Despite being freakishly tall and quite beefy in my younger days, and therefore courted by every high school football coach who laid eyes on me despite the fact that I turned into King Spazz the minute a ball (or stick) (or curling broom) was placed in my hands, I was a shut-in music geek and as such it was my understanding that we did not care for the sporting life! And yet here is the entire musical blogosphere talking up Super Bowl commercials and “pass interference” this morning? Did not one of you hold true to the ideals of our nerdy youth and resist the Fox Sports lure?
Of course as I aged I realized my anti-organized sporting bias was silly and became a pretty serious basketball fan for a number of years, though I’ve mostly resigned myself to the game post-2001, as one will when you started out a Sixers supporter. (Philadeliphia teams, man.) And of course Maura is a disturbing baseball obsessive, to the point where she gets an eerie, glazed, serial-killerish look when she talks about the Mets.
Still, last night I went total geek and said no mas when it came to Super Bowl coverage, instead watching the new Ex concert film by Fugazi documenter Jem Cohen (muy recommended) and listened to (self-seriousness alert) a newish recording of Gavin Bryars’ spectral “Sinking Of Titanic” and plus Mary J’s latest because I needed a jolt of her particular “I’m bad, I’m nationwide” sass. While I suspect the bulk of Idolator readers, like the bulk of humanity with rabbit ears, spent the early evening hours of the sabbath watching the game, please feel free to musically commiserate here with your own alternative bowl-day soundtracks. Or call me a football-spurning geek. Your call.
Uhm I was listening to Massive Attack. And playing Warcraft.
I will go back to my nerd cave.
I was listening to American Music Club’s new album “The Golden Age” streaming from Merge Record’s site and contemplating whether I was going to see them in Des Moines.
I also listened to Umphrey’s McGee’s live album “Live at the Murat” debating the merits of post-Phish jambands.
Also, I listened to Sharon Jones and the Dap-King’s Austin show I torrented from dimeadozen earlier in the day.
That is what I did during the soup-r-bowl.
I was painting walls in my house. While listening to the Mystery Jets. And Os Mutantes.
@Poubelle: That’s a great present. I love that Cribs album.
I sat in a early evening/late Sunday afternoon haze in front of my computer wondering why I thought “lightly” adding tequila to every glass of juice I had earlier in the day was a good idea. While stuck to my chair and eventually getting up to half ass mess around with some free weights [don't ask. guess I was making up for the fact that I was the only man in my house not screaming/staring at a tv screen (IN HD!!!)], I played tracks from both Omarion’s and Mario’s latest albums, and a couple selected tracks from the Dream’s debut, cause apparently that’s how I roll…
I was watching the new Tom Stoppard play, “Rock ‘n’ Roll,” and thinking about how much I hate Pink Floyd. But I hate football more.
I slept in late, caught a matinée of “Cloverfield” with my girl, went to work for a couple of hours, listened to about two tracks from the new Roisin Murphy album, decided I hated it (as much as televised sports, both very dull), switched to Charlotte Gainsbourg to ease myself into working late, came home, watched Samurai Jack, and crashed to the sounds of William Basinski. A nice quiet Sunday.
So NOBODY watched the Super Bowl? Give me a fucking break.
@Lucas Jensen: Nope. Never have, never will.
@Lucas Jensen: I was gonna, but I got stuck reading a book. I had The White Album on, and my carousel cycled through Girls Can Tell, Gimme Fiction and Pithecampus Erectus. Did I miss anything by not watching tv?
In high school I was often told “You should play football,” which I took to mean “You’re really fat.”
I think even the geeks were watching, this year. I had the game on my media center PC, and checked my feeds repeatedly during the disappointing, overpriced commercials. No new posts, the entire game. Even from CNet.
I didn’t appreciate the Patriots offensive coordinator taking the evening off, either.
I had dug up my old copy of Sims 2 and played for the first time in years and listened to Melt-Banana. I made a point to tune in during Paula and Randy’s “performance” though. I couldn’t tell you who won the game. I assume it was in the paper but my eyes simply won’t read sports related news.
I watched simply to root against the Patriots. I go to school in Boston, and the look on all those Masshole pats fans’ faces was completely worth it.
I watched it because I love football, and I almost cried when the game was over because I have to wait about six months now. Sigh. It happens every year.
you guys know the most important thing about the super bowl?
BASEBALL SEASON IS COMING REALLY SOON!!!!!
LET’S ALL WATCH THE CARIBBEAN SERIES AND GET PSYCHED
Maura, forgive me:
[10:05] loudersoft: Then someone took over the iTunes and started playing Paul Simon songs.
[10:05] Maura: vampire weekend
[10:05] loudersoft: I said “Hey have you guys heard Vampire Weekend?”
[10:05] loudersoft: *series of blank stares*
[10:06] Maura: lolll
[10:06] loudersoft: *song change* “Hey check out this RHCP song”
[10:06] loudersoft: I was out of my element.
[10:07] loudersoft: I can’t remember the last time I went to a party and I said names like Cat Power and Stephen Malkmus to a series of empty looks
[10:08] loudersoft: so in a way, it was good….
[10:08] loudersoft: But, I did have a “this is the future of America” moment and I felt sad.
[10:09] loudersoft: However, in a moment of epiphany, everyone agreed that Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers were good, if inappropriate.
I hear that if you turn the sound off and watch the super bowl listening to Dark Side of the Moon it totally sinks up. They like, recorded it that way or something.
P.S. I feel really bad for Mets fans this year. I really do. I mean, when are they going to learn that signing aging superstar pitchers to ginormous bloated contracts is just bad baseball?
I spent the night writing about South Street Seaport and getting bloated from good vegan food. The TV was on but tuned to TruTV. No music.
@loudersoft: you have to include the part about the nachos!!!
in my house, we watch the puppy bowl. and man, that burlesue-inspired kitty half-time show was asking for a wardrobe malfunction.
Maura, I knew there was reason I liked you.
@Maura Johnston: ok
[10:02] loudersoft: There was the guy who thinks he knows how to cook, you know…”Mr Cheffy Guy”
[10:02] loudersoft: who made nachos
[10:02] loudersoft: but he put the lettuce and the tomato on before putting the nachos in the oven
[10:02] Maura: omg
[10:02] loudersoft: and then got mad because nobody would eat his nachos
[10:02] loudersoft: it was funny.
[10:03] Maura: ogm
[10:03] Maura: that is hilaaarious
[10:03] Maura: tearrs
[10:03] loudersoft: He is the kind of guy who has three t-shirts in his closet that have the picture of the cat hanging from the tree with the slogan “Hang In There Baby!”
[10:03] loudersoft: because he needs a different one for different days of the week.
I think I was catching up on “The Wire” and folding laundry for some of the game. Also, I remember going through some combination of Art Brut, The National, No Age, and Jay Z while cleaning my room/ wasting time on the internet. However, I have no idea which of those overlapped with which time frame.
I was listening o Comcast’s awesome hold music for (no joke) 8 hours!
I was opening birthday presents, which included the Cribs album. I thought about turning on the game, but then I realized there was no way Tom Petty could top Prince last year.
I don’t know how ya’ll can’t like sports AKA football.
I had the game on in the background so I could have something to half-pay-attention to while attending to crucial music collection tagging business, and also in the event that any cool movie trailers I hadn’t seen yet would show up. (How about Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark? I keep picturing him putting off fighting the Mandarin or whoever to go after the Zodiac Killer.)
Also, Maura: please tell me this Carlos Gomez character is, at the very least, the next Cesar Cedeno.
Also watched the “Puppy Bowl”, which had a halftime show that was far superior to Tom Petty.
@scarletvirtue: The first Kitty Halftime Show was the best, where the confetti finale scared away all of the kittens except for one, who slept through the whole thing.
@Lucas Jensen: This year was the first time I’d seen the Puppy Bowl - and seeing how some of those cats reacted to the confetti, I’m almost surprised that one of them slept through it!
I thought it was fun to watch - especially since I had a cat on my lap, watching the “game” itself quite intently, then showing indifference towards the halftime show!
i fell asleep after about the fourth play and woke up around half time (12.30am uk time) VERY CONFUSED and disorientated so i thought i’d better go to bed. more luck with Super-Wuper-Duper-Pooper Tuesday tonight, hopefully…
Hey Jess….Have you tried Quidditch? Or maybe Fizzbin?
@jmb112485: Do you really consider 28 “aging”? Now I’m depressed.