From http://twitter.com/aaronpoehler. Looking at the amount of stuff built up I should probably do this more often. Or maybe you should just follow me because even this isn’t exhaustive, there were some twitter-only posts that have been excised here and oh geez don’t you feel like you missed out now?
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It’s got to suck working on bonus CD-ROM materials for music CDs knowing full well your audience is: (people who read liner notes)/20 |
Tue Sep 13 17:23:51 +0000 2011 |
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“Augmented Reality Experience” is the most ridiculously overblown BS marketing euphemism imaginable for “We threw in some bonus CDROM shit” |
Tue Sep 13 17:20:34 +0000 2011 |
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Funniest thing I’ve seen so far today: comment section full of people lamenting the death of the CD by complaining ‘digital music sucks’ |
Tue Sep 13 15:24:21 +0000 2011 |
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Mostly though these New 52 #1 review columns all read the same: staid & lacking Sterling’s insight. 6 months in, then they’ll have a point. |
Mon Sep 12 16:30:22 +0000 2011 |
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Not writing on DC’s New52 #1s because there’s more than enough of that already but Giffen’s OMAC is pure Kirby goodness http://t.co/R8AZqpb |
Mon Sep 12 16:25:33 +0000 2011 |
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Catch-22: if you take Esquire’s How To Be A Man feature remotely seriously you are precluded from being one |
Sun Sep 11 16:54:49 +0000 2011 |
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Hey, Spider-Island: Avengers was actually quite good, don’t miss it in the sea of samey-looking tie-ins with generic names on the stands |
Sat Sep 10 19:18:55 +0000 2011 |
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Whenever something actually happens on which one might want current news updates I’m struck by the uselessness of all local SD news websites |
Fri Sep 09 19:01:31 +0000 2011 |
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At this point New Order w/o Peter Hook isn’t Queen w/o Freddie Mercury, it’s Dream Theater w/o Mike Portnoy–both badly need to STFU ASAP |
Fri Sep 09 18:23:05 +0000 2011 |
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How is it possible every month’s Zenescope covers are more cringe-inducingly mortifying than the last? |
Fri Sep 09 16:24:08 +0000 2011 |
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“San Diego: I SURVIVED being slightly uncomfortable for just under 12 hours” t-shirts would probably have a limited sale window |
Fri Sep 09 14:17:18 +0000 2011 |
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If you bought an ipad 2 case that doesn’t make use of the smart cover auto wake/sleep feature you oughtta take that shit back tout suite |
Wed Sep 07 21:28:08 +0000 2011 |
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Everything about Marvel’s Season 1 OGN covers from art to trade dress is awful unless “remainder-bin knockoffs” is what they were going for |
Wed Sep 07 19:42:02 +0000 2011 |
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I enjoy the work of PJ Harvey including her newest album but as an American I must disavow any knowledge of what the Mercury Prize is |
Tue Sep 06 21:39:40 +0000 2011 |
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Does your band have a ‘clever’ name? Man is that going to get old fast. |
Tue Sep 06 21:36:31 +0000 2011 |
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I never thought I’d be okay with a Hookless New Order but then I never thought Hook would be so blatantly exploitative of Joy Division music |
Tue Sep 06 16:34:33 +0000 2011 |
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I kinda think all instagram/hipstamatic processed photos look shitty now and will look moreso as time continues to pass |
Sun Sep 04 17:53:11 +0000 2011 |
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Guess I know what I’ll be listening to/watching over the wkend when I’m not doing acoustic treatment on the garage http://t.co/uvVjFTt |
Fri Sep 02 02:19:21 +0000 2011 |
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Who are the dumbfucks buying these licensed versions of Monopoly? It’s the same game with different tokens and street names. It’s also sad. |
Thu Sep 01 23:18:28 +0000 2011 |
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Oscar Jiminez could have been an A-list comic book artist if he’d ever delivered work in a remotely timely fashion. Great stuff but so late. |
Thu Sep 01 05:27:23 +0000 2011 |
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Was down for the concept of Ghost but not finding the music on Opus Eponymous as good as I’d hoped |
Tue Aug 30 16:32:09 +0000 2011 |
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Man I loves me some Thin Lizzy but the guitar solo on “The Rocker” is total ass |
Tue Aug 30 01:12:36 +0000 2011 |
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If I enjoy someone’s creative output it doesn’t mean I want to be harangued to help promote it as if that’s somehow my responsibility. |
Mon Aug 29 18:44:35 +0000 2011 |
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It must be tough to work up the enthusiasm to pretend anyone’s cared in the slightest about the Video Music Awards in decades |
Mon Aug 29 16:24:52 +0000 2011 |
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There can never be enough Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire comics (but they don’t all have to be Justice League related–maybe creator-owned next?) |
Sun Aug 28 19:29:40 +0000 2011 |
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Hey awesome, reverse sexism. Thanks Bounce/Procter & Gamble, and fuck you too http://t.co/GavTMeP |
Sat Aug 27 00:14:35 +0000 2011 |
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Absolutely the most mind-melting @RiffTrax short yet: “What Is Nothing?” http://t.co/xQyO7rg |
Fri Aug 26 21:40:01 +0000 2011 |
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Reality check: The Dark Knight Rises is still like a year away argh |
Thu Aug 25 21:33:34 +0000 2011 |
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I wonder how often that Static-X guy catches his reflection in the dressing room mirror & sighs deeply & mournfully before going onstage |
Tue Aug 23 16:58:09 +0000 2011 |
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All of these “Who’s Who at DC Comics-The New 52″ creator profiles are staggeringly dull. Done in the least imaginative way possible. |
Mon Aug 22 19:17:10 +0000 2011 |
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I guess it’s safe to take my Borders Rewards and Blockbuster Video cards out of my wallet now |
Mon Aug 22 17:30:59 +0000 2011 |
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Admittedly the blacklight room already breaks the Corvette Diner 50s theme but the Insane Clown Posse Bizarre Bazaar poster is going too far |
Fri Aug 19 21:09:10 +0000 2011 |
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Watched Blur – T in the Park last night. Do they get better or is singing shittily & out of key just Damon Albarn’s ‘thing’? |
Thu Aug 18 15:29:38 +0000 2011 |
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Keep thinking agency on Mad Men is named Sterling Archer Associates, then get distracted thinking about how awesome that premise would be |
Wed Aug 17 23:01:02 +0000 2011 |
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A writer writing to other writers about writing does not seem like worthwhile networking unless one’s aim is to be a writing teacher. |
Wed Aug 17 20:55:08 +0000 2011 |
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Though I too mourn the loss of canvas for visual art and text in albums, digital booklets are a waste of time for creator & listener alike |
Wed Aug 17 15:40:14 +0000 2011 |
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I got an offer claiming $15 for Harmony Balance-Bands is “a $40 value”, rather than the more accurate “$15 for a worthless scam product” |
Tue Aug 16 19:35:38 +0000 2011 |
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Caption this picture: what is melancholy devo fan thinking right now? (Photo from http://t.co/mrjTKsF) http://t.co/DrsoAAI |
Thu Aug 11 20:57:27 +0000 2011 |
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Kirby: Genesis is all the crazy superheroic action you crave without the bitter aftertaste of corporate indifference #trythisindycomic |
Thu Aug 11 17:56:00 +0000 2011 |
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God T.H.U.N.D.E.R Agents is awesome. I hope it doesn’t get completely buried and forgotten in the New 52 push. |
Thu Aug 11 02:33:49 +0000 2011 |
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Tip of the hat to Scott Snyder for a stellar scripting job on his Detective Comics run–looking forward to Batman run starting next month. |
Thu Aug 11 02:15:02 +0000 2011 |
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I like few bands enough to bother listening to a remix collection and I’m afraid Radiohead’s music hasn’t been rewarding enough for years |
Wed Aug 10 20:58:09 +0000 2011 |
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Watched the Horrors’ Glastonbury set last night: not bad, not great. Lyrics too simplistic and repetitive, songs a bit flimsy. 3 stars |
Wed Aug 10 17:12:40 +0000 2011 |
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Lord knows I loves me some metal but the whole “No really look how EEEEVIL I am” act some people in the genre pull is painfully corny |
Mon Aug 08 22:06:46 +0000 2011 |
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I’m fine with Lorne not changing out any SNL cast but I better not see any Deep House Dish, Target Lady, or What’s Up With That next season |
Sat Aug 06 00:46:35 +0000 2011 |
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Musical considerations aside, bands that dress up to look “old-timey” give me shudders of revulsion |
Fri Aug 05 19:55:20 +0000 2011 |
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You know what’s hot? Someone who knows the difference between ‘discrete’/'discreet’ and ‘reign’/'rein’ |
Fri Aug 05 17:34:10 +0000 2011 |
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…kids of today should defend themselves against false nostalgia for Ten and Nevermind. |
Tue Aug 02 21:44:50 +0000 2011 |
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Speaking out against false nostalgia in 1994, Eddie Vedder sang “Kids of today should defend themselves against the 70s”… |
Tue Aug 02 21:44:37 +0000 2011 |
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I wonder if they anticipated the line “You’re the fucked-up version of Amy Winehouse” playing the way it does now http://t.co/xkuqwO4 |
Tue Aug 02 16:28:43 +0000 2011 |
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Capitalizing the W in ‘Wanna’ really sells the desperate yearning and insecurity underpinning this pitch http://t.co/v7Z3ktA |
Mon Aug 01 18:21:33 +0000 2011 |
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Any album that’s reissued and hasn’t been out of print for at least five years is just a lame cashgrab *koff* ArcadeFireLadyGaga |
Fri Jul 29 21:58:15 +0000 2011 |
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Tineye would be useful if it worked better or at all, seems like there’s a space in the online spectrum for that if someone wants to step up |
Wed Jul 27 15:46:37 +0000 2011 |
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No device of mine is truly set up until its background is set to earthlights.jpg |
Tue Jul 26 01:35:49 +0000 2011 |
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J genuinely offended at my suggestion it will be awesome when the Starship Enterprise shows up in Game Of Thrones book 6 |
Sun Jul 24 21:08:00 +0000 2011 |
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This Katie MacAlister seems to be a prime offender, title after title and each one a worse groaner than the last |
Thu Jul 21 23:12:28 +0000 2011 |
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Wow, there sure are a lot of shitty-looking chicklit vampire books |
Thu Jul 21 23:02:44 +0000 2011 |
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There’s a lesson regarding the efficacy of legislation here somewhere http://t.co/aXzYM2g |
Thu Jul 21 19:27:54 +0000 2011 |
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@venturajm Nope, live stuff, 2 full hours of it. Bored me stiff, kept thinking surely they’d would play something interesting anytime but no |
Wed Jul 20 02:28:53 +0000 2011 |
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Bobby Fuller: Never to be forgotten. http://t.co/teGDJUX |
Tue Jul 19 17:44:15 +0000 2011 |
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I’d like to say I’ll miss Borders, but I haven’t found shopping at one enjoyable in quite awhile. Still, it was good when it was good. |
Mon Jul 18 22:38:03 +0000 2011 |
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Checked out some Widespread Panic music this weekend, found it all fairly tepid & unambitious. Decided I don’t really like Widespread Panic. |
Mon Jul 18 21:09:18 +0000 2011 |
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Every article on Battles for the past several months, summarized: “There sure are three guys in the band now instead of four” |
Sun Jul 17 17:45:34 +0000 2011 |
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The entirety of Broken Lizard Standup summarized: “Hey, you guys have all seen Super Troopers and are TOTALLY HIGH, right? Right?” |
Sun Jul 17 16:03:42 +0000 2011 |
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Thinking this might be a good candidate for the cover photo of album #2 http://t.co/oflpoBN |
Sat Jul 16 00:34:12 +0000 2011 |
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@laurensnuggles Jiffy Lube blows and several have been fined for unnecessary services. Hop on Yelp and find a good nonchain auto shop |
Fri Jul 15 21:30:16 +0000 2011 |
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See, everyone knows Palin is a joke except Newsweek http://t.co/ENEbaUt |
Fri Jul 15 18:52:17 +0000 2011 |
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Also Hooky’s Joy Division rerecordings are embarrassing and cringeworthy so well done on burning bridges there |
Fri Jul 15 17:14:23 +0000 2011 |
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“I know that our all bickering physically hurts the fans and destroys what they loved” Don’t worry Hooky it does neither http://t.co/pQfWUPE |
Fri Jul 15 17:09:57 +0000 2011 |
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I like how people are suddenly stricken by the breakup of a band that has done fuck-all for 4 years despite never noticing their absence |
Wed Jul 13 21:53:31 +0000 2011 |
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Landmark Forum seminars: far better experienced vicariously via entertaining stream of tweets. http://t.co/5daXMJl |
Wed Jul 13 18:20:57 +0000 2011 |
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Spotted some twit driving a Saab eating a bowl of cereal from his lap–milk, fruit and all. Just one tap on the brakes could ruin his day… |
Tue Jul 12 19:29:57 +0000 2011 |
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Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), classic Eno for Saturday morning – China My China by Brian Eno, from #SoundHound http://bit.ly/qnsfM6 |
Sat Jul 09 17:57:48 +0000 2011 |
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You know, every time I hear Pearl Jam I think “Maybe this will be the awesome thing that knocks me out” and it just never happens. |
Mon Jul 04 06:38:28 +0000 2011 |
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Finding it really hard to care about any of Marvel’s Fear Itself. At least we know Flashpoint is going somewhere; this doesn’t seem to be. |
Sun Jul 03 16:57:26 +0000 2011 |
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Wow, seriously, Newsweek? In what way is this ridiculous bullshit remotely news? What an awful publication. http://t.co/N2VuMzl |
Wed Jun 29 00:11:50 +0000 2011 |
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Prince and Morrissey are making themselves relics by refusing to adapt: http://t.co/Sc6qtkp |
Tue Jun 28 19:25:55 +0000 2011 |
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Tried to watch This Movie Is Broken, had to turn off 10 minutes in due to dire acting and awful cliche-ridden script. Wow, so bad |
Fri Jun 24 03:30:58 +0000 2011 |
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I bet parts of this sound unlikely to many. Not me, or anyone else ever paid to write. http://t.co/BpT6SWj |
Wed Jun 22 05:42:51 +0000 2011 |
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Also, how did I miss that Kathleen Hanna and Ad-Rock are married? That’s totally the kind of thing I tend to know despite myself. |
Mon Jun 20 20:49:30 +0000 2011 |
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I think it’s funny that grasping for an example of a terrible male performer, Jason Mraz is the first to pop to mind. http://t.co/KRLhYmQ |
Mon Jun 20 20:43:31 +0000 2011 |
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“My Game of Thrones app isn’t loading fast enough!” #firstworldproblems |
Sun Jun 19 16:40:56 +0000 2011 |
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Wow, Single White Spenny is incredibly clumsy and amateurish. Embarrassingly obvious wish-fulfilment fantasy, unfunny, hard to get through. |
Sat Jun 18 02:48:05 +0000 2011 |
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Watching Rifftrax Star Trek Generations, may god have mercy on us. I swear it wasn’t even me who picked it. |
Sat Jun 18 00:49:04 +0000 2011 |
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@karmiclife just put the folder on shuffle |
Fri Jun 17 06:34:48 +0000 2011 |
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Just watching a whole bunch of Rifftrax shorts |
Fri Jun 17 04:17:46 +0000 2011 |
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Pt. 3 of my #SunsetSessions Rock 2011 recap is up now, ft. 1 Less Reason, Unwritten Law, Evan Watson, The Wedding & more http://t.co/TRVshkr |
Wed Jun 15 21:36:45 +0000 2011 |
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A comedian’s site should have samples of comedy, not commercial acting work. Unconvincing ALL CAPS blurb doesn’t cut it http://t.co/Ad69VVU |
Wed Jun 15 18:35:35 +0000 2011 |
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Now that Game of Thrones is getting down to it we finally get answers to the important questions:they’re called ‘gingers’ in this world too |
Mon Jun 13 23:21:23 +0000 2011 |
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Aaron goes to #SunsetSessions Rock 2011 pt 2 up now: GIVERS, Ali Handal, Dead Sara, Drive A, Kopek, Shakti Tribe http://t.co/6AgUmTx |
Mon Jun 13 17:30:47 +0000 2011 |
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Watching Take Me Home Tonight. Have been on the verge of turning it off the whole time, it’s kind of a POS. |
Sun Jun 12 05:19:41 +0000 2011 |
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It’s hard to deny that a good number of DC’s 52 relaunch series feel like the ‘DC Explosion’ titles of the late 70s #quicklycanceled |
Sat Jun 11 17:34:28 +0000 2011 |
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Conversely, I’d have bet good money there was no way DC could possibly make a Stormwatch series interesting but with @Paul_Cornell, it is. |
Thu Jun 09 18:29:36 +0000 2011 |
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Marvel had better step up its PR game. Yet another obnoxiously obvious X-Men relaunch coupled with terrible Greg Land art ain’t cutting it. |
Thu Jun 09 18:22:56 +0000 2011 |
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On Invincible #80: Well if that wasn’t the most Kirkmany Kirkman comic that ever Kirkmaned I don’t know what is. Coast City/The Pitt anyone? |
Thu Jun 09 15:35:20 +0000 2011 |
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The worst part about seeing Robert Plant is all the people who really just want a sad echo of something they saw 35 years ago. |
Thu Jun 09 06:10:02 +0000 2011 |
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I don’t understand why it takes longer to get a drink at Copley Symphony Hall than anywhere else in the world |
Thu Jun 09 03:42:53 +0000 2011 |
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Creepy Creeps’ show doesn’t really work in a theater setting but they seem like they’d tear up the right club. |
Thu Jun 09 03:27:41 +0000 2011 |
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Really glad Paul Levitz’ LSH book isn’t going away but honestly surprised to find DC still thinks the market can support 2 Legion books. |
Wed Jun 08 17:24:49 +0000 2011 |
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I went to #SunsetSessions Rock 2011 and wrote about it. In this post: Transfer, AWOLNATION, and Deep Dark Robot. http://bit.ly/mrRtOT |
Tue Jun 07 17:15:11 +0000 2011 |
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Godspeed to producer Martin Rushent — I hope in death he is confused with Martin Hannett far less often. |
Mon Jun 06 22:44:59 +0000 2011 |
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Whatever happened to Argyle from Die Hard |
Mon Jun 06 03:23:31 +0000 2011 |
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Bends’ Moon Knight series really not doing it for me. And seriously, Echo again? Reads like the cliche of BMB talktalktalk empty writing. |
Sat Jun 04 19:31:33 +0000 2011 |
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Avengers Academy 14/14.1: continues to surprise me as one of the most consistent titles Marvel currently releases. Gage gets it–good stuff. |
Sat Jun 04 19:16:29 +0000 2011 |
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Amazing Spider-man now reads like Slott trying to get out all his stuff other guys vetoed during the multiwriter era. Get on with it, man. |
Sat Jun 04 18:11:52 +0000 2011 |
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Stuart Immonen is one of the best artists working today but man is Fear Itself ever terrible. Just bad writing all around, senseless crap. |
Sat Jun 04 17:57:05 +0000 2011 |
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Why does all food served in catering trays smell exactly the same |
Fri Jun 03 04:14:56 +0000 2011 |
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Movie Memorial Day: Pootie Tang, Rifftrax X-Men, In the Loop, Limitless |
Tue May 31 01:23:02 +0000 2011 |
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The new manners: when a person uses a cellphone in a movie theater, it is considered proper to throw popcorn at them until it is put away. |
Sat May 28 21:56:17 +0000 2011 |
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All I can say is Grant Morrison better be writing some Flash here or I’m gonna be pissed |
Sat May 28 06:08:58 +0000 2011 |
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I was all pissed off at the UPS guy for taking all day to deliver my package but then he showed up blasting the Misfits |
Sat May 28 01:54:15 +0000 2011 |
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Watched about 10 mins of Protest the Hero – Gallop Meets the Earth Live and just couldn’t take it seriously. |
Fri May 27 04:10:29 +0000 2011 |
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The Jesus Lizard albums Albini didn’t record sound so weird. |
Fri May 27 00:47:00 +0000 2011 |
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I don’t know or care who Ryan Giggs and Imogen Thomas are but I do know UK law doesn’t apply to me and I support unconditionally free speech |
Mon May 23 22:27:35 +0000 2011 |
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I guess this is the day everyone says something terribly unfunny about the supposed Rapture so let this stand as my contribution. |
Sat May 21 15:42:39 +0000 2011 |
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Bank of America, call me to push your pointless identity theft protection product just once more & I’ll see how fast I can switch banks |
Fri May 20 01:37:13 +0000 2011 |
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Hmm, mayhap Obama has been revisiting Slanted & Enchanted of late–let’s see if he says 40 million daggers must be sheathed to achieve peace |
Thu May 19 17:44:21 +0000 2011 |
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Whoa WordPress looks totally different for me now. I guess that’s what happens when you upgrade versions from 2.3.3 (3 years old) to 3.1.2 |
Thu May 19 16:02:13 +0000 2011 |
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“Velvet Revolver’s music isn’t very good and it was all about the money,” well duh. Music tell-all revelations aren’t what they used to be |
Wed May 18 20:50:23 +0000 2011 |
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Yuck is a lot better as far as not-entirely-original recentish UK wannabe-US-sounding bands with debut LPs out go |
Wed May 18 02:20:44 +0000 2011 |
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This Vaccines album kind of sucks and is boring |
Wed May 18 01:28:34 +0000 2011 |
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Flash Fact: I outnerded the internet with comic book knowledge http://bit.ly/lqNuYu |
Tue May 17 16:37:49 +0000 2011 |
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Recently finished Jeffrey Brown books Little Things & Any Easy Intimacy http://twitpic.com/4yhray |
Mon May 16 15:38:52 +0000 2011 |
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You can tell Waters helped select the new Floyd best-of: he’s the only person in the world who thinks “Fletcher Memorial Home” belongs there |
Tue May 10 22:48:48 +0000 2011 |
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Starting to think that not only am I completely done playing any cover songs, I may also be done listening to cover material. It’s boring. |
Mon May 09 21:16:38 +0000 2011 |
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Marvel’s Fear Itself is sort of incomprehensible and lacking any kind of actual story but man Stuart Immonen sure can draw. |
Sat May 07 20:36:16 +0000 2011 |
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The short story in this issue kind of sucked too. |
Thu May 05 02:43:25 +0000 2011 |
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George Jones article in Playboy reads like the author did an interview, got nothing out of him, and made up some personal BS to fill it out |
Thu May 05 01:56:19 +0000 2011 |
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About 20 mins in on Foo Fighters: Back And Forth and it seems really well-done. http://t.co/KzSTpOO |
Wed May 04 03:33:07 +0000 2011 |
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You know what’s a good feeling? Being completely caught up on one’s work. Enjoy it while it lasts. |
Tue May 03 17:42:53 +0000 2011 |
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Reading Beginners I pretty much think Gordon Lish’s editing job on What We Talk About When We Talk About Love amounts to criminal vandalism |
Sun May 01 20:08:43 +0000 2011 |
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Up early for Saturday. Listening to Smog. Going to read Carver. |
Sat Apr 30 15:03:07 +0000 2011 |
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While Donald Glover’s concert was mediocre, I’m surprised more media celebs don’t do similar tours to milk it while they have the chance |
Wed Apr 27 22:25:38 +0000 2011 |
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The properties of art aren’t additive–cf. Donald Glover @ Belly Up, a 2 star comedy set + a 2 star rap set = a 2 star show. |
Wed Apr 27 06:28:56 +0000 2011 |
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I feel like I just paid to finance Donald Glover’s fantasy of being an actual musician. |
Wed Apr 27 06:21:35 +0000 2011 |
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Painting a peace sign and flowers on the spare tire cover of one’s vintage VW Microbus seems more than a bit on the nose |
Tue Apr 26 20:19:45 +0000 2011 |
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No sympathy for anyone complaining the internet is boring. If you can’t guide your own entertainment don’t expect the world to cater to you. |
Mon Apr 25 22:41:40 +0000 2011 |
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Haha, “We’re DFA 1979, stick around for Duran Duran”. Sorry DD, you have been replaced with Kanye |
Fri Apr 22 03:27:39 +0000 2011 |
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Living room Coachella continues tonight with Cold War Kids and Death From Above 1979 |
Fri Apr 22 02:31:59 +0000 2011 |
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The Swell Season is going off, in an unexpectedly uptempo way |
Thu Apr 21 05:12:58 +0000 2011 |
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PJ Harvey’s set is mesmerizing. |
Thu Apr 21 04:43:52 +0000 2011 |
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Well the National’s Coachella set was better than the Strokes’ but then they had the advantage of being a better band playing better music |
Thu Apr 21 04:09:42 +0000 2011 |
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For some it was last weekend but tonight is my Coachella, here in my living room. The Strokes on now, the National up next, followed by…? |
Thu Apr 21 01:54:38 +0000 2011 |
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Two months ago I’d never heard of Odd Future and now I’m completely sick of hearing about them. Such are the risks of instant overexposure |
Thu Apr 21 00:57:45 +0000 2011 |
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Wow, Angelfire is totally a thing that still actually exists. Worth taking the time to excavate antediluvian logon/delete ancient website(s) |
Wed Apr 20 15:54:23 +0000 2011 |
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Just watchin’ a bunch of Rifftrax shorts in a row |
Wed Apr 20 02:27:48 +0000 2011 |
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Apple does a lot of things right but: the most ubiquitous Apple product is Itunes, and it’s a horrible POS that everyone hates and resents |
Tue Apr 19 21:23:24 +0000 2011 |
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There is and always has been something fundamentally uninteresting about the Smithereens, despite a few catchy tunes. Too formalist/retro? |
Tue Apr 19 19:40:36 +0000 2011 |
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I’m almost sorry to have to give up my weekend of saying “No, we can’t watch Game Of Thrones, the New York Times says women won’t like it” |
Mon Apr 18 04:40:11 +0000 2011 |
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Kitchen Nightmares US is such a fluffy reality-show POS compared to the original UK show, especially now |
Sun Apr 17 19:49:59 +0000 2011 |
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A little Emitt Rhodes goes a long way. Too much McCartney, not enough Beefheart |
Sun Apr 17 17:06:59 +0000 2011 |
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Anthony Michael Hall definitely should have been Jimmy Olsen at some point |
Sun Apr 17 01:55:19 +0000 2011 |
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The computer networking in Weird Science is bizarrely fascinating. |
Sun Apr 17 00:44:28 +0000 2011 |
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The Daytrotter downloader reeks of “Well, we spent all this money to develop this useless POS interface so we’re damn well gonna use it” |
Sat Apr 16 18:31:21 +0000 2011 |
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“There’s nothing to do in the midwest but dream” ~ @josepharthur. Yeah, that’s pretty much right on–dream about getting the hell OUT! |
Wed Apr 13 22:52:42 +0000 2011 |
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Finally updated the music info page of my site at http://aaronpoehler.com/music.html with both up-to-date info and stuff about old projects |
Wed Apr 13 19:26:18 +0000 2011 |
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Also bands, really: don’t do the ‘everybody wearing sunglasses in the picture’ thing. You don’t look like the Blues Brothers, you look dumb. |
Wed Apr 13 15:55:04 +0000 2011 |
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Seriously people stop naming your band The Black _____s. NOBODY CAN TELL YOU APART |
Wed Apr 13 15:40:35 +0000 2011 |
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Daytrotter sessions sure have the potential to be cool if they didn’t sound like 128kbps crap. The downloader is ridiculously awful as well. |
Tue Apr 12 00:57:16 +0000 2011 |
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Peter Tomasi, everyone thinks it’s incredibly pretentious that your credit is “story & words” instead of just “writer” or “scripter,” FYI |
Sat Apr 09 16:53:59 +0000 2011 |
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Man Brian Bendis sure thinks the Hood is an interesting character. Too bad he doesn’t convey that in his writing for shit |
Sat Apr 09 16:30:47 +0000 2011 |
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Definitely been laughing a lot as I catch up on Community but with s01e23 “Modern Warfare” the show takes a place as one of my favorites. |
Wed Apr 06 18:44:13 +0000 2011 |
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In 50 yrs no one will be able to parse any qualitative difference between “Friday” and “Born This Way” |
Tue Apr 05 00:24:11 +0000 2011 |
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Can’t get this Raymond Carver line read 2 days ago out of my head: “He never knew what Jerry wanted. But it started and ended with a rock.” |
Sat Apr 02 16:15:54 +0000 2011 |
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The Flash episode “Twin Streaks” features a guy from Twin Peaks. Just got that, 20 years after the fact. |
Sat Apr 02 05:22:29 +0000 2011 |
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FX chain http://twitpic.com/4fwhme |
Sat Apr 02 02:53:10 +0000 2011 |
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So apparently there’s someone I know who has never seen DIE HARD. What has happened to America’s educational system?? |
Fri Apr 01 22:57:06 +0000 2011 |
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Just finished Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits. Amazon reviews pretty much tell the story here. |
Thu Mar 31 06:34:45 +0000 2011 |
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“This class is like a redhead who drinks Scotch and loves Die Hard. I suggest you all get her number.” |
Thu Mar 31 04:49:42 +0000 2011 |
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I see now Paypal is integrating its own credit card upsell. Oh Paypal, you never disappoint in finding new ways to be awful and crappy |
Tue Mar 29 17:30:54 +0000 2011 |
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And now: Rifftrax Reign Of Fire |
Sun Mar 27 04:37:16 +0000 2011 |
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Books finished this week http://twitpic.com/4cxoqv |
Fri Mar 25 00:45:39 +0000 2011 |
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Two things I don’t do: 1. Read the Huffington Post 2. Work for free |
Thu Mar 24 19:59:57 +0000 2011 |
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What did you mean when you said, “Feel my skills, donkey donkey donkey, donkey donkey?” |
Wed Mar 23 17:52:22 +0000 2011 |
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Hey @chrisbrown do us all a favor and go away forever; failing that at least stop hitting things to express your limited range of emotion |
Tue Mar 22 21:00:33 +0000 2011 |
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I’m sure tired of listening to this album but as soon as I decide not to double-check everything then bang, there’ll be a massive glitch |
Mon Mar 21 21:38:32 +0000 2011 |
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Finally unsubscribing from Borders Rewards email after years–too little signal-to-noise, too little reward, and of late, too many untruths. |
Thu Mar 17 21:15:06 +0000 2011 |
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Dude begging at intersection wearing “Class of 2010 — WE RUN THIS” t-shirt |
Mon Mar 14 23:50:24 +0000 2011 |
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…but I have to admit I laughed a lot more at tonight’s Bob’s Burgers |
Mon Mar 14 04:00:41 +0000 2011 |
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After all this time I’m still happy to see a new episode of The Simpsons. |
Mon Mar 14 03:32:21 +0000 2011 |
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These Jessie J musical performances are almost fascinatingly terrible. |
Sun Mar 13 09:38:31 +0000 2011 |
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This Jessie J on SNL: so who canceled last minute? Not ready for prime time or late night |
Sun Mar 13 09:18:09 +0000 2011 |
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If you don’t know what playing “in the pocket” means go see The Bellrays |
Sun Mar 13 07:24:29 +0000 2011 |
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Firethorn’s standard riff rock with cowbell is leaving me unmoved, but the bass is solid |
Sun Mar 13 05:46:24 +0000 2011 |
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Opening band at Casbah has those weird clear drums |
Sun Mar 13 05:25:56 +0000 2011 |
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Food was decent but if 8PM Sat is dead at Fat City Steakhouse when do they make money? |
Sun Mar 13 04:55:07 +0000 2011 |
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The sound on the new REM album kind of sucks. Hypercompressed, can’t get into it. |
Sat Mar 12 21:09:45 +0000 2011 |
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It’s not a “supergroup” if you have to explain who all the band members are |
Sat Mar 12 18:24:00 +0000 2011 |
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Tangled could really use some Machete-style ultraviolence |
Sat Mar 12 06:14:40 +0000 2011 |
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Baffling mysteries of the iPhone: why on earth can’t you adjust the alarm snooze time? |
Fri Mar 11 15:04:45 +0000 2011 |
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The Kids Are All Right was really well made bar only that I felt naming the kid “Laser” out of nowhere slightly violated Chekhov’s gun rule. |
Wed Mar 09 23:06:37 +0000 2011 |
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Borders, no one with a functioning brain is signing up for your Rewards Plus program right now so please just stop spamming about it |
Wed Mar 09 19:11:24 +0000 2011 |
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Well I can see one reason why not http://twitpic.com/47l4m4 |
Tue Mar 08 22:21:27 +0000 2011 |
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Scrobbling no more: shut down and deleted the last.fm account I had for five years because really who cares |
Tue Mar 08 21:39:22 +0000 2011 |
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Tue Sep 13 17:23:51 +0000 2011 |
It’s got to suck working on bonus CD-ROM materials for music CDs knowing full well your audience is: (people who read liner notes)/20 |
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Tue Sep 13 17:20:34 +0000 2011 |
“Augmented Reality Experience” is the most ridiculously overblown BS marketing euphemism imaginable for “We threw in some bonus CDROM shit” |
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Tue Sep 13 15:24:21 +0000 2011 |
Funniest thing I’ve seen so far today: comment section full of people lamenting the death of the CD by complaining ‘digital music sucks’ |
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Mon Sep 12 16:30:22 +0000 2011 |
Mostly though these New 52 #1 review columns all read the same: staid & lacking Sterling’s insight. 6 months in, then they’ll have a point. |
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Mon Sep 12 16:25:33 +0000 2011 |
Not writing on DC’s New52 #1s because there’s more than enough of that already but Giffen’s OMAC is pure Kirby goodness http://t.co/R8AZqpb |
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Sun Sep 11 16:54:49 +0000 2011 |
Catch-22: if you take Esquire’s How To Be A Man feature remotely seriously you are precluded from being one |
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Sat Sep 10 19:18:55 +0000 2011 |
Hey, Spider-Island: Avengers was actually quite good, don’t miss it in the sea of samey-looking tie-ins with generic names on the stands |
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Fri Sep 09 19:01:31 +0000 2011 |
Whenever something actually happens on which one might want current news updates I’m struck by the uselessness of all local SD news websites |
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Fri Sep 09 18:23:05 +0000 2011 |
At this point New Order w/o Peter Hook isn’t Queen w/o Freddie Mercury, it’s Dream Theater w/o Mike Portnoy–both badly need to STFU ASAP |
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Fri Sep 09 16:24:08 +0000 2011 |
How is it possible every month’s Zenescope covers are more cringe-inducingly mortifying than the last? |
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Fri Sep 09 14:17:18 +0000 2011 |
“San Diego: I SURVIVED being slightly uncomfortable for just under 12 hours” t-shirts would probably have a limited sale window |
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Wed Sep 07 21:28:08 +0000 2011 |
If you bought an ipad 2 case that doesn’t make use of the smart cover auto wake/sleep feature you oughtta take that shit back tout suite |
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Wed Sep 07 19:42:02 +0000 2011 |
Everything about Marvel’s Season 1 OGN covers from art to trade dress is awful unless “remainder-bin knockoffs” is what they were going for |
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Tue Sep 06 21:39:40 +0000 2011 |
I enjoy the work of PJ Harvey including her newest album but as an American I must disavow any knowledge of what the Mercury Prize is |
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Tue Sep 06 21:36:31 +0000 2011 |
Does your band have a ‘clever’ name? Man is that going to get old fast. |
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Tue Sep 06 16:34:33 +0000 2011 |
I never thought I’d be okay with a Hookless New Order but then I never thought Hook would be so blatantly exploitative of Joy Division music |
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Sun Sep 04 17:53:11 +0000 2011 |
I kinda think all instagram/hipstamatic processed photos look shitty now and will look moreso as time continues to pass |
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Fri Sep 02 02:19:21 +0000 2011 |
Guess I know what I’ll be listening to/watching over the wkend when I’m not doing acoustic treatment on the garage http://t.co/uvVjFTt |
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Thu Sep 01 23:18:28 +0000 2011 |
Who are the dumbfucks buying these licensed versions of Monopoly? It’s the same game with different tokens and street names. It’s also sad. |
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Thu Sep 01 05:27:23 +0000 2011 |
Oscar Jiminez could have been an A-list comic book artist if he’d ever delivered work in a remotely timely fashion. Great stuff but so late. |
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Tue Aug 30 16:32:09 +0000 2011 |
Was down for the concept of Ghost but not finding the music on Opus Eponymous as good as I’d hoped |
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Tue Aug 30 01:12:36 +0000 2011 |
Man I loves me some Thin Lizzy but the guitar solo on “The Rocker” is total ass |
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Mon Aug 29 18:44:35 +0000 2011 |
If I enjoy someone’s creative output it doesn’t mean I want to be harangued to help promote it as if that’s somehow my responsibility. |
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Mon Aug 29 16:24:52 +0000 2011 |
It must be tough to work up the enthusiasm to pretend anyone’s cared in the slightest about the Video Music Awards in decades |
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Sun Aug 28 19:29:40 +0000 2011 |
There can never be enough Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire comics (but they don’t all have to be Justice League related–maybe creator-owned next?) |
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Sat Aug 27 00:14:35 +0000 2011 |
Hey awesome, reverse sexism. Thanks Bounce/Procter & Gamble, and fuck you too http://t.co/GavTMeP |
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Fri Aug 26 21:40:01 +0000 2011 |
Absolutely the most mind-melting @RiffTrax short yet: “What Is Nothing?” http://t.co/xQyO7rg |
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Thu Aug 25 21:33:34 +0000 2011 |
Reality check: The Dark Knight Rises is still like a year away argh |
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Tue Aug 23 16:58:09 +0000 2011 |
I wonder how often that Static-X guy catches his reflection in the dressing room mirror & sighs deeply & mournfully before going onstage |
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Mon Aug 22 19:17:10 +0000 2011 |
All of these “Who’s Who at DC Comics-The New 52″ creator profiles are staggeringly dull. Done in the least imaginative way possible. |
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Mon Aug 22 17:30:59 +0000 2011 |
I guess it’s safe to take my Borders Rewards and Blockbuster Video cards out of my wallet now |
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Fri Aug 19 21:09:10 +0000 2011 |
Admittedly the blacklight room already breaks the Corvette Diner 50s theme but the Insane Clown Posse Bizarre Bazaar poster is going too far |
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Thu Aug 18 15:29:38 +0000 2011 |
Watched Blur – T in the Park last night. Do they get better or is singing shittily & out of key just Damon Albarn’s ‘thing’? |
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Wed Aug 17 23:01:02 +0000 2011 |
Keep thinking agency on Mad Men is named Sterling Archer Associates, then get distracted thinking about how awesome that premise would be |
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Wed Aug 17 20:55:08 +0000 2011 |
A writer writing to other writers about writing does not seem like worthwhile networking unless one’s aim is to be a writing teacher. |
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Wed Aug 17 15:40:14 +0000 2011 |
Though I too mourn the loss of canvas for visual art and text in albums, digital booklets are a waste of time for creator & listener alike |
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Tue Aug 16 19:35:38 +0000 2011 |
I got an offer claiming $15 for Harmony Balance-Bands is “a $40 value”, rather than the more accurate “$15 for a worthless scam product” |
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Thu Aug 11 20:57:27 +0000 2011 |
Caption this picture: what is melancholy devo fan thinking right now? (Photo from http://t.co/mrjTKsF) http://t.co/DrsoAAI |
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Thu Aug 11 17:56:00 +0000 2011 |
Kirby: Genesis is all the crazy superheroic action you crave without the bitter aftertaste of corporate indifference #trythisindycomic |
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Thu Aug 11 02:33:49 +0000 2011 |
God T.H.U.N.D.E.R Agents is awesome. I hope it doesn’t get completely buried and forgotten in the New 52 push. |
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Thu Aug 11 02:15:02 +0000 2011 |
Tip of the hat to Scott Snyder for a stellar scripting job on his Detective Comics run–looking forward to Batman run starting next month. |
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Wed Aug 10 20:58:09 +0000 2011 |
I like few bands enough to bother listening to a remix collection and I’m afraid Radiohead’s music hasn’t been rewarding enough for years |
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Wed Aug 10 17:12:40 +0000 2011 |
Watched the Horrors’ Glastonbury set last night: not bad, not great. Lyrics too simplistic and repetitive, songs a bit flimsy. 3 stars |
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Mon Aug 08 22:06:46 +0000 2011 |
Lord knows I loves me some metal but the whole “No really look how EEEEVIL I am” act some people in the genre pull is painfully corny |
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Sat Aug 06 00:46:35 +0000 2011 |
I’m fine with Lorne not changing out any SNL cast but I better not see any Deep House Dish, Target Lady, or What’s Up With That next season |
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Fri Aug 05 19:55:20 +0000 2011 |
Musical considerations aside, bands that dress up to look “old-timey” give me shudders of revulsion |
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Fri Aug 05 17:34:10 +0000 2011 |
You know what’s hot? Someone who knows the difference between ‘discrete’/'discreet’ and ‘reign’/'rein’ |
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Tue Aug 02 21:44:50 +0000 2011 |
…kids of today should defend themselves against false nostalgia for Ten and Nevermind. |
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Tue Aug 02 21:44:37 +0000 2011 |
Speaking out against false nostalgia in 1994, Eddie Vedder sang “Kids of today should defend themselves against the 70s”… |
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Tue Aug 02 16:28:43 +0000 2011 |
I wonder if they anticipated the line “You’re the fucked-up version of Amy Winehouse” playing the way it does now http://t.co/xkuqwO4 |
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Mon Aug 01 18:21:33 +0000 2011 |
Capitalizing the W in ‘Wanna’ really sells the desperate yearning and insecurity underpinning this pitch http://t.co/v7Z3ktA |
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Fri Jul 29 21:58:15 +0000 2011 |
Any album that’s reissued and hasn’t been out of print for at least five years is just a lame cashgrab *koff* ArcadeFireLadyGaga |
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Wed Jul 27 15:46:37 +0000 2011 |
Tineye would be useful if it worked better or at all, seems like there’s a space in the online spectrum for that if someone wants to step up |
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Tue Jul 26 01:35:49 +0000 2011 |
No device of mine is truly set up until its background is set to earthlights.jpg |
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Sun Jul 24 21:08:00 +0000 2011 |
J genuinely offended at my suggestion it will be awesome when the Starship Enterprise shows up in Game Of Thrones book 6 |
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Thu Jul 21 23:12:28 +0000 2011 |
This Katie MacAlister seems to be a prime offender, title after title and each one a worse groaner than the last |
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Thu Jul 21 23:02:44 +0000 2011 |
Wow, there sure are a lot of shitty-looking chicklit vampire books |
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Thu Jul 21 19:27:54 +0000 2011 |
There’s a lesson regarding the efficacy of legislation here somewhere http://t.co/aXzYM2g |
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Wed Jul 20 02:28:53 +0000 2011 |
@venturajm Nope, live stuff, 2 full hours of it. Bored me stiff, kept thinking surely they’d would play something interesting anytime but no |
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Tue Jul 19 17:44:15 +0000 2011 |
Bobby Fuller: Never to be forgotten. http://t.co/teGDJUX |
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Mon Jul 18 22:38:03 +0000 2011 |
I’d like to say I’ll miss Borders, but I haven’t found shopping at one enjoyable in quite awhile. Still, it was good when it was good. |
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Mon Jul 18 21:09:18 +0000 2011 |
Checked out some Widespread Panic music this weekend, found it all fairly tepid & unambitious. Decided I don’t really like Widespread Panic. |
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Sun Jul 17 17:45:34 +0000 2011 |
Every article on Battles for the past several months, summarized: “There sure are three guys in the band now instead of four” |
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Sun Jul 17 16:03:42 +0000 2011 |
The entirety of Broken Lizard Standup summarized: “Hey, you guys have all seen Super Troopers and are TOTALLY HIGH, right? Right?” |
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Sat Jul 16 00:34:12 +0000 2011 |
Thinking this might be a good candidate for the cover photo of album #2 http://t.co/oflpoBN |
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Fri Jul 15 21:30:16 +0000 2011 |
@laurensnuggles Jiffy Lube blows and several have been fined for unnecessary services. Hop on Yelp and find a good nonchain auto shop |
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Fri Jul 15 18:52:17 +0000 2011 |
See, everyone knows Palin is a joke except Newsweek http://t.co/ENEbaUt |
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Fri Jul 15 17:14:23 +0000 2011 |
Also Hooky’s Joy Division rerecordings are embarrassing and cringeworthy so well done on burning bridges there |
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Fri Jul 15 17:09:57 +0000 2011 |
“I know that our all bickering physically hurts the fans and destroys what they loved” Don’t worry Hooky it does neither http://t.co/pQfWUPE |
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Wed Jul 13 21:53:31 +0000 2011 |
I like how people are suddenly stricken by the breakup of a band that has done fuck-all for 4 years despite never noticing their absence |
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Wed Jul 13 18:20:57 +0000 2011 |
Landmark Forum seminars: far better experienced vicariously via entertaining stream of tweets. http://t.co/5daXMJl |
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Tue Jul 12 19:29:57 +0000 2011 |
Spotted some twit driving a Saab eating a bowl of cereal from his lap–milk, fruit and all. Just one tap on the brakes could ruin his day… |
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Sat Jul 09 17:57:48 +0000 2011 |
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), classic Eno for Saturday morning – China My China by Brian Eno, from #SoundHound http://bit.ly/qnsfM6 |
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Mon Jul 04 06:38:28 +0000 2011 |
You know, every time I hear Pearl Jam I think “Maybe this will be the awesome thing that knocks me out” and it just never happens. |
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Sun Jul 03 16:57:26 +0000 2011 |
Finding it really hard to care about any of Marvel’s Fear Itself. At least we know Flashpoint is going somewhere; this doesn’t seem to be. |
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Wed Jun 29 00:11:50 +0000 2011 |
Wow, seriously, Newsweek? In what way is this ridiculous bullshit remotely news? What an awful publication. http://t.co/N2VuMzl |
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Tue Jun 28 19:25:55 +0000 2011 |
Prince and Morrissey are making themselves relics by refusing to adapt: http://t.co/Sc6qtkp |
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Fri Jun 24 03:30:58 +0000 2011 |
Tried to watch This Movie Is Broken, had to turn off 10 minutes in due to dire acting and awful cliche-ridden script. Wow, so bad |
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Wed Jun 22 05:42:51 +0000 2011 |
I bet parts of this sound unlikely to many. Not me, or anyone else ever paid to write. http://t.co/BpT6SWj |
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Mon Jun 20 20:49:30 +0000 2011 |
Also, how did I miss that Kathleen Hanna and Ad-Rock are married? That’s totally the kind of thing I tend to know despite myself. |
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Mon Jun 20 20:43:31 +0000 2011 |
I think it’s funny that grasping for an example of a terrible male performer, Jason Mraz is the first to pop to mind. http://t.co/KRLhYmQ |
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Sun Jun 19 16:40:56 +0000 2011 |
“My Game of Thrones app isn’t loading fast enough!” #firstworldproblems |
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Sat Jun 18 02:48:05 +0000 2011 |
Wow, Single White Spenny is incredibly clumsy and amateurish. Embarrassingly obvious wish-fulfilment fantasy, unfunny, hard to get through. |
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Sat Jun 18 00:49:04 +0000 2011 |
Watching Rifftrax Star Trek Generations, may god have mercy on us. I swear it wasn’t even me who picked it. |
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Fri Jun 17 06:34:48 +0000 2011 |
@karmiclife just put the folder on shuffle |
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Fri Jun 17 04:17:46 +0000 2011 |
Just watching a whole bunch of Rifftrax shorts |
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Wed Jun 15 21:36:45 +0000 2011 |
Pt. 3 of my #SunsetSessions Rock 2011 recap is up now, ft. 1 Less Reason, Unwritten Law, Evan Watson, The Wedding & more http://t.co/TRVshkr |
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Wed Jun 15 18:35:35 +0000 2011 |
A comedian’s site should have samples of comedy, not commercial acting work. Unconvincing ALL CAPS blurb doesn’t cut it http://t.co/Ad69VVU |
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Mon Jun 13 23:21:23 +0000 2011 |
Now that Game of Thrones is getting down to it we finally get answers to the important questions:they’re called ‘gingers’ in this world too |
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Mon Jun 13 17:30:47 +0000 2011 |
Aaron goes to #SunsetSessions Rock 2011 pt 2 up now: GIVERS, Ali Handal, Dead Sara, Drive A, Kopek, Shakti Tribe http://t.co/6AgUmTx |
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Sun Jun 12 05:19:41 +0000 2011 |
Watching Take Me Home Tonight. Have been on the verge of turning it off the whole time, it’s kind of a POS. |
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Sat Jun 11 17:34:28 +0000 2011 |
It’s hard to deny that a good number of DC’s 52 relaunch series feel like the ‘DC Explosion’ titles of the late 70s #quicklycanceled |
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Thu Jun 09 18:29:36 +0000 2011 |
Conversely, I’d have bet good money there was no way DC could possibly make a Stormwatch series interesting but with @Paul_Cornell, it is. |
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Thu Jun 09 18:22:56 +0000 2011 |
Marvel had better step up its PR game. Yet another obnoxiously obvious X-Men relaunch coupled with terrible Greg Land art ain’t cutting it. |
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Thu Jun 09 15:35:20 +0000 2011 |
On Invincible #80: Well if that wasn’t the most Kirkmany Kirkman comic that ever Kirkmaned I don’t know what is. Coast City/The Pitt anyone? |
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Thu Jun 09 06:10:02 +0000 2011 |
The worst part about seeing Robert Plant is all the people who really just want a sad echo of something they saw 35 years ago. |
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Thu Jun 09 03:42:53 +0000 2011 |
I don’t understand why it takes longer to get a drink at Copley Symphony Hall than anywhere else in the world |
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Thu Jun 09 03:27:41 +0000 2011 |
Creepy Creeps’ show doesn’t really work in a theater setting but they seem like they’d tear up the right club. |
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Wed Jun 08 17:24:49 +0000 2011 |
Really glad Paul Levitz’ LSH book isn’t going away but honestly surprised to find DC still thinks the market can support 2 Legion books. |
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Tue Jun 07 17:15:11 +0000 2011 |
I went to #SunsetSessions Rock 2011 and wrote about it. In this post: Transfer, AWOLNATION, and Deep Dark Robot. http://bit.ly/mrRtOT |
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Mon Jun 06 22:44:59 +0000 2011 |
Godspeed to producer Martin Rushent — I hope in death he is confused with Martin Hannett far less often. |
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Mon Jun 06 03:23:31 +0000 2011 |
Whatever happened to Argyle from Die Hard |
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Sat Jun 04 19:31:33 +0000 2011 |
Bends’ Moon Knight series really not doing it for me. And seriously, Echo again? Reads like the cliche of BMB talktalktalk empty writing. |
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Sat Jun 04 19:16:29 +0000 2011 |
Avengers Academy 14/14.1: continues to surprise me as one of the most consistent titles Marvel currently releases. Gage gets it–good stuff. |
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Sat Jun 04 18:11:52 +0000 2011 |
Amazing Spider-man now reads like Slott trying to get out all his stuff other guys vetoed during the multiwriter era. Get on with it, man. |
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Sat Jun 04 17:57:05 +0000 2011 |
Stuart Immonen is one of the best artists working today but man is Fear Itself ever terrible. Just bad writing all around, senseless crap. |
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Fri Jun 03 04:14:56 +0000 2011 |
Why does all food served in catering trays smell exactly the same |
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Tue May 31 03:59:20 +0000 2011 |
Closing it out with The Infidel |
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Tue May 31 01:23:02 +0000 2011 |
Movie Memorial Day: Pootie Tang, Rifftrax X-Men, In the Loop, Limitless |
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Sat May 28 21:56:17 +0000 2011 |
The new manners: when a person uses a cellphone in a movie theater, it is considered proper to throw popcorn at them until it is put away. |
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Sat May 28 06:08:58 +0000 2011 |
All I can say is Grant Morrison better be writing some Flash here or I’m gonna be pissed |
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Sat May 28 01:54:15 +0000 2011 |
I was all pissed off at the UPS guy for taking all day to deliver my package but then he showed up blasting the Misfits |
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Fri May 27 04:10:29 +0000 2011 |
Watched about 10 mins of Protest the Hero – Gallop Meets the Earth Live and just couldn’t take it seriously. |
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Fri May 27 00:47:00 +0000 2011 |
The Jesus Lizard albums Albini didn’t record sound so weird. |
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Mon May 23 22:27:35 +0000 2011 |
I don’t know or care who Ryan Giggs and Imogen Thomas are but I do know UK law doesn’t apply to me and I support unconditionally free speech |
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Sat May 21 15:42:39 +0000 2011 |
I guess this is the day everyone says something terribly unfunny about the supposed Rapture so let this stand as my contribution. |
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Fri May 20 01:37:13 +0000 2011 |
Bank of America, call me to push your pointless identity theft protection product just once more & I’ll see how fast I can switch banks |
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Thu May 19 17:44:21 +0000 2011 |
Hmm, mayhap Obama has been revisiting Slanted & Enchanted of late–let’s see if he says 40 million daggers must be sheathed to achieve peace |
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Thu May 19 16:02:13 +0000 2011 |
Whoa WordPress looks totally different for me now. I guess that’s what happens when you upgrade versions from 2.3.3 (3 years old) to 3.1.2 |
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Wed May 18 20:50:23 +0000 2011 |
“Velvet Revolver’s music isn’t very good and it was all about the money,” well duh. Music tell-all revelations aren’t what they used to be |
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Wed May 18 02:20:44 +0000 2011 |
Yuck is a lot better as far as not-entirely-original recentish UK wannabe-US-sounding bands with debut LPs out go |
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Wed May 18 01:28:34 +0000 2011 |
This Vaccines album kind of sucks and is boring |
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Tue May 17 16:37:49 +0000 2011 |
Flash Fact: I outnerded the internet with comic book knowledge http://bit.ly/lqNuYu |
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Mon May 16 15:38:52 +0000 2011 |
Recently finished Jeffrey Brown books Little Things & Any Easy Intimacy http://twitpic.com/4yhray |
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Tue May 10 22:48:48 +0000 2011 |
You can tell Waters helped select the new Floyd best-of: he’s the only person in the world who thinks “Fletcher Memorial Home” belongs there |
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Mon May 09 21:16:38 +0000 2011 |
Starting to think that not only am I completely done playing any cover songs, I may also be done listening to cover material. It’s boring. |
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Sat May 07 20:36:16 +0000 2011 |
Marvel’s Fear Itself is sort of incomprehensible and lacking any kind of actual story but man Stuart Immonen sure can draw. |
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Thu May 05 02:43:25 +0000 2011 |
The short story in this issue kind of sucked too. |
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Thu May 05 01:56:19 +0000 2011 |
George Jones article in Playboy reads like the author did an interview, got nothing out of him, and made up some personal BS to fill it out |
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Wed May 04 03:33:07 +0000 2011 |
About 20 mins in on Foo Fighters: Back And Forth and it seems really well-done. http://t.co/KzSTpOO |
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Tue May 03 17:42:53 +0000 2011 |
You know what’s a good feeling? Being completely caught up on one’s work. Enjoy it while it lasts. |
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Sun May 01 20:08:43 +0000 2011 |
Reading Beginners I pretty much think Gordon Lish’s editing job on What We Talk About When We Talk About Love amounts to criminal vandalism |
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Sat Apr 30 15:03:07 +0000 2011 |
Up early for Saturday. Listening to Smog. Going to read Carver. |
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Wed Apr 27 22:25:38 +0000 2011 |
While Donald Glover’s concert was mediocre, I’m surprised more media celebs don’t do similar tours to milk it while they have the chance |
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Wed Apr 27 06:28:56 +0000 2011 |
The properties of art aren’t additive–cf. Donald Glover @ Belly Up, a 2 star comedy set + a 2 star rap set = a 2 star show. |
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Wed Apr 27 06:21:35 +0000 2011 |
I feel like I just paid to finance Donald Glover’s fantasy of being an actual musician. |
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Tue Apr 26 20:19:45 +0000 2011 |
Painting a peace sign and flowers on the spare tire cover of one’s vintage VW Microbus seems more than a bit on the nose |
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Mon Apr 25 22:41:40 +0000 2011 |
No sympathy for anyone complaining the internet is boring. If you can’t guide your own entertainment don’t expect the world to cater to you. |
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Fri Apr 22 03:27:39 +0000 2011 |
Haha, “We’re DFA 1979, stick around for Duran Duran”. Sorry DD, you have been replaced with Kanye |
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Fri Apr 22 02:31:59 +0000 2011 |
Living room Coachella continues tonight with Cold War Kids and Death From Above 1979 |
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Thu Apr 21 05:12:58 +0000 2011 |
The Swell Season is going off, in an unexpectedly uptempo way |
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Thu Apr 21 04:43:52 +0000 2011 |
PJ Harvey’s set is mesmerizing. |
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Thu Apr 21 04:09:42 +0000 2011 |
Well the National’s Coachella set was better than the Strokes’ but then they had the advantage of being a better band playing better music |
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Thu Apr 21 01:54:38 +0000 2011 |
For some it was last weekend but tonight is my Coachella, here in my living room. The Strokes on now, the National up next, followed by…? |
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Thu Apr 21 00:57:45 +0000 2011 |
Two months ago I’d never heard of Odd Future and now I’m completely sick of hearing about them. Such are the risks of instant overexposure |
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Wed Apr 20 15:54:23 +0000 2011 |
Wow, Angelfire is totally a thing that still actually exists. Worth taking the time to excavate antediluvian logon/delete ancient website(s) |
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Wed Apr 20 02:27:48 +0000 2011 |
Just watchin’ a bunch of Rifftrax shorts in a row |
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Tue Apr 19 21:23:24 +0000 2011 |
Apple does a lot of things right but: the most ubiquitous Apple product is Itunes, and it’s a horrible POS that everyone hates and resents |
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Tue Apr 19 19:40:36 +0000 2011 |
There is and always has been something fundamentally uninteresting about the Smithereens, despite a few catchy tunes. Too formalist/retro? |
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Mon Apr 18 04:40:11 +0000 2011 |
I’m almost sorry to have to give up my weekend of saying “No, we can’t watch Game Of Thrones, the New York Times says women won’t like it” |
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Sun Apr 17 19:49:59 +0000 2011 |
Kitchen Nightmares US is such a fluffy reality-show POS compared to the original UK show, especially now |
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Sun Apr 17 17:06:59 +0000 2011 |
A little Emitt Rhodes goes a long way. Too much McCartney, not enough Beefheart |
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Sun Apr 17 01:55:19 +0000 2011 |
Anthony Michael Hall definitely should have been Jimmy Olsen at some point |
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Sun Apr 17 00:44:28 +0000 2011 |
The computer networking in Weird Science is bizarrely fascinating. |
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Sat Apr 16 18:31:21 +0000 2011 |
The Daytrotter downloader reeks of “Well, we spent all this money to develop this useless POS interface so we’re damn well gonna use it” |
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Wed Apr 13 22:52:42 +0000 2011 |
“There’s nothing to do in the midwest but dream” ~ @josepharthur. Yeah, that’s pretty much right on–dream about getting the hell OUT! |
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Wed Apr 13 19:26:18 +0000 2011 |
Finally updated the music info page of my site at http://aaronpoehler.com/music.html with both up-to-date info and stuff about old projects |
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Wed Apr 13 15:55:04 +0000 2011 |
Also bands, really: don’t do the ‘everybody wearing sunglasses in the picture’ thing. You don’t look like the Blues Brothers, you look dumb. |
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Wed Apr 13 15:40:35 +0000 2011 |
Seriously people stop naming your band The Black _____s. NOBODY CAN TELL YOU APART |
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Tue Apr 12 00:57:16 +0000 2011 |
Daytrotter sessions sure have the potential to be cool if they didn’t sound like 128kbps crap. The downloader is ridiculously awful as well. |
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Sat Apr 09 16:53:59 +0000 2011 |
Peter Tomasi, everyone thinks it’s incredibly pretentious that your credit is “story & words” instead of just “writer” or “scripter,” FYI |
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Sat Apr 09 16:30:47 +0000 2011 |
Man Brian Bendis sure thinks the Hood is an interesting character. Too bad he doesn’t convey that in his writing for shit |
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Wed Apr 06 18:44:13 +0000 2011 |
Definitely been laughing a lot as I catch up on Community but with s01e23 “Modern Warfare” the show takes a place as one of my favorites. |
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Tue Apr 05 00:24:11 +0000 2011 |
In 50 yrs no one will be able to parse any qualitative difference between “Friday” and “Born This Way” |
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Sat Apr 02 16:15:54 +0000 2011 |
Can’t get this Raymond Carver line read 2 days ago out of my head: “He never knew what Jerry wanted. But it started and ended with a rock.” |
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Sat Apr 02 05:22:29 +0000 2011 |
The Flash episode “Twin Streaks” features a guy from Twin Peaks. Just got that, 20 years after the fact. |
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Sat Apr 02 02:53:10 +0000 2011 |
FX chain http://twitpic.com/4fwhme |
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Fri Apr 01 22:57:06 +0000 2011 |
So apparently there’s someone I know who has never seen DIE HARD. What has happened to America’s educational system?? |
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Thu Mar 31 06:34:45 +0000 2011 |
Just finished Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits. Amazon reviews pretty much tell the story here. |
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Thu Mar 31 04:49:42 +0000 2011 |
“This class is like a redhead who drinks Scotch and loves Die Hard. I suggest you all get her number.” |
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Tue Mar 29 17:30:54 +0000 2011 |
I see now Paypal is integrating its own credit card upsell. Oh Paypal, you never disappoint in finding new ways to be awful and crappy |
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Sun Mar 27 04:37:16 +0000 2011 |
And now: Rifftrax Reign Of Fire |
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Fri Mar 25 00:45:39 +0000 2011 |
Books finished this week http://twitpic.com/4cxoqv |
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Thu Mar 24 19:59:57 +0000 2011 |
Two things I don’t do: 1. Read the Huffington Post 2. Work for free |
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Wed Mar 23 17:52:22 +0000 2011 |
What did you mean when you said, “Feel my skills, donkey donkey donkey, donkey donkey?” |
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Tue Mar 22 21:00:33 +0000 2011 |
Hey @chrisbrown do us all a favor and go away forever; failing that at least stop hitting things to express your limited range of emotion |
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Mon Mar 21 21:38:32 +0000 2011 |
I’m sure tired of listening to this album but as soon as I decide not to double-check everything then bang, there’ll be a massive glitch |
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Thu Mar 17 21:15:06 +0000 2011 |
Finally unsubscribing from Borders Rewards email after years–too little signal-to-noise, too little reward, and of late, too many untruths. |
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Mon Mar 14 23:50:24 +0000 2011 |
Dude begging at intersection wearing “Class of 2010 — WE RUN THIS” t-shirt |
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Mon Mar 14 04:00:41 +0000 2011 |
…but I have to admit I laughed a lot more at tonight’s Bob’s Burgers |
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Mon Mar 14 03:32:21 +0000 2011 |
After all this time I’m still happy to see a new episode of The Simpsons. |
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Sun Mar 13 09:38:31 +0000 2011 |
These Jessie J musical performances are almost fascinatingly terrible. |
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Sun Mar 13 09:18:09 +0000 2011 |
This Jessie J on SNL: so who canceled last minute? Not ready for prime time or late night |
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Sun Mar 13 07:24:29 +0000 2011 |
If you don’t know what playing “in the pocket” means go see The Bellrays |
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Sun Mar 13 05:46:24 +0000 2011 |
Firethorn’s standard riff rock with cowbell is leaving me unmoved, but the bass is solid |
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Sun Mar 13 05:25:56 +0000 2011 |
Opening band at Casbah has those weird clear drums |
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Sun Mar 13 04:55:07 +0000 2011 |
Food was decent but if 8PM Sat is dead at Fat City Steakhouse when do they make money? |
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Sat Mar 12 21:09:45 +0000 2011 |
The sound on the new REM album kind of sucks. Hypercompressed, can’t get into it. |
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Sat Mar 12 18:24:00 +0000 2011 |
It’s not a “supergroup” if you have to explain who all the band members are |
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Sat Mar 12 06:16:44 +0000 2011 |
…and about ten fewer songs |
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Sat Mar 12 06:14:40 +0000 2011 |
Tangled could really use some Machete-style ultraviolence |
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Fri Mar 11 15:04:45 +0000 2011 |
Baffling mysteries of the iPhone: why on earth can’t you adjust the alarm snooze time? |
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Wed Mar 09 23:06:37 +0000 2011 |
The Kids Are All Right was really well made bar only that I felt naming the kid “Laser” out of nowhere slightly violated Chekhov’s gun rule. |
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Wed Mar 09 19:11:24 +0000 2011 |
Borders, no one with a functioning brain is signing up for your Rewards Plus program right now so please just stop spamming about it |
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Tue Mar 08 22:21:27 +0000 2011 |
Well I can see one reason why not http://twitpic.com/47l4m4 |
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Tue Mar 08 21:39:22 +0000 2011 |
Scrobbling no more: shut down and deleted the last.fm account I had for five years because really who cares |
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