*Pitchfork's Bloc Party interview. I love love love a good half of Bloc Party's released songs, but I fear that the lead singer is a pretentious and pseudo-intellectual lame-o (appologies for that double redundance.) An excerpt:
Pitchfork: Kids want to play music so they start a "rock band" as opposed to just playing. They fit their interests to an image or a musical reference.
Kele Okereke: The point about Bloc Party is that we're free to admit that there's a lot of exciting stuff happening right now. There's a lot of music that means a lot more to me right now, and I think it's somehow incorporating that into what we're doing. [And now I'd like to point out Mr. Okereke's response to an earlier question: "I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all." A. what a hypocrite, and B. cry me a river]
It's not listening to old blues records, thinking that's how it's done. I think it's a blanket way of thinking. I'm not excited when bands strip things down. I'm not excited by the White Stripes. I think Jack White is a great player, but I think they base they're [sic--Bad Pitchfork!] whole shtick around wanting to sound like an authentic rock machine. [And if people like that the problem would be?]
I really want to propose that Bloc Party is a post-modern band. We're not afraid to take from anywhere. There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music. It needs to be constantly looking forward.
And then I stopped reading. Even my masochism only goes so far.
*Flying Spaghetti Monsterism. As usual, I'm a little late to the party. While the FSM letter pleases me beyond words, the battle that it is fighting, and that it may very well lose, does not.
*Net-a-Porter's big sale. Even I can afford stuff ("afford" being a relative term) at the Barney's sale, but at this one, not so much. Of course, this is not going to stop me from spending the whole morning picking out all the things I "need." Perhaps what I really need is either a lobotomy or a sugar daddy.
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alright, well then i'll remind you that it was my 24 1/12 birthday a week ago in case you wanted to get me a present...
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twas the evil spam. going to turn on that annoying scrambled word verification feature.
and drone, please make your next job be at chloe, and please steal me one of everything. thanks.
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