Unsurprisingly, Johnny and Dubya are equally ignorant when it comes to their statements about Russia’s invasion of Georgia.
“In the 21st century nations don’t invade other nations.”
-John McCain
Dear Ben,
Your new songs aren’t that hawt. I mean, you did a song with Regina Spektor and you couldn’t even make that good. Plz just make Rockin’ Tha Suburbs…AGAIN! instead.
K thx bye,
Curt
“Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century”
-George W. Bush in regards to Russia’s recent invasion of Georgia
LOLZLOLZLOLZLOLZLOLZ
Alright kids, I have to be up at 4:30 tomorrow morning in order to get on my 7am flight to Boston so I’m outta here until Wednesday night. Needless to say I’m pretty pumped to be out of town for a few days.
Kori from Mates of State blogs about being a parent of two while being on the road. It usually makes for a pretty interesting read.
So Scott turned 21 tonight (happy birthday Scott), but didn’t get to drink. More on that later.
Today was a pretty damned good day. Even work was actually interesting, although this is solely Mike’s doing. I was in a meeting, and when I got back I had a google talk message from Mike that said, “You have been sitting on a dick all day.” Knowing Mike, I knew something was up so quizzically looked at my chair. He helped me out by telling me to look underneath; Mike had taken the label maker and printed out the words “a dick” and stuck it on the bottom of my chair before I got to work. He then waited all day to tell me about it so he could say that I had been “sitting on a dick all day”. Good work.
After work, Eve decided she needed to go to Urban so I grudgingly (or not-so-grudgingly) agreed to join her to satiate our first world consumerism. But it’s okay because buying shit makes you feel better and more at one with the universe right? Right.
Afterwards, I made good on my promise for more “me time” and went to Uncommon Grounds and read Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut for almost two hours. I’m really glad I treated myself to that because it was probably the most relaxing time I’ve spent in months. So, thanks for spending some time with me tonight Curt. You’re welcome man, anytime! Your hair looked great, and I love your boat shoes. I know, right? But in all seriousness, I’m really really glad I decided to do that. Also, for those of you who haven’t read Slaughterhouse Five, I can’t recommend it enough. Apparently it’s similar to Chuck Palahniuk’s writing style, but I wouldn’t know because I haven’t read any of this books (but Survivor is next on my list). Anyways, I’m really enjoying it so far.
Next, I met up with the man of the day, the newly christened 21 year old Scott Olstad. I figured by the time I saw him he would be stumbling all over the place telling everyone to sing for him. Unfortunately, Scott didn’t renew his driver’s license so spent his 21st completely dry. Oopsie. But it’s okay, because I’m sure he is glad he remembers the We Are Scientists show at the Varsity. Their music was spot on, everyone was dancing, and as a testament to how good they were, I even really enjoyed the songs I didn’t recognize (I haven’t heard their newest cd), which never happens. They were also one of the funniest bands I have ever seen live, which all added up to one of the best shows I’ve been to in a while.
Also, this is your last chance to give me tips on what to do in Boston and Maine while you are at home crying because you miss me so much, or being really glad you don’t have to see me for five days. Either way, recommendations, please.
Out 9/23
Where can I get some Jenny Lewis blotting paper? Anyways, call 888-717-2243 and hear the title track.
Stars - Calendar Girl (Acoustic at The Current)
I really don’t have any reasoning for posting this other than to say about 50% (okay, maybe that’s a bit of a stretch, but it’s been a lot!) of my music listening this summer has involved Stars and I absolute love this song. Download two studio sets Stars have played for 89.3 The Current here.
Dylan Mondegreen - Girl in Grass
I think it may be a little bit of a stretch to say Dylan Mondegreen sounds like his fellow Scandavian, Jens Lekman, but they have the same whispery voice and song structures I feel. At the very least, if you like Jens Lekman you should like this guy. Thanks to Dave for the heads up on this one.
In a recent interview with Paste, Conor Oberst said basically everything I wanted to about religion:
“I guess I’m just conflicted, you know. I mean, I want to find something like that. Badly. But forms where it’s been offered to me seem fraudulent. I guess it’s one of those topics that keeps coming up. My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, so that was my childhood. And not that I’m an expert on all these religions, but what I know is that all the other major religions just fall a little flat in their narrow-mindedness. I feel like there’s something much more basic than what all these people are worried about. I find it really shocking that two groups that are, from an outsider’s perspective, almost identical—Shiites and Sunnis, or Catholics and Protestants—can actually kill each other over minor details. To me, dogma is anti- whatever I would consider godlike, which is a connectedness and an all-encompassing love. I suppose that’s a lot of what Buddhism is, but I haven’t found anything that really hits the mark for me. … Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous. Which is unfortunate, because I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love. I think it’s a nice concept, and I wish it made sense to me, but I guess it doesn’t.”
Read the rest of the interview here, a quick, but very very good read.
I did have some comments written about this, but realized how terribly uncomfortable I am talking about religion, thus, no commentary ha.