January 2010
35 posts
My ears.. Girls / Beautiful South | The Panic... →
The audio links are broken, but I just want to Tumbl this link for truth. I’m finally getting around to listening to the Girls album, and so far I like it well enough. Not least cos they ripped one of their songs off the Beautiful South.
(Actually, to be honest, I’ve stopped listening to Girls and am now just listening to the Beautiful South.)
Pitchfork talks to The XX
So let’s just talk about a few highlights of this interview:
Best Recent Music Video Everyone hates it, but I really like the video for Cheryl Cole’s “Fight for This Love”. I think she looks great.
It is kind of amazing that someone out of the xx would admit to liking Cheryl Cole to the extent of listing her as the person with the ‘best recent music video’. Even though both...
last.fm milestone tracks
10,000: The Commitments - I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) 08 Mar 2005
20,000: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - You Got Lucky 22 Aug 2005
30,000: The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds 18 Feb 2006
40,000: Texas - When We Are Together 24 Aug 2006
50,000: Erasure - Stop! 22 Feb 2007
60,000: Superchunk - Throwing Things (acoustic) 30 Sep 2007
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“Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other...”
– Preach it, MoDo.
“Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George Bush, that weird Christian who runs the...”
– Steve Coogan, answering the question, ‘Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?’
distorte asked: How's the bike after a winter of muck? I'm really curious about this new plastic drivetrain thing.
So Tumblr has this new ask feature. If there’s anything, you know, you’re wondering. You probably aren’t. But if you are.
Best Song Endings, Part One
camplittlewolf:
“Why do we still live here, in this repulsive town? All our friends are in New York. Why do we keep shrieking, when we mean soft things? We should be whispering all the time.”
Part one of one, she means.
WatchJens Lekman - A Postcard to Nina (Chicago, 3rd January 2010)
My friend’s friend shot this at a gig they saw the other night. Jens is clearly still delightful.
tylercoates:
As I sit in the McGaw Hall lobby, killing time and blogging with my thumbs (thank you, predictive text), I’m starting to realize that OMG I AM IN GRAD SCHOOL. How is my life going to change? Am I going to start really important thoughts that I’ll feel the need to share with my peers about the TEXTS we read? Will I use “rhetoric” as a noun with unparallelled intensity? Will my...
E-tailing done right.
One of the more surprising developments of my visit to my parents’ happened my last night there. Put simply, their dog ate my glasses. I know that sounds like an exaggeration, but it’s true: he chewed through one of the frames, such that the lens went missing and basically demolished one of the arms (the lens was found, by the way, bite marks and all). I was so shocked I just binned...
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Groovejet (If This...
WatchNew Year’s Eve in Berlin, soundtracked by ABBA
(And, no, I wasn’t there. Nor was I in London. I was in the aeroplane over the sea. Literally.)
London Jewish Museum of Art Captures Rare Work by... →
Going on view this week.
Paula Abdul - Promise of a New Day (via...
O HAI 2009 LAST.FM STATS
The 11 albums to which I listened most:
YYYs - It’s Blitz
Florence + the Machine - Lungs
The xx - XX
Little Boots - Hands
The Maccabees - Wall of Arms
Alphabeat - The Spell
Beyoncé - I Am… Sasha Fierce
Adele - 19
Ladyhawke - s/t
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
And now it’s 2010, and we start again.