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Dude, dude. Try these nachos.
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False. I do not, as I would like to keep the option of marrying Ezra Koenig open without it being weird. Anyway, although I don’t watch SNL quite often, I did scrounge around Hulu when I heard they were the musical guest on Saturday’s show. This, of course, is yet another example of their musical greatness. Not to mention, check out how happy drummer Chris Tomson looks. Comme toujours, jouissez.
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Wonderful animation of Taylor Mali’s poem “Typography,” created by student Ronnie Bruce.
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Seriously. Or maybe I’m just high. (I kid, I kid… kind of).
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Only a few days after a heart-wrenching report suggesting the
Really though, we get what it means. If the guys at EMI want to keep the studios under their ownership, they have to give in and add a new member to their team (maybe someone like Mr. Moneybags or Warren Buffett?). This probably means some changes will be made, something that unyielding fans may be displeased about, but hey, it’s better than watching it disappear completely.
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So one day, my friend Brian (or, as I so lovingly call him, Tamagotchi) tells me that I have to listen to this band. The band is called Vampire Weekend. Instantly the names Edward Cullen and Stephenie Meyer and Kristen Stewart flash into my mind, which leads me to think, “Wow, that’s a lame name for a band,” and I completely ignore his advice. Two weeks later, I am in love with this pre-vampire trend-named band, and totally ready to marry lead singer and guitarist Ezra Koenig.
Although I had fallen in love with this musical delight, I never fail to immediately doubt a band’s ability to perform well live. This is the result of attending numerous concerts and music festivals, at which I typically find myself (with the exception of Arctic Monkeys, Ben Folds, Yelle, The Police, and Justice) pretty disappointed. Of course, performing live is much more complicated than recording in a studio, but if a band can sound just as good, and if not better than their music playing from my iTunes or the radio (what’s a radio?), I am impressed. Knowing that the music I love is a result of hard work and genuine talent, genuine enough to maintain its allure no matter how it is showcased, only fortifies my respect and fondness for it.
Needles to say, the video above (sent to me from Tamagotchi) only fortifies my respect and fondness for Vampire Weekend. Enjoy.
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After a disappointing e-mail from my father, and confirmation from NME.com, I have sadly learned that Abbey Road studios is coming to a close. Well, maybe not a close, but the infamous recording studio is being put up for sale by EMI.
The studio is located in the Saint Johns Wood area of northwest London (not to mention right near the home of my very ex-boyfriend), and was made famous by the legendary Beatles’ album (you guessed it!) “Abbey Road” and it’s beautiful cover image. According to the Financial Times, the sale has potential to raise tens of millions of pounds. That is an insane amount of money, yes, but I’m sure the Apple Scruffs would agree with me when I say that it’s still a damn shame.
(To see a photo of the boys getting ready to make the cross, click here).
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Alright. I don’t go to midnight showings, even if I am obsessed with anticipation for whatever movie it is. Last night, however, I was somehow talked into going (there’s a possibility that there were promises of certain Californian pastimes to precede the journey) to the midnight showing of Valentine’s Day, or as I would like to call it, This Movie Cost Whaaaat?
That’s probably a little harsh. I’m sure the five other girls I went with would not refer to it as such, but I have to. I absolutely have to. I’ve been trying to give it the benefit of the doubt since we left the theatre, but I cannot come up with any excuses for it. I wasted two hours and $7.25 (student discount) sitting next to a roommate who talks during movies and typing short notes on my crappy LG for the sole purpose of explaining my disgust in this future cyber rant…
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All people are crazy, but Australians… Australians are badass crazy. Thanks to the ever so magical YouTube, I have just come across a video that I find both amazing and disturbing. It displays a very attractive male Aussie taking a ride, sans harness or safety gear, on (and then parachuting off of) what has been dubbed “The Death Swing,” or “Swing of Death.”
Maybe it’s my fear of heights, maybe it’s my lack of appreciation for “O Fortuna,” maybe I am just a giant baby, but as David After Dentist once said, “Is this real life?”
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Claire Matthews: Santa Clara undergrad and the newest blogger for Apples and VCRs. She writes about culture (internet and otherwise) from San Francisco, CA.
Yes. Hipsters. I know, I know, why would anyone want to discuss this undying breed of smug, ironic, know-it-all, college-attending, cigarette-smoking, city-living, swallow tattoo-sporting, vinyl-listening, non-meat-eating, vintage-wearing humans? Nobody wants to talk about hipsters… because everybody is a hipster.
For all of you out there who are gasping and denying any relation whatsoever to being a hipster, do not fret; I understand your rapid repulse to this idea. I myself would never claim to be a hipster, despite the fact that I do retain some hipster-esque qualities (I am currently writing a blog post…). What I mean by this statement is that most people, particularly those in their 20′s who have access to an at least moderate urban lifestyle, have a little hipster in them (that’s what she said).
Hipsterdom, while remaining a clichéd subculture, has spread it’s little wings and flown straight into the mainstream. Without this mini-civilization of coolness, the rest of the population would be a far less educated place. It has brought us knowledge of many things, which include (but are not limited to) : Nylon, American Apparel, Buddy Holly glasses, Lookbook, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ray Ban Wayfarers, coffee, Animal Collective, namedropping, PBR, vintage jewelry, plaid, vintage cameras, The Mission, vintage clothing, veganism, vintage hats, vegetarianism, Williamsburg, organic food, Blackspot sneakers, and so on. Of course, many of these things and places were known of before the Hipster era began; however, their popularity has surely increased since.
I am not accusing everyone associated with some, or even all, of these things to be a hipster stereotype (such as those showcased in the video above). I am merely pointing out the fact that most web-browsing, blog-reading, cultured human beings possess interests that can definitely be categorized as hipsterish. Now my question is, why deny the hipster when we can embrace it?
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