New threads started in January ’07
Monday, 1st January 2007
[Link] First show is on prog rock. Geir to thread, & c. Teh Blissblog & Dissensus love it, obv: [Link] [Link] Well put together, great visuals, engaging overall. I say classic and look…
Um... not so sure about this one, Werner. [Link]
There must be a thread for this or Guillermo Del Toro somewhere, but I just wanna say it’s as good as anything else I’ve seen this year. A logical extension of the work he did on Devil’s…
Jesus hates youse all and this is proof, dawgz.
Kayaking Drove a motor boat Visited Albania Bought a house Did my first pregnancy test Ginger Wine Tapas
I must say I’m not a huge fan of Bowie, but by some crazy random state of events, I ended up noticing this in my limited vinyl collection and put it on. “Five Years” was something that…
if so,where are you from? sometimes i feel im the only one here who is not.
Come on, everyone knows this album is the shit. Haven’t you heard? Etc...
So I sang this piece in high school choir—it was like the special choir so it was a pretty complicated piece. i don’t know much about it but here’s what i know: -4 or 5 part harmony…
Syd Barrett | b. 1946 Eugene Landy | b. 1934 Off-Key By CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Published: December 31, 2006 No one really disputes the correlation between rock music and insanity. At this point…
I haven’t paid any attention to college football this year — tell me what’s interesting and worth caring about this year in the bowls. I just turned on the tv and happened across the…
Happy new year, Obie! (For anyone who thinks this is some post-wikipedia nu-jack shit: [Link] )
teach me. i’m fed up with my camera and want a GR34T camera. should i buy one? if so, which one? i’m going to japan, so i figure i might find something CHEAP(er) there?
Unlike most people, I was fortunate enough to grow up in a city that had an 80s European hardcore punk store about ten minutes from my house. Bob Suren was the name of the guy who ran it…
At the Grove yesterday... -Renee Zellweger at the biography section inside Barnes & Noble (she’s really really short) -Richard Belzer walking past the movie theater (best celebrity…
-Excuse me, is this the line for the Vietnamese restaurant? -Pho queue!
[Link] I am 50 on the male side. A left-brain engineer-type. News to me! I was a miserable failure at remembering the position of objects, yet earned a perfect score in selecting the…
i think that it’s time to remedy that situation, no?!? [Image]
When did we stop living in real time and start living in a year that looks like a bad sci-fi comic from the 60s? “2007” just seems so wrong. Discuss.
Tuesday, 2nd January 2007
I just recorded this mixtape track today, I have mixed feelings about it. I kind of want to cringe a little when I hear it. Please let me know what you think... It is the song called “SOHH…
OMG
[Link] Someone is killed in this story, a rum do by all accounts, but they managed to tie in a beatles angle. (She broke into George’s house once and nicked some cold pizza from the…
So allmusic lists Blue Eyed/Brown Eyed/Latin Soul & Funk, but doesn’t have shit on the French. I’ve been listening to/reading up on Sinclar a lot and a search for French Funk on eBay…
I’m so thrilled, really.
Hi Kids, we’re home early! [Link]
Um I hesitate to say it: There were some great moments in there! Ade Edmondson doing “Anarchy” in a George Melly style! That bloke “Seasick Sammy”! others.
That’s what my Nano said was playing before it scrolled the full title (“Almost Always Is Nearly Enough” by Tortoise) So: what’s your favorite cut-off song title on your mp3-player’s…
On their 1) hit of “A whole new world” or 2) Getting married in Thailand. Depends on your choice of Kat(i)e and Pete(r) really.
Happy 2007 you guysh! Everyone have a good one?.....
Or even ... allure?
from bottom 3 to top 6! will defending champions red bull dozers stage a story book come back to the top??
So I put “vue cinemas” in google expecting to get a link to where i can book online and instaed I get everything but an official Vue cinema site. What am I doing wrong?
Ladies and gentlemen please pray silence for MSN UK Movies writer Ed Holden, and his quite simply breath-taking “The 12 Worst Movies Of 2006”: [Link] The Devil Wears Prada—Spend as much…
Time for the Best Texturizer award. I’ve been really into texture lately—I used 2 like my songs straight up (melodies and live bands sufficed). Now I look for the layers of a landscape…
Any library folk going to ALA Midwinter or Annual? Also, why is registration so ridiculous? Hotels for annual in DC are already filling up. I can’t be bothered right now.
Okay, this is a pretty open-ended, Google-proof one, so I turn it over to ILX to save my soul. This was played at an 80s night a couple months ago, I don’t know if I have ANY of the words…
goes to Paul Du Noyer for something in Q magazine, to the effect of: “The Feeling: If modern pop music had had as much heart in 1976, Punk would not have needed to happen” Now, I hate The…
This thread brought to you by Surge(TM) cola. Also, the official death toll for U.S. troops now passed 3,000. “The president believes that every life is precious and grieves for each one…