October 2009
18 posts
On Starter jackets
Roger—deep in the heart of Dallas with his band—and I were discussing the middle school phenomenon of Starter jackets in the mid-nineties and how, universally, boys wore Cowboys ones and girls, Charlotte Hornets. I strayed from this trend, wearing a string of Jacksonville Jaguars, Orlando Magic, and other lame Apex and Logo 7 ripoffs. In eighth grade I used all my birthday money to buy...
September 2009
18 posts
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Everything old is new again
The Beatles have fifteen of the top eighteen selling albums in the United States this week. That’s every album they ever released. The other three in the top eighteen? All by Michael Jackson.
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A Boy Named Thor - The Bear and the Bee
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The A.V. Club's Sawbuck Gamer →
The A.V. Club has a new biweekly (hopefully it stays this way) column, The Sawbuck Gamer, that rounds up the best of (mostly) free games, ranging from browser games (such as the Mirror’s Edge-y Canabalt) to XBLA stuff. I’ll never get any work done again.
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Ted Leo signs with Matador, hopefully won't kill... →
Leo hasn’t had the best luck with labels the past few years. His longtime home, Lookout! Records, went bust thanks to mismanagement and Green Day pulling its catalog. Then he moved to respected Chicago-based indie Touch & Go Records for Living With The Living. Surely the label that had just celebrated its big 25th anniversary in grand fashion was a safe bet, right? Nope. Touch & Go...
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“A novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name.”
– Salman Rushdie, on The Da Vinci Code
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Beulah - Gene Autry
“I hope this text doesn’t wake you but it’s 4:56AM and the Pretty...”
– Rog
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Chuck Klosterman Repeats The Beatles →
Chuck Klosterman reviews the new Beatles box set for the A.V. Club under the premise he’s never actually heard about them before.
Like most people, I was initially confused by EMI’s decision to release remastered versions of all 13 albums by the Liverpool pop group Beatles, a 1960s band so obscure that their music is not even available on iTunes. The entire proposition seems like a...
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Pretty & Nice - "Massive U" →
iamtherog:
Check out the new Pretty & Nice song “Massive U” which was recorded as part of the Boston Phoenix’s new “Homework Assignment” feature.
Best song that references Emmanuel College ever.
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Allston in the Seventies →
Where are all the hipsters? Oh right, they haven’t been invented yet.
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“Allston is a tetanus-bristling wonderland of sweaty beards and soiled couches...”
– Aaron
musicforyourcoffee:
Karen O and the Kids – All Is...
Juhachiban →
Lyz’s hilarious short story about a crazed karaoke singer in Storyglossia. FUN FACT: I wrote the bio at the bottom.