nonce commented on "Pitchfork" Bows Out Of The Black Kids Debate With The Help Of Some Adorable Pugs, at 11:35 AM on Jul 23 @nonce: The point being that we can all just get along by reading fewer blogs and watching more music videos. more »

nonce commented on "Pitchfork" Bows Out Of The Black Kids Debate With The Help Of Some Adorable Pugs, at 11:32 AM on Jul 23 @HomefrontRadio: As somebody subject to about as little entitlement as you can get in the good ol' US of A, my listening habits have been equally shaped by 1) actually hearing said music in question and 2) random encounters made possible by sites like Pitchfork. more »

nonce commented on Sarah Jessica Parker Dips A Toe Into Reality Waters With 'Project Art Fag', at 1:34 PM on Jul 22 For what it's worth, there aren't really any CalArts profs worth blowing anymore. more » [defamer]

nonce commented on The Greatest Movie Ever Made (Or Something): Six Instant Implications of 'The Dark Knight', at 5:22 PM on Jul 21 Anybody remember Michael Keaton? more » [defamer]

nonce commented on Can't Touch This Werewolf: Kid Rock Brings Back The Sales-Free Chart Hit, at 1:40 AM on Jul 12 I don't have scary-comprehensive singles knowledge, but I do know that I was still buying cassingles as a young teen up until around 1992, and that they wavered around the $3 mark. Also, it kind of unnerves me know to think that there was only a one-year span (roughly) between buying "U Can't Touch This" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on cassingle. I am also bummed I don't still have those cassingles, especially Soho's "Hippychick." more »

nonce commented on Beck Is Trapped In The Sixties, Himself, at 10:40 PM on Jul 10 Chiming in very late to add the praise for MV; and, if you culled tracks off of the previous two albums and sequenced them properly, you would have a pretty solid album. more »

nonce commented on Another Day, Another Reunion: Shudder To Think Reunites, at 12:53 AM on Jul 10 Yes! more »

nonce commented on 'Hancock' Parks It At First, at 4:21 PM on Jul 7 (cough) Theater, not theatre. more » [defamer]

nonce commented on 'Hancock' Parks It At First, at 4:20 PM on Jul 7 @Juancho: Six weeks?! more » [defamer]

nonce commented on A Long Listmaking Exercise For A Long Weekend, at 4:21 PM on Jul 3 Far too lazy to do this but I do have to say that my and Maura's 1983 and 1998 match perfectly: I'd even submit Dazzle Ships and California as high on the list for Albums of their Respective Decades. C'mon, Patton! more »

nonce commented on EMI Fiddles, Smooches, And Wins The Hot 100 Race While Rome Burns, at 4:32 PM on Jun 20 The question the "commercial" factor raises in this is whether sales and airplay are relable indicators of "popularity" anymore, especialy since the internet let me borrow both singles and the whole album to preview. Should bands get points for landing tunes in commercials? more »

nonce commented on Oasis Promise At Least Three More Albums (That'll Be Just Like The Last Three), at 4:23 PM on Jun 20 "Has" turned me around. more »

nonce commented on Oasis Promise At Least Three More Albums (That'll Be Just Like The Last Three), at 4:23 PM on Jun 20 After years of thinking of Oasis as a scourge of scousers, hearing Devendra Banhart's Lennon/"Imagine"-esque take on "Don't Look Back in Anger" as turned me around, because a) it's a decent song and, b) whether it has to do with Banhart or not, the lyrics make *no* sense whatsoever, in a truly WTF kind of way. Almost as good/bad as Jill Sobule covering "Hot in Herre." more »

nonce commented on Josh Homme Speaks To The Peanut Gallery, at 4:18 PM on Jun 20 @Maura Johnston: Actually I was wondering how I could get reimbursed for wasting time and brain cells on all of this hullaballoo, but that's the internet's (and my) fault, not Idolator's. The internet: it never stops being fascinatingly stupid! more »

nonce commented on The WWE Would Like A Little Credit For Saving Hard Rock, OK?, at 6:23 PM on Jun 17 "Both Barack Obama and John McCain have appeared recently (albeit via taped segments) on WWE Raw." No. more »

nonce commented on I Boldly Predict This Isn't As Good As "British Steel", at 6:16 PM on Jun 17 More importantly, how is Halford holding up in the leather gear these days? more »

nonce commented on Metallica Cannot Think Of Anything Better Than "Death Magnetic", at 12:26 AM on Jun 17 Did they vote down Anal Staircase 'cause it was already taken? more »

nonce commented on R.E.M. Has, In Fact, Seen The Rain, at 9:33 AM on Jun 16 The basic awesomeness of a large crowd of people all yelling "Leonard Bernstein!" in unison cannot be underestimated. more »