Quote:
“Just as America’s young men are being given deeply erroneous ideas about sex by what they watch on the Web, so, too, are America’s young women receiving troubling misinformation about the male of the species from Twilight. These women are going to be shocked when the sensitive, emotionally available, poetry-writing boys of their dreams expect a bit more from a sleepover than dew-eyed gazes and chaste hugs. The young man, having been schooled in love online, will be expecting extreme bondage and a lesbian three-way.”
I think the obvious cure to this dilemma is vampire role playing where bondage is incorporated. Then, everyone gets what they what. But, seriously, girls and boys have always had differing ideas on what the opposite sex wants/is willing to do. We all eventually grow up and find a happy medium. The kids are alright… until our naive little tweens get their blood sucked by a real vampire.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Ludacris, music, sleep, sugar, Talking Heads, Trick Daddy
So you know that Trick Daddy and Ludacris song “Sugar on my Tongue”?
Well while listening to a Genius playlist on iTunes (inspired by “I Want Some More” by Dan Auerbach) I discovered this is, in fact, a remake of “Sugar on my Tongue” by Talking Heads!
(I couldn’t find just the song so here it is with some dancing lady.)
So that was quite exciting… Goodnight!
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: awesome, Battles, Blitzen Trapper, Bristol Palin, Cold War Kids, Dr. Strangelove, Grizzley Bear, heckler, m. ward, music, Pitchfork, Pitchfork Music Festival, screen prints, The Flaming Lips, the national, The Walkmen, Yeasayer
How could I have forgotten to post this? This dude was ridiculous!
During The Flaming Lips’ set at Pitchfork Music Festival last Sunday, some d-bag help his middle fingers in the air and kept yelling about how shitty The Flaming Lips are.
After some intense FL love from the croud, and almost fist fight and a lingering cheeriness from the sound and sight of a great set, Shmucky McGee left… dignity not quite intact.
The back right of the crowd rejoiced as we were freed from the tyranny of the party pooper and resumed our festivities with a “Yoshimi” sing-a-long, lots of talking by messianic front man Wayne Coyne, and a well recieved finale of “Do You Realize?”
We were far since Grizzly Bear’s set was right before on another stage but it was still hella fun and, accoding to Kliph, the band had fun, too.
So, back to the beginning.
Saturday was sick. First, we checked out the posters and screen prints which were amazing. B.Mac met his inspiration, Jason Munn of The Small Stakes and got a great Battles poster, while I made away with a Dr. Strangelove inspired Cold War Kids poster by _____. Then, we checked out a great set by Yeasayer that started out with a hysterical sound check (Bristol Palin, check), continued with a light shower that really riled up the crowd (including one dude who beckoned God to bring back the rain) and ended with my favorite tune, “Sunrise” during which the friggin’ sun came out! It was magic.The day ended with a high energy set by The National where violinist Padma Newsome ripped up his solos and front man Matt Berninger belted out his lyrics with such intensity, his fell down (on purpose?) towards the end of the set. With crowd pleasing renditions of “Mistaken for Strangers,” “Squalor Victoria,” “All the Wine,” and “Fake Empire,” the concluded the show with an epic “Mr. November” where Matt ran of stage and stood on a trash can, later explaining to the crowd that it didn’t turn out as cool as he thought it would. What a charmer.
On Sunday, Blitzen Trapper played a good set, after which there was some more poster shopping (I got a beautiful M.Ward print and B.Mac got the official Pitchfork Grizzly Bear poster). Then, a great set by The Walkmen which was higly complimented by @Edward Droste, after which he and the rest of Grizzly Bear took the stage. The most anticipated set of the weekend, they did not disappoint and delivered a crazy awesome performance! Opening with “Southern Point,” they kept the momentum and navigated their way through a perfect set list including every one of my favorite songs. Regardless of a few technical difficulties (“This is the part where the stage hums and we all meditate”), they played stellar renditions of “Two Weeks,” “The Knife,” “On a Neck, On a Spit,” “Cheerleader,” and the always incredible “Ready, Able.” Plus, Droste is great with audience interaction; he’s a performance gem!
Overall, a great weekend. Can’t wait to immerse myself in hipster land again next year!
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Abraham, Buddha, fascists, gay rights, Jesus, Martin Luther, Mohammed, psychopaths, religion, Save Bryce
A 23 year old medical student named Bryce Faulkner is currently a prisoner of an ‘ex-gay’ reform clinic run by some psychotic fascist “Christians.”
His boyfriend, Travis Swanson, and close friends have established a campaign to spread the word and help save Bryce and people like him who are forced by intolerance to denounce who they are and succumb to the backwards treatment of close-minded religious fanatics.
I know that being intolerant of intolerance is kind of hypocritical, but I really don’t care. How can his parents live with themselves? To send your 23 year old son to be transformed and tortured is probably one of the worst things you could ever do to your own child, besides killing or beating them.
How can these kinds of facilities exist? With all the progress we’ve made with gay rights in the past couple of months, something like this proves we still have a long, long, long way to go.
Which brings me to the intense failings of religion everywhere. This just goes to show how human beings tend to fuck everything up. Beautiful and kind ideologies that are meant to enrich and improve people’s lives were taking from their pure and well intentioned beginnings and turned into a systematic hateful machine. I really don’t think the all loving, all mighty and all forgiving God would really want his gay children to be “rehabilitated.” ACCORDING TO YOU CRAZIES HE MADE THEM SO LEAVE THEM THE WAY THEY ARE!!!!
I’m not trying to totally bash all religious people, just the ones who refuse to adapt to the times and continue acting like assholes. Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Abraham, hell, even Martin Luther all have one thing in common. They wanted people to stop being oppressed. They wanted peace and love and for everyone to be happy and help each other and get along.
So to all you psychopaths trying to change people and “spread Jesus’ word,” you would probably make Jesus cry if he were here today. That’s right. You are breaking Jesus’ heart.
And to all the sane people of the world, Save Bryce and everyone else like him who needs some saving.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: CNN, exclamation points!, Geekologie, Twitter
CNN cited Geekologie as a legitimate source with regards to the dumbass who fell in a manhole while texting yesterday.
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/07/geekologie_legit_news_source_c.php
And while I applaud my beloved Geek, I have to ask: Is CNN a legitimate news source?
They cite Twitter for Thor’s sake!
I could just imagine what it must be like to intern there: “Hey Alessandra, no one really has anything today can you just look through your Facebook news feed and Twitter updates to see if we can find something?”
Seriously?
If Geekologie gets news before CNN does then I don’t think it should need CNN’s recognition, it’s already ballin’ on its own!
Today’s post has been brought to you by exclamation points!!!!!!!!!
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: airplane, fat people, space, things i hate, touched
Dear people of the world,
It is rude to take over the entire armrest of an airplane seat and then extend further and encroach on another passenger’s space. That is bullshit. Please don’t touch me. I don’t like to be touched or crowded.
Disgruntled travelers, can I get an amen? I don’t want to sound like a bitch, but you know you hate it, too.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Battles, boobs, Chicago, homeless people, low lives, lunch break, music, pigeons, thai food, things i hate, things that depress me, Trojan
Walking through downtown Chicago during my lunch break was awesome as I was on my way to pick up my food. Without a care in the world and completely engrossed by my newest musical obsession (Atlas by Battles, brought to me by B.Mac), I wandered through a mass of people, skyscrapers and the symphonic battle playing in my head.
But, alas, the rest of my trip would not continue to be as pleasant.
Once the 7+ minute song ended and I picked up my delicious dumplings and pad thai, I began to pay a little more attention to my surroundings. There were so many sad looking homeless people around it brok my heart. There’s such an apathetic attitude towards the homeless and while, I don’t think I’m any sort of exception, I wish I knew a way to help. It just really sucks because sometimes people aren’t lazy assholes, they’re dealt a bad hand and have no choice but to fold. And while some people persevere and have these wonderfully inspiring stories, not everyone can make it and it sucks.
On to something slightly less depressing (but only slightly), as I innocently walked past a bus stop, this dude blatantly stared at my chest, as in, literally ogling in front of my face. Do people really have no shame? I mean sneaking a peak or checking someone out is one thing, but like Trojan’s new slogan beckons, let’s EVOLVE. Come on!
Finally, the icing on the cake was passing through Pigeon Town where every pigeon in Chicago must go to hang out. I hate pigeons.
Big tall city…. What’s next?
