how does a hockey player become such an effete snob?

7/31/2009 3:36:44 AM

i'm a goaltender.

we're weird.

^^^ i'd say only one in four people at jp wear tight pants

7/31/2009 3:37:40 AM

testing something

so whats the best movie you saw in 2009 so far?

[Edited on August 4, 2009 at 2:30 AM. Reason : hmmmm]

8/4/2009 2:29:01 AM

Quote :

"the clash pixies talking heads sonic youth elvis costello & the attractions the rolling stones the stooges the beach boys guided by voices the kinks"

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This is your top ten bands list--explain it.

8/4/2009 2:48:44 AM

Hmmm. In no particular order:

- Pixies are my favorite band ever. I honestly believe that they never recorded a bad song. Ever.

- Guided By Voices have released at least a hundred stone cold brilliant pop songs. I have no idea how they did it. However, considering the appreciable amount of love I give to a band that released only one stone cold brilliant pop song (Spacehog), GBV need a lot of love.

- Elvis Costello & the Attractions...at least three fantastic pop albums in an aesthetic that didn't exist beforehand. To be fair, thought, if I were tossing bands off this list they'd probably be the first to go.

- There is no punk without the Stooges. "Down on the Street" might be the most brutal, ass-kicking rock 'n' roll single of all time.

- The Beach Boys made Pet Sounds, the greatest album ever, but they also made Wild Honey, a damn fine white soul album, Surf's Up, a damn fine depresso '70s pop album, The Beach Boys Love You, a whacked-out crazy-assed casio-psych record, and had a black lead singer for at least two singles. And don't get me started on The Beach Boys Today! They rule.

- The Clash: Go listen to London Calling and Sandinista! back-to-back and tell me they're not one of the ten best bands ever.

- The Rolling Stones are the best blues band of all time. People talk about how Wilco changed the game for alt-country bands with Yankee Hotel Foxtrot...the Stones changed the game for blues bands at least five times.

- Sonic Youth took a time when jangle-pop was all the rage and made three fantastic noise-punk records with HOOKS some of the best-selling records in the underground because they were just that good. Twenty years later, they're still making vital rock music that still sounds like SY but doesn't constantly tread the same ground.

- People will forever talk about the great debate between the Beatles and Stones. One of the arguments is that you can't compare them because the Beatles were essentially a pop band and the Stones were essentially a rock band (though I disagree with the second statement). The Kinks were the best of both worlds, and their pop acumen is criminally underrepresented. I'm not trying to shit on the Beatles or Stones, but I'm confident in saying that the best of the Kinks is on par with the best of either.

- I really like Talking Heads, but they're another band that would probably get tossed off the list in a pinch. This only highlights the fact that far too much music runs through my head at any given time for me to just rattle off ten bands. For instance, right now I sort of think that Gang of Four are more important than Talking Heads despite having only one great record.

For the record, when anyone asks who my favorite bands are, my stock answer is Beach Boys/Clash/Pixies.

8/4/2009 5:19:30 AM

Do you think that "Go Ask Alice" is an actual diary or is it the creative, mostly fictional work of an overzealous editor, based on various experiences that she had heard about?

[Edited on August 4, 2009 at 5:28 AM. Reason : Anonymous]

8/4/2009 5:28:00 AM

The latter.

Good blueprint for JT LeRoy, though.

8/4/2009 5:31:58 AM

what's your opinion on echo and the bunnymen?


i have a love/hate relationship with them. saw them over the weekend, thought it was tired and uninspired. ian mcculloch's prima donna behavior seemed forced and distracting too. idk

[Edited on August 4, 2009 at 5:45 AM. Reason : e]

8/4/2009 5:42:54 AM

My favorite thing about Echo & the Bunnymen is the Pavement version of "The Killing Moon."

8/4/2009 5:45:49 AM

^x5 Fair enough. Thank you.

8/4/2009 3:55:20 PM

Who was more creative - Syd Barrett or Brian Wilson?

8/4/2009 10:30:45 PM

Was is your favorite film sequel that wasn't originally planned (eg. The Empire Strikes Back could not be included)?

8/4/2009 10:42:30 PM

^^ Are you fucking kidding? Brian Wilson by more miles than exist on this planet.

^ No clue. How am I supposed to know what was planned?

8/5/2009 2:10:29 AM

What is the best way to be pretentious and indulge one's ego?

[Edited on August 5, 2009 at 2:34 AM. Reason : .]

8/5/2009 2:33:57 AM

Pretend you like Bright Eyes.

8/5/2009 2:46:02 AM

Quote :

"How am I supposed to know what was planned?"

Man, I thought about that as I posted and forgot to edit. I guess any sequel that goes straight to DVD or becomes a made for TV movie would be right out. And then there are sequels to sleeper hits that come out just to capitalize on the previous title's recent success. Yes, this is indeed quite complicated.

How about your favorite film sequel?

8/5/2009 4:15:51 PM

what was it that you said was the greatest pop song ever written at camera obscura? this thread made me think of that, and i can't remember what song it was.

[Edited on August 5, 2009 at 4:19 PM. Reason : now that i think about it, i doubt you remember either]

8/5/2009 4:19:45 PM

how much is it going to cost to fix the jack on my bass?

8/5/2009 4:19:47 PM

^ $15.

^^ I have no idea.

^^^ Babe: Pig in the City

8/5/2009 5:19:20 PM

Agreed.

Nice!

[Edited on August 5, 2009 at 5:31 PM. Reason : .]

8/5/2009 5:31:29 PM

Have you seen the recent episode of Degrassi where Emma starts smoking pot and everybody calls her Blaze and then the moral of the story is pot is bad because a girl with diabeetus ate so many pot brownies she went into a diabetic coma? Because it's pretty fucking great.

8/5/2009 5:35:38 PM

Man, what an awesome plot line.

8/5/2009 5:36:40 PM

^^Pardon me while I split hairs. The moral of the story wasn't that smoking pot is bad. The moral was that its bad to co-opt a trait/behavior just for the sake of crafting an "interesting" personality. In Emma's case, it happened to be pot.

8/5/2009 6:07:50 PM

Pardon you while you miss the joke.

And pardon me while I miss that one.

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[seriously, /meta]

8/5/2009 6:36:00 PM

who sings the song in this commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0rx1srLsh0

8/5/2009 6:38:19 PM

it's in the info box to the right of the video

haha

8/5/2009 6:40:22 PM

I enjoy Matt & Kim, but I enjoy them more than normal because she's the drummer for once.

Also, here are Matt & Kim naked:

8/5/2009 6:45:17 PM

is that the same music video you told me about where they were running around naked in NYC and people are like wtf?

8/5/2009 6:54:13 PM

Yes.

Also, I have a copy of "Daylight" that you're welcome to borrow, but it's a 7" so you'll only be able to look at it.

8/5/2009 6:55:07 PM

i, too, wouldn't mind looking at a 7"

8/5/2009 6:56:40 PM

HEYO

8/5/2009 6:57:19 PM

Yes i wouldn't mind borrowing either of those 7' items

8/5/2009 7:02:50 PM

7'

8/5/2009 7:04:07 PM

is there a difference between 7' or 7"?

8/5/2009 7:05:01 PM

7 feet or 7 inches

8/5/2009 7:08:32 PM

i posted about that song up there in another thread and didn't even read that part of this thread

8/5/2009 7:52:08 PM

haha

i totally thought you got it from this thread

8/5/2009 7:59:21 PM

nope...i don't read threads like this for content for the most part...i just read the last post and comment

8/5/2009 8:00:15 PM

i did too

8/5/2009 8:00:28 PM

i posted it....

then i thought...i think i saw that somewhere else today....


i looked back and it was in this thread

8/5/2009 8:04:18 PM

Matt & Kim is horrible.

come on dood

8/5/2009 9:02:25 PM

They're cute, and "Daylight" is a good song.

The rest I can take or leave.

8/6/2009 3:08:00 AM

i bought the youth against fascism white vinyl single for $25. i can't find much info on it, but according to the record store it's rare. do you think i overpaid?

8/8/2009 12:10:38 AM

as long as you don't feel you overpaid, you didn't

8/8/2009 10:31:59 AM

Quote :

"^^ Are you fucking kidding? Brian Wilson by more miles than exist on this planet."

I don't think the two are that far apart, at least not as far as you suggest.

Imagine if Waters or Gilmour could have gotten Syd to be the "Brian Wilson" of Pink Floyd. You know, the drug-influenced guy who writes the songs but doesn't play them live.

8/20/2009 2:08:43 AM

whats your favorite song that ryan seacrest approves of?

8/20/2009 2:12:13 AM

^ you post too much, tired of seeing you


^^^ you dont work on Saturdays do you?

8/20/2009 2:13:49 AM

(^ he did this past saturday)

8/20/2009 2:26:28 AM

^^^ since u been gone

^^ yes, saturdays

8/20/2009 5:10:18 AM

should I end a date on Friday by going to jackpot?

8/20/2009 12:52:12 PM