Confession - this is definitely a post Super Bowl Sunday Monday post: hungover, a little discombobulated, short on long thoughts, and all over the place. In other words folks, it's odds and sods time:
- Thoughts on the Super Bowl? The game came down to the last play, the less bad guys won, the really bad guys lost (especially the wanker Tom Brady and The Great Satan Bill Belichick), the commercials were generally lame and uncreative, and the Madonna half-time show was not altogether horrific.
- Yes, MIA really did give us the finger during said half-time show, and I for one think it was great, one of the highlights of the whole broadcast.
- No, I did not object to the use of the Goo Goo Dolls for that Channel 2 ad boosting the old hometown. I know some folks have been bagging on it because of the Goos, but let's face it folks- Buffalo is cool, but it ain't that cool (call me after that M83 show at the Town Ballroom sells out). I think we've got a little more work to do before we can turn put on airs over the Goo Goo Dolls. Hell, the commercial prominently featured footage of The Old Pink. I respected the respect.
- Yes, the music NBC used for their bumper music going into and coming out of commercials during the Super Bowl was godawful, but the music used in this Samsung Mobile ad is not.
- Regrets... I have a few, and one of them is saying in last Monday's post about Lana Del Rey that I was "still intrigued" by her debut album. Why? Because that meant I had to listen to it, and I did, and that's time I'll never get back. If you like under-cooked hokum that wants to walk on the dark side but really doesn't, Lana Del Rey's Born To Die is your album. "Videogames" is literally all she's got. Kudos however to the recording industry for getting succesfully subverting the indie/buzz blogosphere and getting one by that firewall. Well done. And that's all I'm going to say on the subject because I value my time and yours.
- Speaking of regrets, yeah, I probably could've put that post up about St. Vincent on last Friday's "Portlandia" a little sooner than last Friday night. I'll try to do a better job in that department in the future. For those that missed Annie's.... uh... understated yet wonderful performance on "Portlandia," here it is:
- After a dry January for new music releases of note (to me at least), February's got some mighty choice nuggets, including the new of Montreal album Paralytic Stalks, due out tomorrow. Word on the street has it that it's got a Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? vibe, an interesting turn after the adventures that were Skeletal Lamping and False Priest, and that has me very stoked. Here is a taste, and hopefully if we're good boys and girls maybe we'll get a Buffalo of Montreal show this fall...
That's all I got. Happy post Super Bowl Monday. We'll get through this. Be sure to drink plenty of fluids... and good luck.
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