Over the weekend, the Shins' Marty Crandall
was arrested for his involvement in a domestic dispute with his now-ex-girlfriend Elyse Sewell, a former
America's Next Top Model contestant who broke the news on her Livejournal shortly after she made bail. (The
post she wrote about the incident, which includes photos of her bruised arm, has been friendslocked at the advice of her legal counsel, but
it's been reproduced elsewhere.) Crandall was held over the weekend and has apparently since been released. As is often the case with ugh-inducing incidents involving indie rock semi-luminaries, the
Brooklyn Vegan post on the arrest has been the go-to place for the music-blog cognoscenti's reactions, and while some of them actually address the situation semi-intelligently, most of them are about as tasteful as you'd expect from a Web site that allows its readers to post anonymously:
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Idolator
When even the Associated Press is sending up trend-story signal flares about the current, crappy state of the world, there's only one song to sorta-fit the collective mood: Daniel Powter's "Bad Day," which I have come clean about enjoying before and which has an attendant YouTube comment section that's 45% semi-anonymous support group, 35% incoherent assholes, 20% comments along the lines of "I'm eating chips right now! Wow that was random lol," and 100% desperately in need of The Elements Of Style being thrown its way:
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