I’m wondering, and perhaps the aesthetics just don’t matter, but now that we’re approaching 40,000 hits on this site and we’re loaded with creative and savvy indivuals for design if it’s time for an overhaul or a change of our site layout/design? I guess I thought with all the talented people in our blog cache that we should represent that appropriately – let’s keep it going…
I know that would have to fall on one or a few people, but I’d be willing to contribute what I can (food, $’s, ideas). I know there are great templates from different design sites and independent designers that cost anywhere from $20 to several $100 – I’m willing to pitch in. I know money could also afford the site more speed, layout options and space. Bryan could we send money to you via your paypal account?
What does everyone else think – keep it simple or amp it up?
Go see it. Just go. Go now. Well, don’t leave work, but go after work, maybe?
The video above is great and all, and it shows clips from the Scott Pilgrim video game which looks like a total blast, and the song matched up with it is a total smile-inducer, but it’s all about the movie.
Listen, when Michael Cera punches people, they turn into a handful of coins. I didn’t know how satisfying this could be. Thank me later. Plus, there’s a Culkin in it!
Hey guys! Most of you know this, but I got married just about a month ago! It was a small slice of what I think heaven could be like. Surrounded by the people I cherish the most, I said “I do” to the love of my life. Special props go to Caleb and his girlfriend for making it to the wedding all the way from New York. Such a blessing to have you there brother. Micheal Crews was there too. All we needed was Papa Rich to unify our old 821 house on Melrose.
Anyway, one tradition that BreeAnn and I have is attending the Iowa State Fair. This is our second year going together. But when you’ve been married for a month, doing something twice becomes a tradition. Our main goal is to eat as much crap as possible within a 4 hour time span. I ate a footlong corndog, some fried cheese curds, and a rice crispy treat on a stick. If it isn’t fried or on a stick, it won’t make it to the fair. At some point BreeAnn and I traveled to the building where there is tons of advertising. I happened to walk past a stand when I saw this:
I’m just gonna copy the article from pitchfork. Here ya go:
The newly major-label free Weezer have a new album, Hurley (aka the one with the absurd, Lost-referencing album cover), out September 14 via Epitaph. They’ve got a new single out, too, the alt-rock-tastic “Memories”. Lots of looking ahead towards the future, right? Well, it seems that Weezer might look back with a possible tour that would find the band playing their two most beloved albums, 1994′s Weezer (aka “The Blue Album”) and 1996′s Pinkerton, in their entirety, as MTV reports.
Frontman Rivers Cuomo told MTV News about the possible touring plans while shooting the sure-to-be-ridiculous video for “Memories”: “We have this really exciting idea to do a tour where we spend two nights in each city, and the first night, we play the entire Blue Album, and the second night, we play the entirety of Pinkerton. We’re just running it by promoters right now to see if there’s sufficient interest in the markets to do something like that, and if they’re on board, it’s gonna happen.”
Drummer Pat Wilson added to MTV, “”Yeah, it would probably be a Blue/Pinkerton tour. It’s an idea, we’re still examining the mathematics of everything, looking at the logistics and schedules … you know.” Sounds like it might happen, then– let’s hope they don’t play, uh, anything after Pinkerton.
I was never the huuuugest Pinkerton fan. I just loved the blue album so much and pulled the whole….”i don’t like their new stuff” type move I think. Haha.
It took me a while to get into this, but nothing good comes quickly or easily, does it? I’d originally sought this record out for its opening track because, if Bill Murray in all his rumpled glory sings it at Japanese karaoke in a Sofia Coppola movie, then it’s got to be pretty cool.
But it’s this one song at the end of this record that took me by complete surprise on the train ride home last week. I can’t explain it. It’s dark and slinky and stu-stu-stuttering and unexpected, both sexy and nostalgically sad. What if Sofia Coppola directed The Breakfast Club? What if…I guess it’d sound like this.
So, if you’re in the mood. You won’t know if you are or aren’t until you hear it, I suppose, but let me say that it will definitely be better in the early evening or early morning — any one of those scarce grey hours. Maybe you should wait until then.
I met this cat when I was in New Orleans a few years back – There was even an effort to get him to play at Wartburg. Unfortunately, it never panned out. Looks like he’s killing it across the globe and is really blowing up. Check out the video below + the link to his entire album is here: https://public.me.com/mccarty.bryan – Just click on “Trombone Shorty – Backatown” and then download each file.
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