brubaker

I had an unusually busy day yesterday. In the morning, I went to school to register for classes and am officially a grad student and (as is his lifelong tradition) took an absolutely butt-ugly school id picture. Right after that, I went downtown to the one store in the entire city that I knew would have the SG Guide To Living dvd and picked that up. One thing I've noticed is that with each dvd they release, the production seems to get slicker and more professional and was certainly worth it simply for that reason alone and while many of my fave SG's have yet to appear on dvd, I was absolutely thrilled by Clio's debut (although it could've used more of her) and came to appreciate Rigel in a way I never had before.

Then after that I went to Barnes & Noble and read a really interesting article in the new SPIN which dealt with many of today's artists and the people they were influenced by. Having been a huge Green Day fan during their Lookout! days and when their major label debut came out and having discovered one of my all-time fave bands, The Replacements, (literally) a year later, reading the interview with them was certainly interesting and can totally see the influence. They both have (had) that total wasted youth quality about their music that a young 'un like me could totally relate to at the time. Another one of these interviews they had in there was between Alison Goldfrapp and Debbie Harry, which I found really freaking cool. Just reading what Harry had to say about the whole '70s New York scene simply enamored me to that era even more and Alison Goldfrapp is indeed a hottie. In fact, I even have a Goldfrapp documentary/concert dvd and two Blondie one's, the first being their VH1 Behind The Music and the second this performance they did in Germany when before their third album came out when they were still raw and pretty punk rock ("Youth Nabbed As Sniper" is one of my favorite songs ever).



Now tell me Ms. Harry wouldn't've made the absolute most ultimate Suicide Girl, I dare you.

Anyway, by the time got home at 4 pm, I still even had time to go grocery shopping. I think that's the most I've ever gotten done on a day I wasn't working before. Weird.

I also finally got a chance to watch that new White Stripes dvd that came out last week and actually really enjoyed it. I was never the ginormous fan a lot of other people seemed to be of the duo, but I always enjoy a good music documentary (and any excuse to stare at Meg White, you know). And that bit at the end where she started crying while Jack was on the piano just killed me (as calculated as an editing move as that was).

Oh, and it was a good week in music, too! Got an advance of an album I've been waiting, like, a year to come out in the States (Codeine Velvet Club) and the new She & Him (although I'm not really sure if getting it a day before it's actual release is much of an advance. Add that to the fact that labels like Merge and BMI take all the fun out of reviewing albums by making them pretty much impossible to download to your ipod, I actually found myself having to go out and buy a copy of Vol. 2, as was I'm sure their evil scheme to begin with). And as much shit as I got from a music snob friend of mine, I even picked up that Passion Pit album that came out last year and really enjoyed it. Who da thought that a bunch of white disheveled 20-something indie rock kids could make '80s R&B sound so good?

Okay, all this was just to kill time while my laundry was drying and before my run.

Later's, y'all!