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"Will You Be a Witness for Me?" (Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Bell House/Howard Tate, Big Apple BBQ, 6-13-09)
06/26/2009 5:01 P GMT-05
(Photo via Ken Foto's Flickr (Full Set)) "Brooklyn, your city amuses us. We've decided to spare your town."Ron House is a dangerous man. Sure, yeah, the head of brushed-back silver hair and the softened torso might under
'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' is the Longest, Loudest Version of "Clang Clang Clang Went the Trolley" Ever Produced
06/24/2009 10:29 A GMT-05
Fe Fi Fo Fums - I Just Wanna Boom Boom Girl (mp3)(buy)One minute thirty-eight seconds, including false start!Pretty much the best band name/song title/running time combination one could ever hope for. The Fe Fi Fo Fums (myspace) were a recentis
"Let Us Loose!" (Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2009)
06/23/2009 2:15 A GMT-05
Photos from the 27th Annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade:Page 1 (Favorites)Page 2 (Kids, etc.)Page 3 (NSFWish, etc.)2008 Mermaid Parade pics2007 Mermaid Parade pics2006 Mermaid Parade pics2005 Mermaid Parade picsOthers' 2009 pics on Flickr and via
Discovery (The Band, Not the Channel) is for People Who Are Bad in Bed and Proud of It
06/19/2009 3:50 P GMT-05
Urrrrgh. Who's the joker that said I should give this crap (myspace) a chance? Stop it, stop it, stop consuming ninth-rate tripe and playing with bored, broken toys.If you have that much time to kill do some community service. R
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I Hope My Momma Don't Hear This Song
06/19/2009 12:23 P GMT-05
Electrik Red - We Fuck You (mp3)(buy)Song of the Year?Don't know the names of the four women in Electrik Red (myspace), don't know if I'll ever have to learn them. Weird to say about a record that rubs your face in female empowermen
Today We'll Be Working Your Glutes, Your Abs, Your Futility (Metric, Terminal 5, 6-17-09)
06/18/2009 10:36 P GMT-05
(photo via christheobscure's Flickr)I no longer want to fuck Emily Haines.Metric - Gimme Sympathy (mp3)(buy Fantasies)The Beatles or the Rolling Stones? Oh Emily come on. Who are you now? My dad(*)? The Grammy Awards?You a
The Nice Price
06/14/2009 10:03 A GMT-05
Unlike Tower Records, I have no emotional attachment to the Union Sqare Virgin Megastore. I didn't work at Tower when HMV and Virgin siphoned away their prestige and their consumer base, though it did bother me to see how it affected my old
Indie Rock is Just Bad Punk
06/12/2009 11:02 A GMT-05
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments anticipation, unfollow Friday, and a link to Craig Ferguson's Jason Mraz puppet-sync opening.
I'm Not Above Throwing Down a Few Helen Keller Jokes, People (Amadou & Mariam, Webster Hall, 6-08-09)
06/10/2009 10:08 P GMT-05
Mariam was staring at me all night long. She so digs me. Or I had mustard on my shirt. When special guest Governor David Patterson wandered through, she didn't even look up. I'm not just being pathetic, insensitive and unfun
Think About Miami (Femi Kuti/BLK JKS, Irving Plaza, 6/4/09)
06/08/2009 3:00 P GMT-05
He declared the night a retrospective of his fifteen-year career, and when a two-plus hour show has four studio albums from which to draw I guess in some ways it would have to be? I was surprised at how plainly the emphatic music arrived, at ho
On Pulling Your Own Teeth Out
06/06/2009 4:37 P GMT-05
How much better would The Hangover have been had they never explained anything, just found more stuff to not explain?
"The Story Broke His Neck" (24 Hours of Samuel Fuller, Part 1)
06/04/2009 2:06 P GMT-05
Sam Fuller had the sort of respect for culture, knowledge, and human potential that people used to call "American" before we became cynical about achievement and proud of ignorance.Born in 1912 to Eastern European immigrants - his factory-w
(People Just Liked it Better That Way)
06/04/2009 10:06 A GMT-05
Craig Ferguson, "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)"
Insipid Planned Entertainment
06/03/2009 3:52 P GMT-05
No singing puppets, here. Just some agreeeable crotchetiness.
Ingratitude
06/03/2009 9:21 A GMT-05
There are three things you need to know about this:Rail Band - Wale Numa Lombaliya (mp3)(buy)1. The track is thirteen-and-a-half minutes long. So settle in, even if you're never able to settle down.2. It's thirteen-and-a-hal
"Listen to Me: Ignore Your Parents" (Art Brut, Mercury Lounge, 6/1/09)
06/02/2009 1:13 P GMT-05
I have missed these guys. I've missed the enthusiastic apologetic enthusiasm, I've missed the Jasper Future faces, I've missed pogoing around about a shade of Blue.When I last saw Art Brut (myspace, blog), Top of the Pops still exis