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It's about time for me to get the fuck out of dodge. I keep managing to piss people off without actually remembering it. So, I guess I'll go home for a few days, lay low, and get my integrity back.
Five Albums That I Thought I'd Never Own, but somehow managed to buy this year:
(1) Winepress, "Full Anthology": stripped down, basic-as-fuck pop-punk songs that I listened to about four years ago. One of the infamous Leroy brother's in Kankakee made me a tape of all the 7" singles, without any real hope of a cd coming out. Time passes, the tape gets lost, I nearly forget about Winepress until last weekend when Scooter walks into the pad and pops in a cd that starts playing "The Girl Who Broke My Heart." Cheesy title, yes. Cheesy lyrics, yes. Cheesy guitar lead that manages to only stay within the first five notes of the G Major scale, yes. But somehow, it's still good. Goddamn.
(2) Death Cab For Cutie, any of the two full-lengths or the one ep that I own: I never got into Death Cab simply because of the name and the fact that Zach talked about it so much. Just pictured a silly band that played insanely fast songs with way too overworked lyrics. I was off ... way off. This band is good, in the sense that macaroni and cheese is good - silky, smooth, not hard on the stomach, easy to digest - unless you've got dairy and stomach issues, which I don't. I've bought three of their releases in less than eight months. What's wrong with that?
(3) First Grade Crush, "Our Time Down Here": Now, I don't actually own this album yet, which blows, but I do plan on owning it before the end of the year. I'm being optimistic. These are great friends of not only myself, but the SLK and the PS as well. We have all appreciated the support that these douche-bags have given us in anything that we've done over the past two years, and we are all praying (to the great pizza god in the sky) that their album will come out before Saturday when they have THEIR CD RELEASE SHOW AT THE FIRESIDE BOWL, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS! Shameless plug. I'll be there. Mast will be there. You should be there.
(4) Bob Dylan, "Blonde on Blonde": Jack Black and John Cusack are responsible for quite a chunk of my record collection nowadays. This is one of them. Decent stuff. Still haven't delved too deeply into it, but that doesn't mean it sucks. I just used to absolutely hate the Dyl. Knocked him in an original SLK song, but that was really a knock on the guy that lived in the dorm room adjacent to mine. Ooh, I hated him so badly. I'll keep you all posted on how this album treats me over the next few months. Maybe I'll take it to Hawaii with me.
(5) Hey Mercedes, "Everynight Fire Works": Sue me for saying this, but I never thought that this album was going to come out before the end of the year. Props to the Hey May Machine for keeping themselves out on the road and keeping busy, and props to anyone that bought it. A pure gem. And Zook's got it wrong. Damon, though a rock-tastic, superbombastic entity behind the old skins, still isn't my favorite drummer in a band. I still think that Justin Leroy takes the cake. The band was Daydream King. The years were long gone. The beats were tight, like a new pair of leather pants.
Which brings me to my next topic-
I've seen four pairs of leather pants over the course of the last three days. Are these damn things really coming back into style? On Saturday night, before we made our way over to the NxNw show, we saw a guy standing outside Watterson Towers (the largest dormitory in the world) wearing a plain, white T-shirt tucked into his tight ass, leather pants. What the fuck? Who thinks this looks good? I can understand if you're in G'nR and you've got money to spare, and the people that you want to have sex with don't give a shit what they hell you're wearing, but outside a dorm? Outside a cafeteria, like these two dudes I saw yesterday, walking together, smiling, one in black leather pants, the other in grey leather pants. How about on the side of the street like this girl I saw today (who filled them out way better than the previous three dudes)? Does anyone know whether or not this is coming back into style? I might have to move to another country if this was the case.
Maybe I'm just groggy from that four hour nap I took today. Shit.
It's about time for me to get the fuck out of dodge. I keep managing to piss people off without actually remembering it. So, I guess I'll go home for a few days, lay low, and get my integrity back.
Five Albums That I Thought I'd Never Own, but somehow managed to buy this year:
(1) Winepress, "Full Anthology": stripped down, basic-as-fuck pop-punk songs that I listened to about four years ago. One of the infamous Leroy brother's in Kankakee made me a tape of all the 7" singles, without any real hope of a cd coming out. Time passes, the tape gets lost, I nearly forget about Winepress until last weekend when Scooter walks into the pad and pops in a cd that starts playing "The Girl Who Broke My Heart." Cheesy title, yes. Cheesy lyrics, yes. Cheesy guitar lead that manages to only stay within the first five notes of the G Major scale, yes. But somehow, it's still good. Goddamn.
(2) Death Cab For Cutie, any of the two full-lengths or the one ep that I own: I never got into Death Cab simply because of the name and the fact that Zach talked about it so much. Just pictured a silly band that played insanely fast songs with way too overworked lyrics. I was off ... way off. This band is good, in the sense that macaroni and cheese is good - silky, smooth, not hard on the stomach, easy to digest - unless you've got dairy and stomach issues, which I don't. I've bought three of their releases in less than eight months. What's wrong with that?
(3) First Grade Crush, "Our Time Down Here": Now, I don't actually own this album yet, which blows, but I do plan on owning it before the end of the year. I'm being optimistic. These are great friends of not only myself, but the SLK and the PS as well. We have all appreciated the support that these douche-bags have given us in anything that we've done over the past two years, and we are all praying (to the great pizza god in the sky) that their album will come out before Saturday when they have THEIR CD RELEASE SHOW AT THE FIRESIDE BOWL, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS! Shameless plug. I'll be there. Mast will be there. You should be there.
(4) Bob Dylan, "Blonde on Blonde": Jack Black and John Cusack are responsible for quite a chunk of my record collection nowadays. This is one of them. Decent stuff. Still haven't delved too deeply into it, but that doesn't mean it sucks. I just used to absolutely hate the Dyl. Knocked him in an original SLK song, but that was really a knock on the guy that lived in the dorm room adjacent to mine. Ooh, I hated him so badly. I'll keep you all posted on how this album treats me over the next few months. Maybe I'll take it to Hawaii with me.
(5) Hey Mercedes, "Everynight Fire Works": Sue me for saying this, but I never thought that this album was going to come out before the end of the year. Props to the Hey May Machine for keeping themselves out on the road and keeping busy, and props to anyone that bought it. A pure gem. And Zook's got it wrong. Damon, though a rock-tastic, superbombastic entity behind the old skins, still isn't my favorite drummer in a band. I still think that Justin Leroy takes the cake. The band was Daydream King. The years were long gone. The beats were tight, like a new pair of leather pants.
Which brings me to my next topic-
I've seen four pairs of leather pants over the course of the last three days. Are these damn things really coming back into style? On Saturday night, before we made our way over to the NxNw show, we saw a guy standing outside Watterson Towers (the largest dormitory in the world) wearing a plain, white T-shirt tucked into his tight ass, leather pants. What the fuck? Who thinks this looks good? I can understand if you're in G'nR and you've got money to spare, and the people that you want to have sex with don't give a shit what they hell you're wearing, but outside a dorm? Outside a cafeteria, like these two dudes I saw yesterday, walking together, smiling, one in black leather pants, the other in grey leather pants. How about on the side of the street like this girl I saw today (who filled them out way better than the previous three dudes)? Does anyone know whether or not this is coming back into style? I might have to move to another country if this was the case.
Maybe I'm just groggy from that four hour nap I took today. Shit.
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