Party? Certainly. Playlist? Yea.

News

The Voodoo Music Expierence, which was to be held in New Orleans, will now be held elsewhere. Some proceeds will go to victims of the devasting Hurricane. A new lineup is being worked on.

Wilco fans! Pay attention. Jay Farrar, currently of Son Volt, formely of Uncle Tupelo (the band that became Wilco) is breaking his long long silence on the subject in this months Relix magazine. If your in to Uncle Tupelo and want to know Farrars side of the story, check out the interview.

Picture The Euphoria

2005-09-04T16:50:00.001-05:00

Despite the conservative baiting name, those princes of pop punk The New Pornographers are not in the slightest bit political. In a time when the hipest thing to do is bash Bush, the hipest people in the land (and no, the Shins do not deserve more indie cred, becuase they arent half as good) stay far away from that kind of behaivor. This is one of those albums where even if the lyrics made absolutely no sense, and on some occasions they do (Listen to Broken Breads)It wouldnt matter. You'd be singing along anyway. The first thing you'll notice is had catchy the damn thing is. I cant stop singing any number of songs on the album, but well get to those in a minute.
The title track sets a precedent for the album, one that while incredibly high, is consistently pole vaulted over during the entire course of the album. Catchy and up tempo, with a consistent beat, it is a great hook into the album.
The second thing youll notice is the apparent four limbed drumming of Kurt Dahle, who somehow manages to keep time and throw these amazing fills together at the same time. It wouldnt seem that this kind of music would need a consistent beat and strong fills, but this album is made so much better for it. The second song, Bones Of An Idol, introduces Neko Case as a lead singer to the album. She is prehaps the second greatest asset to the band, behind its mastermind Carl Newman, and it shows. On "Use It", Carl retakes his lead vocal duties, but i think he serves better than Neko would on this track anyway. My favorite lyric on the album Two sips from the cup of human kindness and im shit faced appears here, as does an entire song of Dahle's fills, making an inherently hard to dance genre incredibly danceable.
I want to rave about every single song on this album, but it would take far too long to right so im gonna skip a couple ahead.
"The Jessica Numbers" has about 3 different people singing lead, two of whom i assume are Neko and Carl, but i dont really know. The vocal has an amzing harmonized quality to it, one that i can only describe as angelic. The guitar is probably the best on the entire album, and Dahle's fills reenter with a vengence. The upbeat/downbeat pattern continues, as Jessica is followed "These are the Fables" another of those songs which are slow for a little whole, then inexblicably speed up two thirds of the way through the song. Great feature of Neko's Voice.
Newmans incredible ability to update old material and make it his own works like a charm on "Star Bodies" which appropiates a medievel hymn for part of the hook. Another one of thosesongs where there is no one lead vocalist, Neko and Carl sing together, than apart, than together again, creating an incredible, almost in stereo, effect.
One of two songs on the album who people who bought it cos "I thought it would sound like the Shins" would like, you could almost hear this one fitting in perfectly on the Garden State soundtrack. Thats not a dig on the song, its just they way it is.
No matter what you think of their name, of their collective, hell even of Newman' seeming dictatorship of the band, which upon closer inspection everyone invloved is happy with, this is an albumdeserving of a much larger audience. Which, thank god, i doubt it will recieve any time soon.

New And Improved!

2005-08-31T21:40:00.000-05:00

First of all, i have a new name for the blog "Turning Into Myself". I like it better than "My Transmission"

So as my first act in this new and improved blog, here is my new playlist entitled
Bwah?
Track 1-Banquet-Bloc Party
I like this song for several reasons, one of which is the chorus, which is where the blogs new name comes from. It's darker new wave, could have been made in the very early days of new wave, but is a little slick for that kind of thing
Track 2-July July-The Decmemberists
From the Castaways and Cutouts album, this is my favorite song of theirs. An upbeat anthem with morbid lyrics, its a paradox, as i like things to be.
Track 3-Worked Up So Sexual-The Faint
This is one of the bands i mentioned in my rant about dance music. Try not to dance to this. I dare you. A gold star goes to the first person who can do it.
Track 4-Do You Want To-Franz Ferdinand
New Franz Song, 'nuff said
Track 5-Rama Lama-Sons And Daughters
Part of the song is a country tinged narrative is about a woman whose boyfriend has left. The other part is a manic guitar part with the singer screaming "Rama Rama Lama" , and the back up singing "Shake Shake Shake". Awesome
Track 6-Dead Disco-Metric
the best song off their last album "Old World Underground where Are You Now?" and there new album comes out on the 4th. check 'em out.
Track 7-The Jessica Numbers-The New Pornagraphers
This is one of my favorite tracks from "Twin Cinema"which i have been listening to almost obsessively, it features both Neko Case and Carl Newman on lyrics. back it up with the most proficcent band ever, especially 8 armed drummer Kurt Dahle, and you get one of the coolest songs all year.
Track 8-Nowhere Again-The Secret Machines
Best. Song. Ever.
Track 9-Squires @ Bristol-Shots Fired
Little Known punk band from Kansas City, they play actual punk, not the pop punk or emo that is common todays rock radio
Track 10-Slow Hands-Interpol
You though i wouldnt include Interpol. Shame on you.
Track 11-Use It-The New Pornagraphers
What Power Pop should sound like, with the ever awesome Carl Newman singing with Neko as backup, and pop piano and guitar dominating the song. With lyrics like "Two Sips From The Cup Of Human Kindness and im Shit Faced", how could it get any better?
Track 12-Dance Me In-Sons And Daughters
Think of this as the bonus track, the track thats is one of the most awesome track on the album, but is part of another song. or dont. But this what Franz would sound like had they embraced country and scottish folk music instead of just post-punk.

You can most of these songs on itunes, and the ones you cant you can get on the bands websites.
Hope You Enjoy.

And If You Feel A Little Left Behind...

2005-08-26T23:35:00.000-05:00

1.Am i wrong? Is my belief in the purity of music a misguided belief one that i use to make myself feel superior to people cos i dont nessecarily have the confidence or there friends or there shit? Is it possible my obssesive devotion to music is not good for me?

2.I was at the stupid "dance" that the school likes to throw at the beggining of the year. It was terrible. I was there forever and there was not a single rock song played. Its like i entered a parallel universe. I have a theory that people have decided you can only dance to hip-hop. This is not true, they just refuse to believe that what everyone else likes is not "dance music". You CAN dance to rock. Case in Point. Listen to Bloc Party. Try NOT to dance. Hard isnt it? Try The Faint. Try New Order. Try Hot Hot Heat. All rock. All dance music. Hell i even dance to the New Pornagraphers and The Arcade Fire. IT Is possible, but people refuse to see through the veil of a percieved pop culutre atmosphere that promotes rap. Fuck them. That is why "dances" as it were, always suck. I suppose i just dont understand. You have a whole segment of the population of people who listen to rock who attend this kind of thing, and you flat out refuse to play any decent dance music. I DONT MEAN BON JOVI and i dont mean AC/DC or any sort of metal, which while great for playing air guitar, is shit for dancing. I dont mean techno or anything with a bubble gum pop flavor of any sort. You make us listen to your crap, so shut up and listen to ours. I dont wanna hear 1 2 Step. I dont wanna hear The Pussycat Dolls. I wanna hear fucking Bloc Party. I wanna hear Arcade Fire, i wanna hear The Faint. And dont you dare give that its not danceable shit.

playlist coming this weekend

lalalalalallala

2005-08-22T00:21:00.000-05:00

im back.
some stuff to expect soon-

-beggining of school playlist
-a couple of reviews
-and a rant of tom robbins genius

Out.

Im Gone Im Gome Im Gone

2005-08-10T13:55:00.000-05:00

i wont be here for a little while, so if you wanna talk, just call my cell. Im sure you can findthe number somewheres.

Also, i hate the fact that all the concerts i want to go to are in the same three week period, starting with Franz and Beck on the SAME DAY in september (the 20th) and ending with the decmeberists on oct 18th! RRRRRRRRAAAAAAAWWWWWRRRR
its very annoying. and although i want to go to decembersits, i dont know if ill be bale to go to that and franz, and i have to decide if i want to go to beck or franz and i just dont know and its fricking annoying!!
raaawwwwwr
anyway
ttys

End Transmission

2005-08-07T01:05:00.000-05:00

heh

Two Sips From The Cup Of Human Kindness and Im $#$# Faced

2005-08-06T12:20:00.000-05:00

My new obsession is the new pornographers. They are this awesome band from Toronto, a supergroup in the true sense of the word, and they rock. if you dont believe me, check out

mp3-"Use It"- The New Pornographers

ill put a full review of the album, Twin Cinema, when it comes out.

Edit: I made a mistake, as glen (whoever you are, thanks btw,) pointed out the NP's are in fact from vancouver. You should check them out. Please?
Also check out my site here

Old World Underground, There You Are Now

2005-08-04T11:28:00.000-05:00

does anybody read this?
Even if you dont, news is Metric is releasing a new album titled Live It Out in October. that was important enough for me to have a post of it by itself.

Very Loud

2005-08-01T18:22:00.000-05:00

Two Things:

1. If you dont have something to say that is directly relating to what i say on the blog, please dont say it. That is what the Xanga is for, this is kind of my pop culture/music diary, so if you want to commetn on what i say or have a recomendation for me or something thats fine, but try not to go off topic to much. Please?

2. Its that time again. For the list of cd's i want, but i can only afford one or two. So here what we are going to do. Comment with your recommendations no more than three, no less than one, and please dont put anything not on the list. If you want to recommend other stuff thats fine, but please still vote for list albums. And heed the above statement. Also, tell other people, i dont care if i know them or not, so i get a better sampling of the population. Yup so heres the list
Howl Howl Gaff Gaff The Shout Out Louds
Blueberry Boat, Ep The Fiery Furnaces
The Repulsion Box Sons and Daughters
Castaways and Cutouts, The Tain The Decemberists
Get Behind Me Satan The White Stripes
Sept. 000 The Secret Machines
Anything By Broken Social Scene
Twin Cinema The New Pornagraphers (or anything by them for that matter)
Lovers Need Lawyers The Good Life
Something by The Faint

List Subject to change

Since noone has read this anyways, Franz Ferdinand News!
They have a new title for their album, instead of being eponymous its going to be called You Could Have it So Much Better... With Franz Ferdinand, and the cover art will is below. Also, i thought the concert was in August and not September, even though its probably the same week as Foozer, Franz trumps everything. So im gonna try to get tickets. But theres no entry on Ticketmaster. so ill have to wait a little while. But we'll see.

leons shout machines

2005-07-30T23:59:00.000-05:00

i just got back from the secert machines/kings of leon double bill. Sweetest concer i ahve ever seen. The opening band, the Shout Out Louds, rocked especially for an opening band. the secret machines rocked ever harder, and their set (in the order i remember)
-nowhere again
-sad and lonely
-three songs i dont know, presumbly songs from the new record, "lightning blue eyes", maybe "daddy in the doldrums" or "faded lines"
-we are chains
-the road leads where its led
-Lights ON
-and First Wave Intact, which was the best song of their set, and was the song i was hoping they would end it with.
They did some cool connecting and riffy jam band stuff, not unlike the mars volta, but not nearly as boring. The Secret Machines are to me what The Mars Volta is to will.
The kings of leon set was amazing. to feel the energy running through the crowd was astounding. my father said that there were people dancing in the rows of the seated section. They had an amazing set which i will attempt to list here
Molly's Chambers
Taper Jean Girl
The Bucket
Soft
Milk
Rememo
A couple of songs i dont remember, but were from Aha Shake Heartbreak
Kings Of the Rodeo

Encore
Holy Roller Novacaine
Slow Night So Long

defintly and amazing show,
and you should be sad you missed it
hah

The Supreme Court Is a Cult

2005-07-28T21:14:00.000-05:00

before i post this, because its not really a post but a copy and paste job from the Onion, i would like to thank that fine publication for letting me use their copywrited material without my telling them.

WASHINGTON, DC—The eight remaining justices of the Supreme Court met in chambers Monday to feast on the living flesh of retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, enacting an ancient tradition that began when the first chief justice of the Supreme Court retired and was summarily consumed in 1795.

Although the most important cannibalistic ceremony in American jurisprudence is closed to outsiders, some details of the ritual are inscribed within the High Court Scrolls. The scrolls, written in human blood and stored in the Justice Library Reading Room, have been studied by only a handful of legal scholars.

"Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist almost certainly consumed the greater part of O'Connor's brain and heart prior to the ritual feeding, in a rite believed to grant him the knowledge, wisdom, and courage of the devoured," said American University law professor Donald Hewett. "Any portions of O'Connor's brain and heart that Rehnquist refused would have been consumed by the remaining justices within minutes, as they chanted passages from her seminal opinions."

Hewett said the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court was gutted, strung up, and "drained into stone goblets from which her blood was sipped like wine."

"This quaffing of blood is traditionally accompanied by much singing and drumming," Hewett said.

If the ritual was performed in accordance with the court scrolls, O'Connor's body was then laid upon a traditional brass bier and borne up a five-story marble staircase to a consecrated inner sanctum, where clerks skewered the raw meat on wooden spits. Late into the evening, the Supreme Court justices feasted on the renowned federalist by torchlight.

"The ceremony is said to be quite moving," said Zachary Katz, editor of the Yale Law Review. "By consuming O'Connor's mortal body, the other justices seek a communion with her transcendent qualities—her respect for the discretion of the court, her pragmatism, and her refusal to commit to abstract legal principles."

O'Connor has been prepared for the ritual since January 2005, when Chief Justice Rehnquist sprinkled her desk with the ashes of a virgin law clerk and pronounced, "Receptum, receptum, receptum."

Tuesday evening, Rehnquist emerged from the 17-foot-tall, 13-ton bronze sliding doors of the Supreme Court building's west entrance and addressed those who had gathered in the oval pavilion.

"Hear us, Justice," said Rehnquist, wearing a necklace of human bones and an elaborate headdress adorned with yak horns. "In the abiding name of Jurisprudence we consumed her; in the eternal name of Law was she eaten; and as her flesh does become our flesh, so her wisdom shall become our wisdom, yea, through all time everlasting."

According to legal scholars, O'Connor's skin will be tanned and sewn into a ceremonial cloak, to be worn by the youngest justice, Clarence Thomas, as he lights the pyre upon which members of O'Connor's senior staff are burned alive.
heh.

This, Or That?

2005-07-27T12:53:00.000-05:00

As wills blog so aptly points out, TMV and SOAD tickets go on sale tommorrow, which leaves me with a slight dillemna. You see Weezer and the Foo Fighters are playing chicago around the same time. Now normally this wouldnt be any hindrance, but i only have so many funds, and the truth of the matter is, as i said in march, i would rather see Weezer than The Mars Volta. Now i dont really want to go by myself, so if i can pull at least one or two of you away from System of A Down to see what might be the coolest tour all year (especially since the Kaiser Chiefs are opening on some dates) I think you might just have a good time. And not get killed.

And Does anyone know if fuzz got NIN tickets? cos i havent seen nor talked to her in weeks.

We Are The Kings Of The Rodeo

2005-07-26T10:09:00.000-05:00

Im sitting at camp and rocking out to Kings Of Leon, whose show is in 4 days! Speaking of which, if our going with me ill call you friday night so we can make plans.

As i said before, i am at camp at the moment, and i would appreciate it if people emailed me, cos i like interaction, especially with my friends. Thank you.

Music News:

The Rolling Stones are releasing a new album, titled A Bigger Bang. The album is due out on Sept. 6th, and corresponds with this years' tour. Whether the album is any good remains to be seen, as the last good Stones album, Exile On Main Street, was released over 30 years ago.

Queen has set two dates this year, one on the East coast, and one on the West Coast. No other American dates are planned for this year.

The Strokes' new album is planned for a January 2006 release. David Kahne, who has produced albums for Paul McCartney and Sugar Ray, produced the as of yet untitled album. The track list is in the current issue of Spin.

Sex, Drugs, and Chuck Klosterman

2005-07-22T22:26:00.000-05:00

Chuck Klosterman is the author of Fargo Rock City, his memoir of growing up in rural North Dakota, one of my favorite books. He is also a writer for Spin magazine, where he writes a column called Rant And Roll Over. This coloumn has addressed everything from the normalcy Micheal Jackson, to the obscurity and idiocy of music genres, to the top 10 things of the last 2o years. And those are just the things that are still up on the Spin website. Other topics include Ashlee Simpson trying to hard, and bands with the word wolf in their name (in the August issue). Now i didnt just bring this man to your attention so i could babble, although that would be a likely, considering my propensity to do just that. Anyway, Klosterman, shown to the right, is a genious. May i quote from Fargo Rock City?

"What we were too dumb to realise is that the guys in Def Leppard hated the term "heavy metal" and any member of the band would have given his right arm to avoid the label (except Rick Allen I suppose)"

Rick Allen, of course, is Def Lep's drummer, who lost his right arm in a car crash. Just so you understand how deft that joke was, the blurb at the beginning of the chapter that specifys why the date that is the chapter title is important, has to do with said car crash, and hes been setting this joke up since the beginning of the chapter. Or prehaps i should quote from one of his Rant & Roll Over coloumns, "Off The Wall"

"In fact, Jackson actively makes other things weird. For example, if Michael Jackson started eating strawberry pancakes for breakfast, the practice of daily pancake consumption would immediately take on an alien depravity that would taint all others who share that inclination. Obviously, this will never happen, as Jackson subsists exclusively on a diet of colorless, gluten-free sludge and bubble gum Skittles."

Another ability of his is to connect two seemingly unrelated things that he talked about in his article, or his chapter, or whatever, to finish his thought and end said coloumn or chapter, or whatever. Obviously that would take to long to copy from something, but do yourself a favor. Pick up Fargo Rock City or Sex Drugs And Cocoa Puffs, or his new book Killing Yourself to Live, 85% of a True Story, so you can personally witness the skill at which this man can analyse our collective conciousness, and serve it back to us on a platter of perfect sense.

Everywhere you go you leave a trace

2005-07-19T23:49:00.000-05:00

Next week i am going to see Kings of Leon play the Congress Theatre. As most of you know i am a huge KOL fan, and although they are one of my favorites, the band im really excited about seeing is The Secret Machines. I bought their album Now Here is Nowhere just before i left for camp and i have spent hours listening to it. It is one of the best albums i've picked up in recent memory, including the Arcade Fires's Funeral. The first track on the album, the sprawling "First Wave Intact", starts with a drum beat that chugs through the entire nine minute length of the song, interrupted only occasionally a symbal crash. The song however is not boring, nor does it begin to annoy me, even close to the end of the song. The next track, Sad And Lonely, where the band begins to show its classic rock influnces, almost sounds as if the Edge is playing guitar in led zep, who now also happen to contain the keyboardist from pink floyd. The vocal is Robert Plant-like, and the spaced out keyboards are a common motif throught the album. Another common thread is the military imagery made throught the record. The aforementioned "First Wave Intact" tells of a foot soldier relaying messages to an officer, and wondering if this invasion is really worth the cost of life. "Nowhere Again", the first single of the album, seems to be about the same man, back at home from the war, but unable to integrate himself back into regualr society. The song itself is one of the albums best, and one of the most upbeat, with the same drum that characterizes First Wave, but far more variable. the guitar parts are intricate, and the keyboard is hard to fund your way out of. "Pharaoh's Daughter" extends the idea even further, seeming to describe our soldier in a new sort of war but this time it seems his reasoning is certain. ( We were dressed in uniforms left over from the war/A tourniquet, an iron vest, our emblem was a star). Very Floydian musically, it almost saunds if it could have been an outtake from The Wall or Animals, and the fact that it fades from the previous song into this one helps immensly. My favorite track on the album "Lights On" describes an Orwellian situation (Somewhere there’s a record of your whereabouts/Everywhere you go you leave a trace/You’re curled up under the light/With shadows of the fallen/And everyone you’ve known/That’s been replaced) Prehaps the foot soldier has won his war, to find out his leaders were not whom he thought. Or maybe he lost it and he is no longer by himself, but he is always being watched.The spacey keyboards seem to reach tere climax here, withby far the most spacey sound on the album. The epic final track "Now Here Is Nowhere" contains bits and pieces of"Nowhere Again" seeming to cement the idea that this is a concept album. The lyrics seem to suggest that our character is dead ( Swollen nowhere breathes, laughs/Don’t you see?/All this time/All this space/All these words) and the creepy quiet keyboards seem to support this. Our character really is "Nowhere Again"
The Secret Machines' Nowhere Here Is Nowhere=9/10

I Predict A Riot

2005-07-16T11:50:00.000-05:00

Ladies And Gentlemen, I Am Back!
Soon to Be Seen On This Blog
Music News and Downloads
Cool Videos to watch
And THE WORST SONG EVER WRITTEN!
seriously though, i did just get back.
im really bored.
I should try to get out and do stuff but everyone is working
or is away or some stupid shit like that.
::groan::
so call me.
please.

News:

Franz Ferdinand is going on tour. The Tour Starts on August 20th here in Chicago, but being as i will be away, i will be missing that show. The New Album, which will Self Titled, as first one is, comes out on Oct. 4. Apparently there is a bootleg with some of the new songs on it that was recorded in russia, but i have not attempted to track it down as of yet.

Kaiser Chiefs has been asked to open for the Weezer/Foo Fighters fall tour. The tour is news to me, but i've been away for a month. Given the quality of all bands involved, this is going to be a kick ass show. Dates Still Haven't Been Announced

anyways this music junkie is back and better then ever.
See You Later.

Ya? Well YOUR Moma!

2005-06-18T01:22:00.000-05:00

Blogger tells me it is 1 22 am
im bored out of my fucking mind, i cant go to sleep and i dont want to start playing music for fear i will invite my parents wrath.
of course im being bugged about going to sleep, and for god sakes does anyone ever come here ever?
does anyone see my musings or read my thoughts?
i got 1 comment to my post on sex ed last week
1 fucking comment
does anybody really care?
im not being goth and a depressive-
well maybe goth but not depressive-
but seriously
will gets about 8 comments per post, and i have an average of one
AND THEY ARE ALL LYDIA!
::grumble::
aaahhh im so bored!
and i need some so badly!
ahhhhhhh

Rawk Brian Rawk!

2005-06-17T23:00:00.000-05:00

I had trouble trying to decide what songs to download from itunes so i havent decided the whole thing yet
but heres the list so far:
Rebellion (Lies)-the Arcade Fire
July July-the Decemberists

the new online comics picuitre to the right
has replaced roth and earl. They Havent Updated in over a month
and Ornery Boy is the best comic ive discoverd in a while
(probably since Goth Boy Mo. What happened to that link?)
Anyway the character at the right is Brian.
he is a zombie, and he eats brains.
This is Brian Rawking

...And Your Not

2005-06-16T23:31:00.000-05:00

So many albums i wont before i leave for camp.
But I Can Only afford One Or Two.
So Heres My List:
Stars-Set Yourself On Fire
Broken Social Scene-You Forget It In People
Yeah Yeah Yeah's-Fever to Tell
The White Stripes-Get behind Me Satan
The Strokes-Room On Fire/Is this It
Arcade Fire/Funeral

Thats About 90 dollars worth of cd's
::groan::
ehhh ill probably go with Stars and The Whites Stripes.
Ill buy Songs off of each of the others and put them on a mix cd
ill call it
"Josh Is A Hipster.
And Your Not"

EDIT!
Ive Decided That The Arcade Fire Is Far Superior to anything else on my list. Its on. whites stripes are off.

...Wearing Very Little Clothes....

2005-06-12T22:37:00.000-05:00

this is long
deal with it
theres something in it for you at the end
interpoldance422: hola
beanark: hey
interpoldance422: sup?
beanark: nm u
interpoldance422: nuthing
beanark: so...hows life?
interpoldance422: life is pretty ok
beanark: thats good
interpoldance422: yes
interpoldance422: i wish i had a special friend
interpoldance422: but im not gonna let that bother me
interpoldance422: ill lose some weight over the summer
interpoldance422: ill come back and ill be so hot
beanark: a special friend?
interpoldance422: girls wont be able to touch
beanark: u dont need to lose weight to be hot
interpoldance422: ::sizzle::
beanark: lol
interpoldance422: yes
interpoldance422: but it helps
beanark: it does i guess but girls shoodnt like u or hate u for how hot you are
interpoldance422: ::shrigs::
interpoldance422: as we learn from socialism
interpoldance422: the world isnt an ideal place
interpoldance422: brb
interpoldance422: i need to use the facilitees
beanark: k
beanark: lol
interpoldance422: back
beanark: hey
interpoldance422: what are you doing this week
beanark: well tuesday nite egge is sleepin over cept she has to leave early in the morn on wednesday... and then on thurs and part of friday were visiting my grandparents on their farm
beanark: but other than that, im free
beanark: wat bout u?
interpoldance422: nothing
interpoldance422: lol
beanark: lol fun
beanark: yea i got home yesterday and im already deadly bored
interpoldance422: hahah
beanark: lol
beanark: i even went running
interpoldance422: wow
beanark: lol
interpoldance422: thats abnormal
beanark: i havent in 2 weeks shut up
interpoldance422: WE SHOULD MAKE PLANSES!
interpoldance422: for like
beanark: we should!
interpoldance422: thursday
beanark: no!
beanark: im at my grandparents house!
interpoldance422: aahhh right!
beanark: lol
interpoldance422: tuesday!
interpoldance422: noo egge
interpoldance422: uhhhh
beanark: tuesday before 4
beanark: and im free
beanark: shes comin over at 4
interpoldance422: ok
interpoldance422: we shall see then hmmm
beanark: k
beanark: wait... i have a physical at 2 pm
beanark: crap
beanark: moms are evil when they dont tell u things liek that until the last minute
interpoldance422: ::groan::
interpoldance422: how about during ze day on sat?
interpoldance422: i think i am free then
beanark: i have to go to paddock
interpoldance422: uhh
interpoldance422: paddock?
beanark: my cabin in wisconsin
interpoldance422: o
interpoldance422: ok
beanark: i shood bring lots of ppl along and party lol
interpoldance422: lol
beanark: see the problem with that is that were goin up friday and comin home sunday and sunday is fathers day i guess
interpoldance422: o
interpoldance422: ok
interpoldance422: so much for that
beanark: yea...
beanark: but we should do sumthin sometime
beanark: i havent seen u in like forever
interpoldance422: ya
interpoldance422: lol
interpoldance422: i cant do it weds or monday
interpoldance422: wedsday i must pack
interpoldance422: lol
beanark: and those are my free days
beanark: wait where are u goin?
interpoldance422: aww fuck
interpoldance422: camp
beanark: what?
beanark: oh
beanark: for how long?
interpoldance422: 4 weeks
interpoldance422: then im back for a week
interpoldance422: and hten im off to html camp
beanark: wow
beanark: so what week are u gonna be back?
beanark: liek do u know the dates
interpoldance422: uhhh
interpoldance422: around the 17 of july i think
beanark: well i think ill be home like the 20th or 21st ish
interpoldance422: from weres?
beanark: ok so minnesota for a week... boy scout camp for a week... then eagle river with laura for like 4 or 5 days
beanark: and then i finally get to be home
interpoldance422: fun
beanark: yea and we have to drive (torture) to alabama
beanark: its a 10 hr drive!
beanark: but thats in like a week or two
interpoldance422: why?
interpoldance422: whats in
interpoldance422: ::shiver::
interpoldance422: remembers
beanark: family reunion!!
interpoldance422: your moms a redneck
beanark: no my dad
beanark: my mom grew up on a farm in illinois
interpoldance422: right
interpoldance422: sorry
beanark: my dads mom grew up in alabama but moved here in her like 20s
interpoldance422: o
interpoldance422: ok
beanark: yup
beanark: i like this pic... http://community.webshots.com/photo/367073618/367665251wiSHel
interpoldance422: nice
beanark: i like this oen better
beanark: http://community.webshots.com/photo/367073618/367075965FqpJvj
interpoldance422: ooo
interpoldance422: benas sexy shins
interpoldance422: ::pokes flub::
beanark: lol
beanark: hey!
interpoldance422: ::pokes::
beanark: wait... u cant see my shins in that pic
beanark: *spaz*
interpoldance422: HAHHA!
interpoldance422: ::pokes again::
beanark: ok enough of that
interpoldance422: ha i love your spazinezz
beanark: but u cant see my shins!
interpoldance422: uhh
interpoldance422: fine
interpoldance422: legs
interpoldance422: you have sexy legs
interpoldance422: fine!
interpoldance422: lol
beanark: lol thx
beanark: hmm... i shood make a new list of quotes in my profile....
beanark: oh btw... in that last pic.. lauras the one in the middle right
interpoldance422: i figured
interpoldance422: shes the tallest
beanark: lol yea
interpoldance422: i almost said biggest
beanark: rob is at the end
beanark: lol
interpoldance422: but i meant tallest!
beanark: she is...
interpoldance422: rob?
beanark: and her sister julie is on the left
interpoldance422: again figured
beanark: lol
beanark: yea robs dad was friends with my dads college roomates
beanark: so there all a part of the group too
interpoldance422: o
interpoldance422: ok
beanark: lmao i was called a "dirty little girl"
interpoldance422: you are
beanark: lol hey!
interpoldance422: dam straight
beanark: lol
interpoldance422: you gots more pictures i can make fun of you in
interpoldance422: i mean look at
beanark: what pics?
interpoldance422: like the photobucket ones you showed me earlier
beanark: on rob's site?
beanark: the first cool pic was the one of him and then the 4 of us?
beanark: those pics?
interpoldance422: yes
beanark: so whats so bad of them that u can make fun of?
interpoldance422: hmm
interpoldance422: four people
interpoldance422: on water skis
beanark: so?
interpoldance422: in not very muhc clothing
beanark: our record is 5
interpoldance422: what happened afterwords i wonder....
beanark: almost 6 until this guy was a pussy and gave up
beanark: um... we let go of the ropes
beanark: and got back on the dock
interpoldance422: nvm
interpoldance422: your not nearly as fun to try and start pervy convos as you used to be
beanark: lol
beanark: thats cuz those ppl are liek my brothers and sisters
interpoldance422: INCEST!
interpoldance422: uhhh anyways
beanark: lol
beanark: ...theres nothin wrong with incest
beanark: ahha jk
interpoldance422: after all you are 1/4 redenck
beanark: lol
beanark: i am.... unfortunately...
beanark: but hey... more fun!
beanark: ;-)
interpoldance422: hahah
interpoldance422: ooo sexed up bena
beanark: lol
interpoldance422: watch out world
beanark: haha
interpoldance422: that sounds like a porn movie
beanark: haha
beanark: yea...
beanark: i wood never do that
interpoldance422: Sexed Up Bena Does The World
interpoldance422: no comment
beanark: lol
beanark: i woodnt!
interpoldance422: again
interpoldance422: no comment
interpoldance422: lol
interpoldance422: i know you would
interpoldance422: nt
beanark: lol
interpoldance422: lol
interpoldance422: but it would be funny
beanark: no it woodnt!
interpoldance422: uhuh
beanark: so it wood be funny to watch me in a porn movie?
interpoldance422: np
interpoldance422: it would be hot
interpoldance422: heheheh
beanark: np?
beanark: lol
beanark: oh cuz u know im jsut that sexy
interpoldance422: o ya
interpoldance422: haha
interpoldance422: hes cumin on bena
beanark: who is?
interpoldance422: nvm
beanark: and whats np?
interpoldance422: lol
interpoldance422: i meant to say no
beanark: lol oooh ok
beanark: whos cumming?
interpoldance422: the one whose opposite you in the porn movie
interpoldance422: duh
beanark: lol
beanark: ooooh
beanark: well of course he is... im that sexy
interpoldance422: just that sexy
interpoldance422: lol
interpoldance422: haha
beanark: lol
interpoldance422: ::poke::
beanark: *spaz*
interpoldance422: hahahha
beanark: lol
beanark: not cool!
beanark: well its not as annoying as when chris woodnt stop grabbing my ass
interpoldance422: what?
interpoldance422: when did that happen?
beanark: at turnabout
interpoldance422: oo
interpoldance422: ya....
beanark: lol
interpoldance422: i need a new wallpaper
interpoldance422: trent is boring me
beanark: lol
beanark: i dunno
interpoldance422: hmmm
interpoldance422: the futureheads
beanark: im lookin for a new xanga lyout
interpoldance422: fun
beanark: yup
beanark: its so hard to find a good one tho
interpoldance422: haha
interpoldance422: you now what else is hard?
beanark: um... u when ur horny?
interpoldance422: good guess
interpoldance422: but no
beanark: lol
interpoldance422: a fire truck!
beanark: ...what?
interpoldance422: lol
interpoldance422: its hard
beanark: lol
beanark: um... arent all trucks?
interpoldance422: this is true
interpoldance422: but i specified fire
interpoldance422: cos i felt like it
beanark: lol
beanark: i like fire
beanark: a lot
interpoldance422: lol
interpoldance422: thats hot
beanark: lol
beanark: of course its hot...its a fire
interpoldance422: well
interpoldance422: duh'
beanark: lol
beanark: omg u know wahts fun?
beanark: shaking up a bottle of pop and thowing it in the fire
interpoldance422: i bet that amuses you
beanark: also putting a water bottle with karosine (i cant spell) in it and throwing that in the fire
interpoldance422: uhuh
beanark: lol
interpoldance422: i bet its fun
beanark: it is!
beanark: lol
beanark: so... u do anything fun lately?
interpoldance422: uhhh
interpoldance422: i laffed at you
beanark: oh thx
interpoldance422: im thinking abiut typing a blog entry
interpoldance422: im watching family
interpoldance422: guy
interpoldance422: ive had fun with nothing
interpoldance422: i mean nothing
interpoldance422: ...
beanark: omg i love that show
interpoldance422: lol
beanark: lol
beanark: one sec i gotta change the channel and find some aloe vera gel for my legs
interpoldance422: mmm
interpoldance422: legs
interpoldance422: benas legs
beanark: haha i know!!
beanark: there just so... mmmm...
interpoldance422: sexy
beanark: yes
interpoldance422: just soooo
interpoldance422: perfect and smooth....
interpoldance422: i mean!
interpoldance422: .....
beanark: lol
interpoldance422: uhhh
interpoldance422: can i post this convo?
beanark: lol yea
beanark: ok now i can talk now that im done smearing aloe vera all over my legs
interpoldance422: ......legs.....
interpoldance422: mmmmmm
beanark: oh i know!

...And One Fucking Complicated One!

2005-06-11T23:34:00.000-05:00

Part One: New and Improved
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There are two things new and improved here.
One is the blog itself. I will be updating with more and better shit starting now,
and continuing when i get home from camp.
Media Files, Bit Torrent Downloads, and Pictures will be yours to own and view!
to that end i give you
.torrent-"16 Military Wives"-The Decemberists (you will need a bit torrent program for this)
this is a cool band i discovered while looking at free videos on demand
defintly worth checking, this is some of the best real indie ive heard
have fun.
Secondly: ME
this sounds corny and i understand this, but im going to try and be HAPPY
the goth me isnt going to go
it will just be a happy goth me
like elle
lifes too short
loves too weird
audreys was too right!
(does she read this? some direct her to it. quick!)
so you get all this for 4 easy paymetns of 19.95
or maybe three easy payments...
(see title of post)

Your Old Enough To Know Better...

2005-06-10T23:57:00.000-05:00

I JUST GOT BACK FROM THE FUTUREHEADS!
IT WAS THE SWEETEST CONCERT EVER!
the opening act was kinda cool
it was high speed scene
they have a song on mvp baseball
The Iroc Z Song
and then came them futureheads
wow
it blew everything else ive ever seen or heard out of the water
evertyhing
mars volta, green day, AND interpol
absofuckingloutely amazing
frantic and manic
those are the best words i have to describe it
it transcends cool
and the met IS THE COOLEST VENUE EVER!
thank you
that will be all

2005-06-09T23:55:00.000-05:00

i often wondor if anyone cares.
does anyone care?
does anyone even read this damn thing
i oftne wonder if people wouldt notice if i left
woud sasha or will or sam or bena or lydia or zack or noah or pat or any others of hundred notice?
if i just wnet ::poof:: and never came back?
i often wonder if my voice makes a differnece, if in the end im just
some idiot yelling down a bug hole
i often wonder how long it will be before i do, how much time do i have on this
planet
i often wonder what would happen if i left and never came back
would anybody care?

Ian curtis Is My Hero

2005-06-08T22:41:00.000-05:00

i ordered Heart and Soul today.
it is almost all the Joy Division i could ever want
almost
what else
im reading a bunch of dystopian novels ( a clockwork orange) and muisc bios (touching from a distance) over the summer
no one ever comes or comments
it often feels like noone loves me
i know its not rue
but i often feel left in the dust and second rate
i dont know why
i seem to have nice enough friends
who seem to love me
even if i can be obnoxious and annoying
i think sam is slightly stupid becuase of the way she broke up with
nick and why
uggggh
o well tis summer right?

This Is What My Parents Pay For?

2005-06-07T16:36:00.000-05:00

This is a New York Times article "Facts of Life, For Their Eyes Only"
it discusses of sex ed films, including the very first sex ed film all the way to modern ones. I am going to use the full text of the article here, interposed with my and Robbo Wilco's commentary. Enjoy (if you are offended easily, please dont take this post to seriously. i am much more leftist than then ext couple of posts will et on)

BY the time the solstice announces the arrival of summer,
American homes may be witness to a dramatic upsurge in the population of
10-year-olds who find themselves suddenly versed in the language of
endocrinology. For decades now, during late May and June, fifth graders in many
parts of the country have been herded into dark classrooms and auditoriums to
squeamishly watch the movie for which no companion Xbox game is made -- the
video that seeks to explain why 12-year-old Sam now speaks in a pitch resembling
Donald Sutherland's and why his friend Emma is suddenly finding herself
ill-tempered for reasons that have nothing to do with Kevin Federline's marital
status.

First of all, If we need a companion Xbox game, something is wrong with today's America. Besides what would the game be "insert sexual organ into disc drive"

During the 50-plus years that sex education films have attempted to decode
the mystery of adolescence, their informational content has remained
relatively
unchanged. In current versions, nods to the apparent
sophistication of today's
young people are rarely invoked. Although
12-year-old girls today often
dress as if they were college freshman during
sorority rush week, the films
confine themselves to the subjects of growth
and menarche, never dealing with
sex beyond a discussion of its clerically
prescribed purpose -- health education
as if determined by the marketers of
American Girl.
The consistency
of the message, educators
believe, reflects the fact that even in a culture
where young adult novels
include explicit references to sex, children's
ignorance about their own
bodies has not diminished over time. Similarly,
parents seem as reluctant to
initiate the necessary conversations as they have
ever been.
For this
reason, most films have typically followed a narrative
arc in which the
child is introduced to the joys and predicament of
looming
adulthood from a school nurse, coach or teacher before awkwardly
pursuing
the matter at home with their parents. Stylistically, the
films
have done their best to accommodate changes in fashion -- side ponytails
now
seem verboten for girls inquiring about menstrual periods -- though no one
seems to have succeeded in creating a graphically innovative depiction of
the
female anatomy that suggests an age post-Judy Chicago.
Sex education
is
mandated in 30 states, though many school systems elect to teach it
regardless
of legal imperative. Although films are often used as a way to
teach some of the
material, it is not possible to know how many schools
choose to do so because
the choice is made by schools and their
districts.
Sex education films began
to be made for American schools in
the 1940's.
Among the first to prompt
widespread controversy was a
16-millimeter short titled ''Human Growth,''
produced by the actor Eddie
Albert, who had founded an educational media company
after World War II.
Seeking to frankly explain puberty and reproduction to
11-year-olds, the
film was barred from schools in various parts of the country
after its debut
at the Theodore Roosevelt Middle School in Eugene, Ore., in the
spring of
1948, though it remained in high demand for a number of years later.
Defending the film's mission in a March 1949 article in The New York Times,
a
health educator in Westchester County, N.Y., proclaimed, ''kids do
not
grow up encased in cellophane,'' adding that the material was
preferable to the sort of information doled out by ''sidewalk
philosophers.'
First of all, children do grow up in cellophane. To the author: Have you ever lived in the suburbs. Second of all if the film was banned, and yet was still in high demand, can I assume there is pornographic material on that tape "Kids this is a penis." Finally Sex is mandated by the American Girl company, how else would they sell those dolls?
The 1950's saw the facts-of-life genre film bifurcated along
male and female lines. Two popular films of the day, ''Molly Grows Up,'' and
''As Boys Grow,'' were geared, as their titles suggest, to boys and girls
respectively and dealt with the gender-specific aspects of pubescent change in a
manner unabashedly reflecting prefeminist sentiments. Released in 1953, the
first film has a gym teacher talking directly to the camera about a growing
girl, Molly, as if she were an alien creature to be sequestered for study at
NASA. When the film cuts to Molly discussing her impending womanhood with her
mother, she is cautioned that the various contraindicators for menstruation
include basketball, volleyball and square dancing
First of all "Molly Grows Up" and "As Boys Grow" are going to be marketed to boys and girls respectievely. this means that "Molly Grows Up" is marketed to boys and "As Boys Grow" will be marketed girls. Shouldnt it be the other way around? Second of all, if youve ever been to an elementary school playground you would know that in fact girls are aliens
Alternatively, ''As Boys Grow'' is set in the enlivening atmosphere of the
playing field. In the film, a coach, given to voiceovers like ''it was new to
Bill, this business of nocturnal emissions,'' informs a group of boys that
masturbation is a perfectly normal practice.
''Traditionally,'' said Rick
Prelinger, an archivist who has collected sex education films over the years,
''the boys' films speak of pleasure and the girls' films speak of puberty as a
set of conditions to be endured.''
Firstly, masturbation is a normal practice, just ask Pee Wee Herman secondly: if sex is a setof
conditions to be endured, then that means that prostituition not unlike any
other profession on the planet. You hate it, but you need the money.
Part 2 involves monkeys, penesis, and far more masturbation than you would expect out of a Republican

Update 1

2005-06-05T23:43:00.000-05:00

T-minus-21 hours 7 minutes and three seconds until Geo Final
Current Mood: Upset, Worried.
Current Music: The Cure
Current Caffeine Intake:None
Current Sleep Intake: 7 hours, as of one a clock last night
Next Update 45 Minutes

Update 2

2005-06-05T12:35:00.000-05:00

T-Minus 19 hours 30 minutes and 17 Seconds until Geo Final
Current Mood: Calm
Current Tunes: "My Name Is Jonas"- Weezer
Current Caffeine Intake: Unchanged
Current Sleep Intake: Unchanged
Next Step:Power Studying

Soundtrack of my life

2005-06-04T22:39:00.000-05:00

part 0ne: rant
From the HPHS yearbook 2005
"I cannot live without my ipod because i need a soundtrack for my life at all times"
thats bull
i need a sundtrack for my life at all times
what a pathetic excuse to listen to music
it seems to my people should listen to music
because it makes them happy or sad
because it brings out emotion
not just for listening to music sake
whether it brings out something happy like say
Weezer's "Across The Sea" or the Who's "Pure And Easy"
or sad like
Joy Divisions "Love Will Teat Us Apart" or The Cures "Boys Dont Cry"
if listening to music becomes a mundane act
all is lost
all power music holds is lost
-------------------------------------------------
part two:actual post
today was weird
i studied alot
did alot of hanging with parents grand
not as much phys studying as i should have
im gonna faaaaaaailllll!
::sobs::
in other nws im a cynical idiot who doesnt believe in happiness
a loser who cant
or wont as they case may be
believe in love
i cant imagine theres a god out there who likes continuilly spiting my chances at anything
and everything
i have so many major identity issues
i have an emotional addiction to music
feeling is something that probably doenst exist in me...
its just not there....
---------------------------------
part three
a list
cds i want to bring to camp (keep in mind all are burned or need to be)
-Staring at the Sea-The Cure
As much Joy Division as i can get my hands on
The Best Of The Smiths
With Teeth-NIN
Downward Spiral-NIN
The Complete Stone Roses
Mesmerise-SOAD
Employment-Kaiser Chiefs
antics and turn on the bright lights-interpol
Aha Shake Heartbreak and Youth and Young Manhood-KOL
thats all i got so far
i needs more...
suggestions?
-----------------------------------------------
part four:a compliant
i despise my life

suggestions?

Pause

2005-06-01T22:36:00.000-05:00

The world has turned,
and left me here
waiting
for my salvation
an emacipation
from depths so dark
reznor could not imagine
poe could not comprehend

this depth so deep
keeps me in its toothy maw
leaves me there
skinless and raw
and if i saw the pain i caused
if only i had paused....

The progress of the pain
is the irony that keeps away the
depths at bay
becoming afraid of my wrath
of my pain...

this depth so deep
keeps me in its toothy maw
leaves me there
skinless and raw
and if i saw the pain i caused
if only i had paused
if only i had paused
if only....

there is no love here...

2005-05-29T23:28:00.000-05:00

::sigh::
very depressing music
the cure and nin
theres some other shit going on right now
finals and shit

on a better note
i hung with corinne
much fun
much yay!
lol we hung out at dicks and had a little pow wow over a floating cooler
hehehe
we stuffed some things in a difffernt cooler, and put it in a kayak
hahha
talking with corrine is cool
heheheh

ehhhh
i hate finals
i hate love
but im sorta happy
thats good right?

it was clear that i was trying to kill myeslf...

2005-05-29T00:19:00.000-05:00

i got yelled at today.
i forgot to look up directions sto someone house
and i dragged my parents out of a bar mitzvah party
and we got lost
and i got yelled at
and...
::groan::
::starts crying::
o well...

lyrics form "everyday is exactly the same"
I believe I can see the future
As I repeat the same routine
I think I used to have a purpose
But then again
That might have been a dream
I think I used to have a voice
Now i never make a sound
I just do what I've been told
I really don't want them to come around again

Oh, no

[Chorus]
Everyday is exactly the same
Everyday is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Everyday is exactly the same

I can feel thier eyes are watching
In case I loose myself again
Sometimes I think I'm happy here
Sometimes, yet I still pretend
I can't remember how this got started
But I can tell you exactly how it will end

[Chorus]

I'm writing on a little piece of paper
I'm hoping someday you might find
I'll hide it behind something
They won't look behind
I am still inside here
A little bit comes bleeding through
I wish this could have been any other way
But I just don't know- I don't know what else I can do!

[Chorus]

there is no love here....

I Think I Used To Have a Voice..

2005-05-26T16:51:00.000-05:00

ok so the morrissey obsession didnt last real long.
cos now im totally obsessed with the nin album
"with teeth" because its just that cool
its defintly my favorite new album, and im not through with it yet
i wonder if it seems odd that i listen to nin
i dunno
so new nin theme
deal

I went to london and i......

2005-05-25T22:47:00.000-05:00

in case you guys are wondering, i have a new obsession with
morrissey and the smiths
so dont mind me if i just start singing or dancing or something.
yup its the smiths
::dances::
anyway

i dont know why
but im startign to feel isolated again
i havent hung out with anyone in forever
i feel shut out
everyone has all these friends
and i dont
i hate this

yay smiths!

Cos Shes My girl...

2005-05-23T22:30:00.000-05:00

why is it that everyone says im a nice guy
and that im fun and nice and whatever
but when push comes to shove
noone ever goes out with me?
im sure i sound like a lovelorn teenager
hell im 15!
there still time
but all you guys and girls seem pretty lucky
with the exception of sam
and you know what?
i wondor why i can't be happy
i wonder what is wrong with me
about me
that makes it impossible, hmmmmm
is it im ugly?
annoying?
slightly off center?
i just dont get it i suppose
i always wnat i can never get
i could name names but that would be embarassing
i guess people just dont like me in that way
::groan::

Mozzer? Whats That Mean?

2005-05-22T22:14:00.000-05:00

i bought the new morrissey live cd.
pretty sweet
you know cos its morissey
and morrissey is the coolest new waver ever
(thats right, im old school!)
other then that, nothing happened

I Went, I Saw, I am the Worlds Biggest Dork

2005-05-19T22:09:00.000-05:00

i saw star wars, and attempting to remain objective at this point would be rahter pointless, so to speak.
its over
and it totally rocked my world
thats all im going to say

The Jupiter Ampere

2005-05-16T23:08:00.000-05:00

went to the mars volta concert
had fun
got new tshirt
(hey audrey guess what, its not black! seriously!)
nothing else happened today
more tommorrow
currently im occupies with
other things

He Moves His Words Like A Prize Fighter

2005-05-12T21:38:00.000-05:00

i went to great america with phys today
it was fun
woot
went on american eagle 3 times
demon once
and noah got me addicted to the spinny rides
(no i didnt throw up)
all the fucking parties are this fucking weekned
and of course
im not here
of course

Training Myself Not To Care...

2005-05-10T22:23:00.000-05:00

im not sure what to write
not like anyone really cares anyway
today i did nothing special
besides get kicked out of my physics group for great america
its going to suck
i cant hang out with anyone i want to
and i have to do this lab
fucking bastards
i hate physics
i hate geometry
i hate freshamn year
disappotnement after disappointemnt
i can find three bright spots:
Some New Friends
Graphic Design
Media Center
dont try to convicne me to be happy
dont do anything
just
dont

The Metra She Is A Porno...

2005-05-08T23:31:00.000-05:00

HP Cares!
uhhh right.
tmv in seven days
Woot?
quite honestly i would rather have gone to weezer
but whatever.
tmv will rock my sox!
the killers were in milwaukee last night, but i wasnt going to drive for an hour each way to see the killers.
there not that good.
in fact, i can name three or four bands that are much better, but not nearly as popular
interpol
hot hot heat
metric
stars (if you have on demand, or internet access (which, of course you have) check out the stars video, ageless beauty
new order (its sad when soemthing thats derivative of a great band like new order charts higher then new order does)
must i go on?
grrrr.
anyway.
nothing happened otday.
and all the parties are enxt weekened
when i will be away
which, of course, all the parties will be on that weekend
duh

Of Mice And Post Punks

2005-05-05T21:51:00.000-05:00

hmmm.
i hate geometry.
even more than physics.
cos geometry is hella hard
and physics is a surmaountable barrier
a couple important dates in may
12:Phys Goes To G.A.
16:Mars Volta Concert With Will
18:Ian Curtis's Death Day. If anyone wants to help me put up posters, that would be nice.
19:Star Wars III Comes out
finals are in four weeks,
but quite honestly,
i couldnt care less aboput finals right now.
the year has gone so fast
that it seems
i went
from
a scared little kid with no nothing
to a post punk/pseudo goth with an incredible anger at preppy little children
hmmmmm
anyway
mmmm interpol
thats what my speech is going to be about. interpol. you heard me
anyway
here the lyrics to NYC

I had seven faces thought i knew which one to wear
I'm sick of spending these lonely nights training myself not to care
the subway is a porno pavements they are a mess
i know you've supported me for a long time
somehow i'm not impressed

New York Cares (got to be some more change in my life)
New York Cares (got to be some more change in my life)
New York Cares (got to be some more change in my life)
New York Cares (got to be some more change in my life)

subway she is a porno and the pavements they are a mess
i know you've supported me for a long time
somehow i'm not impressed

It's up to me now turn on the bright lights
It's up to me now turn on the bright lights

New York Cares (got to be some more change in my life)
New York Cares (got to be some more change in my life)
New York Cares (got to be some more change in my life)
New York Cares (got to be some more change in my life)

It's up to me now turn on the bright lights
(got to be some more change in my life)
oh, It's up to me now turn on the bright lights
(got to be some more change in my life)

Roxy Music? Is That Like Roxy Hart?

2005-05-04T22:14:00.000-05:00

gor any of you who dont know, roxy music was a band, paved the way for punk, thereby paving the way for post-punk, thereby paving the way for modern music.
thank you.
so i stopped hot hot heat binge for these guys and the cure
which i borrewed from the library, along with HTML for dummies.
yup so i should have a cool website up and running by fall, if not sooner.
probably later actually. but i will have one eventually.
so im going to have to write a speech for my english class, and im thinking about writing
a) about the interpol concert
or
b)focus on the arts
im leaning towards interpol, because i love confusing my totally non-hipster (not an insult, in case any of you are reading this, just an observation) english class
ya its fun.
i probably wont get my bass till the fall, but thats completely ok, cos theres been alot of shit going on recently.
i think thats it

Roxy Music-Pyjamarama

A Contact! A Contact! My Kingdom for a Contact!

2005-05-03T21:31:00.000-05:00

i am, minute by minute, falling more and more in love with hot hot heat. Its like sounds like the killers, except it doesnt have the arrogant frontman, and steven bays can actually play keyboards.
plus there canadian.
and i hear there good live.
and thats really cool no?
check out my hot hot heat icon at the bottom.
its laminated.
anyway today
i ripped another contact
so i worried about that until about lunch
when i went into the drop in center, which was cool
because they helped my calm down a ton.
i might actually go hang out there some time
should be fun
then i ran for board of my youth group
and lost :<(. To someone who wasnt even there ::rolls eyes:: her speech was better then mine, so thats ok ill run again next year, whatever. i will end my post with a dialogue from today begin dialogue
Me"Are those soybeans?"
Sam"Yes"
Me"What kind of stupid diet are you on? SOYBEANS for lunch?"
Sam"If i hold a potato chip up against my nose, it tastes better."
end dialogue

I wanted to by an anarchist, but there were too many rules

2005-05-02T16:32:00.000-05:00

yup another name change
total anrachy right?
people changin ther blog names whenver they want
::rolls eyes::
anyway i borrowed Finnegans Wake and an html book from the library.
maybe tom robbins too, we will have to see.
also, check out my other site
www.gothrawk.blogpsot.com
im still working on it, but if anyone wants to help me review music,
that would be nice
(pwaese?)

"Can I Speak To Goodnight?" "Goodnight, M."

2005-05-01T22:06:00.000-05:00

sooo
i get my math test back tommorrow and im scared as hell
vos if i did terribly,
which i probably did
im screwed
even though i studied for so fucking long!
::sigh::
btw, im still messing with for format, so if colors and fonts vary from post to post, dont worry about it.
i also have a physics test tommorrow.
i should do ok. lol
ive added some new logos to the sidebar, so look farther down for them
oh and "goodnight, goodnight" by hot hot heat is my new favorite song
check it
mp3-hot hot heat "goodnight, goodnight
Edit:link doesnt work. will go up soon
heres the lyrics for those of you dont speak "hidden candian accent"
It's not enough to hear me say you've won
You only wanted me for having fun
But now I think you've gone and had your way
And left me with a pile of bills to pay
I can't even rewind the tape machine
To listen to your drunken reasoning
So here it is - your final lullaby

Goodnight, goodnight
You're embarrassing me
You're embarrassing you
So goodnight, goodnight
Walk away from the door
Walk away from my life
So Goodnight

I've given up on social niceties
I threw 'em out when I threw out your keys
Along with all your records I can't stand
You never even listen to any one of them
You're never gonna drag me out again
With all the people that were never ever even your friends
So here it is - your final lullaby

Goodnight, goodnight
You're embarrassing me
You're embarrassing you
So goodnight, goodnight
Walk away from the door
Walk away from my life
So goodnight

A little bit of rain I'd say is fair
But when it starts to thunder they all stare
This isn't goodnight, this is goodbye...

So goodnight, goodnight
You're embarrassing me
You're embarrassing you
Goodnight, goodnight.
Walk away from the door
Walk away from my life

Goodnight, goodnight
You're embarrassing me
You're embarrassing you
So Goodnight, goodnight
Walk away from the door
Walk away from my life
So goodnight

If you're gothic and you know it...

2005-05-01T00:11:00.000-05:00

so i found the comic
gothboy
which might be the coolest comic ever
anyway, i also pissed off bena and audrey incredibly
so
yup

Upward Spirals, and the Golden Ratio

2005-04-29T23:26:00.000-05:00

Now, that we have established template lets turn to more important matters,
What is a Post Punk?
This blog will attempt to answer that with the simple posting of the life of me
a post punk
so, by the time were done here, you will now what a post punk is, ok?

First Post Same As The Verse

2005-04-29T22:00:00.000-05:00

this is my first post. therefore i am just messing with the template for a while.
thank you