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Information Leafblower: FAIL

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:53:43 +0000

Information Leafblower: FAIL

Snowy Beetles (via spakattacks)

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:50:58 +0000

Snowy Beetles (via spakattacks)

Glasvegas - Go Square Go

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:21:22 +0000

Glasvegas - Go Square Go

Confetti, Shepherds Bush Empire

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:07:40 +0000

Confetti, Shepherds Bush Empire

There’s a new A Camp record coming out next year. You can...

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:49:00 +0000

There’s a new A Camp record coming out next year. You can hear the single here.

The Cardies didn’t tour the UK in support of their Greatest Hits, but let’s hope Nina goes out on the road for this one.

Lake Osceola

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:40:21 +0000

Lake Osceola

"…each Rothko is really doing the same thing. It is trying to immerse you in a world of mystery..."

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:18:18 +0000

“…each Rothko is really doing the same thing. It is trying to immerse you in a world of mystery where you have nothing to cling to or to connect you to noise and business and mundanities.”

- Sister Wendy

In fact, Mr. Abraham did end up getting a call after the auction...

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:55:23 +0000

In fact, Mr. Abraham did end up getting a call after the auction saying the deal for one of the condos he had bid on had fallen through, but he was not willing to pay the price the other person had bid. “I told them if I had wanted to PAY that price, I would have BID at that price!” he wrote in an e-mail message.

Imagine if you were quoted in the NY Times with ALLCAPPED words and an exclamation mark.

Cottweiler

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:17:34 +0000

Cottweiler

"…a rare lapse into abject awfulness."

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:17:48 +0000

“…a rare lapse into abject awfulness.”

- Alexis Petridis, on ‘Mmm Papi’ from Britney’s latest

Le Tigre - Hot Topic (Live on Los conciertos de radio 3) This...

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:43:07 +0000

Le Tigre - Hot Topic (Live on Los conciertos de radio 3)

This song came on my iPod tonight, which was pretty great. What I’m having a hard time believing is that it’s nearly 10 years old. Every now and again these realisations make me start to feel just a bit old. At any rate, some helpful internerd has catalogued all those names. Viva, Vaginal Creme Davis!

PS Did you know that Kathleen Hanna inspired the title of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’? I did not. (What was the world like before Wikipedia?)

My brother’s girlfriend and I are watching the...

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:54:26 +0000

My brother’s girlfriend and I are watching the Thanksgiving edition of Top Chef right now (Grant Achatz, I love you, but what is up with that goatee?), and the Foo Fighters are the special celebrity guests.

Three words about this episode: hello, Chris Shiflett.

Fleet Foxes - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque .

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:18:51 +0000

Fleet Foxes - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque

The door to the Eastern Bloc loo

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:29:34 +0000

The door to the Eastern Bloc loo

Gloria Estefan, a propos of dyfl.

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:23:52 +0000

Gloria Estefan, a propos of dyfl.

The Hives & Cyndi Lauper - A Christmas Duel Sounds like...

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:32:05 +0000

The Hives & Cyndi Lauper - A Christmas Duel

Sounds like someone thought it’d be a good idea to make an alternate ‘Fairytale of New York’, replacing the anti-gay baggage with some goodtime lesbian experimentation. (The track’ll be a free download from the Hives’ website from 28th November.)

I love Róisín Murphy

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:02:51 +0000

I love Róisín Murphy: That’s pretty much it.

Photo

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:34:45 +0000

"It’s not so great being a shambles. But it’s the only life I know."

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:13:55 +0000

“It’s not so great being a shambles. But it’s the only life I know.”

- Charlie Brooker

meghanagain: Beck, “Lazy Flies” I used to put this song on repeat while on long car...

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:57:00 +0000

meghanagain:

Beck, “Lazy Flies”

I used to put this song on repeat while on long car trips. In the dark, with my CD player. Middle seat because I used to get car sick so my younger brother traditionally took the back even after I’d grown out of it. This is a minivan I’m describing, just FYI. Anyway parts of this song scared the shit out of me but I loved it. I mentally storyboarded a whole music video which aesthetically borrowed heavily from the “Walking on Broken Glass” video. Also I had a lot of crane shots mapped out. Not as many as in my mental video for Blur’s “On Your Own,” but a lot. Also my video for “On Your Own” is boring, in retrospect, but way better than the actual one, which has got to be the worst Blur video evs, y/n?

I say yes. Given this is a band that brought us the videos for ‘The Universal’, ‘End of a Century’, ‘No Distance Left to Run’, and countless other classics, ‘On Your Own”s Jamiroquai/Beastie Boys style mash-up lets down the side.

‘For Tomorrow’, though, let’s talk about that. Cos who can resist Damon falling out of a Routemaster to a chorus of old ladies and black school children, whilst the rest of the band flies kites on Primrose Hill? Not me, friends. Not me.