-ok, i read another review of watchmen and i forgot about one more complaint about the movie. the needless violence. it was basically more of that 2008-style-moviemaking point i was getting at, but man. you don't have to show so much. just sayin.
-i am a little sad about virgin megastore closing. see, i have a strange relationship with that store. i kinda consider it a corporate as hell media store...but it does have a fantastic selection for a corporate as hell store. and they always had a different batch of cds and dvds for $10 (or sometimes $8 or even $5) each out of which i'd always find a handfull of stuff i wanted. i was looking forward to, one day, blu rays being $10 there. it was basically the relationship i had with tower records before they went out of business. i always was kinda expecting virgin to go under, but i hoped it had a couple more years in it. it's not nearly as bad as when my haven wax trax of boulder went out of business, and god forbid wax trax denver or twist & shout should go under (that would make me very very sad). but still, i was hoping to continue to beef up my collection before they left. and now i'll be getting tons of clearance items, as i always do when this happens (like how it just happened with circuit city!), but it just makes me a little sad.
-guys guys guys girls and guys and everybody. very few, if any, readers will like this band but my god am i obsessed with mi ami. go to their blog for a free mp3. if you remember black eyes, that crazy dischord band with two drummers and a saxophone, mi ami includes former members of black eyes. the last black eyes album is one of my favorites, even though very few of my friends appreciate its particular brand of free-jazz-core-deconstructionalism. so this album basically takes up where that album (cough) left off. that wasn't a cough, that's the title of the album. it's shrill, it's obnoxious, it's loud, and it makes me feel alive to listen to it.
-the strangest thing of all, though, is how off i was on my first impression of an older gentleman (probably in his late 50s) at wax trax when i was buying above album. i saw him wandering around the new rock section, thinking, man, he should probably go to the used section because here most of the new rock is hardcore and punk and weird stuff. just thinking stuff like that. then he saw me with the mi ami album in my hand and he walked up to me, asked if that was the mi ami album, and said that it was, so far, his number one album of 2009. seriously. and he was describing it and why he loves it, and man, he is the coolest guy ever. anyone that age that can appreciate such radically strange music of 2009 is ok in my book. i hope i'm like that when i'm that age, if i'm that age.
-i am sad that the first season of spectacle, the elvis costello series on sundance channel, has ended. i do hope a second season is made. it was the best show for anyone that loves music.
-hey!@! i just found out the dana carvey show is coming out on dvd!!! in may, so not in time for my birthday!
-actually i'll just do a mini tuesday-tomorrow thing.
music:
*cursive - mama, i'm swollen (note: vinyl doesn't come out until may 19. however, if you pre-order the vinyl from the saddle creek webstore you get a download instantly! mine is downloading right now!)
*bishop allen - grrr...
*propagandhi - supporting caste
*handsome furs - face control
movies:
*milk
*rachel getting married
*synechdoche, ny
*howard the duck
*let the right one in
*cadillac records
*battle in seattle
*another day in paradise (blu-ray)
and that's it for the first 10 pages of amazon. seriously though, i am getting the cursive album legit RIGHT NOW. i wonder when they started, because i just checked. watch for a review soon, maybe.
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