Why does every indie band look the same?
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Pure Greed
Americans are forking over $3.50 - $4.00 per gallon yet Shell is about to announce the highest annual profit in the history of British business. How do these pricks sleep at night? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=511387&in_page_id=1770
Two Books - January 08
After quitting drinking, smoking butts and eating meat in 07, I figured I could go easy on the 08 resolution. I decided to try and read two books per month. With a few days to spare, I have made it through January. At the end of each month, I'll let you know what I've read, and give each book a simple 1-10 rating. I'm not much for "reviewing" books so I'll leave it at that. Ovenman by Jeff Parker, 2007, Fiction: 6.1 Voices From the Street by Philip K. Dick, 2007 (reprint), Fiction: 6.5 So yeah, not a great start.
HBO's Best
Since HBO is really the only TV worth watching these days, here's my take on the top ten of all-time: 1 Six Feet Under 2 The Sopranos 3 Curb Your Enthusiasm 4 Entourage 5 Flight of the Conchords 6 Sex and the City 7 The Wire 8 Extras 9 Tell Me You Love Me 10 Dream On Worst ever? By far : Arli$$
"Rushmore" to "Juno"
Wes Anderson started the teen-outcast, indie-hipster loving sub-genre with 1998's "Rushmore". Thankfully, there was a lot of depth to this film and I still think it's Anderson's best movie to date (including "No Country For Old Men"). Since its release, writers and directors have repeatedly stolen its framework, watered it down for a wider audience and reinvented it. But the problem is that these half-assed sequels have little in common with "Rushmore" aside from its basic ingredients: super-intelligent teen outcast who's years ahead of himself in knowledge of the arts, a solid indie soundtrack borrowing equally from under-appreciated acts of the 60s and 70s to today's more obscure acts, out-of-touch parents/role models who are awash in idiosyncracies. What made me think of this? Well, first it was after the release of "Garden State". The indie community drooled at this overly-precious piece-of-crap of a film. (Remember Natali...
"Spirit in the Sky" 7"
One of my earliest memories of listening to music was driving around in my mother's Pinto, and later Buick, listening CBS 101 in New Jersey. CBS 101 was an oldies station and it was the *only* station my mom would play in the car. I'd hear Elvis, Herman's Hermits, The Everly Brothers (mom's favorite) and tons of other doo-wop tunes from the fifties. Most of this music usually went right over my head. It didn't capture me. Then one day CBS 101 played Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" and I felt a connection. I recall begging my mother to play that song again. Unfortunately, she didn't have it. A few days later, mom knocked on my bedroom door and handed me a 7" of "Spirit in the Sky". I'm not positive, but I'm fairly certain that this was the first record that I could call my own. Some time later we picked up a Fisher all-in-one stereo - one of those with tapedeck, turntable and stereo all in one jobs. I remember flipping ...