October 2010
71 posts
Monster (Feat. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Bon Iver & Nicki Minaj)
Kanye West
Kanye West - Monster (w/Bon Iver, Jay-Z, Rick Ross, and Nicki Minaj) (dl link here)
“I’m living in the future so my present is my past, my presence is a present, kiss my ass…”
Rocktober Day 30 (a day late). It seemed like an appropriate song.
Forget Her
Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley - Forget Her (dl link here)
“Don’t fool yourself, she was heartbreak from the moment that you met her …”
Rocktober Day 29.
Better Version Of Me
Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple - Better Version of Me (dl link here)
Rocktober Day 28.
Listen
Janelle Monae - Cold War (dl link here)
“You better know what you’re fighting for …”
Rocktober Day 27.
The Greatest Filing Ever from a Texas Rangers Fan →
scribd.com
The footnotes alone make this worth the read. Go Rangers!
Airport Song
Guster
Guster - Airport Song (live) (dl link here)
“You learn to love the price you pay, trust me dear, you’re better off this way …”
Rocktober Day 26.
405 (Acoustic)
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie - 405 (acoustic) (dl link here)
“Red wine and cigarettes, hide your bad habits underneath the patio …”
Rocktober Day 25.
“
So I jotted down a few instances where watching Premier League matches are better than sex, and here they are:
* Guaranteed two hours of entertainment,
* The TV won’t talk back to you,
* No spooning required,
* You can drink beer during it,
* It’s almost always a happy ending,
* Your team almost always scores, sometimes more than once,
* Games are almost always on, with or without headaches.
I’m sure this is mostly a joke, but wow. Damn those women, with their “talking back” and not always wanting sex. I’m sure being unfavorably compared to a TV will help this dude’s wife get into the mood.
P.S. Spooning is awesome. Suck it, haters.
The Pharaohs
Neko Case
Neko Case - The Pharoahs (dl link here)
“You spoke the words, I love girls in white leather jackets. That was good enough for love …”
Rocktober Day 24.
You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
Spoon
Spoon - You Got Yr Cherry Bomb (dl link here)
“There you go again, out in your dressing gown…”
Rocktober Day 23.
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (dl link here)
“Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts…”
Rocktober Day 22.
“They think it’s cool and kind of bad-ass that I’m outspoken and passionate about things. They think that’s really hot. They’re into it. But then when that outspokenness gets applied back to them, it’s suddenly game-over… . They think it’s cute or sexy. But when I use that smart, outspoken bad-assery to challenge their own perspectives, it’s suddenly not sexy at all.”
—Fucking While Feminist, With Jaclyn Friedman - The Sexist - Washington City Paper
You Don't Miss Your Water
The Byrds
The Byrds - You Don’t Miss Your Water (dl link here)
“But when you left me, oh how I cried…”
Rocktober Day 22.
Come Rain Or Come Shine
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald - Come Rain or Come Shine (dl link here)
“I’m with you always, I’m with you rain or shine…” (Maybe not technically Rocktober, but work with me.)
Rocktober Day 20.
“But [Lori] Chalupny, 26, will not play for the U.S. squad in Mexico and perhaps never represent her country again because of a history of concussions. Although Chalupny has been allowed to continue her pro career, the U.S. Soccer Federation, in consultation with one of the leading experts on sports head trauma, has not cleared her to play for the national team. “I am 100 percent healthy and I have doctors to back me up,” Chalupny said this week. “If I felt I was putting myself at risk, I wouldn’t be playing.”
—
This is really too bad. She was one of my favorite WNT players. We gingers gotta stick together.
take it easy (love nothing)
bright eyes
Bright Eyes - Take It Easy (Love Nothing) (dl link here)
“I was a fool, you were my friend, we made it happen…”
Rocktober Day 19.
Divorce Song
Liz Phair
Liz Phair - Divorce Song (dl link here)
“Because if you do it and you’re still unhappy, you know that the problem is you…”
Rocktober Day 18.
The Ballad Of El Goodo
Big Star
Big Star - The Ballad of El Goodo (dl link here)
“I’ll fall if I don’t fight, at my side is God …”
Rocktober Day 17.
“
And since we’re talking about sports, women account for:
47.2 % of Major League Soccer fans
46.5% of MLB fans
43.2% of NFL fans
* * *
Bottom line? ESPN doesn’t need to segregate their female audience to increase the percentage of those who connect with the brand. They just need to make the existing brand more inclusive.
” —Edge of Brooklyn, via this New York Times article about ESPNW.
I mean, this. (And those statistics are sourced in the blog post.)
Good Luck
Sondre Lerche
Sondre Lerche - Good Luck (dl link here)
“Luck, whether good or bad, doesn’t come from justice…”
Rocktober Day 16.
Joke About Jamaica
The Hold Steady
Hold Steady - Joke About Jamaica (dl link here)
“The boys are getting younger and the bands are getting louder, and the new girls coming up like some white unopened flowers …”
Rocktober Day 14.
Valentine
The Replacements
The Replacements - Valentine (dl link here)
“If tonight belongs to you, tomorrow’s mine…”
Rocktober Day 13.
“Oldest: Lilly, 39.
Youngest: Morgan, 21.
Lilly’s first cap came two years before Morgan was born.” —
Youngest: Morgan, 21.
Lilly’s first cap came two years before Morgan was born.” —
Soccer Insider, on the WNT roster.
I mean, in one way, that’s amazing. In another way … is Lilly a serious option for next summer? Eeesh.
The Easy Way
Old 97's
Old 97’s - The Easy Way (dl link here)
“Deep in the big black heart of the Lone Star State…”
Rocktober Day 12.
Hot Burrito # 1
The Flying Burrito Brothers
The Flying Burrito Brothers - Hot Burrito #1 (dl link here)
“I’m the one who showed you how to do the things you’re doing now…”
Rocktober Day 11, (User note: listening to this followed by Kanye is a somewhat strange experience.)
Barricade
Stars
Stars - Barricade (dl link here)
“You looked like you’d been softened, like you’d never really loved the pain…”
Rocktober Day 10.
“As far as I can tell, the “joke” [in a rape joke] is usually that it wasn’t really rape at all, or it wasn’t a “real” rape, or it was a fun rape, or it was a deserved rape. Which, seeing as how rape victims get to hear that shit, completely seriously (and with completely serious consequences) from their rapist, friends, family, and cops, you might see as how it doesn’t come off as a joke so much as it comes off as same shit, different day.”
—
A woman walks into a rape, uh, bar: Fugitivus
You (a general ‘you’) can call me self-righteous or humorless or whatever all you want. I’m not going to apologize for taking pervasive sexual assault seriously.
