and in your dreams, whatever they may be

Hammer Museum
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33 1/3 is a series of books about a wide variety of seminal rock and pop albums. Join three of the authors for readings and special multimedia presentations. Hayden Childs’s Shoot Out the Lights puts into context Richard and Linda Thompson’s album—from the personal history driving the songs, to the recording difficulties they encountered and the subsequent fall-out. He has appeared in Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed. Kim Cooper’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea sheds light on the underground classic album by Neutral Milk Hotel. Cooper is the editor of Scram, and co-editor of the anthologies Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth and Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed. Scott Plagenhoef’s If You’re Feeling Sinister provides perspective on how Belle & Sebastian transformed from a cult secret into a polished, highly entertaining, mainstream pop group. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Pitchfork.

LOL OMG Pitchfork. This is going to be a douchefest.

... I'm going to attend the fuck out of this. DDDD: B&S, you've really got a hold on me.

Favorite Singers
(sans l'ordre particulier)
Stuart Murdoch (B&S)
Nina Simone
Sam Cooke
Fujiwara Moto (BUMP)
Neko Case
Liz Phair
Brendon Urie (disco)
Minagawa Junko (... Prince of Tennis)
Bob Dylan
Jim Adkins (Jimmy Eat World)
Mama Cass Elliot
Sue Tompkins (Life Without Buildings)

music: killing me softly with its songs

I've been trying to think of the right word to describe Life Without Buildings all day. I know there's a word for what I'm thinking, I just can't access it. Anyway, Life Without Buildings: it is startling in how good it is, and in how it's good; it's such a... what is the word? It's like something I was waiting for. Startling, astonishing, disarming. It's like aliens heard us and created it on a different planet and put it down here. It's perfect in a way I didn't imagine, but listening to it, it's like "oh! of course! how could it have been done any other way?" GODDAMNIT HOW DO I SAY THIS??

Billiam Weckett from the Academy Is is super-cute 11 ft tall pixie stick. I still have the hugest truck-sized crush on their drummer. *___*

Daft Punk, so groovy!

For all the bitchin I do about the orchard of hipster dicktrees that is the world, I think I'm slowly realizing that... I'm... kind of... pretty much... an indie whore. An inexperienced one, but an indie whore nonetheless?

I recently realized that EP stands for Extended Play. I think I had previously found that out before, but I promptly forgot it. Whatever. Extended play! What a neat-o phrase! *sadly not sarcastic*

Lists of bands I'm not that familiar with!

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