December 2008
22 posts
Lykke Li - Knocked Up (Kings of Leon...
I’m just gonna put it out there that if i’m put in some sort of situation tomorrow where I have to spend the night in Vegas because my connection to Boston is delayed from snow, I will consider it an early Christmas present and not an inconvenience, just so we’re clear
Nicely done Internet
I’m not sure a more exciting race for X-mas Top of the Charts has happened since Billy Mack’s fictional ascent with “Christmas is All Around”…
“Hallelujah” Could Be UK’s Christmas No. 1 And No. 2 • After X Factor winner Alexandra Burke’s cover of “Hallelujah” went to No. 1 in the UK, Jeff Buckley fans started an Internet...
The Gaslight Anthem - High Lonesome (Live)
And...
WatchThe Gaslight Anthem - The ‘59 Sound
The signifigance of playing the Stone Pony in Asbury Park is surely not lost on many. This is some serious rock n roll.
Merry X-mas
So I had been thinking maybe I wanted to move out of Hermosa Beach, and then tonight I watched the fireworks in Manhattan Beach privately on the roof of Beaches, and proceeeded to have dinner which totaled over 400 dollars for four people of which I paid none and I thought…yeah I’m pretty chill with staying here for a while! …oh wait, is there a recession? Cause we’re...
Taylor Swift is High School Pop Perfection →
Well played Nashville, well played. The new album is the musical equivalent of Friday Night Lights’ depection of youth in America today.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Kurt...
LOS ANGELES TIMES SUGGESTS I RELAPSED-RA →
The essential problem is that any journalist who goes to rock shows by assignment every night for a big paper, is just looking for a story, trying to get it done quickly, and is not likely to do much research, or listen to the bootlegs, and sees an easy story with the stage banter. I’m definitely bummed I couldn’t make it to the show but am glad to hear you’re hanging in...
“So you decide to take a, holiday.
You got your tape deck and your brand new...”
– Billy Joel ~ Captain Jack
This song easily reinforces Chuck Klosterman’s whole theory that Billy Joel writes the most “real” and depressing songs about lonliness. Then while looking up the lyrics on the magical internet I found this amusing link to our new Secretary of...
Created a Françoise Hardy station on Pandora →
It took 12 songs until Nico’s “These Days” was played, which seems about right.
On the lam
In general I love having a Boston phone number while living in LA but today was definitely an exception when someone looking for Susan Conti or something called at 430 this morning. I told them they had the wrong number but apparently Susan is dodging credit card payments or something so they didn’t really believe me. I told them the situation, that I was currently half asleep in Los...
WatchThe Pains of Being Pure at Heart - “Everything With You”
This really does sound like 1992 making a comeback, Pitchfork is right for once, it happens.