laurie: i'm just gonna keep playing that music until you get in there.

aaron: that's okay, like that song.

laurie: no you don't. you don't like anything.

i am a little bit obsessed with world cup football. this is very unlike me. those wishing to watch (and/or drink beer?) are encouraged to contact me.

and yes, i called it football. yes, i'm an asshole. some might say this is very typical of me.

(except for all those other great songs i've been raving about) there may not be a better song released yet this year than "pushover," the opening track on the long winters' soon to be released "putting the days to bed" lp. it's only two minutes and thirty-seven seconds long, but it's so damn good you'd swear it lasted at least three minutes and ( Read more... )

so i was watchin' the mtv movie awards and that band afi came on and i'm thinkin': i bet i'd like this dude a hell of a lot better if he gained about 200 pounds of pure muscle and changed his name to glen danzig.

then again, maybe not.

i was gonna write a big rant about how the new issue/staff/redesign of SPIN leaves much to be desired, but i can't seem to muster the will to do so. few enough people read this anyway, and how many people wanna read my ranting and raving about rock magazines? maybe levi. everybody else would probably just roll their eyes. and understandably so ( Read more... )

so i have heard the new red hot chilli peppers single a few times now and have decided that it is actually pretty fucking good. the reason? anthony keidis can rattle off state names better than anybody else in pop music today. dude mentions states eight times (seven are explicity mentioned, and everybody knows the badlands are in south dakota) ( Read more... )

philadelphia (area) job interview on thursday! HUZZAH!!!

last night i saw the video for wolfmother's "woman," and it is probably the best fucking song i have heard all year. big, loud, fast...basically the band is (to put it crudely) a hipster zeppelin rip off band. i love it. skinny dude(s) with an afro stomping around rocking his ass off like nobody's lookin, it is total 70s cock rock in the best ( Read more... )

coolest news of the day: amazon says aug. 29 is the release date for "chuck klosterman IV: a decade of curious people and dangerous ideas." this is totally fucking awesome, especially in light of the fact that i was perusing the previous three texts last night. very pleasant surprise ( Read more... )

maybe it's just me, but this picture does a good job of encapsulating lawrence: protests and drum circles.