April 2009
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“How are we gonna portray this I-don’t-give-a-fuck-anymore attitude? I...”
– Matt from Matt & “Kim” via Pfork. Why do bands have a need to have an “I don’t give a fuck” attitude? And why would it be something that you need to “portray” - that’s kind of a weird idea right? I think people should “give a fuck” - I...
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Zombie Nation is great
I had some Zombie Nation jams a while ago, but I never realized how good and consistent they (he) are (is).
I just wanna get older and older and keep making poorly produced techno music in my own little world.
I just need one MegaJam that gets played at ice hockey games and/or is featured in an edgy Levis Jeans video. I think I have it in me. Maybe I’m only capable of making...
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The Henry Dargers
I found this video of this cool new group. I think it’s an audition tape for MTV’s the Real World Brooklyn. They sing about being so passionate about things that they don’t know where to direct their energy.
Someone should really email these guys and have them play a show somewhere. I don’t know, something feels really “now” about them.
“The larger-than-expected decline in first-quarter GDP is good news for the...”
– Harm Bandholz, an economist at Unicredit Markets and Investment Banking in New York. yeah…
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Supermarkets
Man, I still can’t believe I was out of the country living in Asia for a year. Still so weird to be back. I went to Shop Rite today - when was the last time you went to Shop Rite? Is it just an East coast chain? So surreal to be in a surburban supermarket full of old ladies with American products everywhere. Feels like a dream walking through the aisles. I really think American supermarkets...
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Explode Into Colors
Really liking this song. Pretty badass lo-fi raggaeton beat.
They seem like genuine Portand SuperALTS. I bet they see Stephen Malkmus in casual settings.
Explode Into Colors - Sharpen The Knife
AWESOME!
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The Verlaines
…are probably one of my all-time favorites. Lots of cool videos on youtube :)
Someone needs to reissue Hallelujah All The Way Home!! I still only have the cassette = ALT
best album ever!
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I've been working on a piece that speaks of sex...
Do you remember the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Do you remember when people first started listening to them and they seemed ‘raw’ and ‘arty’ and The Strokes wore one of their pins on SNL (or something). And then there was that guy in the band that didn’t look very cool but seemed the most normal.
I had those glasses too.
Now that I listen to this song, it just seems like...
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Tired of micro blogs
I think things are getting too specific - I hate the world of specialists and experts and micro-genres of micro-genres. I think things need to get MACRO - bigger and bigger not smaller.. We need METABLOGS
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new song = boring
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Getting really tired of 'safe' indie rock.
I think bands gotta start getting a little animalistic. You gotta trick your audience into thinking you’re not stable.. This new band emailed me. They’re called Angry Samosas. I think they’re from Pakistan. They have a great lo-fi sound and everything. They’re what I think you’d call post-political.
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Peaches = Jerri Blank
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Everyone posts the same shit
BLOGZ is boring yall. The internet’s getting weirdo. Need higher quality jokes + “stay positive” Spaceape lyrics = internet is awesome As a child i was always happy-go-lucky, as a man i believe i am just plain lucky alive inside of this ya dangerous system, locked in and I’m twisted out of all recognition. See this is systematic of the tings I have seen I am lost in...
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Justice is awesome
Justice pretty much blew up like two years ago?? They were like some giant entity dominating everything for a while.
I don’t know if it’s easy to forget, but their album is pretty incredible. Even though they’re making crap remixes for Bono and Lenny now - who really cares? Wouldn’t you remix Bon if you had the chance + got some Bono cash?
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Hot Humor Videos
I can’t tell you how much I love bloopers! I didn’t know about this site called Fail Blog until recently. Pretty happy I found it - although I already exhausted their video collection.
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Empire of the Sun
Empire of the Sun’s ‘Walking on the Dream’ is a really solid jam. I like it because it sounds like the average of Eric Prydz’ ‘Call on Me’ and Mylo’s ‘In Your Arms.’ And those songs both use 80s vocal samples, right? Is it Steve Winwood?
Ok, so I get what Empire of the Sun’s trying to do.
This image is _______% why people are...
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Kurt Vile
What is it about “indie rock” that I find so boring? A lot of times I feel like I’m done with “guitar” music - I just more easily connect with electronic stuff. But then I hear a song like this and it feels fresh and good. What makes a good song? Just trying to connect all the disparate things I like, because it doesn’t make much sense to me. Sometimes I...
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“Under what conditions would you record as Smog again?
If Obama said I needed to...”
– Bill Callahan, from a Prefix interview. He is a funny dude.
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This is awesome
Embedded video from CNN Video I love the teacher’s note.
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HOT NEW MUSIC!
I just discovered this new band on Hype Machine. They’re called Boxmasters. They have a really cool image, use awesome fonts and their jams are solid! I can really see this kinda thing breaking into the mainstream one day.
One of their fans is an actor in Hollywood. Seems like a really nice dude actually. Jimmy Kimmel seems to like him a lot too.
Ill Give You a Ring - The...
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New concepts of hilarity
I’m really out of touch. I don’t think my jokes are relevant anymore. I need to find some new material, guys. What do people think is funny these days? I’ve been thinking about testing out some new jokes soon. Just to get my feet wet. Last year I had all this new material and then “Juno” came out and stole all my thunder. So I’m gonna take a different approach...
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Dance Dance Music Music
Can I blog and record music under the same name? Is that alternative? Here’s a new song I made. A kind of vocoder techno-y thing. Just simple and “fun.” Can you guess where the image below is from? Hint - it may or may not have something to do with Daniel P. Deacon.
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It’s really weird living in a foreign country for a year and then coming back home. How do you make sense of everything that happened during that year? All the small things that made up your daily life, things that you didn’t give much thought to after a while - where does all that exist? You’re always where you are now, but you can also be kinda somewhere else at the same...
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Today
Feeling kinda zombie-like today. No thoughts going on in my head really. I think travelling and coming back to the states finally caught up with me, I’m totally sick right now. Might sound weird, but I’m really not used to the weather - it’s so damn cold, and gray! I only saw a handful of rainy days in the past year. So glad I missed the winter - it must have been terrible...
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I need to "make it"
“What’s the smartest way to train a puppy to sit on command? Give him a cookie and a nice pat on the head every time he does what you want. Enough cookies and enough pats on the head and he starts to think that sitting on command was his idea. He likes you, he trusts you, and he sits when you say sit because it’s in his best interest to do that. Your content needs to work the same way....
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Forgot About Eddie
I totally forgot about this song until I heard it during a weekend karaoke session. It’s so damn good! Lonely Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town It looks like all of Eddie’s jams are available on Last.fm as full streams… Don’t play them too much or you’ll get this! So lame… “We’re sorry, but you’ve reached the limit for free plays of Pearl Jam –...
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“You are now following Oprah.”
– Twitter
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20 Cities
During my backpacking journey through Thailand/Cambodia/Laos/India, I kept a super intense schedule. Looking back, I don’t know what I was doing! In 30 days I covered 20 cities. I only spent two nights in a place if I was completely exhausted or was really liking where I was. I spent a handful of nights sleeping on a night bus too. After a while I stopped changing my clothes and just...
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New Hair
I like it.
Bill Callahan might just be one of my favorite people of all time.
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Alternative Things To Do
What’s alternative this year won’t be alternative next year. What’s alternative last year is no longer alternative. How do I figure out what other people are into these days?
My friends told me I should start buying Spin magazine because they have some of the best coverage on things I like. But I’ve always read Rolling Stone because they’re not afraid to interview...
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WatchI saw this video for like 20 seconds on Hipster Runoff. Four days later the song popped up in my head randomly. I couldn’t figure out where I heard it… Kinda sad really, but the sign of a good jam???
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“‘Crack was my friend,’ ex-addict says”
– This is the latest news on CNN.com.
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So many jams.
The best part of coming back to the USA is listening to the backlog of hot jams you’ve missed out on. When you follow new jams too closely, it’s easy to get discouraged and adopt an “everything sucks” attitude. Everyone knows the average jam isn’t good. But when you come back, somehow all the “crap” gets filtered out and you find a endless supply of...
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Indian nightmares
Slowly getting adjusted back into thangs. Recurring “Indian nightmare” about “getting jacked” or taking endless trains to nowhere. Please stop!
I miss my cats, guys.
Sid + Ollie
Miss my bass, guys!
I found an awesome jam on Hype Machine. It’s pretty short, but i’ve been playing it on repeat to extend it. The only thing is that he’s a...
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Get ready...
You’re about to be assaulted, guys. I saw this billboard in the small Indian city of Pushkar. I couldn’t take a picture at the time, so I was glad to find the image through google. Pretty messed up right?
I’m curious to read about Indian culture after being there. You tend to see men in roles you’d normally find women in (back here in the USA). I guess it’s...
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Creepaz on da Beach
Daytime is a lonely place for sex tourists in Pattaya, Thailand.
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The Streets - On The Edge Of A Cliff
This is such an odd song. The “background music” is kinda funny (like a lot of Streets songs). Or maybe surreal is a better word; it sounds ”dated” but doesn’t really have a context. It almost warrants an over-the-top vocal performance, but Mike Skinner’s monotone delivery relegates the relatively linear melodies to the foreground. I think that’s...
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WatchIf you wanna “make it” as a blog these days, you can’t just post pictures. You gotta post hot new videos. Here’s my first hot new video for you guys.
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Friends
These are my friends I met in Udaipur. One of the high points in my “struggle” through India. Does anyone know why they say “the subcontinent of India”? What’s a subcontinent?
These guys are MBA students who lived in a house above one of their uncles. They were so completely nice and hospitable. I stayed at their place for a couple days and we talked about India,...
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I saw the Taj Mahal
I took these photos. The Taj Mahal is in the city Agra, maybe a 4-5 hour ride from Delhi. I didn’t want to go to Agra but I’m glad I did. All the hassles don’t mean anything now.
The structure itself is really hypnotizing. It’s like the perfect balance of certain aesthetic dimensions or something. It sort of pulls you in but extends outward at the same time. What would...
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Photos Mumbai
It was kinda weird being in Mumbai, walking in the same streets that terrorists were shooting people up just a few months ago.
Gateway of India, right outside the Taj hotel. I couldn’t really take a photo without getting mobbed by dudes trying to sell me boat tickets for stuff. It was really annoying.
Did you know Coca-Cola makes a product called Thums Up?
The Taj.
“The...
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Jetlagged
Wow, the past month is really catching up with me. I haven’t really been leading a healthy lifestyle in terms of sleep and eating. The combo of jetlag + lack of sleep really sucks. I feel kinda loco. Really really.
For now I’m entertaining myself on google images searching “Obama smoking” - yeah! I’m just trying to stay awake for a couple more hours. 6pm is my...
