Since I tend to operate six-to-eight months behind the curve on internet stuff, this is probably old news to you, but I started using the website Muxtape. It allows users to create twelve-song playlists that anyone can listen to.
My URL is gulliblezine.muxtape.com. Get ready for lots of garage punk and ignorant rap music that makes racist white people go "See, I told you!"
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Round-Up!
MOVIES
Step Brothers
If Will Ferrell and John C. Reily acting like enraged ten-year-olds for 100 minutes sounds funny to you, then this is comedy gold. It almost snorted Jack Daniel’s and Sierra Mist through my nose at one point. The guy playing Will Ferrell’s successful douche younger brother was really funny, too. If you’re still skeptical, rent it – the gorgeous cinematography won’t be compromised by your television.
Blackballed DVD
A comedy about a former paintball champion, now in his thirties, who starts a paintball team of misfits in hopes of winning the title he never got. It’s got a bunch of UCB improv comedy people in it, including two of the guys from “Human Giant,” but the real scene stealer is Rob Riggle from “The Daily Show.” He plays this super aggressive militia dude who joins the paintball team. The movie can drag, but if you like alternative sketch comedy stuff as descended from “The State” or “Upright Citizen’s Brigade,” then there’s something here for you.
MUSIC
David Bowie “The Man Who Sold The World”
When I was a troubled teen of sixteen, I had a tape with this album on one side, and “Ziggy Stardust” on the other, and I’d sit up all night listening to them, falling asleep after the lights came on in the post office across the alley. Back then I thought “Ziggy” was the better of the two, but now that album sounds like show tunes to me, and “Man Who Sold The World” sounds like it’s got one foot in fuzzed out funk, the other in the first couple Black Sabbath records.
Beck “Modern Guilt”
Speaking of stuff I liked in the ‘90s, the new Beck album is really good. It’s concise, with varied but focused songs. The music sounds like someone trying to party but they’re too bummed out. I haven’t given a shit about one of Beck’s records since “Mellow Gold” because I was too punk for my own good by the time “Odelay” came out, then the ones after never stuck with me, but this has been getting regular spins all month.
BOOKS
I’ve gone bananas reading these last few weeks. Check out my Goodreads.
YOUTUBE
Bert and Ernie lipsynching to M.O.P.
Here’s to that forgotten era of hardcore New York “dude in a Triple Fat Goose, shouting” hip-hop.
Step Brothers
If Will Ferrell and John C. Reily acting like enraged ten-year-olds for 100 minutes sounds funny to you, then this is comedy gold. It almost snorted Jack Daniel’s and Sierra Mist through my nose at one point. The guy playing Will Ferrell’s successful douche younger brother was really funny, too. If you’re still skeptical, rent it – the gorgeous cinematography won’t be compromised by your television.
Blackballed DVD
A comedy about a former paintball champion, now in his thirties, who starts a paintball team of misfits in hopes of winning the title he never got. It’s got a bunch of UCB improv comedy people in it, including two of the guys from “Human Giant,” but the real scene stealer is Rob Riggle from “The Daily Show.” He plays this super aggressive militia dude who joins the paintball team. The movie can drag, but if you like alternative sketch comedy stuff as descended from “The State” or “Upright Citizen’s Brigade,” then there’s something here for you.
MUSIC
David Bowie “The Man Who Sold The World”
When I was a troubled teen of sixteen, I had a tape with this album on one side, and “Ziggy Stardust” on the other, and I’d sit up all night listening to them, falling asleep after the lights came on in the post office across the alley. Back then I thought “Ziggy” was the better of the two, but now that album sounds like show tunes to me, and “Man Who Sold The World” sounds like it’s got one foot in fuzzed out funk, the other in the first couple Black Sabbath records.
Beck “Modern Guilt”
Speaking of stuff I liked in the ‘90s, the new Beck album is really good. It’s concise, with varied but focused songs. The music sounds like someone trying to party but they’re too bummed out. I haven’t given a shit about one of Beck’s records since “Mellow Gold” because I was too punk for my own good by the time “Odelay” came out, then the ones after never stuck with me, but this has been getting regular spins all month.
BOOKS
I’ve gone bananas reading these last few weeks. Check out my Goodreads.
YOUTUBE
Bert and Ernie lipsynching to M.O.P.
Here’s to that forgotten era of hardcore New York “dude in a Triple Fat Goose, shouting” hip-hop.
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