Comments on: Five False Starts in the New Year

By: matt brown

matt brown — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:32:53 +0000

1. beef up my field recordings library of americans in different dialects saying “awesome.”

2. Matthew Young – No more running backwards full speed into doorknobs.

3. love language.

4. worlds greatest ghosts.

5. “less arse. more feck.”

By: China

China — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:21:20 +0000

Footnotes I accidentally left out of previous post.

1* – No, I haven’t seen Yes Man and don’t plan to.
3* – Fucking christ, I forgot all about Dan Auerbach’s solo record – also out next month, and I bet it’ll be the best of the year.
5* – If that one’s too long, I’d settle for:

“Dickheads with eyeliner making music – that’s healthy.”
-Nicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers)

By: China

China — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:14:53 +0000

1. Say “yes” more often.
2. Don’t be passive-aggressive, no one likes a child.
3. Toss up between the live Gris Gris record coming out on Birdman this Tuesday and the Gonjasufi record coming out on Warp next month.
4. Henry Clay People/Afternoons at Spaceland in Los Angeles last night.
5. This one came from Drunk Country some months ago, posted on this very site (will require a small type on cotton, and yes, I will certainly buy it if it’s made):

“Let’s face it, the one thing a gad about town does not want, when gulping down a quart or many of man’s own dairy salt, is being pap-tagged/embarrassed by either (a) not noticing a prominent lower case ‘w’ drawing all eyes from her yabbering, milk moustachoed [sic] maw, down to her money maker, or (b) having to publically [sic] finger pinch the jam-packed material out of her labial glue into a more acceptable mannequin-flaccid positioning.”

By: Agnes

Agnes — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:22:05 +0000

Fergus – thanks for the info re The National. So hoped it would be this year, but I suppose I can wait!

By: adam

adam — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:41:36 +0000

1. Do some work a bit more often than now.
2. Do some blogging a bit more often than now (for the boss)
3. I have absolutely no idea at all, I am completely out of the ‘what the fuck is going on’ loop. Can I have a new wannadies album please?
4. Possibly Bloc Party although, in an implicit comment about being old, I think it will be in the seats.
5. “The way I look at it things are always happening. Sometimes things that nobody believed were possible just happen. Before hand everyone says ‘that’s impossible’ or ‘I’ll never live to see something like that’ but afterwards it’s just a fact, it’s just history. These things become history every day” I’m aware that’s a bit long but it’s my favourite quote from anything at all from last year. Good job we’re fat bastards.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:22:55 +0000

And preferably on the back of the t-shirt, too.

By: jc

jc — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:38:15 +0000

Congrats on the 900th post……you shame the rest of us part-timers who can only manage one post per day….

1. Lose the gut, and reduce the cup size of the man breasts.
2. Stop buying so many fucking shoes and handbags
3. I’m so inept at keeping up with things, I have no idea who is releasing what this year. Probably the next Aiden Moffat LP
4. Franz Fedinand this coming Wednesday
5.Shut the fuck up you ignorant bastard, I’m trying to listen to the band.

By: muruch

muruch — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:42:01 +0000

A more serious answer for #5 would be “Hell is other people.”

By: muruch

muruch — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:40:49 +0000

1. Renew interest in writing about music & bring back readers. Battling blogger for the latter half of last year seems to have killed both.
2. Avoid Blogger. And listen to Xavier Rudd, he’s a genius.
3. I was going to Luminescent Orchestrii until you dropped the Felice Brothers bomb.
4. I hope it will be Luminescent Orchestrii.
5. I would love a tshirt that said “This is shite, Vic.” It remains my favorite comment.

Ps. Add me to the jealous list. I didn’t even know the Felice boys had a new release. You’d think my label and PR contacts woulda mentioned it. :p

By: jonnybrick

jonnybrick — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:58:22 +0000

1. One interesting new word, made up or obscure, to be chortled at and used in conversation per day.
2. Write something, anything, every day in which you ask questions of yourself and the world; gnothi seauton and all that (‘Know Thyself’)
3. The Franz record or the Little Boots one since she’s the BHT (Big Hot Tot)
4. If not Samamidon, the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Charles Hazelwood playing some Mexican(-inspired) music on my twenty-first birthday at the Watford Colosseum.
5. “Chew before you swallow” (g.w.b speaks the truth)