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  1. England lost all momentum when the ball squeaked by Green. They seemed to be controlling the game up until that point, then from there the US took over, until basically a little ways throughout the second half decided to play for a draw. It was ugly.

     

    I'm back in the US now after a sojourn into England...and now I can't help but attach myself to England, those lovable losers...

     

    It will take a whole string of catastrophic events for both England and the United States to not make it out of the Group. Just saying.

  2. I've mostly been playing Modern Warfare 2 since I got back, but apparently I'm not very consistent with my play anymore. One game, I dominate, the next, I suck.

     

    Though I tried Mass Effect 2 on my friend's XBox, it looks fantastic. Like, really fantastic.

  3. Whatever they were aiming for with this one, they missed it, as far as my ears are concerned.

     

    Did you aim the speakers at your ears? Sometimes incorrect speaker positioning leads the song to miss the ears entirely, you know. You may have just not heard the song, period. :lol

  4. Based on 2 songs and 1 minute of music this is going to be good. Wilco had the misfortune to follow them at Sasquatch in 2005 just after they were breaking out.

     

    That sounds unfortunate. It'd be kind of like turning the emotion dial from 11 to -3. Not that Wilco isn't emotional music, but Wilco doesn't exactly ever sound so emotional that the music could just explode in a fit of it. Arcade Fire is like that. Constantly. All the time.

     

    That being said, I'm pretty excited by the new stuff. It's not enough for me to say much, but I like what I hear. Does the "Suburbs" title imply they might revisit the whole "Neighborhood" concept? It would be cool.

  5. eek. ok. but, i'd just say in that situation that i thought it was really good. you'd have to be talking in terms of years for it to have "staying power"

     

    they were on tv last night, actually - on the jools holland show (in the uk) along with the national. i don't know if you can get that on any of your channels in the usa, but the proper show is friday night (the tuesday night show is live, but only 30 mins, whereas the friday is recorded but 1 hour).

     

    I suppose, but normally after a few listens for a record I drop it, go on to whatever else I'm digging at the moment only to come back a long time later and be like "oh, yeah, I like(d) this record a whole lot." Since its leaked, I've listened to it at least once every other day, I think.

     

    The video of "Drunk Girls" on Jools showed up on Youtube, so I caught it. I've actually been in London for awhile as I've been studying abroad here, so I would normally catch Jools if, uh, I had a tv.

     

    np:

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  6. lol, i missed that until moss quoted it.

     

    i once heard someone say on a newsnight review show (when reviewing ys by joanna newsom) - "i absolutely loved it! i played it 3 times!" without any sense of irony. did you mean that to be funny or not?

     

    No, it was a serious comment. I've listened to the whole record at least 10-15 times and plan to listen to it many, many more times soon...just got to get through the rest of these nights of Pavement shows first...

  7. In terms of go-to songs, it's usually Pavement's "Here" these days. It always gives me a strange sense of fulfillment to hear the lines "I was dressed for success/but success it never comes," because I live it. :lol

     

    In terms of albums, it's recently been the Velvet Underground..."Pale Blue Eyes" is a worldslayer.

  8. It's important to not expect exactly Pavement when considering Malkmus' solo material, he's wanted to get jammy for awhile and Pavement is, admittedly, not a great vehicle for that. That out of the way, Malkmus' solo material is pretty rad (it will never match Pavement, but I'm ok with it).

     

    If I had to rank the records in terms of being purely good, chances are I'd go chronological. But more recently, given my listening preferences here's probably how it goes:

     

    Brighten the Corners

    Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

    Wowee Zowee

    Slanted & Enchanted

    Terror Twilight

     

    I'm ok with ranking Pavement songs because somehow they separate from their albums really easily and are easily interpretable and enjoyable outside of the album context:

     

    1. Here

    2. Gold Soundz

    3. We Dance

    4. Shady Lane

    5. Grounded

    6. Spit On A Stranger

    7. Range Life

    8. Trigger Cut

    9. Father to a Sister of a Thought

    10. Loretta's Scars

     

    Something like that. After 5 or 6 it gets really messy.

  9. i actually thought the video was a great mix of humour and a few shocks (when the young kid got shot in the head was a bit jolting). it reminded me of something chris morris might do (who is a british satarist edit: he's got a film out real soon called

    which looks really really brilliant). i started off thinking, oh no - this is just the same old moaning at US foreign policy kind of video, and then as soon as the kid got on the bus i burst out laughing. the song's alright, but she's done better - although i have only listened once - it is a nice change of style, though.

     

    Yeah, the video is really brutal and direct, but that's the point. Also serves as a crazy political message. I'm a fan of the song a whole lot, the video a little less so, just because it's rather...odd.

  10. An interview I read a while back said that Malkmus insisted that, unlike previous tours, everyone had to practice before this one.

     

    I also heard that the drummer (West, I'm pretty sure) needed to be sent all the Pavement records so he could remember what the hell he was supposed to be playing. Which is hilarious.

  11. They're playing the Brixton Academy in May for four nights (10th-13th)...and I'm going to all four. I think I've said enough.

     

    Here's some interesting shenanigans regarding their reunion tour (i.e. setlists): here

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