Sunday, August 31, 2008

conversion

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my speakers busted, no sound from tweeters. after opening the case and likely making it worse, i'm pretty sure its an issue with the onboard amp. left channel is shot really, so its time to get speakers. while looking, i got sidetracked into getting this too. audiophile analog and hipster fetish be damned, ive rationalized it as a way to listen to albums. LPs at the library were great, but nobody bothered to ground them and always hummed. time to bring this technology home.

to start:
slanted and enchanted
dummy
wowee zowee
loveless
in rainbows
kid a
fleet foxes

hate the audiophiles. how can anyone spend thousands on speakers and electronics. its idiotic and wasteful. also, what happened to imagination, people who want the most accurate rendition are covering for passively consuming music, theyre ignoring the music to see how "lifelike" it is. hi-fi, what a crock. i thought, no one can justify spending over $50 on speakers. as long as they produce sound, isnt that pretty close? but $100 takes you pretty far. and $150 goes even further. now ive got a phono preamp and amp. but i swear thats it. i take comfort in that ill probably be distracted by something else to invest myself into a crappy hobby like buying electronics.
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Saturday, August 23, 2008

chills every single time

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incoming

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of montreal's new album, skeletal lamping. yes!
yeah, its flaming pop, but its still pretty great

okkervil river new album....eh. really.
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Saturday, August 16, 2008

break it down like a fraction

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bands on queue:

dodos
drones
cut copy



joanna newsom and cso next week
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Friday, August 15, 2008

perversion pervasion

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"Today's music scene is a global swapshop. One of the coming bands of this year, for instance, are Johannesburg's Blk Jks, whose style choices include the global scenester's familiar Elvis Costello "dork" glasses, 1970s ski vests, vintage Nikes and, yes, skinny jeans.

The band that defined the US branch of the global scene was The Strokes, a quintet of monied Manhattanites posing as Lower East Side hipsters. Lead singer Julian Casablancas's vocal persona is insouciant, unimpressed, too cool to try harder. His latest project is the song "My Drive Thru", commissioned for a Converse advertisement; the ad is the centrepiece of Converse Century, a celebration of the company's first 100 years, and a smart marketing campaign that condenses decades of global youth subculture and rebrands it for the mainstream...

Making fun of the global scenesters is futile, for they love nothing more than to mock themselves. Everything a scenester does is rendered in air quotes: ironic moustaches, ironic trucker caps, faux-offensive Urban Outfitters T-shirts, white guys with afros, or musical acts with names like Does It Offend You, Yeah?"


from the independent.uk
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