December 2009
60 posts
The Walkmen- In The New Year.
Q: If the Beatles were to release an exercise video for those interested in the Occult, what would it be called?
A: Wiccan Work It Out.
My Albums Of The Year: 1.
Jay-Z- Blueprint 3
“I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.”
I think we’ve hit the point where everyone’s forgotten Glastonbury 2008. “I hate Jay-Z! He can’t headline Glastonbury!” said the masses. Of course he did, was amazing and much like the death of Michael Jackson or Jade Goody, people seemed to forget things they said two weeks prior....
2009.
Frank Skinner past me in the street.
All’s well that ends well.
Albums Of The Year: 2.
Julian Casablancas- Phrazes For The Young.
“Please don’t deceive me. I’m just so easily fooled.”
I love Julian Casablancas. I really do. If J.D. Salinger were to write about a rock star he would write of this young man and his trials and tribulations. I could write about why Room on Fire is better than Is This It and the many vastly underrated attributes of First...
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Albums Of The Year: 3.
Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion
“If I could just leave my body for a night…”
“That’s not music, it’s just noise!” was my reaction to listening to Animal Collective at first (much like my reaction to hearing TV on the Radio at first, fun fact.), and considering this has been deemed their ‘pop’ album, that really shows how much of...
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Heidi: Maybe I could just go off my birth control and surprise him?
Therapist: [Stunned Silence].
Albums Of The Year: 4.
Green Day- 21st Century Breakdown.
“Born into Nixon, I was raised in hell.”
It was weird when this album came out; music magazines for grown ups (the Qs and Rolling Stones of the world) suddenly started treating Green Day with as much reverence as they do people like the Boss and U2. And that’s odd for a band whose once biggest album has a song about jerking it. But...
“I wont watch the Clone Wars TV show until I see the movie… I prefer to let...”
– Sheldon Cooper.
Years from now when we’ve all forgotten what...
"Well you can cry me a riv-urrr."
Parky and my granny share a birthday. Fun fact. So happy birthday to both of those people. …Cuz there’s no doubt my granny reads this.
The only difference between the awfulness of Vertigo and the awfulness of Get On Your Boots is that the most baffling line in the latter was in English. And Bono said “sexy”, which was weird for us all.
I got ‘For Whom The Bells...
John Mayer- I’m On Fire.
This is the iTunes...
My Albums Of The Year: 5.
John Mayer- Battle Studies
“You whisper come on over ‘cause you’re two drinks in.”
I wish John Mayer was my celebrity best friend. He seems like a fun guy, has a hilarious twitter and bro can shred a mean geetar. And when he asked me what I thought of his new album I would not have to lie. Because it is the bomb.
John Mayer is adult contemporary. Singing songs about...
Q: What did Olly say when he lost X-Factor?
A: "This is a Joke."
...Two days ago that would have killed.
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Albums Of The Year: 6.
Discovery- LP.
“Where’s the freedom in a disco if you’re all alone?”
I like this album. That being said, I enjoy autotune (I’ve been using this phrase to defend my taste in my music for a good year and a half now.. 808s and Heartbreak, where you at!?).
Discovery is the synthpop brainchild of Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend and Wes Miles of Ra Ra Riot. Making...
Just Home.
Put on Spotify (halls’ Firewall doesn’t allow it). Listened to one song.
Then BAM, advert.
It is good to be home.
Also, tomorrow I’m seeking out real Fanta… the somewhat darker orange kind.
“So I said, “I don’t care if all I have is dirty laundry and no...”
– Laurie, That ’70s Show.
“Rest in peace to rap- No. Rest in peace to wackness.”
– Lupe Fiasco’s new mixtape is amazing.
Depending on your opinions on it being one 22 minute mp3 without breaks, I guess. If it wasn’t good that’d probably bother me.
Imagine if we didn't have lips!
Mind blown right?
…no?
Albums Of The Year: 7.
Wale- Attention Deficit.
“Jay played Scotland and everybody jocked him, I played Scotland and got no props for it!”
I think the above quote shows the biggest problem I have with Wale of late, he has maybe the world’s biggest chip on his shoulder and that’s just a little tiresome. But I can’t get too angry because well, he has a point.
On paper, Wale should be...
Kid Cudi- Cudder Is Back.
“Haters, suck my...
I did some research.
All these indignant, “Let’s get the Christmas number one back from X Factor!” people are full of horse poo. Traditionally, the Christmas number one is always an exploitive, overwrought power ballad, and outside of Band Aid, hasn’t even been Christmas themed since 1990!
The only difference is, this one is guaranteed because of that show. I don’t watch it but really,...
The Skinny.
This weekend me and Sparker went to see Breakfast At Tiffany’s in LANDAN. It’s really very good and features ‘In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning’, which makes it automatically awesome. Fortunately the rest is similarly great. It has that delightful undead lady from Pushing Daisies.
But before that in the area formally known as SoHo (I am so freaking hip these days...
My Essay Is Done.
Citations are dull.
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halfwayhome:
gogogo!!
Oh my, the puns…
And this is coming from a pun fan.