Friday, December 19, 2008
Oh, you crazy Southerners. What new brand of treason will you think of next?
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The tracklist for the PDX Pop Now! compilation is out. Looking at the songs on the first list, I have this incredible feeling of wanting to take all my non-recyclable garbage and dump it into our neighbors’ backyard.
DISC 1
01 Au – “Are Animals”
02 Blue Cranes – “S.T.I.L.L.”
03 Meth Teeth – “Unemployment Forever”
04 The Joggers [...]
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You know how sometimes you see a headline in a newspaper (or, more commonly, on a news site) that is so absurd you have to click the link to find out if someone is fucking with you? Today that headline was
To Revive Hunting, States Turn to the Classroom
That’s a joke, right? Out of [...]
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
I just got an email from Pennystripe regarding a post from a while back:
From: Pennystripe
Subject: Nice.
Um….
Jimmy…would you like to take care of this?
Blue skies for black hearts just posted on our myspace:
What is this supposed to me?
Blue Skies for Black Hearts, who must come from money since they can afford the royalty payments to [...]
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Friday, February 15, 2008
This is what I got Jimmy for Valentine’s Day. What could be better?
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
He’s got his new group blog up and running. I’d like to update the link on our “Friends Are Fun” section, but he’s apparently joined on the blog by someone named Jill Wilson, who is either British or can’t spell.
Maybe with time she’ll develop a healthy respect for the God-given American language [...]
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Today, Monkey turns something between 28 and 44. To celebrate, here’s a text message I received from him last weekend:
Monkey has a cold. monkey no come to practice. bad monkey!
Of course, the weekend before that, we had determined that we would be canceling practice for the next two weeks.
Here’s to covering your bases!
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
[ February 17, 2008; 9:00 pm; ] Show starts at 9pm, and we go on first, followed immediately by:
The Hot Toddies, a girl band whose members have to field marriage proposals from fanboys on their MySpace page;
Blue Skies for Black Hearts, who must come from money since they can afford the royalty payments to the guy who came up with the “two [...]
Did anyone see that this dude is playing at Pix? He’s a little like a train wreck for me. I can’t look away but I also can’t believe it.
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
One of the great things about being in a band is having the opportunity to collaborate in the creation of art-product. Today, for instance, a couple of band members are coming over to record their parts for the Auction Winners’ songs–and who knows what sorts of parts they’ll come up with? I don’t! [...]
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Last night I finished reading “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy.
I started it three weeks ago, with pretty high hopes–”No Country for Old Men” was coming out in theaters (still haven’t seen it), and I remembered enjoying the only other book of his I’ve read (”Child of God”). After about sixty pages, I put it [...]
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Thursday, November 8, 2007
No record labels. Using the Internet as the primary means of distribution. Two bands that we as a nation should have stopped caring about a long, long time ago.
First, the Eagles. On the one hand, I’m happy to be alive at a time when a major label stalwart not named Prince decides [...]
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
I would like to have more to say about this. I really, really would. Maybe I will, once the blood stops dripping from my eyes onto the keyboard.
Thomas Kinkade’s The Christmas Cottage, starring Peter O’Toole
PLEASE MAKE IT STOP, Filmmaker of Light.
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Sunday, September 16, 2007
I realize that you are some sort of retarded hillbilly ex-frat boy which explains a lot of your behavior. It must also be the reason that you think it is totally acceptable to break furniture in your backyard while listening to Jimmy Buffet all the while whooping and hollering only stopping to sing along with [...]
About half an hour ago, these words ran through my head:1
“OK, I need four lines describing the history of conflict between the Danes and the Swedes, and the rhyme scheme has to be ABAB. And ideally it will be amusing.”
So far I’ve got nothing even remotely amusing,2 but that’s not the point.
The point is [...]
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Since we’ve been writing and talking about this album for over a year now, maybe we should have a contest for our loyal fans. A contest where they send in their own sexy personal ad DYM style and the winner gets a free Roboctopus album with all of our lip prints on it. And as [...]
