September 2011
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I think for your first three boyfriends to be Mick Jagger, Todd Run[d]gren, and...
– Bebe Buell on Being a ‘Rock Girlfriend’
Nope. No objections here.
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It's pronounced "for-me-DAH-bluh"
“How was that woman you went to see?” “Woman? What woman?” “Oh, you know, you went to see her the other night, you said it made your throat shake.” “Um, you mean Joy Formidable?”
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What are some cultural faux pas in New York? →
youmightfindyourself:
Don’t say you’re “from New York” when you’re from New Jersey or Long Island. There are very nice parts of New Jersey and Long Island; some very nice people live there. But this is not Boston - you don’t get to say you’re “from New York City” if you’re from slightly outside it. If your prevarication is discovered, this is a quick route to contempt.
Never ever ever EVER...
Midpoint Music Festival →
After ranting this morning about how old I am, and explaining that I just don’t get music today, I realized that later this week we have passes to Cincinnati’s Midpoint Music Festival, and there are only a few bands I’ve heard enough of to know I want to see live: Joy Formidable, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Booker T. Jones, Man Or Astro-Man?, maybe Okkervil River. That leaves a lot...
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I don’t want a full house at the Winter Garden. I want people who just came out...
– Bill Murray, Tootsie
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Look, internet: I made you another mix tape.
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HERE BE DRAGONS, V.II
Ladies and Gents: the new one from Apollo Run.
I swear, even though this is my brother’s band, I genuinely love this album. Two tracks in and I’m dying from pride. The EP is only $4.95 from their online store.
(Brother John, you done Mused it up on this one and it couldn’t have turned out better.)
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Wild Flag's "Racehorse" →
Carrie Brownstein: between you and Patti Smith, I think we’re all going to be okay.
(If you don’t think I’m totally going to drive to Chicago for their show come hell or high water then you don’t know me.)
(GAH are there no tickets? Are they not yet on sale? I have sweaty palms thinking about missing this.)