(The clip's long, but so worth it.)

I promised it a while ago, but here's the missing piece from my Best Songs of 2008, The Weather Machines' "New Soft Archetype" (Link leading to mp3). I don't feel like designating a set place for it on the list, but it's in there.

And furthering the trend of showing just how arbitrary the arrangement of year-end Best-Of lists, I've seen more movies ( Read more... )

It's a bit late, but I'm sure all of you realized I couldn't go without posting some best-of-2008 lists. It seems I consumed a lot more pop culture than I did last year, so the lists are gonna be a bit heftier. I've got 50 songs, 25 albums, and 15 movies. I feel pretty set in my music lists, but for now, I'm considering the movie list a rough cut. ( Read more... )

Instead, found this. I sorta saw it coming, and can you really blame them?

In other news, I met Jonathan Richman. I've told this story to a bunch of people already, but it's really quite awesome, since he's one of the coolest figures in rock and roll to me. He was giving a concert at the Bug Jar on Tuesday night, and the website said 8pm, which ( Read more... )

I had a better title for this, but I've forgotten it, so I'll just go with what I promised. I do kinda love the title, simply because I feel like I've finally coined a really ripping tongue twister. While we're talking promises, though, I am glad to report I'll finally be fulfilling a couple long-held promises in here, starting off with the whole " ( Read more... )

Well, looks like now's the best time for me to post the results. Sorry if anybody was planning on cranking the answers out today, though I think I gave you plenty of time. As it stands, though, here are the final standings:

Calle: 55 pts
Keihl: 41 pts
Sean: 39 pts
Gordon: 30 pts
Toby: 11 pts

The squeaker for second sorta caused me to limit bonus point ( Read more... )

I got an internship at MAD Magazine!

This is the first time I've been giddy in a long while. I kinda regret keeping some of my videotapes on the floor, though, since I accidentally chipped some plastic off one while jumping up and down.

I used parts of the third parties sketch we worked on for the application, so apologies and thanks Keihl, Spencer ( Read more... )

I know you've been asking me about it for a while now, and it has been about two months, but I do have a lot of final papers to write and I'm gonna try to let this make me really procrastinate, and I did promise a few people that I'd give some sort of deadline notice. With all that in mind, I've decided that answers to my wild 150 songs meme will ( Read more... )

If you couldn't tell, I've been sorta obsessed with all these opening lyrics memes. Before we elaborate, here are the answer to my last one:

1. Tonight I'm all alone in my room! / I'll go insane / If you won't sleep with me = The Modern Lovers - Astral Plane
5. That was you up on the mountain / All alone and surrounded = The Strokes - I Can't Win
9. ( Read more... )