I like a mystery. I like Doritos. I think that’s why I bought the Doritos “The Quest” mystery flavored chips.
They tasted like Froot Loops with way too much lime. A little research and I discovered that these are actually
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Mountain Dew Doritos!
They’re actually not that bad, but still, Mountain Fucking Dew Doritos.
Tim Harrington of Les Savy Fav via Pitchfork Music Festival 2008: Sunday | Pitchfork
That is a bit weird. I must admit that I giggled when after not being able to see much more than a mic cord being held above the crowd, suddenly he was lifted up above the throng in a garbage can. That’s rock and roll.
Does anyone else find it of extremely ill portent that the Watchmen trailer features a Smashing Pumpkins song from the Batman and Robin soundtrack?It’s intentional, they want you to think about those 90s Batman movies when you see the trailer. (See also: the molded nipples on Adrian Viedt’s costume.) The director is deliberately trying to get people to approach the characters and concepts in terms of how superheroes have been portrayed in movies over the past fifteen years so that when people actually see the film, they’ll have their equilibrium knocked off by the actual content of the story. I was kinda horrified by the look of the movie until this was explained to me, and now it all kinda fits together. I’m still extremely skeptical about the movie being good, but at least it makes sense to take on the image/sound of superhero movies the way the comic took on the image of the comics of its time. It’s about subverting archetypes, you know?
I hope that’s true. It would be really great if they got this one right.
…this might be a hoax, but if it’s for real it might represent a brand new kind of Internet-facilitated artist-fan interaction: management guidance via online capitalist blackmail.
Who says there’s no innovation in the rap world in 2008?
I’m only leaking your album because I love you- Chicago Reader Blogs: CricketsLast night Public Enemy played It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back at the opening night of the Pitchfork music festival. They rocked it. Even if Flav was late to the stage and only occasionally singing along to his pre-recorded backing tracks, they still, you know, brought the noise.
For me, one of the more interesting moments happened when Chuck pulled producer Hank Shocklee of the Bomb Squad on stage. They talked about the fact that since the album was being created for the cassette, and to a lesser extent vinyl, they had both sides sequenced, and at the last minute they swapped sides. In other words, It Takes a Nation… almost started with “Show Em What You Got” and “She Watch Channel Zero”.
While I was vaguely aware that “Rebel Without a Pause” was released before the full album was put together, I had always wondered about the sequencing of It Takes a Nation… Specifically, I always wondered why “Don’t Believe the Hype” whose second verse begins “Yes!/Was the start of my last jam” appeared before “Rebel” with it’s opening line of “Yes!/The rhythm, the rebel”. It seems that had they not switched sides, we would have gotten “Rebel” first and “Don’t Believe The Hype” on side 2. Mystery solved!
ETA: “Rebel Without a Pause” live at Pitchfork July 18, 2008
Boris - live @ Criminal Records Part 1 (via KimCriminal)
Since these videos of Boris performing “The Evil One Which Sobs” went up on YouTube a while back, I’ve watched them several times. I always get frustrated finding all of the clips and putting them in order, though, so as a public service here’s the playlist:
IMG_0839 (via silverfuture)
Tonight, I went to the Pitchfork Preview night at Millennium Park. One of the bands that played was the Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar, a fantastic brass band from Serbia. If you’re going to Pitchfork, go early on Saturday and see them. If you’re not going to Pitchfork, they’re playing at Summerdance in Grant Park tomorrow (Friday) night, and Monday night at Martyrs. Seriously, go see them.
