December 2011
“(My knowledge of popular music is good, I think, but there are many gaps, mostly...”
– This week on One Week One Band people are guest-posting about their favorite album-ending songs. The one is chose is probably not one you would expect from me, if you know me at all.
I would like myself so much better if I could fall...
I may be alone in this, but does anyone else...
Because boy do I really hate one yet really love the other one.
“It’s located on a side street, which by Providence law means that it’s forced to...”
– 1,200 words about my hour out at the bar tonight: check! Now, bed.
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UK Christmas Number Ones, From Best To Worst
1. Human League, Don’t You Want Me
2. The Beatles, I Want to Hold Your Hand
3. Girls Aloud, Sound of the Underground
4. Henry Mancini, Moon River
5. Pet Shop Boys, Always on My Mind
6. Yaz, Only You
7. The Beatles, I Feel Fine
8. Dave Edmunds, I Hear You Knocking
9. The Beatles, Day Tripper
10. Boney M, Mary’s Boy Child
11. Terry Jacks, Seasons in the Sun
12. Spice Girls, 2...
“A victim of a marketing campaign that unfairly branded it as a slice of 80s...”
– CinemaBlend’s 10 Most Unfairly Overlooked Movies of 2011 list makes an argument that I never expected to read anywhere, ever. (Also, did you see the “Don’t You Want Me” video from the soundtrack? It is probably the single worst video of all of 2011.)
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Last night I was at a bar with some old friends who were in town for the holiday, and Foster The People’s “Helena Beat” came on*, and I said how odd it was to me that two of the biggest hits on the radio in the past few months have choruses that I totally can’t make out. Because do you know what he’s saying?
I have the same problem with “Someone Like...
You know what I do not know the words to is...
In the car right now I realize that their second hit, the one that’s not “Far Behind,” has the “I’ll cry for you, yes I’ll die for you” bit and besides that I don’t know a single other word to that song even though it used to haunt me back when it was on the radio constantly. Although pre-1996 constantly was basically rarely, in 2011-speak.
IT'S FIVE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING.
The club closes at six so I left at four thirty which given traffic patterns in the middle of the night on Christmas weekend and what with the risk of drunk drivers around the holidays and the fact that I’ve been drinking some mysterious product called Nuvo, that should allow me enough time to come home and come upstairs and plug my iPhone into the wall because the charge on those things...
The Only Movies From 2011 That I Actually Did See,...
1. Bridesmaids 2. I Love You Philip Morris* 3. The Muppets 4. Beginners 5. X-Men: First Class 6. Blitz 7. Rabbit Hole* 8. The Adjustment Bureau 9. Super 8
I feel like I’m forgetting one. I actually liked all of these movies, although God was the ending of Super 8 dumb.
*I realize these movies are technically older but they didn’t come to RI until this year so I’m...
My Top 22 Movies Of 2011 That I Didn't Actually...
1. Shame 2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 3. Jane Eyre 4. We Need To Talk About Kevin 5. Hanna 6. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 7. Warrior 8. Red Riding Hood 9. Tomboy 10. Attack The Block 11. The Devil’s Double 12. Young Adult 13. Thor 14. Real Steel 15. Happy Feet Two 16. Killer Elite 17. Another Earth 18. Higher Ground 19. The Skin I Live In 20. Margaret 21. No Strings Attached 22. The...
I want to go to lunch but I have no idea where to...
I’m kind of brain-dead today and not really sure why. Also, I need to figure out things to buy my parents.
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Metacritic’s five highest critically-rated movies of 2011 are The Arbor, The Artist, My Perestroika, Poetry, and We Were Here, and if the titles themselves weren’t enough to make you want to use the undervalued snooty/snoozy rhyme, then let us be reminded that these five films are a documentary about Russians growing up under Communism, a drama about an aging Korean maid, a depressing...
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“The agreement, which resolves a long-standing dispute that threatened the future...”
– I am so happy for Providence right now! The city will be leasing-to-own seven branch libraries from the Providence Public Library, meaning that the PPL will (hopefully) stop behaving like slumlords and refusing to repair the buildings (every single one of which is on the national historic...
“Tarro said he has no immediate plans for redevelopment of the site but that he...”
– This AP article about the destruction of a historically significant school quotes Michael Tarro as the State Representative for the district but fails to mention that it’s his own family who made the building unsafe in the first place by bulldozing it on a Saturday morning without any permits.
“The troubled, skinny, and newly blond British soul singer Amy Winehouse has...”
– Awwwwwwww.
“EVERY PAGE of this book was printed (off-set), collated and bound by the hands...”
– You should want this. You know, five hours from now.
Two-Part Question For Everyone
What percentage of your Facebook wall / Twitter feed / Tumblr dashboard do you think you actually read? Has this ever become an issue for you in real life, and if so, how?
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A couple of years ago, when I had dental...
He came recommended to my by a co-worker (who didn’t have insurance) specifically because he was no-nonsense and thorough.
I made an appointment for a cleaning and after a consultation, visit—during which I was mysteriously shown videos of people’s gums being measured on a scale from 1 to 5—I went in, had my gums measured, and was told that I’d need a full...
The FBI will quietly update its 82-year old... →
“Does this trendlet have a wider cultural significance? On one level, probably...”
– James Blake, Bon Iver and Drake do not want you to be part of their world.
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Also it doesn't let you have more than one tab...
That’s the other thing.
The state of Rhode Island has a website,...
When you go to the website the very first screen says “Return To Main Menu.” Then when you go to the main menu and click on “Find A Job” Firefox gives you a warning about site data being unencrypted.
(*Well not that many, obviously, since it’s still completely impossible to find a steady job here. But a lot of jobs, anyway.)
The Gloomy Pharmacists, “Masters In This...
“Track Listing:
1. God Wants Us to Wait
2. Andrew in Drag
3. Your Girlfriend’s...”
– I was sooooooooooooooooooo disappointed with the last Magnetic Fields album. But the new one is going to be synth-y! And have songs with titles like “My Husband’s Pied-a-Terre” and “I’d Go Anywhere With Hugh” and “Infatuation (With Your Gyration)”...
PARTY 2-NITE!!!!!!!
Headmaster Holiday Party at The Avery, 7-10pm tonight. Bubbly drinks will be not-quite-but-nearly-freely flowing and you’ll be able to see our new line of notebooks in person for the first time.