That’s a scene from the over-the-top television series Nip/Tuck. I just watched this week’s episode (twice) and am now pretty much in love with liberal, multicultural, polysexual doublespeak.
But anyone who knew me could’ve told you that. I’m also going to Berlin in a few hours.

So, um, I’m in the middle of compiling my lists of top albums, etc., and Luis just linked me to a strangely intriguing (in that homophobic, insensitive sort of way) video about emo. I thought I’d share it with you.

Yup.
(And no, it wasn’t my first time.)
(But you can see photos here.)

So my review of Final Fantasy and Bobby Sandal went up on PopMatters today after a bit of editorial intervention that makes it (and especially the formerly-intellectual Saidian analysis) not-entirely-sensical. But that’s OK, because I did finally find a bootleg of FF’s cover of BP’s “TML”.

In “Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down,” world-renowned expert Chase Martyn blogs important facts about things that are good or bad. In this installment, he covers Arrested Development’s Among The Trees.

Bored of reading about the Paris riots, Pat Tillman, China, or David Brooks? Then check out a few of the blogs that I read. (Incidentally, I’m thinking of setting up a list of links to sites I frequently read and sites that link to me; so, if you want to make the list, [...]

In “Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down,” world-renowned expert Chase Martyn blogs important facts about things that are good or bad. In this (the first) installment, he takes on the newly hyped Rogue Wave album, Descended Like Vultures.

Well, last night I saw Final Fantasy and Bobby Sandal in Brussels. The venue was upstairs at the Ancienne Belgique (in a small, stuffy room that turns out to still be better than 90% of the indie rock venues in the states), but Stella was still cheap and on tap so it was all [...]

Thursday night was Sufjan-in-Amsterdam night. It might have been Sufjan-and-Animal-Collective-In-Amsterdam night, but it wasn’t, because the Paradiso in Amsterdam seems to have more than one room! In which there exist multiple concerts! And we only had tickets for Sufjan Stevens! (Incidentally, I want to start a Brian Wilson-style tribute to Sufjan [...]

Last night I saw Styrofoam, Belgium’s “greatest” electronica artist. You might know him as the guy who occasionally plays the laptop on Notwist tours.
When I walked into the venue at the Stuk (Leuven’s cultural arts center), the first thing I noticed was that Stella was een euro sestig, so I promptly said “Een Stella, [...]