January 2010
32 posts
Jan 31st
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N7abHPqTgo
Jenny Eliscu: [Regarding Lady Gaga], it's a no THERE there thing... like in the...
Rostam Batmanglij: A what?
JE: There's no there there, as Gertrude Stein would say.
RB: Hmm.
JE: I feel like it doesn't meet... like it doesn't...
Ezra Koenig: Like the Radiohead song?
Jan 30th
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“you take a really sleepy man, esme, and he always stands a chance of again...”
– jd salinger “for esme with love and squalor” 1950
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Jan 28th
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Listenthe clash “rudie can’t fail.” i...
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L'homme Run
i would KILL to hear a vampire weekend BALLAD VERSION of bitches. with a string section. danisse: ohwedreamalife: These songs are both funny and really catchy. Makes me wish they would turn the rest of these songs into Vampire Weekend songs, or at least bring L’homme Run back. MP3: L’homme Run - Interracial Dating MP3: L’homme Run - Bitches MP3: L’homme Run - Giving Up Da Gun MP3: L’homme...
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Jan 22nd
TEN TEN TEN
1. bowery ballroom 1/29/08 2. central park summerstage 6/14/08 3. terminal 5 12/3/08 4. terminal 5 12/6/08 5. new york times building 1/10/09 6. columbia university 4/18/09 7. studio on the upper east side 7/22/09 8. liberty state park 7/31/09 9. united palace theater 1/17/10 10. union square bookstore 1/21/10 i can’t believe this is happening but it’s happening.
Jan 21st
Listenall i am asking is that you fast-forward to about...
Jan 21st
“The Big News: Vampire Weekend’s meteoric rise was cemented this week as everyone...”
– FUCK. YEAH. i’m so proud of these guys. here’s to a third fantastic album and the possibility of me seeing them perform nine more times!! Rolling Stone Thank God. “Tik Tok” may be catchy, but it and most of the album is unlistenable to me. Contra, on the other hand, is fantastic. ...
Jan 20th
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Jan 18th
“i saw the world unto the world it asked me back again calls me love holds me...”
– spoon “i saw the light”
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on 8TRACKS i’ve been making little mixes and writing little stories about how all the songs work together. so you can listen here: http://8tracks.com/vittorioe
Jan 15th
“your little arrows of desire i want to trace them to the source”
– vampire weekend “i think ur a contra”
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“had a lot of fun / had a lot of money”
– paul simon “the obvious child”
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Listen“i can’t go back to how i felt before...
Jan 10th
“Thus it was that the exposure as a liar and a cheat of the man she loved, and to...”
– Evelyn Waugh “The Loved One”
Jan 10th