Larsen B

Just checking in to see how my baby is doing. No new posts since July, but ten years is pretty good going all the same.

Also... "Letter From KKK" and "Alphabet Street" share no words. So let's forget the last two happened and go with...

Ducktails - Letter of Intent.

Afroman - Because I Got High

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Washed Out - Within and Without

YACHT - Shangri La

Both quite good on the basis of two listens each.

I made Monday At the Hug and Pint my choice for Drowned In Sound's "Favourite 50", which was a feature whereby different writers wrote about a favourite album of their's which was released 2001-2011. I'm more inclined towards the latter part of Arab Strap's career in terms of album consistency, although many of their best individual songs were from early on.

I am quite digging the new Junior Boys album.

Here's a review I did for Drowned In Sound: Review / Tune-Yards @ Tunnels, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, 14/06/11 / Gigs // Drowned In Sound

Edit: Some annoying rogue questions marks there for some reason.

Here's a few of my favourite lyricists:

Aidan Moffatt (Arab Strap etc)

Hayden Thorpe & Tom Fleming (Wild Beasts)

Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields/6ths/Gothic Archies)

Stuart Murdoch (Belle & Sebastian)

Will Sheff (Okkervill River)

Bryan Ferry (Roxy Music circa 1972-73)

Morrissey (circa 1984-1987)

I'm too lazy to post any lyrics, plus they're lyrics so they needn't read well without the music.

Baldness Issues = Cunt

Science, bitches.

xx

Why should having image/self-confidence issues make anyone a cunt? I know plenty of people with thinning hair (myself included i must say) and it is a constant source of misery. The fact that it's a unavoidable reality (although that's not strictly true) doesn't soften the blow.

Bono is a prick, U2 are pricks.

Semantically treating bands as a single person/entity is an unwieldy Americanism. Boo!

Why is Bono a prick!?! I've always thought he was really nice! Please explain.

About 15 mintutes of the Czech 60s new wave film Daisies until my lovefilm dvd started skipping. It seemed like it would have probably become unbearably wilfully experimental had i watched it all.

Copy Haho and Julian Lynch were good and I heard only good things from friends about Ducktails, whom I missed.

14 out of 27 in 3:27.

Same, but I took one second longer!

Balotelli is slowly becoming my favourite all time football mentalist.

For me he reached his apex with throwing-darts-at-youth-players incidident.

Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - Everything Is Getting Older

Kate Bush - Director's Cut

Amazon have only just despatched my copy. I'll be pretty pissed off if it doesn't get here tomorrow.

Massive fan of James Ellroy's books and this looks like it's been heavily influenced by them. Charlie Brooker got an advance copy and has been tweeting some thoughts through the week. He reckons it's very evocative of Lucasarts point and click adventures. Sounds fantastic.

Dammit Chris!!! Some of us have exams to revise for and sit!!

Just finished 'The Gospel According to Jesus' by Jose Saramago (which was fantastic) and started 'On Black Hill' by Bruce Chatwin.

Samaras has the face of Freddie Mercury with the haircut of the villain from No Country For Old Men.

I have genuinely never seen him have a bad Old Firm game (penalty miss aside). He is strong, fast and mobile, which the Orc defenders hate. Canna finish, though. If I were a Celtic fan he would frustrate me like no other.

I confirm this to be true. I would have stuck with Stokes for the old firm games.

Wild Beasts - Smother

Okkervill River - I Am Very Far

I forgot about the Aidan Moffatt and Bill Wells album, which I think is out.

BBC News - Seven arrests over gun alert at Celtic's training camp

What is wrong with people?

I was especially surprised by the gender make up of that group!

All this talk about neds and minkers is unbelievable. Wise up! It's embarrassing!

Can just imagine the papers....

"Plans for one of the most exciting musical developments that Aberdeen has ever seen were sensationally shelved last night. It appears that ticket sales have been severely hit as a direct result of music fans leading sheltered lives fearing for their safety....."

Bring it on. And let us live in hope that Anton Newcombe, Jason Pierce and Thurston Moore decide that Aberdeen's a place that they'd really like to go to on their summer holidays....

Don't be fooled by his taste in music, these are the words of a minker himsel'!

I've desperately trying to find a clip where a keeper, who I think is Lama playing for PSG, thinks there's been a foul and does a comical flunking-himself-on-to-the-ground action, but it's actually play on and someone scores. If anyone finds it, post it here please!

haha sorry for being vague, I mean that I don't understand these awards at all - I saw their website a few days ago and honestly thought it was a parody/joke thing.

C'mon, you're just saying that because you didn't get nominated for Bassist of the Year!

I saw the Star Wars trilogy as a triple bill at the Odeon (now a gym circa 1985.

Charlie Love out of The Dreaming/Tinderbox was sitting in front of us, he was in my brother's year at school.

I believe he taught one of my sisters at school too, which is why I was always hearing them! (Or I'm utterly confused)

As far down as the Thom Yorke picture he makes some decent points about people being overly obsessed with the format as opposed to the actual music, but below the Yorke picture he undermines himself by just trying to be contrary. I think the stuff about guitar sales in particular is bullshit. i'm surprised at how many times I've seen links to this article crop up though. I thought nobody read the NME blogs.

I like 3 and 10, the latter cos the kid looks like a friend of mine. They all reminded me of this YouTube - videoisunrelated's Channel