Astral Aeroplanes.  What do you think of the name?  Cool or retarded?  You know I like puns, and it relates to the content.  Reconsidered name, found it to be fruity.

The Decibel Tolls.  That's the name I've settled with.  I had a list of, like, 15, and spent a lot of the work day thus far narrowing it down.  So UPDATE YO' BOOKMARKS, JERRY (and ( Read more... )

There are exciting aspects about working in the nation's third tallest building.

The Aon Center stands at a height of 1,136 feet, only surpassed by the Empire State Building in NYC and the Sears Tower roughly nine blocks away or so.  It's fun and exciting because FIRE DRILLS TAKE OVER AN HOUR AND A HALF.  Not complaining - I get paid by the hour.


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I... actually like the new Girl Talk album better than Night Ripper.   Lana mentioned that she liked it better because GT samples her favorite rock and pop songs ever, making her feel like he raided her personal collection.  I like it better because I love every single hip-hop song he samples (sans Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'", which I've never been a fan ( Read more... )

"Pretty Ballerina" by the Left Banke has just usurped "Felt So Good" by the Free Design as the song I will listen to 20 times today without a break.  Congrats, LB.

This made me happy to finally see in print:

"People who say they like all music actually like no music." - Chuck Klosterman

Current issue of the day --

I sometimes miss many of my friends ( Read more... )

Did you know that Bill O'Reilly wrote a fiction novel called Those Who Trespass?  It's about a television reporter who, when forced to resign, goes out and kills everyone who stifled his career?   There's a sex scene, too, evidently - and a really graphic ending: "Although he makes it, his car's right back tire is cut by the jet's wing, causing the ( Read more... )

Happy fuckin' birthday Mick Fleetwood!!!


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In my opinion, we just lost one of the most clever minds in America - George Carlin.

"Religion convinced the world that there's an invisible man in the sky who watches everything you do. And there's 10 things he doesn't want you to do or else you'll go to a burning place with a lake of fire until the end of eternity. But he loves you! ...And he ( Read more... )

I've listened to "Felt So Good" by The Free Design nine times.  Nine times.  There are some pop songs that are so perfect and glorious that I could sit down and listen to it all day long, continuously.  Lana, I know this flies in the face of a discussion we had concerning my embargo of you playing The Beach Boys' "Don't Worry Baby" over and over ( Read more... )

Elevator conversation, as verbatim as eyewitness accounts can be:

X:  "So what's up?"
Y:  "Not much.  Friday.  Tired.  Excited about going golfing tomorrow.  Hope it doesn't rain."
X:  "Yeah.  You going with Matt?"
Y:  "Nah, not this weekend.  It's me, Ned, Otto, and Jim.  The OG golfers, ya know."

OG = original gangsta, an acronym popularized by way of ( Read more... )

Cocerning Pitchfork this year, I'm certainly stoked about Animal Collective and Caribou, but I'm 20 types of peepants flipout excited for motherfucking SPIRITUALIZED!

I have this same shirt.  It's from H & M (trademark collar), and H & M is now cosmic thanks to J Spacemen a.k.a. Jason Pierce a.k.a. "The Professah" a.k.a. Astrophysical Assault a.k.a ( Read more... )