Posted on April 27th, 2009 by Dan Luke
I have listned to “Shut Your Eyes” by Snow Patrol about four times today. The thing is: that deep within the fiber of my being I understand that Snow Patrol suck and that the only reason they got famous was, well (and lets be frank), Grey’s Anatomy.
But I heard “Shut Your Eyes” on the radio and I loved it. The spaced out layering of the instruments, the incessant “fuck you” to the Verse Chorus Verse song structure (you know you want it to get epic when the song gets to the handclaps and they’re singing “shut your eyes and sing to me.” 90’s radio trained you to be that way), the moodiness, it moved me. It’s a really good, solid song.
Which makes Snow Patrol a bunch of dicks.
Why do bands do this? Do they have an agenda? Do they sit down and say:
“Hey guys, we know we suck. We’re the scourge of the earth, but lets write one really, really good song that spreads like some sort of bubonic plague and then those poor hearted souls that really, really love the song will slog through the rest of our shit in the hopes of feeling their spirits soar that much again.”
“But we’ll just suck.”
What a bunch of dicks. But alas, here I will listen to “Shut Your Eyes” for the fifth time today.
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Posted on March 29th, 2009 by Dan Luke
Posted on March 21st, 2009 by Dan Luke
This summer I worked at the Judge Mathis show. I was the intern in charge of doing the really EXTREME stuff… like shredding, light laundry, picking up fast food for the staff, tying little bits of string to baggage tags, lifting huge quantities of pretzels, taking the guests to smoke, typing reports, AND POLE VAULTING OFF OF MOTHER FUCKING BUILDINGS.
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Posted on March 19th, 2009 by Dan Luke
Sometimes I like to Wikipedia the term “Wikipedia” and ponder the paradox that I have fallen into.
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Posted on March 18th, 2009 by Dan Luke
FROM: VINCENT DEE
March 14 at 1:13pm
Hey man I’m the music host for The A List TV an online show brought to you by Fishbowl Media Productions. Recently I got promoted to Production Coordinator for both The A List TV and Fishbowl Media. I’m in charge of setting up shows and getting a creative team started for both A List and Fishbowl. We’ve got a Wild Card segment, basically a guy that will be doing strange segments(e.g getting a tattoo and fighting a female mma fighter) you seem like a character so I thought a funny segment would be both of you spending a whole day together suited up. You two will be doing fun activities like going to navy pier, trying to pick up girls, going to concert, picking up some grub, going to a night club or party, all suited up. Basically he’ll be living your life but you’ll have a wing man.
You heard it here first. Wearing a suit all month got me a job on a website and an online webshow about wearing a suit.
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