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AHHHHHH. Missouri State. Oh, boy. It's everyone I hated in high school, only without the people I liked. Day 1, however, so I s'pose I should remain open-minded, granted I'm not especially bothered by the 'hating everyone' thing anyway, given I've had a year and a half of hating people in a vastly different environment. 'Media Theory' and 'Fitness for Life,' the two sampled today, both seem as if they aren't going to be especially, uh, taxing. Well, we gots to get six hours of aerobic exericise per month for the later ("Not to be crude, but someone tried to count sex last semester, and we do not count that as exercise."), but otherwise I've got an unbelievable two presentations and one group paper between the two classes, for the whole semester. Free time, least 'til get a jay-oh-bee, which should be about next week. I'm kinda sad media theory appears to be much more Nielson ratings than Baudrillard, but I guess it's not NYU any longer.
BUT, speaking of good things, found a new top shelf album from 2005. Well, presently giving it a first listen, but it seems like it shall uphold. Art Brut's Bang Bang Rock & Roll. I guess they're NME darlings and AMG logs them in the 'art wave' with Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party, but whatevs on both account. My hatred still stands for the latter two parties, and I've no issue with Art Brut on similar grounds. I guess they do have vaguely similar post-punk leanings, so there's the basic tie, but Art Brut I'd tie in with what I, for lack of a better term and in my massive ignorance of British culture, would call 'Gwent Rock' (Gwent, of course, taken merely from the Great Pop Things running joke, not whatever actual connotation it bears to those in the know). Goofy-ish song subjects and lyrics ("I'm drinking Hennessy with Morrissey" - "Moving to L.A.") delivered with a really conscious Britishness. See also: the Television Personalities ("Geoffrey Ingram" etc) above all, kinda the Desperate Bicycles ("The Medium Was Tedium," natch), Splodgenessabounds ("I Fell in Love With a Female Plumber From Harlesden NW10"), and conceptually, if not practically, the Fall ('cause clearly no one can touch them or sound even vaguely like them). Also, recognizing from the go that they are Australian, the Go-Betweens' "Lee Remick." Anyway, good stuff. GWENT ROCK LIVES.
I think people might just be back from holiday breaks or some such in these parts, 'cause there's been rather a lot more activity rounds the apartment complex this weekend.
BUT, speaking of good things, found a new top shelf album from 2005. Well, presently giving it a first listen, but it seems like it shall uphold. Art Brut's Bang Bang Rock & Roll. I guess they're NME darlings and AMG logs them in the 'art wave' with Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party, but whatevs on both account. My hatred still stands for the latter two parties, and I've no issue with Art Brut on similar grounds. I guess they do have vaguely similar post-punk leanings, so there's the basic tie, but Art Brut I'd tie in with what I, for lack of a better term and in my massive ignorance of British culture, would call 'Gwent Rock' (Gwent, of course, taken merely from the Great Pop Things running joke, not whatever actual connotation it bears to those in the know). Goofy-ish song subjects and lyrics ("I'm drinking Hennessy with Morrissey" - "Moving to L.A.") delivered with a really conscious Britishness. See also: the Television Personalities ("Geoffrey Ingram" etc) above all, kinda the Desperate Bicycles ("The Medium Was Tedium," natch), Splodgenessabounds ("I Fell in Love With a Female Plumber From Harlesden NW10"), and conceptually, if not practically, the Fall ('cause clearly no one can touch them or sound even vaguely like them). Also, recognizing from the go that they are Australian, the Go-Betweens' "Lee Remick." Anyway, good stuff. GWENT ROCK LIVES.
I think people might just be back from holiday breaks or some such in these parts, 'cause there's been rather a lot more activity rounds the apartment complex this weekend.