The Third Time Is Teh Charm

alright back this week, yes i know last week was interesting with teh snow and of late we have both been exceedingly busy with hectic class schedules as both of us (me and tim) are preparing for our final year here at KU and its an exciting and scary time to realize that not only are we leaving next year but some people we know are leaving this year which is scary shit since they will all be in teh real world

anyway on to the show...

hour 1
1. Circa Survive: Get Out (NEW MUSIC!)
2. Minus the Bear: Get Me Naked 2: Electric Boogaloo
3. Phoenix: 1901 (Live and Unplugged)
4. Coheed and Cambria: The Broken (NEW MUSIC)
5. She and Him: In the Sun (NEW MUSIC)
6. Phantogram: Mouthful of Diamonds
7. Elliott Smith: Baby Britain
8. The Pistolas: Take it With a Kiss
9. Maps and Atlases: Witch
10. Belle and Sebastian: The Blues are Still Blue
11. Phantom Planet: Always on My Mind

hour 2
1. The Flaming Lips: Crazy (semi-Gnarles Barkley cover)
2. Laura Veirs: Magnetized
3. Say Hi To Your Mom: Recurring Motifs in Historic Flirting
4. The Zutons: Don't Ever Think
5. The Magnetic Fields: I Wish I Had An Evil Twin
6. Bat For Lashes: Prescilla
7. LCD Soundsystem: On Repeat (8 FUCKING MINUTES OF GLORY!!!)
8. Mirah: The Garden
9. Minus the Bear: Houston We Have Uh Oh
10. Broken Bells: The High Road
11. Department of Eagles: Forty Dollar Rug
12. Jets To Brazil: Cat Heaven

there was no show this week...

well we got like almost 3 feet of snow so making it to the station seems impossible so i apologize for letting y'all down

Super Bowl's Super Thoughts

every year we find a way to top our show, presentation whatever you want to call the super bowl. and guess what? we always do.

this is what pisses me off about this event. i understand that it's a once in a year thing, its a big thing, football is huge, i understand that and i respect that. but what we go through just for a game is retarded. if you pardon my inappropriate vernacular i'll get to my point.

several years ago we had a controversy during halftime, i dubbed it the nip slip, i'm sure everyone else did as well. due to that the super bowl's half time act has gotten more and more expensive (at least it seems) going from petty to the stones to mccartney to the who.

it's funny, they want to go with non-controversial acts, acts that won't cause these problems that janet and j-timblerlake caused. but when i saw the who up there not even playing a full song (just a medley) it seemed like a joke. like they paraded around these rock and roll hall of famers just for viewers, more numbers. hey let's have them play the more well known part of their songs! its disrespectful and a shame to the band.

not to mention that the band sucked, yeah i said it, the who sucked. why did the who suck? they are old, they look horrible, they sounded terrible. why did we have to drag the last two living members of this band humiliate themselves on national tv with everyone watching

oh and this also gets on my nerves. every year the commercials that they ari are more and more expensive, it becomes a game where you want to see how much you can spend to advertise a product. you got a commercial with megan fox on it advertising a phone, now you have everyone buying that phone bc megan fox was sitting a bath tub nude.

its amazing how we can still spend so much money in this economy. im not pinning any blame on either the president or previous ones, it's just real dumb to see what happens when we just throw money out the window. that money, well it could be used to help the economy get better. doritos why are you spending 30 million (throwing a random number out there) for X amount of spots, that money could be used for something other than that.

anyway, hopefully the rest of the game comes back and makes up for the shit that we have to deal with

Media Journal Thingy Ma Bober

Last Thursday I logged the activities I partook in that involved consuming the media or what I considered to be the consumption of media. Most of my media intake comes in via my computer which is pretty much connected to the world so to speak via the internet.

In the morning I wake up and have music going since I listen to it while I sleep to help clear my head from a busy day. That morning I happened to have been awoken to Elliott Smith’s “Needle in the Hay” and I felt that was a bad way to actually start the day as it’s such a somber song and quite depressing. Upon reaching my computer I would switch the music to Minus the Bear to pump myself up as well as wake myself up.

While I was doing that I opened up Mozilla Firefox and checked my most visited forums to see what was new on the web on this lovely snow threatened world today. After viewing those forums I checked several news sites including BBC and CNN to get a decent intake of the days news.

After sitting through a long class about news writing I went up to the Bear’s Den to watch a live performance by my friend as she ended up playing for forty minutes during the eleven o’clock free hour. It was relaxing as acoustical tracks happen to do that no matter what, well usually they do.

Between the end of the performance and my next class I went back to the computer down in the KUR station and checked on the forums and news sites again to see if there was any new updates in anything. I noticed that there were more stories on Haiti still and that kind of bothered me, I have nothing against the people or what happened but there isn’t anything else we can do to fix things is there? We can’t go back in time and prevent it so why are we still talking about it?

After my last class was over I went back to my room and popped in a movie on my computer. I watched the latest George Clooney film, “Up In The Air” as it was close to the awards season and I wanted to watch a film. It made me feel a little depressed since the film had that notion about it yet at the end it felt uplifting as it didn’t end up giving that happy ending per say that you expect from films.

After the film my friends and I hopped in the car and left for Allentown and the show we were going to. I had no control over the radio at all so we were left with Owl City and Lady GaGa being played through the cd player. This was not a fun trip by any means as these two musicians infuriate my and make me want to punch things that don’t need punching.

Before the show started at the venue there was a projector playing for some ungodly reason the best of Will Ferrell Saturday night live dvd. I was confused because I wasn’t sure whether or not to laugh at this or not as most people think this man is hilarious, I really am not sure.

For the next four hours the concert was on, 3 acts, and it was a thrilling experience. I was excited, pumped, then angry as the breaks between acts got longer and longer. But once the main act came out it was this huge relief coming over me and I just ended up losing myself in the moment.

The rest of the evening found me listening to music, even though the ride back consisted of the same things as the ride to except I was like half asleep when we were going back anyway. When I got back to my room around one in the morning I listened to more of my music on shuffle and eventually fell back into sleep where I would wake up wondering what the hell am I listening to.

yet another installment

another long week here and heres our second show

there was more coco talk, just to wrap up the whole thing, hoping he'll end up back on the tube in several months.

mass effect was a great game so the sequel dropped and i had to play it, 20 hours later i have accomplished what i thought i wouldn't, finishing the game, we talked about why jacob sucks shit and stuff maybe i'll write a full review

spider man 4 is no more which is ok by me but spider man 1 is being redone which kinda makes me sad but it gives us a chance to redo the retconning of uncle ben's death. marc webb (500 days of summer) will be directing, no news on casting

a talk about bioshock 2 was introduced bc of how epic the first one was and im not sure how it will turn out but tim gave me hope that it will be one of teh top games of 2010
hour 1

1. The Smiths: This Charming Man
2. The Kooks: Sofa Song
3. Belle and Sebastian: Lazy Painter Jane
4. DanananananAkroyd: No Wage
5. The Dodos: Undeclared
6. The Presidents of the United States of America: Vestina
7. The Shins: Sleeping Lessons
8. The Good Life: Two Years This Month
9. Frightened Rabbit: Good Arms Vs Bad Arms
10. The Strokes: Automatic Stop
11. Minus the Bear: Hey! Is That A Ninja Up There?


hour 2
1. Commander Venus: Showcase Showdown
2. The Dandy Warhols: Welcome to the Third World
3. The Pixies: Where Is My Mind??
4. The Starlight Mints: Pages
5. Death Cab For Cutie: The Ice Is Getting Thinner
6. The Dust Brothers featuring Tyler Durden: This is Your Life
7. Mirah: Shells
8. Good Shoes: Our Loving Mother In A Pink Diamond
9. Minus The Bear: Broken China
10. The Futureheads: Think Tonight
11. The Sunshine Fix: Digging to China