dan: this girl i know went to portland for spring break
dan: and i told her to tell sasquatch i said sup
dan: and apparently there's some store there with a giant sasquatch in front
dan: so she sent me a picture message of it saying "he said sup back"
dan: sasquatch said sup to me dude
dan: dan - 1, steve - 0
dan: at least until you get abducted and probed
me: jesus that story

maybe we can dance

i originally dismissed later era pavement almost flat out, always favoring the earlier, more lo-fi, rawer and more critically acclaimed slanted and enchanted and crooked rain, crooked rain. there's something to be said of the 18 song tour de force that rolling stone called scattered, sloppy and half-baked., and has been a very polarizing album for both fans of pavement and music critics alike. i'm taking the pro side on this one, as each song on this album varies from melodic and aurally captivating to a sort of endearing musical awkwardness and every one of them shows off the raw talent each member posesesses but also the muddy and smirk-laden wit that s. malkmus all but built a generation around. i know my opinion doesn't count on the matter as much as rolling stone's (although it should) but the recent release of the "sordid sentinels" edition of wowee zowee,has led to me sort of rediscovering this record, only to really discover it for the first time, this record not only matches its predecessors in sheer awesomeness, it at some points blows them away in terms of seminality and cultural relevance, and that if s. malkmus was an alien before making this record, somewhere before it came out he was involved in some kind of ufo accident and half his body was replaced by superior cyborg parts.

1. "We Dance" – 3:01
2. "Rattled by the Rush" – 4:16
3. "Black Out" – 2:10
4. "Brinx Job" – 1:31
5. "Grounded" – 4:14
6. "Serpentine Pad" – 1:16
7. "Motion Suggests" – 3:15
8. "Father to a Sister of Thought" – 3:30
9. "Extradition" – 2:12
10. "Best Friend's Arm" – 2:19
11. "Grave Architecture" – 4:16
12. "AT&T" – 3:32
13. "Flux=Rad" – 1:45
14. "Fight This Generation" – 4:22
15. "Kennel District" – 2:59 (Spiral Stairs)
16. "Pueblo" – 3:25
17. "Half a Canyon" – 6:10
18. "Western Homes" – 1:49

download here (ss edition) (part 1) (part 2) (part 3)

MOTHERFUCKER=REDEEMER

first of all, i know godspeed you black emperor "broke up" or "disbanded" or "ended their indefinite hiatus" or "questioned the meaning of expression and communication through art" or whatever a few months ago, but man, this band fucking rules and i want to talk about them. godspeed are to me, the meta-post-rock band, the one that so perfectly defines a perfectly named genre of music that using the principles of rock music, takes rock music apart piece by piece and reforms it as something completely different. godspeed takes this to the next level by pretty much making you forget conventional rock music has ever existed.





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nineties bar hop: how did you answer like that, how did you bring robots into this, you are the best person

the guitar solo in this song

should rocket you to the moon



sorry the video quality is so shitty, if you listen closely you can hear a dude behind me say "put down your camera and watch the show" ok buddy

information overload

dan brennan's blog got me listening to matt pond PA and also decided thanks to this post that i should at least note on some of my recent and all time favorite wikipedia articles, because lets face it, thats the best site (also someone want to tell me why firefox marks wikipedia as a spelling error, get with the times mozilla) but anyway here's a few from a particular theme, lets see if you can guess what it is

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sharmageddon

here are some guys who i am pretty into as dudes
they are on stage like WE are a BAND take a LOOK
yes it really was that loud