and you didn't

i saw tv on the radio tonight. it was godlike.

i also asked Kyp after the show if he had any of his solo records and he did. i bought it for five bucks. it features his own art and handwriting and stuff.

jen and I also snagged a setlist.

we're dorks, but they're awesome.

photos to follow...

too lazy

too lazy to write a trip update as yet, so I'll just let you know I've been listening to and liking the following:

Thursday's A City By The Light Divided (myspace stream)
Fat Day's Unf! Unf!
Flying's Just One Second Ago Broken Eggshell
First Nation's First Nation
Think About Life's Think About Life
Appleseed Cast's Peregrine
Parts & Labor's Stay Afraid

and oldies but goodies:

Modest Mouse's horribly underrated The Moon and Antarctica
and the recently acquired Velvet Underground box set.

A fag amongst gays

Was watching the Match Game tonight and still can't believe just how inherently hilarious Charles Nelson Reilly is. He reached that state only a few men have ever attained: That John Cleese and Fred Willard level of comedy where no matter what they're doing, they're funny. Just looking at them makes you say "Fred Willard" or "John Cleese" as you start chuckling.
I think Rainn Wilson (a.k.a. Dwight Schrute) will be the next person enshrined in the "Inherent Hilarity Hall of Fame."

I'm starting to get into Big Love, HBO's new show about Polygamy. Mostly the show got my attention because David Lynch vets Grace Zabriskie and Harry Dean Stanton signed on to do the show...along with that funny bug-eyed chick from Mean Girls and Tina Majorino (the artist formerly known as "Deb"). We'll see. Chloe Sevigny is pretty irritating in it, but the other two wives, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Ginnifer Goodwin (Walk The Line) are really good. I hate Bill Paxton, but he's surprisingly not in the show that much--if he starts getting featured more, I think my interest will wane.

I won't be updating for a while since I'll be in New York City for a week. I'm not going to touch a computer while I'm there. This excites me.

Here are the CDs I'll be bringing along:

Animal Collective: Feels
Devendra Banhart: Cripple Crow and Nino Rojo
The Fall: 50,000 Fall Fans Can't be Wrong
Blur: Blur
The Mars Volta: De-loused in the Comatorium
Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat
Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf
Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
Fugazi: The Argument
Subtitle: Young Dangerous Heart
TV on the Radio: Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
Arcade Fire: Funeral
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Show Your Bones
Islands: Return to the Sea
Mason Proper: There is a Moth in Your Chest
Les Savy Fav: Inches
The Mae-Shi/Rapider than Horsepower: Don't Ignore the Potential
Arab on Radar: Queen Hygiene II/Rough Day at the Orifice
At the Drive-in: This Station is Non-Operational
And You Will Know us By the Trail of Dead: Source Tags and Codes
A Whisper in the Noise: As the Bluebird Sings
Liars: Drums Not Dead.

That's probably too many CDs for just two plane rides, but I never know what I'm going to be in the mood for. I also went pretty "2004" hipster, but I don't care. I'd rather listen to mellow shit on a plane ride because aggressive stuff makes me nervous when i'm listening to it through headphones. The Mae-Shi split may get bumped for Tool's Aenima or The Birthday Party's greatest hits. We'll see.

My mom's coming out to visit me in June. This is exciting news.

Kurt Cobain was right

Pearl Jam are a bunch of hypocritical, lying, theiving fucks.

I saw that they're playing with Sonic Youth and I was like "Oh. I can kill two Dinosaurs with one stone" and actually thought about going to their San Diego date.

Tickets are $51. FIFTY ONE DOLLARS.

Way to keep the prices down, assholes.

525,600 minutes

New York Itinerary, so far:

4/9 Rent on Broadway. Or off Broadway. Or somewhere in Manhattan
4/10 Wolf Parade at Webster Hall.
4/12 New York Yankees vs. Kansas City Royals
4/12 New Amsterdams at CBGB's. I can't pass up the opportunity to go there before it closes.
4/14 Gris Gris at the Cakeshop (this one isn't confirmed yet. I haven't even heard Gris Gris, but Jen wants to try the cake.)

Somewhere in there we're hitting the Whitney and the Guggenheim, as well as Ellis Island. I'd like to see the Teddy Roosevelt house too, but who knows.

quick update

Interviewing Kyle from Witch and Feathers tomorrow (well, actually THIS) morning. I'm doing Feathers for Aural Minority and Witch for Modern Fix.

Speaking of Modern Fix, I had three articles in the new one: Year Future, Shoplifting and Rahim. They all turned out really well, except it looks like I dropped a word in a sentence in the Year Future piece.

What can you do?

I got SEVEN promos today and they were all absolutely horrible--easily the worst promo day in the history of Aural Minority, and you can imagine we've had some bad ones. Overall we've hit a promo doldrum, though this one band Cougars reminds me of the Murder City Devils/Smoke and Smoke, and that's never a bad thing.

Downloaded the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs (i like the second half of the album, but not the first half) and the new Secret Machines (a snoozer).

I interviewed Camilla from Sunset Rubdown (and formerly of Pony Up!) the other day, as well as J'aime from Islands. If I could just interview people from Canada I think I would. They're just so fucking nice.

I'm going to see Cold War Kids tomorrow for the first time. They're kinda Buckley-ish and I want to see how they pull it off live.

The new Fiery Furnaces is coming out and they were working with a friendly publicity firm and now they're working with somebody who I don't think likes me because I shot them a very curt email after they assured me I'd be listed for a Kills show in San Diego that was sold out, but I wasn't. I may have to bite the bullet and actually purchase it. although I do have Eleanor's cell phone number....

Just kidding. Wouldn't do that.