I’ve been told the iPod bikini is old news. Do I look like a guy who reads Sports Illustrated? Whatever.

And I’ve also been told the photo is NSFW, which is total bullshit, but for those of you who work in elementary schools I’m posting the artwork for tonight’s show at Small’s to knock the lovely Marisa Miller image further down the page. You should go to the show tonight. It’ll be fun. I know “having fun” doesn’t seem to be “in” right now, but I do believe it’s making a comeback. Be a trend-setter.

The Esperantos
The Brothers Cortez
Carjack

If you go, bring me back a poster. I want one. But I’m sure I’ll be here. At work. Looking at porn. Asking to be fired.

iPods are the greatest things ever. I wish I had one right now. Or two. Yeah, two would definitely be hot…

I’m going to be at work straight-through until Wednesday night / Thursday morning– I’m not really doing anything, just being the “Jenga piece of stability”. I appear to be useless, but if I’m removed the entire project crumbles. I’ve actually asked for that title to be printed on my business cards, and it was met with a response of, “What do you need a business card for?” To win free lunches, boss. To win free lunches.

Anyway, the internet basically shuts down around 6pm because people who don’t work here go home and live real lives — so I’ve got nothing to do during the “internet down time” except let delirium set in. I’ve decided to give myself a goal: sort through and decipher the Nine Inch Nails Year Zero Marketing-Plan-Riddle. Have you been following any of it? Read these:

“Year Zero” Project = Way Cooler Than “Lost” and “Year Zero” Project Update: Reznor Pisses on Scorsese’s Parade

Like I’ve said before, indiekiddies – make fun of NIN all you want, but Trent’s a smart guy and I don’t see him disappearing like most of his original peers have. Leaving USB drives loaded with new songs in European bathrooms? New web sites set in the post-apocalyptic future about drugs, terrorism and”The Presence”? Clues you can only decipher through a spectrograph? NIN has pwned Arcade Fire. In the ass.

This is cool, but I’m curious if anyone reading this site normally buys RIAA albums? How many of you actually buy albums, and do you even check to see if they are RIAA material? Something tells me the only people news of this boycott is going to reach are those of us who already avoid giving cash to the RIAA. The real goal is educating the mouth-breathers who buy Carrie Underwood albums from Wal-Mart – but they aint gots no innernet.

To help promote awareness, from now on I’ll be labeling all of the “Must Steal” albums as RIAA if they are, in fact, RIAA releases. This means under no circumstances are you to pay actual money for Idlewild, Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem or The Good, The Bad, And The Queen music this year. Like the article says, buy a concert ticket or a t-shirt if you want to support these bands — they’ll actually see some of that money instead of it going toward lawsuits against four year-olds. To plagiarize a comment from that link, “Vote with your dollar. It’s the only political power you actually have.”

Some details of The Go’s performance Friday night at the Lager House can be found on Brian Wilson’s Ben Blackwell’s blog. I didn’t make a big deal about it beforehand, because I knew it was going to be insanely crowded and didn’t want you going too, but The Go is one of my all-time favorite bands ever in the universe. It felt so fucking good to see these guys on stage again, and they sounded as tight as ever. Their third (or fifth, depending on whether you count Supercuts or Free Electricity) album will be released, I’m assuming, sometime around the April 21 release party at the Stick. There may even be room for you this time. Seriously, can anyone remember the last time that many people were in the Lager House?

This made my weekend: new White Stripes album. The Raconteurs are great and all, but you never forget your first love. I’m talking about mine, not Jack’s. UPDATE: Ok, the link is dead, the article taken down. Was it a hoax? NME does make up half its news, but WTF? Here’s a screenshot.

I was going to live-blog every second of Arcade Fire’s performance on Saturday Night Live, complete with stills for every frame of video that was broadcast, but then the drugs wore off and I came to my senses. Unfortunately the rest of the interworld didn’t come to theirs. Arcade Fire has the potential to become one of those bands ruined by its following. Keep it up, indie-bloggers, let’s see if we can get Arcade Fire fans lumped into the same category as fans of The Dave Matthews Band.

BitTorrent.com, only because some of you retards buy things from iTunes do companies think they can take something that used to be free, lower the quality, add regulations, charge a fee and think that service will be successful. Someday there will be a special chapter in Human Evolution texts dedicated to the iParadox.

I spent my Sunday at work because I love my job or something. One benefit of being there on a weekend is that sometimes I can re-wire things without anyone noticing. I turned some vinyl into digital and will share a few tracks with you here…until someone tells me to take them down. Please note that I am not a professional analog-to-digital engineer, I just like to jam cords together until something happens. So go purchase the original records at the provided links.

The Go – Invisible Friends 7” (A limited release on Cass Records. Get it quick.)
A: Invisible Friends
B: Yer Stoned Italian Cowboy

The Go – You Go Bangin’ On 7” (The return of Italy Records but uh…what happened to their website?)
A: You Go Bangin’ On
B: Maribel

The Wildbunch – Danger! High Voltage 7” (Flying Bomb Records. Try ebay or something. Good luck.)
B1: Neurocameraman
B2: She’s Guatemala

Of Montreal – She’s A Rejector 7” (Polyvinyl)
B2: Little Rock

Kelley Stoltz – Discount City 7” (Cass Records again, but sold out. You lose.)
A: Discount City
B: (you’ll get it April 2)

Some details of The Go’s performance Friday night at the Lager House can be found on Brian Wilson’s Ben Blackwell’s blog. I didn’t make a big deal about it beforehand, because I knew it was going to be insanely crowded and didn’t want you going too, but The Go is one of my all-time favorite bands ever in the universe. It felt so fucking good to see these guys on stage again, and they sounded as tight as ever. Their third (or fifth, depending on whether you count Supercuts or Free Electricity) album will be released, I’m assuming, sometime around the April 21 release party at the Stick. There may even be room for you this time. Seriously, can anyone remember the last time that many people were in the Lager House?

This made my weekend: new White Stripes album. The Raconteurs are great and all, but you never forget your first love. I’m talking about mine, not Jack’s. UPDATE: Ok, the link is dead, the article taken down. Was it a hoax? NME does make up half its news, but WTF? Here’s a screenshot.

I was going to live-blog every second of Arcade Fire’s performance on Saturday Night Live, complete with stills for every frame of video that was broadcast, but then the drugs wore off and I came to my senses. Unfortunately the rest of the interworld didn’t come to theirs. Arcade Fire has the potential to become one of those bands ruined by its following. Keep it up, indie-bloggers, let’s see if we can get Arcade Fire fans lumped into the same category as fans of The Dave Matthews Band.

BitTorrent.com, only because some of you retards buy things from iTunes do companies think they can take something that used to be free, lower the quality, add regulations, charge a fee and think that service will be successful. Someday there will be a special chapter in Human Evolution texts dedicated to the iParadox.

I spent my Sunday at work because I love my job or something. One benefit of being there on a weekend is that sometimes I can re-wire things without anyone noticing. I turned some vinyl into digital and will share a few tracks with you here…until someone tells me to take them down. Please note that I am not a professional analog-to-digital engineer, I just like to jam cords together until something happens. So go purchase the original records at the provided links.

The Go – Invisible Friends 7” (A limited release on Cass Records. Get it quick.)
A: Invisible Friends
B: Yer Stoned Italian Cowboy

The Go – You Go Bangin’ On 7” (The return of Italy Records but uh…what happened to their website?)
A: You Go Bangin’ On
B: Maribel

The Wildbunch – Danger! High Voltage 7” (Flying Bomb Records. Try ebay or something. Good luck.)
B1: Neurocameraman
B2: She’s Guatemala

Of Montreal – She’s A Rejector 7” (Polyvinyl)
B2: Little Rock

Kelley Stoltz – Discount City 7” (Cass Records again, but sold out. You lose.)
A: Discount City
B: (you’ll get it April 2)

Some details of The Go’s performance Friday night at the Lager House can be found on Brian Wilson’s Ben Blackwell’s blog. I didn’t make a big deal about it beforehand, because I knew it was going to be insanely crowded and didn’t want you going too, but The Go is one of my all-time favorite bands ever in the universe. It felt so fucking good to see these guys on stage again, and they sounded as tight as ever. Their third (or fifth, depending on whether you count Supercuts or Free Electricity) album will be released, I’m assuming, sometime around the April 21 release party at the Stick. There may even be room for you this time. Seriously, can anyone remember the last time that many people were in the Lager House?

This made my weekend: new White Stripes album. The Raconteurs are great and all, but you never forget your first love. I’m talking about mine, not Jack’s. UPDATE: Ok, the link is dead, the article taken down. Was it a hoax? NME does make up half its news, but WTF? Here’s a screenshot.

I was going to live-blog every second of Arcade Fire’s performance on Saturday Night Live, complete with stills for every frame of video that was broadcast, but then the drugs wore off and I came to my senses. Unfortunately the rest of the interworld didn’t come to theirs. Arcade Fire has the potential to become one of those bands ruined by its following. Keep it up, indie-bloggers, let’s see if we can get Arcade Fire fans lumped into the same category as fans of The Dave Matthews Band.

BitTorrent.com, only because some of you retards buy things from iTunes do companies think they can take something that used to be free, lower the quality, add regulations, charge a fee and think that service will be successful. Someday there will be a special chapter in Human Evolution texts dedicated to the iParadox.

I spent my Sunday at work because I love my job or something. One benefit of being there on a weekend is that sometimes I can re-wire things without anyone noticing. I turned some vinyl into digital and will share a few tracks with you here…until someone tells me to take them down. Please note that I am not a professional analog-to-digital engineer, I just like to jam cords together until something happens. So go purchase the original records at the provided links.

The Go – Invisible Friends 7” (A limited release on Cass Records. Get it quick.)
A: Invisible Friends
B: Yer Stoned Italian Cowboy

The Go – You Go Bangin’ On 7” (The return of Italy Records but uh…what happened to their website?)
A: You Go Bangin’ On
B: Maribel

The Wildbunch – Danger! High Voltage 7” (Flying Bomb Records. Try ebay or something. Good luck.)
B1: Neurocameraman
B2: She’s Guatemala

Of Montreal – She’s A Rejector 7” (Polyvinyl)
B2: Little Rock

Kelley Stoltz – Discount City 7” (Cass Records again, but sold out. You lose.)
A: Discount City
B: (you’ll get it April 2)

the internet ate my website. lemme see if i can recover the post from yesterday. just give me a few minutes, people…

the internet ate my website. lemme see if i can recover the post from yesterday. just give me a few minutes, people…

the internet ate my website. lemme see if i can recover the post from yesterday. just give me a few minutes, people…