Monday, December 29, 2008 #

Monday Musical Madness: Modest Mouse, Man


Modest Mouse ::dashboard:: from grace lee on Vimeo.

YoooToooob has all of MM's official videos embed-embargoed because they're with the fundamentally evil really nice Sony/BMG records. So I got the FAIL, autoplaying official player via modestmouse.com. Resolution is small, but music is goooood. I used Vimeo instead

Some things of note:

  • Isaac Brock is seemingly obsessed with the sea/the ocean/hemingway themes/salty sea-doggery
  • I would personally sacrifice both your parents to have even an iota of Isaac's songwriting ability
  • Banjo is win
  • Every MM bassline is brilliant, even the onces that aren't
  • Johnny Marr, who joined for "We Were Dead..." is now cred again, and is in fact now elevated to demi-god* status
  • Paul prefers their old stuff, but I would happily play "Bukowski", "The Ocean Breathes Salty", "The View", "March Into The Sea" and "Dashboard" on rotation for the next bajillion years
  • Behind-the-scenes goodness here

So Modest Mouse are today's Monday Musical Madness

* metaphorically speaking

posted @ Monday, December 29, 2008 4:33 PM | Feedback (2)

I'm really crap at blogging, but then so are most people

Blogging takes, y'know, dedication and shit. I don't have any of that right now and I'm probably too old to buy any. Y'know.

Which might be one reason I've finally twitterfied, after all this time. As penance for this ridiculous decision, all twitter updates will contain the word "fuck" until I finally get bored with that and move on to something else.

Things which are getting my goat today:

  • IE8
  • Toby
  • IE8
  • Lacking motivation
  • Low levels of life in-office and around the city due to some mythical guy getting nailed to a stick 2000 years and four days ago
  • IE8

Here's one reason why I haven't been blogging much recently: Mines of Moria.

This update to LOTRO does for MMO gaming what Doom3 did for the FPS. Turns out the fucking lights. My gamma is cranked up so high now that I'm tanning as I play, and I still fall down giant fucking holes in the landscape. Too bad Tolkein didn't know about this game in advance, or the book would have been way shorter:

"And so the fellowship entered Moria, and one by one fell down big fucking holes in the landscape until there were none left. And Sauron won"

In conclusion: Follow me on Twitter or your life will be as unto a vacuum. Bitches.

 

posted @ Monday, December 29, 2008 3:11 PM | Feedback (0)
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