“Styrene, who was born Marian Joan Elliott-Said, shot to fame in 1976 with X-Ray Spex, and was immortalised in punk history with the song Oh Bondage, Up Yours! ‘Little girls should be seen and not heard,’ Styrene would say to introduce the track.”
– Cheers to The Guardian, who certainly did not miss any part of the point when writing their Poly Styrene obituary.
“Once we stayed with this couple who were putting us on in Wales. Their relationship was on the rocks, and the morning after the show he demanded that we go to the pub with him and his six-month-old baby he’d been left in charge of. He’d drunk a two-liter bottle of cider for breakfast, so was already out of it by the time we got to the boozer. He had a couple more pints, was swaying in his seat and burping and we were getting more and more worried about his ability to look after this tiny baby he had in his arms when suddenly he just went “Fuck – BLEEUUUUURGH” and puked up all over it – the fucking baby was covered in vomit. It was one of the worst things I have seen.”
– Vice interviewed the singer of Oi Polloi, who are celebrating their thirtieth anniversary on the same day as the royal wedding. The man has stories.
“X-Ray Eyeballs are good, but the sound is so shitty that when I look back at the sound booth I expect to see an Almond Joy with sunglasses giving the ‘Eh, it’s the best I can do’ shoulder shrug.”
– If you haven’t yet read Lars Finberg’s account of playing South by Southwest: It is Friday and nobody cares if you are working. Now is the time. Also, if anyone has any inroads on me becoming friends with Lars Finberg, my contact information is easily found.
“Blind Mexican cavefish sleep much less than closely related species that live near the surface, according to a study that involved shaking aquariums to keep fish awake.”
– Science.
Old Time Relijun - Two Crows
Imagine the incredible things you’d get done if the first thirty seconds of this song was playing in your head twenty-four hours a day.
Davila 666 - Yo Seria Otro
I haven’t posted here in a long time. I’m not sure why. The new Davila 666 album is really good. This year’s Boston Celtics are destined to lose to the Chicago Bulls in the playoffs. I have kind of a headache.
Arthur Russell - “Time Away”
1)The fact that the same person who wrote and performed this song co-founded Sleeping Bag Records.
2)
(song via eagleflieswiththedove)
“In my psychology sessions, I sometimes cry with my therapist. We cry and hug each other; hold each other and talk. I think it’s a good thing to cry and let your emotions out rather than keep it inside. […] I would have hugged them and got some ice cream.”
– Ron Artest on the Miami Heat’s alleged postgame locker room cry sessions. I love professional basketball and I love Ron Artest.
“I was kinda bummed that [Gary Busey’s] ringer was set to the classic ‘rotary phone’ ringer; I thought he might have something more representative of his mindset, like ‘War Hero’ by Void or the sound of an animal being branded.”
– Tom Scharpling has started writing Celebrity Apprentice recaps for New York Magazine.
pterodactyls asked: What's the last thing you did on a crazy whim, and how did it work out for you?
I think it depends what you mean by “crazy.” I don’t think of myself as a very whimsical person, because from “whimsical” it’s a very fine line to the carnival of horrors that is “wacky,” and I’d rather be dead etc etc. (I am also incredibly prone to indecisiveness and self-doubt, but that makes me sound way less cool than the other explanation.)
A week and change ago, though, as part of an unrelated (though thoroughly unprofessional) shipment, I sent my friend Dimity one of my apartment’s delinquent cable bills without first looking to see if it included any of my roommate’s financial information. (If you’re reading this, Billy, it turns out that it didn’t, but I apologize, and I also apologize for not yet having paid you for cable.) I have been informed that that’s funny, so I suppose it went well.
