March 23, 2004
Tuesday 
yeah, that’s right, production begins in April 2004 and will air in 2005.
now all of your miserable lives have purpose once again! yay!
those midgets at the Fraunhofer Institute have done it again. you can listen to your bonnie raitt mp3s in dolby digital 10.1 surround megasound explosive.
now you’ll hear your mp3s at the same angles as the voices in your head.
Monkey King Steps Up to Bat for Chinese League
i have no idea what this means. i have no idea what the article means. in fact, the only thing about this that i AM certain of, is that the Chinese truly hate baseball
Broken Social Scene - Beehives (2004)
| Official rating: | 75 |
ok so we all know pitchfork is a bunch of chumps, fools, and sucka ass sluts, so we won’t laugh too hard at their pathetic review of this album. clearly their attempt at “earning” their colby english degree was in vain because the critique found on said page might as well have been written by a marine.
anyway, as the aforementioned review completely failed to realize, the point of a rarities/bsides album is not to mimic anything, it’s to compliment existing material. obviously the pitchfork author has run into problems like buying a darkness single and expecting 5 sweetass versions of “i believe in, etc…”. rad.
with that said, this album pulls a T1000 into the ribcage of the ridiculously complex paint-by-numbers that broken social scene slaps down with the whole of their catalog.
so feel good lost is their mellow chill ethereal album, right? and you forgot it in people is their glowing, green meadow album, ok? well pretend you’re napping under a large tree in the forest. and you’re a baby deer. so your mom (beehives) comes up and nuzzles you to wake up. and you slowly walk through the forest, getting sharper with every step. as soon as you see the opening through the trees, you half-sprint into the bright green. and that’s how this album gets you from feel good lost to YFIIP
the feel good lost connection is pretty apparent in all of the tracks. a handful of long songs, long electronic hums, silky smooth synthorchestra and a whole bunch of other goodies to chill you out after your long day at the office, or racetrack, or goat ranch, or whatever. when backyards rolls around, you get the feeling that they have even more talent and charm than the record company banked on when they unleash a track that would be well-served on any prog-rock/post-rock album of the mid 00’s. when da da dada hits, you get the point that this is giving you an anthology-esque peek inside YFIIP, which is what we all have been dying for. signed sealed and delivered.
more sweet, tender atmospheric space rock (oxymoron) follows until the album ends on the revealing version of lover’s spit that threads fishing wire around you like a spider cocoon and hangs you out on a brooklyn clothesline in the cold rain. goodnight.
March Madness Pt. 6? 7?
In the 59 Linden March Madness Pool, after the first weekend of NCAA men’s tournament play, the standings are as follows, comments notwithstanding:
1. JS - 53 pts
2. JR - 51 pts
3. Landers - 50 pts
4. Valenz - 49 pts
5t. Burgos - 47 pts
5t. Biggie Small - 47 pts
7t. Hanson - 46 pts
7t. Stevie - 46 pts
9. Grant - 45 pts
10t. Ron - 42 pts
10t. C4 - 42 pts
12. Aunt Janice - 41 pts
13. Skos - 39 pts
14t. Jallow - 36 pts
14t. Scott - 36 pts
14t. Tony - 36 pts
*Carl - 33 pts
Some people got busted early, some people are about to be, and some may just not be. Good luck to ye.
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