January 2012
1 post
December 2011
7 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Spoon (3)
Okkervil River (3)
Leno Lovecraft (2)
Doug Gillard (2)
Christmas (2)
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Try this: play Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Here Comes Alice,” followed by the Las’ “There She Goes,” followed by Velvet Underground’s “There She Goes Again,” followed by Hall and Oates’ “She’s Gone.”
You get a rock opera about a woman who walks really slowly.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
The Wrens (4)
Prince Rama (3)
Rilo Kiley (3)
The girls (3)
The Very Best (3)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
The Posies (20)
Pixies (14)
Stars (5)
The Mountain Goats (5)
The Bittersweets (5)
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November 2011
13 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
Patton Oswalt (61)
The girls (16)
Yuck (8)
Frank Turner (5)
Frightened Rabbit (5)
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Sunday evening
Daughter (running up and down the stairs): “I’M RUNNING UP AND DOWN THE STAIRS”
Wife: “Well, Daddy’s putting you to bed in 5 minutes.”
Me: “Yeah.”
Me: “Wait. What?”
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
Yuck (19)
Oneohtrix Point Never (10)
My Bloody Valentine (9)
M83 (8)
The Wrens (8)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →
Yuck (45)
My Bloody Valentine (10)
Girl Talk (9)
The Field (7)
Daft Punk (6)
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I just watched my cat exit the litterbox, then clean his ass by dragging his lower half all the way across our carpet by his front paws.
Thought you should know, in case you’re thinking of getting a cat. Or believe in “intelligent design.”
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
St. Vincent (9)
LCD Soundsystem (7)
Frank Turner (5)
Matthew Sweet (4)
Beirut (2)
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October 2011
12 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
Patton Oswalt (19)
Beirut (17)
Frank Turner (13)
Cut Copy (8)
The National (6)
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What the official testimony I’m reading says:
“The Declaration established the Executive Steering Committee, whose membership includes senior officials from the U.S. and Mexican governments. In its first meeting on December 15, 2010, it approved a binational Action Plan comprised of specific initiatives and deliverables to be jointly worked by the U.S. and Mexican interagencies,...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
The War on Drugs (52)
Cut Copy (34)
Girls (19)
tUnE-yArDs (16)
Kurt Vile (16)
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LHB has 10 live tracks from The National →
Some of them sound good.
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Deep down, I’m exactly like those beefy guys who drive pickup trucks with big toolboxes in the bed.
Except, inside my toolbox there’s a laptop, some dry-cleaning and maybe a fresh bag of gummi bears.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-2) →
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists (4)
Stars (3)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (3)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (3)
Dinosaur Jr. (3)
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September 2011
8 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
Fountains Of Wayne (5)
Vetiver (3)
Doomtree (2)
The Chemical Brothers (2)
Matthew Sweet (2)
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1980s songs that everyone says are about...
“Dancing With Myself” by Billy Idol
“She-Bop” by Cyndi Lauper
“Turning Japanese” by The Vapors
“Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” by U2
“Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey
“Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins
Every solo song Sting ever recorded
“I Touch Myself” by The DiVinyls
Cymbals Eat Guitars adds drums to Guided By...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-18) →
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (4)
Girl Talk (4)
The Hold Steady (3)
The Radio Dept. (3)
The New Pornographers (3)
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If my name was Rick, I’d avoid being together in public with my friends Perry, Ron and Paul for a while.
And I’d definitely avoid my friends Gingrich and Santorum. What were their parents thinking anyway?
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Here’s a fun thing to do at work.
Go to a co-worker’s office and interrupt him. Ask, “Did you see my e-mail?”
“No,” he will say.
Then go back to your computer and send the co-worker an e-mail. Nothing in the body. The subject line:
Did you see me stop by your office?
I’m a great co-worker.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-11) →
Family of the Year (3)
West Indian Girl (2)
EMA (2)
Devlin (2)
Eugene Mirman (2)
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August 2011
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-21) →
Arcade Fire (2)
LCD Soundsystem (2)
Jaydiohead (1)
Tindersticks (1)
Broadway Calls (1)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-14) →
Arcade Fire (7)
The White Stripes (7)
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists (6)
Band of Horses (5)
Stars (4)
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Here’s a fun trick to play on your brain with computers.
1. Spend several hours scrolling things ”naturally” (that is, “backwards”) on an OSX Lion computer.
2. Attempt to use the scroll-wheel mouse on the Windows computer they’ve put on your desk at work.
3. Spend the next 5 minutes on the floor, convinced that you’re an elderly former lounge singer...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-31) →
Animal Collective (6)
Phoenix (4)
Fergus & Geronimo (3)
Metric (3)
The New Pornographers (3)
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July 2011
23 posts
Stop saying "Washington is crazy"
Rupert Murdoch doesn’t live here. The Koch brothers don’t live here. Neither Goldman Sachs nor Wal-Mart is headquartered here. Rush, Beck and other right-wing talk-radio hosts don’t broadcast from here.
Last year, millions of Americans on globalization’s losing end let themselves be scared into voting, against their own interests, to send some very unstable people to...
My career plan for the next 10 years
1. Rise from obscurity.
2. Get sent to jail.
3. Go to rehab.
4. Start doing drugs.
5. Have the #1 album on iTunes.
6. Become a teen sensation.
7. Pose for an inappropriately racy photo shoot.
8. Star in a Disney Channel show.
9. Be home-schooled by creepy, hyper-ambitious parents.
10. Fall into obscurity.
“After his response, Boehner was heard to remark, ‘I didn’t sign up...”
– Yes, you totally did sign up for that. You’re the fucking Speaker of the House, you whiny orange thug.
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