January 2012
31 posts
I'm a Librarian
(sitting in a Dallas hotel hallway)
Lady: Are you a librarian?
Me (suspiciously): Yes...
Lady: This is horrible, but I'm going to throw a book away in front of you.
Me: Ok....
Lady: Unless you want it? A guide to Paris?
[lady dumps book into trash can]
Me: You could recycle it!
[lady turns and walks away]
Best Make-a-Wish Ever →
barthel:
“I watch MythBusters and they inspired me to blow a building up,” said the young boy from Fresno, Calif.
Hometown represent.
The best worst real band names of SXSW 2012
rocketsandrayguns:
It’s an annual tradition.
Bubble Puppy
Chet Faker
Dark Dark Dark
E.D.Sedgwick
Fungi Girls
Gay Witch Abortion
Hoodie Allen
Idle Warship
Lana Del Rey
Mord Fustang
Motopony
Not In The Face!!
Owen
Sleepy Vikings
suck piggy
Talking To Turtles
Trampled by Turtles
Uncle Bad Touch
Have to admit Not in the Face!! made me laugh. Possibly the first time ever that a...
rawkblog replied to your post: I Want to Be with You So Bad - Pretty Goes with Pretty
How do you feel about Beulah’s The Coast Is Never Clear?
I haven’t hears that record in a million years. I should revisit.
I Want to Be with You So Bad - Pretty Goes with... →
When I revisited Overcome by Happiness the other day I thought I’d make a “10 best indie pop albums of all time” list, vague as that genre might seem on deeper thought. However, I realized the only reason I wanted to do that was because I wanted to talk about how much I love Overcome by Happiness.
(Okay but what the hell, here’s a list—which I spent three minutes coming up...
“Vile, McCombs, and Granduciel are all part of a traditional songwriters’...”
– Sing to Me Without Opening Your Mouth All That Much - Pretty Goes with Pretty
“Does Harrison have a shot? In a wild, totally unpredictable,...”
– In what is likely a foolhardy move, I’ve restarted my tennis tumblr, Unforced Error.
“He plays as if his fingers refuse to actually stay on the fretboard for more...”
– Train Your Ears in This Direction - Pretty Goes with Pretty
On Mick Turner, the secret weapon of the Dirty Three.
WatchJames Mercer looks like a Mark Eitzel doppleganger.
PS this is the Shins covering Pink Floyd.
PPS I’ve listened to “Simple Song” like eight times today and I have decided that I am really into it, even if it is not much a departure for Mercer.
“The song evolves as it goes, adding counter-melodies, percussion, and more as it...”
– Song in the Form of a Cloud - Pretty Goes with Pretty
And then I almost fell out of my chair
DB: The first Albini record I heard was Songs About Fucking by Big Black when I was 16, so I really haven’t known about him for very long.
It’s this weird sentence where you think it’s gonna end one way, but it actually catches you from the other direction.
Seriously, the War on Drugs are Only a Few Hooks... →
War on Drugs vs Dire Straits
“In this age of washed out indie-ambient acts, it’s a wonder that the band is...”
– In This Analogy Chocolate is Good Songwriting and Peanut Butter is Droning Synths - Pretty Goes with Pretty
Catching up to the War on Drugs.
MIKE SNIPER: An Indie Label in 2012. →
rawkblog:
mikesniper:
I posted a recent Facebook comment regarding our policies with signing artists and found myself getting into a discussion of what the role of an independent label is in 2012, something I’ve oftened been asked about in interviews but have never really been able to elaborate on.
Basically, it started off by requesting that bands don’t send us vinyl LP’s or professionally...
“And the meaning of psych has changed a lot since the 60s, too! In a more rigid...”
– Could’ve just reblogged the Black Dice video to which Tower of Sleep appended this (and more) text, but frankly I wanted to highlight the words, not the music.
“one car ride: alice in chains, blink 182, rhcp, korn. it’s like cuba but 1999...”
– my sister, via text, astutely observing how Phoenix-area radio is having a hard time adjusting to the 21st Century. (via mindyourpsandqs)
White Rainbow: Captain Sandwich Patrol (from Lays...
Favorite Songs of 2011 - Pretty Goes with Pretty →
Click through for the playlist, or download ‘em all: part 1, part 2.
“The second part of the story is a gut-wrenching, completely heart-breaking study...”
– http://www.flux-rad.com/2012/01/04/thoughts-on-the-karp-documentary-kill-all-redneck-pricks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FluxRad+%28Flux-Rad%29
December 2011
39 posts
“‘I must admit I have not really followed you but your recent stance on Ron Paul...”
– “Kelly Clarkson Sales Spike After Endorsement of Ron Paul.”
AHA (via marathonpacks)
America is such a weird place.
My Listening Hours: December - Pretty Goes with... →
Seems a little anti-climactic amidst all the best-of-11 blog posts, but nevertheless here is my rundown of new acquisitions of the last month. Nicolas Jaar, Julia Holter, The Caretaker.
“Which got me thinking of soundtracks, which made me first think of the song...”
– Nicolas Jaar and George Kranz’s Drugs of Choice - Pretty Goes with Pretty
Best of 2011, part II: Resurrection of the... →
Almost everything on this list is awesome.
Just refreshed the design for Pretty Goes with... →
Every time I try to design or re-design a blog, I always wind up with a slight variation on what it already was—white background, simple text, not too busy. I did add a little color (gray!), took away the image of my 14-month-old book (though it’s still for sale and would make a great stocking stuffer and/or “I didn’t get what I really wanted” present to yourself!)
Other...
When people hate Los Angeles →
rawkblog:
Let’s get this out of the way: I hate LA.
I hate LA the way that any good New Yorker hates LA, with a passion bordering on paranoid psychosis. I hate the faux culture, I hate the vapid people, I hate the unctuous politics. I hate their smug attitude toward snow, unless it involves indie movie premieres near ski slopes. I hate the things that are too cliché to even mention hating:...
“Imagine: it’s 3 am on New Year’s Eve, and a drunk Rod Stewart is in...”
– Oh No It’s Winter and I Haven’t Been Listening to the Walkmen - Pretty Goes with Pretty
A List of Noteworthy Lists - Pretty Goes with... →
In which I highlight a few others’ end-of-year lists that yielded some good finds. (PS: my own best of 11 list is here.)
“…just as there are singles bands and album bands, R.E.M. is best viewed at...”
– One Week One Band: R.E.M.
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PS: YOU ALL KNEW KIM JONG-IL DIED, RIGHT?
Nothing in my tumblr dashboard about it - I assume that’s because you’re all out celebrating the end of war in Iraq?
The Year End List 2011 | The Decibel Tolls →
Looking forward to digging into this list. I like everything I recognize, and I only recognize about a third of it.
2011: Blind Spots - Pretty Goes with Pretty →
In which I run down my favorite new-to-me acquisitions of the year. From krautrock to calypso to country, and a few others thrown in for good measure.
Anthony Is Right: Critic-Approved Archetypes It... →
anthonyisright:
Post-hardcore E Street Bands.
Female vocalists who sound like they’re auditioning for a Bond theme until they either swear or reference modern conveniences.
Theoretical dance-pop vocalists who apparently abstain from not just auto-tune, but second takes.
Rappers who drop hate speech before…
For at least the last six years bands have been saying “more...
