September 2008
21 posts
WatchNew Cold War Kids
WatchIt’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is the best comedy on TV. Can’t wait until Sept. 18 for the new season. It makes me feel good inside my body to think about the show and it’s wonderful cast members. And their bodies…
“Bars on the windows, and under your beds
keep out the monsters that peek...”
WatchBeck remix of Dr. Dog’s “The Girl”
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In the New Year by The Walkmen
MoMa, The Walkmen & RNC
I am sitting here watching the widely acclaimed Sigur Ros performance at the Museum of Modern Art this past June. It is being shown on a cable channel called Current. My brother just said that it made him feel like John Belushi in Animal House when he comes down the stairs and smashes that guy’s guitar. He’s not a philistine, he just likes to make fun of things that are only done by...
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and...”
– Sylvia Plath (via misscedar) & (via pinkhotel) & (via myownmelt) (via stare-at-walls) (via lavenderlines) (via ledgeradio) (via msbojangles)
August 2008
62 posts
DR. DOG @ Music Hall of Williamsburg 8/26/08
Williamsburg is an interesting town. My sensibilities protect me from flocking but it is hard to avoid its charm. Each bar, each store, each inhabitant are pretty consistent with my tastes and the music is unmistakably supple. Philadelphia, the city that drowns me in pride, is very, very different but that is not for now.
Let’s talk about the openers. The first band I did not know and...
WatchFrank McElroy, lead guitarist of Dr. Dog and I had a funny conversation as he set up @ Music Hall of Williamsburg on Tuesday night…
Me: “Hey Frank, I’m Andrew Jones’ cousin!” (AJ is former Dr. Dog guitarist)
Frank: “Hey man. Aren’t you from Philly?”
Me: “Yeah!”
Frank: “What are you doing up here?”
Me: “Uh, just...
DNC: FINKLE IS EINHORN, EINHORN IS FINKLE
I’m gonna make this short because I’m tired.
1) Politics are as pointless as American Idol. That doesn’t mean the hoopla isn’t fun
2) Obama has already won this election.
3) Bill Clinton is the fucking man. (“Abroad, people have always admired our power of example rather than the example of our power.”)
4) “I did not have sexual relations with that...
Lately by The Helio Sequence
My Text Back and Forth with Obama at 3AM Last...
azizisbored:
Barack: I’ve chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee. Watch the first Obama-Biden rally live at 3pm ET on www.BarackObama.com. Spread the world!
Aziz: Hey man, that’s great. I’m actually asleep, I’ll catch ya tomorrow.
Barack: No man, we gotta party! Come out!
Aziz: That’s all good, I’ll party up tomorrow.
Barack: Quit being a bitch, come out!!!!
Aziz: I’m good man.
...
PEDRO FELIZ
Starry Stairs by Okkervil River
The Beach by Dr. Dog
Everything about today so...
The Capitol Years Rock Rittenhouse- And Make...
yvynyl:
dorothythinks:
So all of my friends here know this but for my friends elsewhere, here is the most insane thing to happen in Philadelpha in the last week…which is saying a lot.
Last night, there was a concert in Philadelphia in Rittenhouse Square of the Philly band Capitol Years. About 1,000 people were there watching. A reader of Philebrity.com elaborates on what happened (and no, it...
BIDEN: STUD FROM UD DOES GOOD
Upon hearing the news of Barack-around-the-clock Obama choice of VP, I couldn’t help be overwhelmed with pride. Pride for the mighty state of Delaware. Yes, yes I attended the same college as the future (let’s be honest here) vice-president. It’s quite the feeling. Obama-Biden ‘08!!
BYRNE: REAL FREEDOM- ESCAPE FROM OIL.
Byrne and Brian Eno’s newest creation has been on repeat in my car for the last ten days. It is transcendent. I could hear some similarities between the music (all the music was written exclusively by Eno) on this album and that of Coldplay’s Eno-produced Viva La Vida. Echo-laden acoustic guitar tracks and metronome-electronic percussion are prominently featured in both.
Anyway,...