It’s always confounding as to whether or not you use “the” in front of a band’s name. That is the case for Counting Crows, XTC, Carpenters, Talking Heads, Eagles, Lemonheads (but not always), Pixies, Buzzcocks, and countless other pretentious bands. I’m not saying pretentious like it’s a bad thing, unless you think attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed is a bad thing.
Employee of the month: Steven Mnuchin. Apparently Mnu means no, thus, no chin, as in, Yes, we have Mnu bananas.
Try as you might, it is impossible to ignore this guy, the current president of the United States, “Dodging” Putin’s puppet, Donald Trump. I swear, one day in the distant future, we will all agree that Trump was the Pauly Shore of presidents, and we’ll all be wondering, “Who’s Pauly Shore?”
If you know me, you would know that I hate music festivals. They’re too crowded, too hot, too everything that I’m no longer interested in. But, if they had a festival which included The Animals, The Monkees, Echo & The Bunnymen, Alien Ant Farm, The Fleet Foxes, Scorpions, Dinosaur Jr., Modest Mouse, The Boomtown Rats, Frightened Rabbit, Cage The Elephant, Counting Crows, Deer Tick, Mastadon, Seal, Grizzly Bear, Toto, A Flock Of Seagulls, Gorillaz, and Eagles; I would force myself to go, only so I could say this is the last festival I’ll ever go to, and why would I be so stupid to pay so much money to suffer like this.
A few weeks ago, I was at the tobacco shop by my house and I heard “Havana” on the radio. The whole time, I kept thinking, this would sound really good mashed up with Eurythmics. Sadly, I had no idea what the song was, who sang the song, and couldn’t make out the lyrics except for the word Havana. And what are the odds that there would be an isolated vocals rendition? Thank you, YouTube©. Speaking of YouTube©, this video is ridiculous. And speaking of ridiculous, the mash up is conveniently hidden beneath the video.
The sound of a switchblade and a motorbike.
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