Just in time to impress your friends at the weekend bbq with all your uncanny music tastes, TPS proudly gives you two bangers to start your weekend off right.
First, the 80s no-wave Build remix of Phoenix's "1901" off the fantastic Wolfgang Amadaues Phoenix LP
Ron McDon is now an Alt-Kid going over his family's cell plan's minutes and loitering in malls trying to get some 45-year old drifter with friendly eyes to buy him beer.
Enjoy with me, what has been rated as one of the most amazing covers of all time. during these harsh struggles, we all need a little SMK. So lets take a moment for ourselves and finally get back to
This is the first entry to what will become a weekly feature called, "Dat Bitch". Each Dat Bitch will be written by a Latiqua, a very angry and culturally-aware half black, half puerto-rican woman from the Bronx.
Dat Bitch: Monica Lewinsky
"Can Dat Bitcch die already? I'm so tired of her fat ass. One Blowjob! One fucking BJ. Really, I'm sure dat bitch's head wasnt that good that she deserves publicity going on 14 years for sucking Bill Clinton's dick. Really! Please once and for all, let dat bitch die!!"
If you're a fat, 52 year old, piece of shit, who sits around in sweatpants, eating toast with cheese-whiz, whose sole income is disability and gives in to the temptations of child porn when feeling down like myself. Then you probably know and worship the long running, late night, AM radio, sci-fi programme, Coast to Coast hosted by the paranormal papal duo of Art Bell (a true god) and George Noory (I shook his hand in Albuquerque once). This show has been not only a companion for me during the wee hours of the morning but also a source that reveals the supressed truths that are 'out there'. However I have recently stumbled upon this new site that explores subjects which are too sensitive for the mainstream media... that Obama knows about and Ted Kennedy knew about until 'they' erased his memory, which by the way was covered up by a so called 'brain tumor'... he was gonna talk but 'they' (here's a secret surveillance video from their bunker at the center of the Earth, one of them I believe is listing celebrities on their hitlist) stopped him. Charles Schulz knew but he wasn't as fortunate as Mr. Kennedy. Anyways back on topic... just have a look for yourself here at the Atlas Obscura. Where they map out P.P.O.I (paranormal points of interest) like where a family lived in Kentucky that had 4 blue skinned children or the site of a mothman sighting or a nuclear blast sight that has been covered by a giant concrete dome. This is the real 'truth' this is what 'they' (here's another video where 'they' candidly give a tour of their top secret bunker) don't want you to see. So I suggest you take a browse for yourself and remember 'we are not alone'.
In the sea of music that floats around the interweb, blogs, ipods and whatever the hell else we use to drown out the sound of our own shitty lives, good songwriters seem to be far and few between. Recent years has shown that Indie music is trending towards a fuller, more synth-tastic sound, less concerned with the lyrical content that the music is supposed to help deliver. It is what it is, and I'm not saying its necessarily a bad thing, but Casio's, 808's and Autotune on everything can frag-out my brain. (For more on Fragile-X syndrome, follow here).
Taking a step back, I have dived back in to my lyrical heros: Stephen Malkmus (of Pavement), David Bazan (of Pedro The Lion), Jonathan Richman (of Modern Lovers), and finally Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy).
Well, just like the fambly cat, Grandaddy died a couple of years ago. Frontman Jason Lytle, the primary driving force behind the back, flew off the radar for a few years, going back to Modesto to do whatever it is you do in Modesto to keep from killing yourself. I would gather it involves cheap 12-packs, small firearms, and varments/neighbors' pets.
Jason Lytle is back, a little less somber and seemingly no worse for the wear. Playing all the instruments on the records, Lytle opens with the title track explaining "Last I heard I was left for dead/ I could give two shits about what was said/ I may be limping, but I'm coming home". Feeling all too forgotten, he seems to fight against the odds (most likely imposed by himself) and come out swinging.
Lyrically, Lytle's schtick is his voice. High, calm and drained, he delivers sad, bleak portraits of life, but with a very subtle sense of humor and optimism that makes him night and day when compared to Debby-Downer, Bon Iver.
On Yours Truly, he sings of talking to the ghosts of his old pets, reflecting on "how things got so bad", and pretty much emotionally kicking the shit out of himself. Believe it or not, it's a good summer album. It plays like the Traveling Wilburies and sounds like it too if you don't stop to pay attention to the lyrics, but that's the rub.
let crying babies live!. in this world, what has it come to? all these crying babies? and just not enough willis pie. but we can't all be living on the stool. little jon didn't like this day, he said "life was hard this day" and was later caught hiding under the rug in the dining room. experts say "he must have been trying to hide the beef".
Shooting reported at Holocaust Museum in Washington
Honestly people, as horrible as this may sound, this recent string of targeted violence has a silver lining. It is evidence that these bigoted idiots are realizing that their numbers are dwindling and their cause is no longer culturally relevant. People have either gotten over their problems with Jews, people who can't take care of babies, Gays, Blacks, etc, or have much, MUCH larger issues at hand.
When people realize the winds are being taken out of their causes' sail, they panic and do irrational shit like this. So, is this bad that abortion doctors are being murdered? Yes. Is it bad that some idiot decides to open fire at the entrance to the Holocaust Museum? Of course. Is it a sign that the collective culture of America is changing? I think so.
As Jim Lahey put it best, "The winds of shit are changing".
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Gunfire at the entrance of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum wounded at least two people Wednesday, emergency officials said.
Gunfire was reported near the Holocaust Museum in Washington on Wednesday.
A private security guard and another person were wounded, according to officials of the D.C. police and fire department. A police official said one of the wounded was the shooting suspect.