Aug
31

The Great Pumpkin (No Charlie Brown)

Pumpkin is the best movie you’ve never seen. Seriously. This is why I wrote an On Second Thought piece about the film for Stylus this week. Check it out and please see this movie. If you like Ghost World and Heathers, you’ll like Pumpkin. Trust. Basically, the film is the story of Christina Ricci/Carolyn McDuffy… Continue reading »

Aug
29

Beards, Blazers & Glasses or Wolf Parade, The Best New Band of the Decade?

In my book, there are two choices in the debate for the best rock band to debut in this decade: The Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade. Of course, I could get all trendy and pick some esoteric act doing all sorts of crazy things with guitar feedback and withered tape loops. Or maybe I could… Continue reading »

Aug
25

The 10 Greatest Songs That Didn’t Make The Pitchfork List Pt. 2

#5 Cream–”Tales of Brave Ulysses” from Disraeli Gears Eric Clapton must’ve mailed anthrax to Pitchfork headquarters in Chicago. That’s the only way that I can reconcile how neither his work in the Yardbirds, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, nor Cream yielded one song on Pitchfork’s 200 greatest songs list. There was a reason why British youths in… Continue reading »

Aug
23

The 10 Greatest Songs That Didn’t Make The Pitchfork List Pt. 1

Here’s a photo of Albert Einstein showing to the class exactly how many incredible songs Pitchfork left off their 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960′s list. I touched on this topic last week midway through their list to express my outrage that “It’s Alright Ma’ (I’m Only Bleeding) only ranked #150, a fact which still… Continue reading »

Aug
23

Bears on a Train

It was only a matter of time.

Aug
21

Deja Wu

One of the best aspects of the second disc of Wu-Tang Forever was that it featured a whole lot of the RZA’s trademark babbling. Now unlike most rappers who make dumb boasts on wax and only end up sounding insecure and half-way retarded, the Rza manages to turn normally empty braggadocio into the stuff of… Continue reading »

Aug
15

Why Humanity Sucks In 06 or 39 Minutes In Paris

Yeah. I listened to it. I didn’t want to. I had to. Because on some level if you’re paying attention to pop culture in the year 2006, Paris Hilton remains an inescapable force. Whether you want to or not, at some point you’ll inevitably turn on the television to see a re-run of The Simple… Continue reading »

Aug
15

It’s Alright Ma, (They’re Only Contrarian)

As many of you already know, Pitchfork is in the midst of its 200 Best Songs of 60′s list. Now as much as everyone bitches about Pitchfork, their lists have been among the best things they’ve ever done. Sure, you can point out how absurd it was when they named “Low,” album of the 70′s… Continue reading »

Aug
14

They’re Cleaning Out Their Closet

Let’s play a game, it’s called pretend you’re the CEO of the GAP, one of America’s most well-known retail brands. And let’s say that your stock has been torn to shreds over the past few years as your firm has seen its net income and revenues stay flat. What do you do? Well, apparently, the… Continue reading »

Aug
14

A Little Help Please

So I installed a new version of Itunes and for some reason, I can’t play any Youtube videos or any other sort of Internet video. For some strange reason, the Quicktime function that came with the new Itunes has become my default Internet video player and won’t play anything. Now when I go to youtube,… Continue reading »

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