December 2008
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Ten Cover Versions That Better The Original
Ryan Adams - Down In A Hole (Alice in Chains)
U2 - Helter Skelter (The Beatles)
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Johnny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)
KISS - God Gave Rock and Roll To You (Argent)
Gary Jules - Mad World (Tears For Fears)
Jose Gonzales - Heartbeats (The Knife)
Patti Smith - Helpless (Neil Young)
Devo - Can’t Get No (Satisfaction) (The Rolling Stones)
Guns...
“Leo is scary. Haunting piano.
Collins St 5pm.
I want to die watching this...”
– There’s a reasons why I never take notes. But I tried to the other night at the Revolutionary Road screening. One reason is that there is an unholy darkness in a movie theatre, so I basically scrawled largely illegible, disjointed thoughts down one of top of another.
Looking at what I managed...
New U2 Album Coming March 3rd →
Dear forthcoming U2 album,
There’s a lot riding on this. I mean, no pressure or anything. Just that we’ve been together for fifteen years. That’s a lot of love. Through a lot of ups and downs, and the downs of the last decade have been major. But I trust you still, in my heart. I know you can do it, I know you can not suck. You can not suck admirably! But if you do suck,...
Is it wrong to LOL?
WatchIt’s Christmas baby, please come home.
I’m on a massive Rattle and Hum kick at the moment. Ok, not kick, exactly. It has three good songs on it. This is not one of them, but it does feature Bono’s best Elvis impression and pretty much every patented shape he’s ever thrown.
I think maybe Edge really had the shits with Bono the day they shot this clip.
[U2log]
Merry Christmas FAILCAKE
What I enjoy, is icing that appears to be made from spinach-flavoured toothpaste.
[Cake Wrecks]
Obama's College Years: Time Magazine →
KISS My Eggs! Lick It Up! Etc! →
This person is mentalcakes! Literally. I mean that in the best possible way. Check out this Nintendo DS cake. Quietly though, I think Fluffy’s Transformers cake sucked most of the awesome out of the universe when it came into existence.
Susan Sontag's Early Journals: The New Yorker →
As both a Susan Sontag fan and someone who has never kept a diary or a journal, who doesn’t own a watch and who never takes notes, either at gigs or during interviews, I find this wonderful.
Mr Prickly →
The 20 Worst Album Covers of 2008: Pitchfork →
There’s a fun game in trying to decide which of these is the most hilarious.
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Rise Against: Appeal to Reason Next time, appeal to eyes.
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This is killing me. Via [Oh My Darlin’]
Yeah hi, Robert Downey Dreamboat
I think this single-handedly makes up for Guy Richie’s involvement in the Sherlock Holmes movie. Yessiree, Bob.
Anything I Could Say About U2, Chuck Klosterman...
And said better, about KISS: “For years I have tried to explain to people why I love KISS, and I’ve inevitably used words like “pretty cool” (when I was 8), “fucking awesome” (when I was 15) and “culturally interesting” (when I was 22) and “archetypally essential” (when I was 29). I was never wrong with any of those arguments. But I also...
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Bono: Just... Bono →
Bono is inching ever closer to his dream of winning the Pulitzer, I mean, Nobel Peace Prize. He is also doing a really good real-life version of this favourite emoticon.
See?
In the meantime, will someone please award him a pair of Wayfarers?
[Jezebel]
This Week in Lay Off The Crackpipe
Spiderman Tattoo on Flickr.
I like tattoos, sure. I even have my own rather silly one. But this is not silly, this is YouAreAnIdiot.com.
Suck: Filler. 16/08/2000 →
Seasonally adjusted and still, scathingly pertinent.
“If you help me help you by allowing me to join you and your positive-thinking,...”
– A CLASSIFIED AD FROM A DYNAMIC STUDENT LOOKING TO HARNESS SYNERGY AND INNOVATE 24/7. [McSweeney’s]
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Consider the Philosopher →
A New York Times essay that makes David Foster Wallace’s philosophy thesis a little penetrable. I said a little. And this was an honors thesis. I much prefer to consider the David Lynch fan.
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Nunzilla's Bad Habits →
This piece in the Phoenix New Times on Nunzilla by Niki D’Andrea, is in the 2008 DeCapo Best Music Writing Anthology, and it makes me want to go and see them like nothing else. Celebrating the “Zombie Jesus” is something even an ardent atheist like me can buy into.
Andrew Ramadge on Lemon 'zine in Overland →
Andrew Ramadge writes the singularly lovely Pop in Print review column and has this piece on Lemon Zine author Louise Dicksinon running in the current issue of Overland, which is a must read for anyone interested in the history of Australian music writing.
Scientists Isolate Gene Simmons →
It makes me a little sad inside that you never know the names of the particular geniuses who come up with Onion headlines.
The Worst Band In The World →
Try it yourself for pleasing result.
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright,...”
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