February 2012
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don't blame yourselves, grammy winners →
January 2012
10 posts
“There’s a persistent cultural perception that people don’t like...”
– mariobatalivoice: Who Doesn’t Like Brussels Sprouts
“At one point early in my career I introduced the northwest ordinance for space...”
– First Read - Gingrich promises US moon colony by 2020
While I know that it’s a mistake to take anything Newt says seriously, if 13,000 people on the moon get statehood and DC stays a “district,” I am going to be quite annoyed.
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What's that about? What's that about?
In addition to my lovely wife, there are a couple other good bits already on the internet about how Mr. Klosterman completely mis-represents and doesn’t bother to get at why people have responded to tUnE-yArDs. I think this is probably the best, and the Village Voice’s Supplemental Reading Suggestions would probably have made for better reading in advance of Chuck’s piece than...
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“Maybe you already have, but read this Chuck Klosterman piece on tUnE-yArDs.
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– Jen Girdish » Blog Archive » Is Chuck Klosterman the Next Andy Rooney?
My lovely wife has a nice rant over on her site about the ol’ Klosterman dust-up. I offered her the line “Andy Rooney sticks up for lemons the way Chuck Klosterman sticks up for Ratt.”, but she...
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WatchI don’t think I’ll be happy until I have more posts linking to this video than I have posts about Loutallica.
(via Rooney: Eat More Fruit! - 60 Minutes - CBS News)
“I’m doing with it what I do with all my Robert Pollard albums: using it as...”
– Robert Pollard in (self) exile: 16 great songs from a lost decade | Music | For Our Consideration | The A.V. Club
The fine people at The AV Club put together a little primer for folks who checked out on Robert Pollard when GBV broke up. I spent the morning listening to it, and while I can’t...
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Tune-Yards & the 90's we forgot →
marathonpacks:
For those of you who saw Tune-Yards’ whokill win the critics’ poll and went “ugggggghhhhh,” what is it that you don’t like about the album (or the artist)? I’m honestly not trolling here, I promise! I love the album (it was my #1), but I understand that her election as President Of Music doesn’t come with a mandate or anything. She’s still sold less than 50k, her victory was...
December 2011
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Things I Miss (And Feel Lonely Missing)
The Constantines
Rilo Kiley
Better Off Ted
Los Angeles Traffic
Anything I’m missing?
“In his first match at Pyongyang Lanes, Kim bowled a perfect 300, according to...”
– Remembering Kim Jong-il’s Ventures Into the Sporting World - NYTimes.com
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If nothing else, Watch the Throne has 100% made...
93: Running time of Blades of Glory, in minutes.
10: Seconds of dialogue from Blades of Glory, on the CD version of the song.
28: Total number of minutes of Blades of Glory dialogue, when played 168 times.
November 2011
4 posts
“Good and bad have never been very useful designations when it comes to Reed,...”
– Master of Bation by Sean Nelson - Seattle Music - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
Sean Nelson (FORMERLY OF HARVEY DANGER, GUYS!) has the first Lulu write-up that deals with it with the honest perspective of someone who’s listened to Mistrial or The Raven more than ten times.
It...
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Thankful for Lulu.
Lou Reed said that he and Metallica were first planning to re-record a bunch of Lou Reed hits when the inspiration for Lulu struck. So I think we can all thank our lucky stars that they didn’t make a whole album of things like the totally horrible version of White Light/White Heat that they played on the Jools Holland show.
Say what you will about “The View” or “Iced...
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Tremendous clip curation on the AV Club's Andy...
“I’ve wasted more money on canteloupe than just about anything else.”
R.I.P. to my eyebrow role model.
October 2011
13 posts
"We've always seen a lot of Metallica in Lou Reed"... →
Pretty soon I’m going to post something that’s not Loutallica-related, I promise.
The Unsinkable Fats Domino →
It sounds exactly how you would hope/expect.
Welcome back, guys.
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Loutallica Pt. 2: Expectations = Rewards
So, I wrote about Lou Reed & Metallica’s hit album Lulu earlier, and I liked it!
The whole scuttlebutt on that album had been about how Lou Reed thought it was “maybe the best done thing by anyone, ever,” and others thought it was in the “Snakes on a Plane” neighborhood.
And that’s the thing. I did like listening to it! And I am going to buy it (though I...
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Loutallica
Okay! I’m going to listen to Lulu and write down my feelingz!
Track 1: Brandenberg Gate
First 40ish seconds are very low-key, standard post-Ecstasy acoustic Lou Reediness, with weird sex/art references that would be “shocking” if it wasn’t so par for the course.
After about a minute, they put the “Tallica” stamp on there—but it isn’t that...
That Lemony Snicket thing on Occupy Wall Street →
In case you were (as I was) hesitant to read it the first six times someone tweeted it at you, whether from #occupyfatigue or some other reason, it’s worth a look.
“Lisa Nishimura, VP - Independent Film Content Acquisition, here to let you know...”
– I don’t think the “You’ve been warned” means exactly what they want it to in this paragraph.
http://blog.netflix.com/2011/10/kevin-smith-returns.html
So many feelingz, so little time...
Hello friends!
I was busy today and didn’t have time to write about my feelingz. Sorry! But that doesn’t mean I didn’t have any! I had a bunch. Here are a bunch of them, and maybe if I’m good I’ll fill in the gaps tomorrow.
FANTASTIC ARTICLE FROM THE PAST ABOUT THE STROKES
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tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
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I HAVE TOO MANY FEELINGZ
Hello, internet.
I’ve invented a tumblr because I, The Michael Phelan, have too many feelings, and they’re starting to pour out of me. My wife, Jen, has been very patient about listening to them when we’ve had too much wine and I make her listen to Kaputt.
This is something that’s been happening a lot.
So that’s it! That’s what this is! I hope someone out...