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Non-Music Shit / Re: NYC Storm: The Thread

« on: October 30, 2012, 10:29:03 AM »

Escaped the worst of it in northwest Bushwick (artfag quadrant 4); buncha idiots were partying in the street outside last night while the entire East Village was being turned into a scale replica of the toilets at the Mars Bar. No flooding to speak of here; most stores, restaurants and bars are open for biz, and limited bus service should resume later today.

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Music Shit / Re: What song was stuck in your head when you woke up this morning?

« on: October 29, 2012, 06:52:35 AM »

RATFUCKER

After a dream in which I discovered that Armand Schaubroeck had issued a "box set" consisting of 3 10" records, a triangle-shaped 7", a brioche and 16 pieces of Turkish delight.

Had a dream once that I found a "second" Electric Eels LP in a shop.  There have been others. 

This happens to me quite a bit! On the rare occasions that I can remember the specifics, they're usually pretty bizarre. A relatively normal instance: I had a dream that I found a Who album in a dollar bin called "England's Dead"; cover art was a slick Hipgnosis-esque collage of glass buildings. I guessed it was chronologically somewhere in the neighborhood of It's Hard and Face Dances. Every song on it sounded like "Eminence Front", which would make it a first-rate cheapside, right up there with Montrose s/t and Sign "O" The Times. In another dream, I was digging through crates inside a large pup tent at an indoor flea market, pulling all kindsa records by well-known bands that I'd never heard before, as well as total obscurities. The only ones I could remember upon waking up were a Byrds album titled "Guarnacha Beat Party", a single by Paul A. Blandkind called "Keepin' You" (cue user: teenagegurls' discogs search), and a comp of New Jersey hardcore called "YUCK! A FART" (which may actually exist).

Slightly more involved dreams include one in which I was driving through a cornfield and saw a portable record player in a small clearing, got out to pick it up and realized there was a record spinning on it, which the label identified as a Dave Edmunds song called "Miserable Girls". I don't remember what it sounded like, but it probably ruled! Lastly, there's the dream in which a young Nick Lowe drops acid and consults a deck of oblique strategies-type cards created by an unnamed psychedelic Sun Ra-ish character, upon which he determines that the Beatles' "Help!" had a metaphysical C-side, an 8-minute dirge called "Whip Them, Zion!"

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Your Favorite JPEG/GIF

« on: October 28, 2012, 04:52:34 PM »

Brilliant metaphor for the existential condition

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Music Shit / Re: What song was stuck in your head when you woke up this morning?

« on: October 27, 2012, 06:14:11 PM »

RATFUCKER

After a dream in which I discovered that Armand Schaubroeck had issued a "box set" consisting of 3 10" records, a triangle-shaped 7", a brioche and 16 pieces of Turkish delight.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: are new yorkers really this big of pussies???

« on: October 26, 2012, 09:20:51 PM »

Last time I went out on Halloween, I fucked a California Raisin

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: WATERY LOVE in NYC Sat Nov 3

« on: October 23, 2012, 12:22:12 PM »

True or false: this is Watery Love's first NYC show ever?

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V

« on: October 19, 2012, 07:50:35 AM »

you're provoking people to explain why it sucks,  yet you already know it sucks.   this is passive aggressive bullshit.  once someone puts out a critique, you are ready to pounce with the linguistic deconstruction,  while playing dumb.   there's no arguing with you here, sir, and you are clearly handling both sides of the debate on your own.  thank you though for the thoughtful analysis, it is truly a delight to read.

Well yeah, which is why you either ignore it or laugh at people getting all worked up about it.

Whet Bull has every right to enjoy the joke rap record his friends made, as long as he recognizes there is no objective quality to the pleasure he gets from it.

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V

« on: October 19, 2012, 07:02:16 AM »

Wait - so "one of the girls Terry Richardson ejaculates on" has an album out and people listen to it.....kill me

Which one is this? Sasha Grey?

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V

« on: October 17, 2012, 07:39:08 PM »

Nobody seems to give a fuck about this record, which is puzzling. The 2 or 3 burners on there are well worth the price of admission, which, since the band's generally considered to be second-rate Jam clones, is usually more than reasonable. $8 record, can be had for less. Sure, I get the Jam comparison, but I don't care for the Jam, and I like the Jolt, ergo, modus tollens, the Jam does not equal the Jolt.

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V

« on: October 17, 2012, 07:09:30 PM »

Incidentally, the first and only time I saw Talibam perform, half the audience walked out, myself included. I can assure you it wasn't because our reliance on strict musical categorization was challenged. I just listened to one of their "rap" songs, and it sounds like something the dude who buys $250 noise-cancelling headphones to listen to the Sea and Cake would describe as "fun". It's music that says, "I work hard, man, but when I get home, I leave the fuckin' monkey suit at the door, spark a bowl of choice nugs, braise some leeks, grate some Taleggio, erase my cache of ironic porn and wait like a puppy for my girlfriend to come home." If these tracksuit faggots figured out how to unload a bunch of records while maintaining complete contempt for the people who buy them, well, more power to 'em. Wouldn't be the first time.

Listening to Fair Warning as I type this.  I'd never listened to it before and was intrigued by the consensus op that it's the worst of the Mk Is, except in Prindle's view (he rates it best.)

Fair Warning's OK in my book, even though "Mean Streets" makes for a shitty salvo. (My brain likes to transform it into a RHCP song whenever it gets lodged in there. Fuck you, brain!) "Unchained" still gives me the bone, though. Also, the only VH album to be namechecked in a Game Theory song!

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Non-Music Shit / Re: I just read a post by some idiot on Facebook calling The Kinks "80's hipsters".

« on: October 17, 2012, 06:21:32 PM »

Probably had them confused with The Knack.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: are new yorkers really this big of pussies???

« on: October 17, 2012, 05:42:11 AM »

Hey, I've been waging war against fucking since '09. Killer apps: iPhone snuff films, Norman Mailer bios, white power message boards. FRIGID IN 2012

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Non-Music Shit / Re: are new yorkers really this big of pussies???

« on: October 16, 2012, 09:37:03 PM »

"Stop. Stop. STOP. Stop."

- Roommate receiving a 20-minute-and-counting blowjob

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: NYC non-CMJ: Regal Degal, Lame Drivers, Ringo Deathstarr, VON LMO ++

« on: October 16, 2012, 09:29:11 PM »

"Legs McNeil is going."

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Music Shit / Re: Show Review Thread

« on: October 14, 2012, 11:13:05 PM »

Jackie, if you could pick anyone to star in the movie of your life, who would it be?