i missed superchunk on sunday. i had no choice. was i thinking about the setlist? all day long!

what a young, fresh face for the league!

and by 'young and fresh' i mean old and frankensteinish!

the countdown begins from today til thursday, possibly one of my favorite days of the year... draft day, son! fabolous is throwing a party with melo on thursday too. let's go!

will noah be a bust? yes. will the celtics get garnett? doubt it. will the knicks manage to mortgage even more of their future to bring mitch richmond out of retirement? probably.

i'm jealous of seattle or whoever gets durant. will the suns trade up? hoopshype is claiming they're dangling marion out there. danglers!

tomorrow superchunk is playing. i can't go. it hurts me.

DJ Drama's back! this looks like a ping pong game chart between two righties with terrible back-hands!

panda bear played otto bar in baltimore last night! what songs did he play?

interpol leaked 4 tracks from their record! did they know my fantasy NBA team was named 'hinrich maneuver'?

panda bear played on monday! i've been waiting months for it! did he live up to the [mile high] expectations?

the grey lady was there too! they reviewed it!

here's the low-fat version! it's 2007!

gang gang dance / ocrilim tour diaries on youtube. we miss you guys! come home soon!

and the real winner of the 2007 season is...

us! for having a player to call 'Boobie'! 'don't go there boobie!' 'run a play for boobie!' 'that ref is totally harshing on your boy boobie!'

did you guys see how not excited the spurs were to win? i looked more excited on line for pizza!

drew gooden has epic hair scenarios.

honestly, who watched all 4 games?

will the knicks trade up in the draft?

other clasic sports names are: coco crisp, shooty babbit, mookie blaylock, milton bradley, choo freeman, and michael jackson.

the prof. has been talking about vampire weekend a lot. we saw them! it's the end to the means... preppie angst!

voxtrot played webster hall last night. who was there for au revoir simone? were they good?

new LP's from Feist and Dizzee Rascal! it's a ping pong table chart!

akon's "sorry, blame it on me"! haha! now does he have write a song called 'sorry that i chucked you at KFEST"?

lil wayne's 'the carter 3' has been partially leaked! is it me or is he 'losing' it a little? listen to it and tell me he's he's not...

shoot it boobie, shoot it!

the NBA 2007 is dead to me. just give the trophy to manu again and hope that tony parker has practiced his rapping in the last month. MC solarr called...

what about arenas? i hate this 'he'll never be on a winning team' stigma. dude hits insane shots. sure, he's crazy but if you ask me all these guys are a little crazy. imagine being the tallest person in the room your whole life and training and training and having a dude in the stands with a hot dog hanging out of his mouth tell you that you're 'worthless'.

hope arenas goes to a winner. the knicks can't afford him, but that would be my F.A.N.T.A.S.Y.

it's official! the top two records of the year. they are that great! full 'jam' review when the time comes. believe the buzz.. it's AMAZING

the new york times was at summer jam! the line-up looked sick! and it rained harder than any day i could remember in recent memory...

as usual, a remix!

r kelly's 'double up' album properly reviewed...

the animal collective attendance numbers from the south street seaport show are in!

the smashing pumpkins are back! they have so many jams!

i can't get enough of this song!

animal collective is playing at the south st seaport tonight! only the best band ever in my mind, nbd. this graph is a waterscape. get it? get it?

when i was 22 i was waiting in line for foo fighters tickets.

this guy is scoring a gazzillion points in a row in the NBA playoffs. carmelo anthony is turning over in his grave!

all of the sudden a cavs/spurs finals seems interesting to me. i want lebron to school bruce bowen. i want lebron to school robert horry. not that i hate the spurs that much, but that team could use some personality.

btw that foo fighters show was great. it was at the bowery ballroom during CMJ right after 'the colour and the shape' came out and they played 'monkey wrench' first. the knicks were also only a year or two removed from the NBA finals. shit's done changed!

the grey lady reviewed the new r kelly album!

REDUX!

the joy division movie trailer. looks terrible!

ladyhawk played the mercury lounge with children [ex-s.t.r.e.e.t.s. + adam from earlyman] 2 days after the fillmore show!

voxtrot put out their self-titled LP today!

outside the jesus and mary chain scalpers were saying "mary jane tickets face value. hot."

have i told you how much i love dr. dog today? they killed on letterman last night! i love you guys!

your boy roy

so the two best college players are banished to NBA siberia. will the right hand side of the USA, with the two journalistic capitals in the country, stay up til 11PM to watch these kids play? hm... at least the bulls didn't get a shot at oden or durant. it was shocking to see memphis and boston miss out on the top 2 but they have enough talent on both those teams. get a jerry stackhouse on those teams and they'll be fine.

did you see how sad 'nigue looked?

fuck these playoffs they're so boring. i hate david stern for not instituting a hard salary cap and suspending those suns players. the NBA in 2007 is a mess. you stole the NBA from us dude! we want it back!


brandon you better take a nap cause this dude's gonna be blowing up your pager!

what's the worst part about rollerblading?

ladyhawk opened for tapes n tapes last night! see ladyhawk at mercury lounge this sunday.... trust me on this one!

gang gang dance talks about retina riddim on vbs.tv... it's gonna be a sick DVD!

never not laughing! CURTISSS

open query to curtis: what rhymes with 'gap-boxers', 'tube socks', and kiddy-pool?

open letter to cameron: thank you so much for bringing back the word 'dickhead'

the new york times reviewed the arctic monkeys show on tuesday [and also kinda reviewed the record at the same time]. reading is for dorks. lookit.

consolidated!

i listened to andy rourke from the smiths DJ the other week at piano's. after he gave a 'talk' where he played the 'this charming man' bassline. uh...

fear the weird

this jazz - warriors series is entertaining, but jesus it's so clear that the jazz are the better team. love the warriors' heart but when they go cold from outside it looks bleak. who has the better mohawk? AK or barnes. and how did the knicks start this guy and drop him in the same week? who are the knicks? new york has a basketball team?

the suns or the spurs will pound whoever comes out of this series.

UPDATE: the warriors fell apart. was anyone surprised? a nice run by a scrappy team. it's hard to pull for the jazz with the mormon thing and all, but i'm pulling for them next round. you gotta love a player who cried after a game that he got benched in.

YACHT put out a record. he's one half of the blow. the title of this LP is awesome!

animal collective goes on tour today! wish them luck! here're some new songs that are already old that they won't play anymore.

'peace bone'


'reverend green'


'peace bone' into 'we tigers'


'chores'

toosh report! the new york times also reviewed the new bone thugs record! [it was a small review]

the new york times review of the ben gibbard show! REDUX!

DAR!

ok so the jazz vs. warriors game last night was entertaining, but it was like watching a game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. up by 5 with a minute to go? hm the warriors can't shoot free throws right? whoops! concentrate.... DAMN. wait! one more... FUCK!

i also hate derek fisher a little but dude hits big shots, what can i say.

is it me? [it probably is.]

or are the playoffs/NBA super boring these days? remember ewing vs zo? barkley vs jordan? ok ok so i won't fall into the nostalgia trap... but kirk hinrich vs billups? i guess amare vs duncan is kinda sweet. i really wanted the mavs vs the suns but whatever.

so what is it? has the talent of the league bottomed out? are the high school players diluting the pool?

or maybe the NBA is better than ever and i'm just bored. that golden state series was kinda sweet it's true, but whomever comes out of the jazz vs the warriors series will be crushed my phoenix or san antonio. then either of those teams will crush anyone in the east.

this phoenix vs san antonio series will we the best one in the playoffs... sucks

ugh san antonio vs detroit in the finals? fucking snoozefest!

cass mccombs live. he played two songs before i left. i was so tired. "so damn pure" was one of them.

i missed little mikey bones open but i heard he was awesome!

so i saw the childballads at black betty. it's stuart from jonathon fire*eater's new band.

i actually stopped blogging for a while cause it bummed me out so much. i won't go into details.

ben gibbard from death cab for cutie played acoustic last night!

as far as i can remember:
recycled air
we will become silhouttes
brand new colony [donovan cover mash-up]
such great heights [last song]
neil young [harvest moon]
nirvana [all apologies]
photobooth
title and registration
the sound of settling
passenger seat
you remind me of home[!]
why you'd want to live here [the LA dis track]
i will follow you into the dark [1st encore... SICK]

some new jammers too. but no 'different names for the same thing' or 'transatlantacism'

man! ricky lost a lot of weight!

can baron and the dudes do it? i kinda hope they don't, cause i want the semi-finals to be somewhat watchable. but i can't help but root for such well-groomed facial hair.

pros: biedrins' haircut. matt barnes' tribal set-ups. monta ellis' name!
cons: i hate stephen jackson something fierce, but not because of his gansterizations, but more for his premature celebratory posturings. a two foot jumper!? great dude! that's your fucking job!

RICK ROOOSSSSS!