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Yeah. I know. It's not your fucking birthday. But I guarantee you that SOMEONE* had a birthday on April 18th. And that person must have been ecstatic. Because Purity Ring dropped Ungirthed 73 . And if you haven't heard it yet just hit play. IT WILL FEEL LIKE YOUR FUCKING BIRTHDAY. That heavy wobble mixed [...]
Well there's the whole: Elliot Smith, Kanye West, Rufus Wainwright, Keane, and Spoon to name a few thing. Then there is the matter of scores: Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I Heart Huckabees. There are more of course. Jon Brion produced the artists. He also wrote the scores. Jon Brion is, [...]
Formerly of the "Morning After Girls", Aimee Nash and Scott Von Ryper make up the new shoegaze act The Black Ryder. On first glance, they look like they are too cool to hang out with you. More than likely, they are. They also look like they want to do nothing but fuck you up with [...]
The Offbeat is the best way to start your day. If want the start of your day to involve being blasted into orbit on a rocket ship to take a quick dip into outer space. Simple as pie. This GNG BNG remix is nothing but raw sex. Harsh. Sexy. Over too soon. FlyAmSam - "The [...]
Gold Panda (Ghostly) just dropped his new LP: Lucky Shiner. More than a solid follow up to the recent "You EP." If my ears had taste buds* they'd probably describe the sound of Gold Panda's latest effort, as stripper glitter in my mouth.* The only way I can dream about liking it more - is [...]
Ellie Goulding is coming hard out of England right now, and we yanks should count ourselves jammy beggars that this bird ain’t no scrubber. The twenty-three year old is already a BFD in The Isles and starting to explode in The States, being picked up by some very savvy music supervisors for film and TV. [...]
Finally. An outdoor festival that didn’t suck. This past Saturday, FYF (Fuck Yeah Fest) took place downtown in the Los Angeles State Historic Park. It was 102 degrees. The lines were hours long. Beer Gardens were overflowing with more hipsters than alcohol. It was a perfect storm of elements to make for an awful time. [...]
Finally. An outdoor festival that didn’t suck. This past Saturday, FYF (Fuck Yeah Fest) took place downtown in the Los Angeles State Historic Park. It was 102 degrees. The lines were hours long. Beer Gardens were overflowing with more hipsters than alcohol. It was a perfect storm of elements to make for an awful time. [...]
Sooner or later I'm more than likely going to get gunned down in a drug deal gone sideways. Which means that eventually, one of my crew is going to have to avenge my death. And when they do avenge my death they better do it with Oil Money by Freddie Gibbs playing in the background [...]
Sequels are hard to get right. Just ask MGMT. The first one is easy. No one knows what to expect. The second one though? That's tough. Preconceived notions are tough demons to dispel for anyone. Apparently not so much for Christian Cuff though. Chalkboard is his version of taking you on an adventure. And he's [...]
Whiskey pong was a bad choice. Sometimes, something sounds like a great idea at the time, like whiskey pong (especially after being already drunk from the flowing keg of cider), only to find out later* that it was in fact a BAD IDEA. But by the same token something may sound like an awful idea, [...]
Hypothetically speaking, say The Church of Scientology was, a Bank Robber who had taken hostages. And everyone who was a Scientologist was a hostage. With me so far? Okay, now let's pretend we are the 'negotiators' on the outside. Like the movie with Kevin Spacey and Samuel L. Jackson. Called The Negotiator. In this scenario [...]
I'm constantly getting these songs mixed up. "Fortress" started in the car the other day and I thought it was "Don't You Evah." Spoon started playing in the coffee shop this morning and I thought it was Pinback. Am I crazy? You decide... Spoon - "Don't You Evah" Pinback - "Fortress" P.S. Pinback is playing [...]
I saw Inception yesterday. I hate when people hype a movie, because it inevitably falls short of your built up expectations and then you don’t like it as much as your friends, and you sit their looking at each other not knowing what the other was smoking, because they obviously didn’t see the same movie [...]
My Unemployed Daily To Do List: 1. Get Coffee at Coffee Bean.* 2. Write Too Much Happiness Post. 3. Spend 15 minutes looking at job postings. 4. Spend 2 minutes drafting an application for a posting. 5. Trash draft email application. 6. 4 hours free time. 7. Afternoon workout. 8. 6 hours free time. 9. [...]
Fade In: INT. DARK ROOM Me: “…but then what? What next?” Him: “A sex scene!” Me: “But it’s a horror movie, don’t we want it to be scary?” Him: “It’ll be a scary sex scene!” Me: “A scary sex scene?” Him: “Yeah.” Me: “How will it be a scary sex scene?” Him: “Because we’ll have [...]
And being locked up with the girl who robbed her house and probably getting lots o' lesbo love from Sam Ronson lookalikes...
Grin and bear it. I clenched my teeth reading, literally, five posts in a row from friends who were at this concert. The bird and the bee, The Swell Season and She & Him. It is perhaps the most perfect summer show on the Hollywood Bowl’s summer schedule this year. “Why didn’t you just buy [...]
Fuck you, Lady Antebellum. I now dread punching the radio knob in the dashboard of my Kia Sorento for fear of finding tunes from the likes of you, bathed in bathos, dragging me into your sentimental worlds, trying to make me feel sorry for myself. This goes for all country and 60% of everything else. [...]