January 2012
1 post
RT @Chicago_Reader: A resolution for 2012: A more comprehensive and specific approach to writing about art #ResolutionWeek http://t.co/o …
Breathtaking. RT @taco42: @metrowheelman update your apps gringo. #copywriting http://t.co/rnZhBS0Z
December 2011
27 posts
RT @jondaly: Does Tilda Swinton live in a house or does she just walk slowly into the ocean in a bridal gown in between movies?
Records were good in 2011. Here are some.
Here’s my Pazz & Jop list for Village Voice, annotated with expanded thoughts on my picks and accompanying YouTube content. Check it out.
Mogwai, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (Sub Pop)
“The Scottish group’s heavy instrumentals can muddle as much as they throttle,” I wrote of Mogwai last April. “They can turn against you in an instant. “Luckily,...
RT @unclegrambo: .@mediaite wrote a nice piece on @fredgraver, one of my heroes & the guy responsible for springing me from The D: http: …
RT @noz: Wait is Mann Michael Mann?
Only things anyone got from me this year was booze or gags. #gags #booze @jondesign: #gags
RT @unclegrambo: Well, there’s $5 million that the music industry will never recoup. Melanie who? Also, R.I.P. to the Simon Cowell Ameri …
BRAN$OM, Richard Branson’s alter ego, scuttled his Eurocopter Colibri on the steamer’s deck. B$ wanted in on the medicine ball. #moneyface
#americanvan http://t.co/mtzVGXG6
We will watch It’s A Wonderful Life. http://t.co/tzHsi5yk
Now it’s live band karaoke. How many white women are wooing/white girl dancing as they yelp out Joan Jett right now across the US.
RT @UncleBlazer: Meatball sandwich for president.
Thought dude in the Triple Fat Goose was carrying a lamb like a some streetlevel shepherd at Bethlehem. It was just a rolled up blanket.
RT @jesshopp: My Best Under the Radar 2011 Releases piece for @Chicago_Reader w/ @tasseomancy, Crazy Band, Army Girls, @NikkiLynette: ht …
Good thing I checked out that new #BURIAL track in the pre-dawn darkness — its squelchy afterimages are a great soundtrack to this rain.
RT @gloriousnoise: @unclegrambo Or maybe I just assumed @RollingStone would get their own original quotes and not resort to such lowly b …
RT @robynkonichiwa: Thank you @nbcsnl @katyperry @cherrytreerec and @decida And thank you for all the love on twitter. I’m in a daze. Ba …
On Most Killingest.
It begins as a confession; it’s just us and her. The music behind her is just the radio on in her bedroom. But then the keyboard becomes a laserbeam, and the chorus, and it’s Gloria Gaynor, and she starts moving around all wonderful and crazy, and she throws in a Pete Townshend windmill, and screams in joy just off mic because she kind of can’t believe she’s on SNL, either....
Just dropped Ramsey Lewis on vinyl, cracked a Labatt Blue, and ate five olives. It’s Christmastime. #turducken
Thanks, @alteredzones. I mean, you know, again. 20 Tracks You Might Have Missed is a Michael Jordan dunk in #bullettime. @adhocfm
RT @taco42: @metrowheelman showed my brother your #pitchfork frusciante review. “he only gave it a 6.9?”. “On pitchfork, thats a high nu …
RT @theemptybottle: The A.V. Club has a pretty rad interview with G-SIDE’s Yung Clova and ST 2 Lettaz. Their new record iSLAND pretty… …
CPD air unit says ska version of The Little Drummer Boy now moving west out of city, skanking and firing wildly as it goes. #rumpbumpbumpbum
RT @LauraMGray: These are incredible cc @smcniel RT @mollylambert: Stanley Kubrick, teen party photographer in NY in the 40s http://t.c …
RT @DhaniJones: Much thx. RT @dkus06: @DhaniJones that’s a ballin bow tie on fox bro!
“devotees” RT @rpophessagr: Devotees wondering how long it’d take for me to spill beer on my bed: before it was setup is your answer.
RT @tombreihan: This conversation between @brandonstosuy and Ian MacKaye is magical. http://t.co/5rzL0iNT
November 2011
23 posts
Srsly though, really, #AmyAdams was born to be w/ Muppets. Same w/ Enchanted. But she is so great at things. Want: An Adams action thriller.
Moretz! Stump! @unclegrambo has cornered all of the buzz. #alifeinbuzz @grahamorama
#dukesaria gives me illusions of grandeur, like screamsinging in Italian from the deck of a 19th c steamship that’s also a blimp. #rigoletto
INCEPTION BUTTON. Maybe if it is hit en masse… #dreambig http://t.co/gLUszbs6
RT @IJamEcono: Hey @NBA & @NBAPA, see what you’ve done?! You’ve made Stephen A cry! Cry loud, spitty tears. RT @stephenasmith I’ve given …
Dude from Karate Kid hates RDJ’s blue hair; also, Rodney takes the mic on a barroom vrsn of Twist & Shout. #backtoschool
Pretty sure I lost my mind last Summer at Empty Bottle to Altos Lugares, the last jam on @hellohighplaces new LP. Or I am now. #jamburgers
RT @MetropolisRoast: David Yow is a little man #ScratchAcid
RT @unclegrambo: Axl Rose’s first interview in 5 years is on now! THAT METAL SHOW on VH1 Classic. AXL!!! http://t.co/Ya25evDj
Now available from Fathead STREET: Tapestry of Necks— the tattoos you used to know. #endthelockout #NBA
RT @cameronesposito: Cutting my hair on the back deck, cuz I’m urban, but not too urban. Also, definitely not Keith Urban.
RT @grahamorama: @mattcaruana @metrowheelman “Guetta done!” -French Larry the Cable Guy
RT @mattcaruana: @metrowheelman Your Rock tweet just became an instant classic.
RT @tuxedothunder: Ok, post-cx race meals/drinks @boilerroomchi every time from now on. #pbrjpizza
From the liners of this trucker music comp: “Ask any trucker and he will tell you that the road means a free feeling and a justified peace.”
RT @mxloftus: Mom’s 70th birthday dinner, with her kids. We had the loudest table in Wheaton. WE TELL THE BEST STORIES.
RT @LaurelHalo: Part 1 Dreamt I was hanging out onstage w joni Mitchell w a white Afro noticed how crisp the stage monitor was shewas us …
Hitting @threadless HQ today w/ @MtropolisCoffee hookups. Think I saw some vintage standup arcade games when last I was there. @polarizeme
Insightful vs piece in @Chicago_Reader between Ripley Johnson of @woodenshjips and Jonathan van Herik of @DISAPPEARS. I’ve never heard 613.
RT @marathonpacks: Oates was forced to Teleprompter a joke about his shortness. The dude from The Tubes presented “best concept video” # …
RT @arthurmagazine: Arthur Magazine self-immolated in March ‘11. Editor/publisher/co-founder now twittering @jaywbabcock w/ blog at http …
RT @rpophessagr: @metrowheelman punnyface!