Arctic Monkeys- Leave Before the Lights Come On
Wolf Parade- Modern World

I'm not so into the song for the first, but they're both fine examples of subtle storytelling, which is rapidly becoming obsolete in the world of music videos and pretty impressive considering the time frame. You can watch them both on MTV2's Subterranean.

While I was home, I had the great advantage of cable telivision, and spent a lot of quality time with VH1. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it, but I'm fairly impressed by the new My Chemical Romance video. The song is weak and smells a whole lot like Green Day (the frontman even seems to be mimicing Billy Joe's facial expressions these days), but a ( Read more... )

Amazon.com reviewer on a terrible new-age album that I mistook for actual field recordings of Native American dance when I took it out from Forbes: "Imagine Crazy Horse doing the 'Robot', and you will get some idea of the degree of fusion in this music ( Read more... )

look at the CNN headlines for today. we are screwed. the apocalypse is coming ( Read more... )

1. harpee birsday
2. singapore sling
3. lobster mashed potatoes
4. kundera

Ethnology brushed up its paradoxical death in 1971, the day when the Phillipine government decided to return the few dozen Tasaday who had just been discovered in the depths of the jungle, where they had lived for eight centuries without any contact with the rest of the species, to their primitive state, out of the reach of colonizers, tourists, ( Read more... )

I have a gray hair.

"hi, do you want a cookie? i live in a tree!"

"you're going to go steal your mailbox?"

i'm going heavy on the mumbles today.

So back to Roland. I never much liked him, but I really liked "Soap-Powders and Detergents ( Read more... )

While sitting in the bathtub soaking in almond-milk bubbles, I think of my estranged friend Roland Barthes ( Read more... )