Jeff said I never post pop music on my blog. He’s right. Here are a couple clever pop ditties I’ve been listening to lately (incidentally, can’t wait for the new Fall Out Boy album to drop):
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I’m a music fan without a home. On the one hand, my indie snob friends accuse me of being obsessed with pop music, but then my bandmates and other pop-loving friends say I’m an indie snob myself.
The key to cracking the code of my musical tastes is my wife. Left to my own devices, I’d be perfectly content unironically listening to Top 40s music, but Corinne has a more indie bent. So, she loads our hard drive with indie music, from whence it gets onto my iPod, from whence it gets into my ears.
That process can take as long as two years, though (two whole years I spent missing out on The National…what a travesty).
See, Corinne has the energy and inclination to hunt for new bands, whereas I typically take longer to warm to new bands/songs. How it typically happens is she’ll tell me I should check out this one band, I listen and shrug, and then weeks or months later the band will come up in my iPod shuffle and I’ll get a closer listen and love it. At which point, it’s a question of how to broach the subject with Corinne without letting her know that she was right and I’m predictable.
Anyway, here are some songs that Corinne told me I’d love when they came out, but which I’m just now getting around to really appreciating:
| Rogue Wave – Chicago X 12 | ||
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Big ups to my good friend Randall Bennett, formerly of CNET, who done gone and launched himself a cool-looking technology website called Obsessable. I can only imagine the amount of work it takes to build a site like that from the ground up. Congrats!
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We’re batting a thousand with our SNL host predictions so far this season. Sarah Jane guessed Michael Phelps as the host of the premier episode, and Corinne picked James Franco–sure enough, he’s hosting episode two (he’ll be awesome). I picked Robert Downey, Jr, which remains to be validated.
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On a lighter note, you know BYU absolutely humiliated a good Pac-10 team when ESPN won’t even show highlights from the game. (what kinda spin are you going to put on a 59-0 win over an almost-top-25 team, ESPN?) Reading the quotes from the UCLA players in the week leading up to the game, those guys were out for blood, which makes the blowout even more satisfying.
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Yikes, after an afternoon of watching college football, I check Twitter and the first thing I see is that my favorite essayist, David Foster Wallace, apparently hung himself today. He was one of my favorite authors: funny, insightful, logical—one of the rare examples of left and right sides of a brain working in perfect harmony.
If you’re wondering what all the fuss is about (assuming that there is a media fuss, which there ought to be), read “Consider the Lobster” or “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again,” or at least a couple of the essays from them. My favorite essays are “Consider the Lobster” and “On Authority and American Usage.”
Absolutely brilliant. His death is a real loss.
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Corinne and I are totally getting re-addicted to X-Files, ever since our brilliant TiVo found reruns on Sci-Fi and started recording them for us. How does our TiVo know us so well? We don’t watch hardly any science fiction on TV except Lost, and yet our TiVo somehow knew that my wife and I were both X-Files fanatics in high school. It’s like the TiVo has become…self aware. (I want to believe!)
For some reason Sci-Fi is only showing reruns from 1995 and 2002 (one each per day) so we’re seeing the best and the worst–once Mulder left, the show became intolerable, though it had been going downhill before then. Side note: why do TV shows tend to get worse as time goes by? Same thing with bands. It’s almost as if, as writers and musicians become more skillful and practiced in their craft, their creativity decreases. The only exception I can think of is George Lucas. (Have you seen Clone Wars? AMAZING!!! SOO much better than his early stuff…)
ANYWAY, the fun part about watching X-Files in 2008 is seeing all the “cameos” by the Stars of Tomorrow. In the two weeks since we started watching, we’ve seen John Locke playing a small-town sheriff, his nemesis Ben playing a psychokinetic dude obsessed with the Brady Bunch, Luke Wilson as a (spoiler!) hillbilly vampire, Tony Shalhoub as a dude with a deadly shadow, Charles Widmore as a maybe-alien…
OK, so we’ve mostly seen characters from Lost. Hey, maybe that’s how our TiVo knew we’d like X-Files! Mystery solved.
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A beautiful cover of one of George Harrison’s best songs. Stumbled across it on TheSixtyOne…if you haven’t checked it out, you should!
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Firecracker is one of my favorite songs off of Voxtrot’s brilliant self-titled album, which I’ve been listening to consistently for about a year now. Kid Gloves is the best song on the album (and one of the best songs of 2007, I think), but there’s an R-rated word in it, and this is a strictly PG blog. Bring the kids!
These guys are good live, too. If they’re coming through your town, def check them out.
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