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Music Shit / Re: Best Hardcore Punk Full Length of the Last 10 years?

« on: July 16, 2014, 12:03:32 PM »

That being said: Someone convince me that the Hank Wood lp doesn't sound like Murder City Devils.

Try this: Which of those two bands have you not heard yet? Listen to that one, then go back and listen to whichever one you have heard. That should do it.

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Music Shit / Re: Classic NON PUNK 1977 7"'s

« on: July 09, 2014, 12:28:24 PM »

Heroes -- Bowie

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Non-Music Shit / Re: books about veterans returning from war

« on: July 09, 2014, 09:01:39 AM »

There's a new book coming out that I actually worked on called Fives and Twenty-Fives about the Iraq War, the author is a marine vet. I quite liked it and I generally keep a distance from stuff, as far as forming opinions, I have to look at for work. I highly recommend it.

Also, The Things They Carried deals with the before, during, and after of being in the Vietnam War. It's great.

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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK

« on: July 07, 2014, 10:07:21 AM »

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bigdipper/vibin-big-dipper-music-video?ref=discover_pop


go jump in a fucking hole

Same guy, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vo9amx0Leg

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Music Shit / Re: talkin REIGNING SOUND !!!!

« on: July 07, 2014, 07:24:57 AM »

I did an interview with him for the Agit Reader. It should be coming out soon.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: D-E-V-O THURSDAY 6/19 nyc

« on: June 18, 2014, 06:53:21 AM »

Gonna be here for a pre-show drinkie around 6 I suppose. 6 minute minute walk from Best Buy Theater. Come hang.

Mc Anns Bar
625 8th Ave

This review sold me:

"There were a few people here but the bar was pretty empty."

Jimmy's Corner is the spot.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / D-E-V-O THURSDAY 6/19 nyc

« on: June 16, 2014, 10:38:10 AM »

Hi folks,

I have at least one extra ticket (possibly two). $45.00. PM if you're interested.

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Music Shit / Re: Acapulco Presents... Delightful Missives from the World of Music "Criticism"

« on: June 02, 2014, 07:11:47 AM »

http://crumbler.tumblr.com/post/87321590093/the-oral-history-of-music-tumblr-2008-2014

&

http://barrybailbondsman.tumblr.com/post/87348843820/the-oral-history-of-music-tumblr-2008-2014

&

http://still-single.tumblr.com/post/87559947196/no-really

What's music tumblr? (And, no, I don't want to read the article.)

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Music Shit / Re: NoMeansNo

« on: May 27, 2014, 11:39:42 AM »

I dismissed them forever due to the fact that they were on Alternative Tentacles and their name being to close to No Use For A

Same. Haven't gotten over it yet, though.

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Music Shit / Re: Blues Thread?

« on: May 27, 2014, 10:11:59 AM »

Don Covay's blues record, The House of Blue Light, is pretty cool. Sepia Tone (remember them) reissued it about 10 years ago on CD.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: I just won parent of the year award

« on: May 22, 2014, 07:51:25 AM »

Juniper is a mere four months old (slightly less than that actually) and has responded positively, I think, to ABBA, Badfinger, Blondie, and ZZ Top, and she started kicking like crazy to "I Don't Wanna Work." She seemed indifferent to Ivy Green.

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Cities / Re: NOLA NOLA NOLA

« on: May 21, 2014, 12:22:26 PM »

It's heading in the direction of present-day Disney-NYC. 

This is a bit of an overstatement, don't you think? Certainly commercial developer types saw a fucking pig's trough of investment opportunities waiting for them post Katrina and made their marks, and there's an accelerated corporate homogenization happening throughout our country and culture to which New Orleans isn't immune, but that city has a really long way to go before it can be spoken of in the same breath as NYC in terms of redevelopment and Disneyfication. For one thing NYC, whether people want to accept it or not, has always been about ripping it up and starting again (even if its current incarnation is sanitized to ghastly levels, the screw will turn), New Orleans is the exact opposite. It's cultural eccentricities are not only deeply ingrained, but they also underlie the city's main industry, tourism. I'm not saying that there aren't people out there who wouldn't like to wipe the slate clean, and upper Decatur is a pretty heinous sight at times (Bubba Gump Shrimp and all that), but I still think its one of the most distinct places in the United States. Now of you were to say it going to get wiped off the map by another storm, that I might agree with.

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Music Shit / Re: does anyone really take the sleaford mods seriously?

« on: May 13, 2014, 08:23:30 AM »

Despite reading this whole thread and clearly having enough info to know better, I still thought these guys were going to sound like the Merton Parkas.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: May 09, 2014, 09:59:00 AM »

Finishing up The Little Sister. Chandler is great, but it's all about the language and the characters for me. I've never thought he cared too much about his plots. Still, Marlowe is maybe the greatest antihero (after Parker) in history. What other character has such ambiguous motives for everything he does not only to his audience but to himself? Good stuff.

Still making my way through Luc Sante's Low Life . I probably should have read this 10 or 15 years ago. It's interesting but it's a little exhausting and numbing in the tradition of Hebert Asbury--paragraph after paragraph of names that just roll right over you.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: May 09, 2014, 09:51:57 AM »

Just read The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing, surely one of the finest noirs out there. Remarkably tight, threatening to fall apart; multiple narrators, an alcoholic protagonist, an icy blonde, a melting housewife, a corporate infrastructure, an attritive murder investigation. Pretty near impossible to put down. Interrupting this noir kick to read a piece of quintessentially feminine invention, I Love Dick by Chris Kraus, Brunch-certified for sure, and I find myself turning over a sophomoric question; eh, I forgot it already.

big clock is incredible. wish i could read for the first time over and over .

Thanks for the reccomendation. Amazing book. Fearing handles the multiple narrators brilliantly and I like how flawed the main character is. The whole big clock concept has a kind of Kafka-esque qulaity to it. Plan to watch the Ray Milland version tonight. Has Fearing written anything else worth reading?Hard to believe he is a one-hit wonder.

I've written this here before, I think, but I watched No Way Out, the '80s "erotic thriller" starring Kevin Costner, Sean Young, and Gene Hackman, on TV last year. And about 20 minutes in, I'm like "Hey, what the fuck, this is The Big Clock!" It's actually and acknowledged adaptation, but I guess I missed it in the credits. It's okay I guess, the Cold War twist was kind of fun.