October 2009
Unbeautiful— Too Much Joy - Mutiny
Just when you forgot that you forgot all about Too Much Joy and they drifted back into the deep card catalog of things beloved but long forgotten, here they are, from their well produced and completely un-promoted album that never really saw the light of day outside of archaic college radio stations of the east coast and a small contingency of St. Louis University fanatics and friends.
You can send thanks to the dark magicians of Warner Brothers records for keeping this band from you.
Yes, the 1990’s were a distant foggy dream, but this band was robbed of its chance.
Perfect.
New Washed Out!
“Olivia” by Washed Out
Dark and moody, perfect for the recent unfortunate weather of gray, rainy days.
1. Silverfi (I can’t even finish typing the word.)
2. Acid wash
3. American Apparel models
4. “The Blair Witch Project”
5. Carrots
6. Excel
7. Enclosed slides
8. Ebola
9. Wet toilet seats
10. Earthquakes
Tracy: Hall or Billingham?
Jack: You know someone named Arsenio Billingham?
Tracy: No.” —“30 Rock” and the basis for a big ol’ clump of silliness with the belinker cats in Nashville
Frank Langella shows up at my door with half a face and says: “If you press this button, two things will happen: one, you will receive one million dollars. Two, Joe Buck will show up at someone’s house, somewhere in the world, and talk to them about baseball for twenty minutes.”
Chilling, right? What would you do?
Press the button. I could use the cash and could probably head off Buck, provided he’s in town, following his brunch at Schneithorst. I believe I can spare that poor soul the 20 minutes of baseball blather AND buy $2000 worth of ridiculous sweaters at Anthropologie without failing you, Dave Holmes.
