The AV Club has this new feature called "One Track Mind" where they get people to talk about and perform a specific song of theirs, and the newest one is the Archers of Loaf dude talking about "Web in Front": http://www.avclub.com/articles/eric-bachmann-of-archers-of-loaf-discusses-and-per,65863/

I improbably managed to land the Reaching Quiet LP for like $16 on eBay where it regularly goes for like $60. It's sublime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_818rcC0DA

http://wondertonic.tumblr.com/post/2348141864/new-yorker-cartoons-reenact-memorable-moments-from

I saw this and for a second got really excited about the prospect of Wolf Parade graffiti: http://cdn0.lostateminor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/cool-street-art-3.jpg

I think the most remarkable thing about that is that anyone remembers You Don't Mess With the Zohan. I don't think even Adam Sandler remembers that one.

high school music high

Thanks! :) Back at ya'

I don't know... pretty god damn high, Alexander. Pretty god damn high.

How high up the list of best album covers of the 2000s do you think Futures goes?

Wow, that was incredible. It combined my fondness of awful puns with my love for capitalization-based humor.

uhmmmm why is my last.fm so effed. it is not a true reflection of my listening style. as in i dont listen to a song 500 times in a row. though... i admit i do often listen to panic! ... bwahaha.

like a fucking idiot [is how I'm living]. or, how I was living. I've tried this new "straight and narrow" thing. it's so-so, but I feel less guilty. but yeyah, you left that mensaje on a weird noche... fucks if I know. how you be ninja?

shabbat shalom.

"Oh Messy Life" from the one-night-only, 15 minute/4 song long Cap'n Jazz reunion last night: http://vimeo.com/8926527 I cannot imagine being there and hearing that start!

Yeah that was a hot sess'. Despite loving Daytrotter ever-so-much, I find the articles frequently unbearable and have given up on reading them...

Actually, thanks to the abomination that is the Alvin & the Chipmunks franchise, a think the go-to sequel reference might have gotten an update: "Hester Street II: The Squeakquel".

You and your tiny desks. I did end up titling that paper Fustaši, but I amended it to include the subtitle "A DIY Approach to Genocide". It's good a thing I'm graduating, because I fear where this downward trend of ridiculousness would take me if I had more semesters.

Superb. The version of I Get Wet is terrific, and those piano improvs felt like the closest I could ever get to knowing what it's like inside his head, going from like classical-sounding piano to some weird jaunty vaudeville tune to just arrhythmic key-smashing.

Man, no one better ever try to tell me Almost Killed Me isn't the best Hold Steady album. If they do I will be forced to break them, Bane-style.

I saw this (http://3.ly/aOm) and thought of you. Still your ringtone!

BEWARE, tirade ensues: in (apologetically belated) response to your txt of recent weeks, I say "fucks yeyah" to the winter of our MGS theme you've cooked yourself up. I must say tho that unless you have access to a ps3 and MGS4 (or a friend that you can exploit), the ending to MGS2 will only make you FURIOUS because it only asks questions yet the answers remain unanswered until four (as three is a prequel and in itself kind of a cop-out, but a super soviet styled Big Boss bad-ass cop-out). but at least Sons of Liberty is the first truly post-modern videojuego. well, second. almost forgot about EARTHBOUND. muchlove, juanathan. [p.s. sunaku..... suNAku....... SSSSUNAKUUUUUU!!!!]

hahah, yeah what can i say. we're emo kids, i'm fine with that :-P you didn't laugh at me for the fall out boy thing, so i take back my comment from earlier. I'm in case! let's hang, i'll text you after class.

Metro Station? Really?

UPDATE: Mere hours later I changed my mind—there's a track on the new Hello Nasty reissue that makes me want to cry. Still, Cursive doing Love Cats is prettay boss.

The Cure cover in the new Cursive Daytrotter sesh is probably the best fucking thing I've ever heard.

hi, thnx 4 the add :)

They're probably the #1 band I'm embarrassed to like, but it's SO GOOD! I'll be seeing you in a few days, mister.

ALEX! we are so high. how is the Israel? I bet real Israeli but a bit 'Stinian. I saw the Thermals and a bunch of other sweet shit! muchlove sexpot, hit a brotha up when you's stateside!

I do it all for you, Alexander. And, I did indeed lol.

Israel is SOOOOO 2002 man. the real conflict zone people care about now is East Timor or South Ossetia, DUH. poseur. <3333

um.... okay then, eat it ninja: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYdo3UGBaQk

Just read an old/sweet Batman comic called Citizen Wayne. ¡SPOILERZOMG! "Rosebud" was the name of the gun that killed his parents!

heyy thurrr

hey tittyballs, I just wanted to say where is you this verano? I misses my Tyrannosaurus Wawkuh. hit a brotha up!

It took me a really long time to notice that; I was just thinking, "Why would he send me this?". I am thrilled that you're still keeping up with Photoshop Phriday!

I'm finally watching that Cursive-on-Letterman video, and they're really selling me on that track. I remember being kind of lukewarm on it, but this is terrific. I love how enthusiastic Dave was the end. (Also, The Thermals = my new LastFM #1).

It's worth it for the Thermals track, but beyond I don't really recall...

New Thermals Leaked, Is Gigantic (attempt to use newspaper-headline-style comma)

Aww snap, new Cold War Kids Daytrotter sess takes me back to the original, ground floor days of Daytrotter like three whole years ago

HAHA I dont really have many options other than katy perry on my computer... damn external drive....

ha yeah that would be because i am missing my external drive.... FUCKKKKK im so sad i only put like 35 songs on my computer. lol

I just got my hands on the "I'll Believe in Anything, You'll Believe in Anything" solo piano demo. While it is unsurprisingly hot shit, it's not quite as revelatory as the Sunset Rubdown version was.

There's a new Beirut double EP that I recommend. The second half is credited to "Real People"; it's nice seeing that moniker again (and it's similarly "electronic").

Turns out... due to me stealing ALL of your music.... our music compatibility is now SUPER..... HAHAHHA for some reason i found that amusing

I've been working my way through 2008: The Year in Hype, going through all the bands I resented being told to listen to at the time, and while I found a lot of it to be rather disappointing (I'm looking at you, Bon Iver), I think you'd dig Titus Andronicus. The guy has an Oberstian voice, so it's kind of like a punk Bright Eyes.

Good use of your obama photo booth.... lol

that's good to hear! it's pretty much the same here. i just moved into my apartment in east lansing a few weeks ago. i'm so glad break is here though finally!

the coat-tails of düüm! they bring the mosh.

i cannot believe our music taste has went to very low! ps - how are you? i haven't talked to you in ages!