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...I'd have to buy you drinks. That's how birthdays work here. The person getting OLDER buys drinks/food/etc for his/her friends. But they have to bring him/her presents. I'm actually kinda relieved that you're not here. Don't get me wrong, I wuve you, but buying drinks for all of you would bankrupt me ahhaha :P So, instead of drinks, I give you... 1. My latest favourite song, The Blakes' Vampire (thank you, Amber and Andrea!), see red button. 2. Pictures of pre... MORE
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~9FqTBMIONJ3.mp3 Before Fleet Foxes exploded into national renown, there was another Seattle band getting lots of local press as the next big thing from my city, the next great band that will make a name for themselves. The Blakes play tons of shows in Seattle that I’ve never attended, despite all the good reports of awesomeness. Why? Because I thought they were a hip-hop band, that’s why. And hip-hop isn’t my thing. So I never investigated these guys.Fast forward to... MORE
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This morning, I noticed a little black dot hanging in the air in my closet. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a spider. My immediate thoughts were: 1) I don't spend enough time at home 2) I've been playing this song too much and the spider thought it'd be welcome here. I'm leaning towards option 2. :) Thanks to Amber for introducing me to this band. I've been enjoying them a lot. And thanks to her husband, Dan, and Andi and Tim for help making this yea... MORE
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According to this (hilarious) Morning News article, the ultimate song length is exactly 2:42. His logic?
Just look at what clocks in between two and a half and three minutes: “Mr. Tambourine Man,” “We Got the Beat,” “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Hot Fun in the Summertime,” “Good Times Bad Times,” “I Would Die 4 U,” “Paranoid,” “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Debaser,” “God Only Knows,” and “Fall on Me.” These are not only stone-cold classics but they also encapsulate all that is great abo... MORE
Just look at what clocks in between two and a half and three minutes: “Mr. Tambourine Man,” “We Got the Beat,” “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Hot Fun in the Summertime,” “Good Times Bad Times,” “I Would Die 4 U,” “Paranoid,” “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Debaser,” “God Only Knows,” and “Fall on Me.” These are not only stone-cold classics but they also encapsulate all that is great abo... MORE
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OK, time to get my Mog on. Gotta get my status from "toasty" up to "blazing" or maybe even the elusive "hellaciously tasty inferno," which I think was actually the name of a very fine Judas Priest album. So here we go: My latest obsession is The Blakes, whom Bill, Jon and I saw at SXSW a few weeks ago. I can't stop playing their self-titled album, even as I try really hard to work my way through all those freebie demo CDs from SXSW. I guess the limp tones of songs lik... MORE
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I think one reason I've had a hard time of coming up with a review for this record is that it's kind of hard to define. The lead track, "Two Times," is a screaming hunk of anger, while two songs later we've got a pop piece called "Commit" that's everything you'd hoped the Strokes would be but aren't. "Vampire" goes even farther down that poppy road, but it works, even if it sounds like you've shuffled over to someone else's CD. There is one uniting theme across all the... MORE
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Blakes at SXSW
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I'll write up a little something on the album in the next couple days ... in the meantime, here's live video of them at SXSW (not the show we saw, but still good)!
