Blog: Hypercorrect

I checked out Please Kill Me from the CU library my freshman year of college on a friend's recommendation. You should check it out too. It's set up as a pastiche of narratives from all the key players in the 60s-70s New York punk scene, and it's priceless. Lou Reed, Joey Ramone, Iggy Pop, Andy Warhol, Richard Hell, Nico, and all their tragically hip, drugged-out pals and bandmates contribute. If you're still not ready to commit to a library trip and the inevitable overdue fines you're going to rack up, [...]

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The fabric store in closest proximity Hypercorrect Headquarters is the Hancock Fabrics located on 42nd and Wadsworth. Last Wednesday, I found myself wandering around there in a sort of morose and bewildered stupor after a very distressing week. But that's not at all the point of this posting. The big news that Hypercorrect needs to share is that the Hancock Fabrics on 42nd and Wadsworth plays KICK-ASS MUSIC , like, ALL THE TIME. Hypercorrect finds themselves at Hancock rather often, usually when our combined super brain power is needed to make critically important [...]

For those of you who don't know, today celebrates the anniversary of Mexico's defeat of the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. I encourage everyone to take a trip down south to México and pick up a few lucha libre masks, for use in epic battles among friends. They're inexpensive and really fun. If you're unable to jaunt off to Mexico for a few days, the masks are also widely available online .

The fourth in the Taste Test series at Belmar's The Lab took place yesterday evening. After missing out on the lectures covering bacon, salt and mushrooms, we scored some tickets to the last installment, "Honey." I learned that honey can be used just like Neosporin in a pinch. When might you use this information to your advantage? Well... Let's say after wandering away from your friends during a luncheon in the woods, you become lost. As you fruitlessly search for some object to lead you back to the picnic, a ferocious raccoon leaps out from behind a tree and attacks [...]

How To Speak Hip This is fun to listen to as a background to your daily web-surfing or computer-working activities. While the beatnik era has passed, today's hipsters follow a philosophy and rule structure eerily similar to the one presented on this album. Make sure to stick around for side two and the part about raspberry jell-o and paranoia.

Now, would you mail this to someone? Hand it to the person and then go for it? Ridiculous, sad and charming.

Françoise Hardy was born in Paris in 1944 and got her first record contract at the age of 17. In addition to having a successful music career, she's acted and modeled and hung out with the Rolling Stones. Aren't you jealous of her? I am. Here is her big breakout hit, which she also wrote: Françoise Hardy- Tous les Garcons et les Filles.mp3

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