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Oct 11, 2008 7:31am

Saw Duffy Last Night

For free. Last minute. I don’t really know any of her songs other than the one from VH1 where she’s riding in a car forever and never gets anywhere. Anyway: it’s a shame when you have zero expectations for a show and then it fails to meet those non-expectations. Her backing band is a bunch of soulless sesion musicians more or less playing muzak jams while Duffy herself tries to get by on her voice and nothing else. Her dance moves consist of “raise hand up. bring hand down” and “turn head left. turn head right” (and without the slightest bit of energy, mind you). Her between-song banter was mainly her saying “Los Angeleez!” which was cute the first time but tedious after that. We left after about six songs. A few others left at the same time (apparently bigger fans than us) and one woman seemed to be outraged about how bad the show was.

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Oct 9, 2008 11:29am

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

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Kool Keith : Celestial (from the Mr. Nogatco project)

I haven’t looked into this or even done any sort of preliminary google search, but does it strike anyone else that 30 Rock’s Tracy Jordan character is heavily based on Kool Keith?

Oh my god - yes! I never thought about it before, but… yes. Spot on.

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Oct 9, 2008 9:15am

NYT: At Home With Wayne Coyne - Not Exactly Domesticated

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I’m not that big a Flaming Lips fan (though I will admit that their life show is transcendent), but the NYT has a really fascinating article today about Wayne Coyne’s “compound” in Oklahoma City. It sounds amazing, and the pictures are great.

The article is full of awesome tidbits, like this little bon mot from Coyne: “I keep looking forward to the day when music is a liquid they pour into your head.”

I was just logging on to post the exact same quote.

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Oct 5, 2008 10:06pm

nevver:

Pay-Per-View

Flashback! I haven’t thought of these in years, but man… they used to be in every airport.

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Oct 5, 2008 1:02pm

Sam Maverick’s grandson, Fontaine Maury Maverick, was a two-term congressman and a mayor of San Antonio who lost his mayoral re-election bid when conservatives labeled him a Communist. He served in the Roosevelt administration on the Smaller War Plants Corporation and is best known for another coinage. He came up with the term “gobbledygook” in frustration at the convoluted language of bureaucrats.
The Nation - Who You Callin’ a Maverick? - NYTimes.com

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Oct 3, 2008 3:33pm

What has Chicago’s Andrew Bird been up to? Well, I can tell you that he’s got a new album coming out on Fat Possum in January, called Noble Beast. “Oh No” is the album’s first track and, speaking here as a casual fan, it certainly sounds like quintessential Bird

“Oh No” [Stream] | Pitchfork

I discovered Bird in 07. Armchair Apocrypha possessed my ears for pretty much the entire year. This year I bought Mysterious Production and that has filled up most my year. Looks like 09 has been reserved as well.

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Oct 3, 2008 12:26pm

IFILL: So, Governor, as vice president, there’s nothing that you have promised as a candidate that you would — that you wouldn’t take off the table because of this financial crisis we’re in?

PALIN: There is not. And how long have I been at this, like five weeks? So there hasn’t been a whole lot that I’ve promised, except to do what is right for the American people, put government back on the side of the American people, stop the greed and corruption on Wall Street.

Vice-Presidential Debate Transcript

This was my favorite line of the night… am I missing it or is no one else quoting this line?

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Oct 3, 2008 12:23pm

Unbelievable. Sarah Palin finished her closing remarks by quoting Ronald Reagan:

“It was Ronald Reagan who said that freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream; we have to fight for it and protect it, and then hand it to them so that they shall do the same, or we’re going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free.”

When did he say this? It was on a recording he made for Operation Coffeecup — a campaign organized by the American Medical Association to block the passage of Medicare. Doctors’ wives were supposed to organize coffee klatches for patients, where they would play the Reagan recording, which declared that Medicare would lead us to totalitarianism.

You couldn’t make this stuff up.

Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog

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Oct 3, 2008 10:21am

Does anyone else read Paste's blog?

I feel like the Paste staffers must live in some kind of space/time disconnect. Every single news item they run is consistently about three days behind every other blog I read.

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Oct 3, 2008 9:40am

Palin brings her folksy, white trash, shit-kicking tone to debate

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My favorite part was the “shout out” What fucktard gives a shout out during a Vice Presidential Debate?

My brilliant wife practically did a spit-take when Palin gave the shout out.

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