tallulah your make up needs a shake up

* * 1/2 *

2006-01-28T08:21:43Z

this was like woah! to a young young me.

What does a defiantly anti-corporate rock band do when it starts getting too much attention? In Pavement's case, they recoil. After a few ambitiously experimental though eminently tuneful releases – two singles and a 10-inch – for the tiny Drag City label, Pavement produced something of a masterpiece with their Velvet Underground-inspired first album, Slanted and Enchanted (1992). The Stockton, Calif., combo confirmed its buzz-band status on last year's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, this time stretching out a bit, with nods to the Flying Burrito Brothers and an "alternative" hit in "Cut Your Hair." Wowee Zowee finds the group returning to its more doggedly experimental impulses – with disappointing results.

Wowee betrays Pavement's best and worst tendencies. The band's refusal to play up to expectations keeps the stronger melodic ideas sounding fresh but leaves the album as a whole feeling scattered and sloppy. Having earlier proved that they can construct solid riffs, hooks and melodies, bandleaders Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg have here turned in a handful of half-baked performances.

Beginning with the stylistically vague "We Dance" – a song that either mocks early British art folk or shamelessly imitates it (I doubt even Pavement know for sure) – the album jerks mindlessly back and forth from odd, mellow song fragments to noisy, messy barnburners. Good, complete songs – including "Rattled by the Rush," "Grounded" and the Nirvana-like "Kennel District" – become diluted in the soup of tossed-off throwaways: "Brinks Job," with its whiny-falsetto vocals and a gratuitously noisy conclusion; "Serpentine Pad," a fleeting slambang tune that comes off like a second-rate Sonic Youth attempting hardcore, and "Best Friends Arm," which sounds like an unfinished rehearsal.

The most irksome thing about Wowee is that even the worst songs contain elements that reaffirm Pavement's underground star status: artful use of distortion and feedback, tangled guitar interplay with sizzle and groove, delicious melodies. And wonderful new additions to Pavement's instrumental palette, such as the milky pedal steel in "Father to a Sister of the Thought," get lost in the clutter of empty experimentation.

Maybe this album is a radical message to the corporate-rock ogre – or maybe Pavement are simply afraid to succeed. (RS 706)

seriously. a 13 (or 14, can't recall now... it was 95) year old me read this. and saw all of it as a "woah, buy this ASAP thing" . . .

dinner!!! (vegan friendly) OR i am always asking for something...

2006-01-27T00:25:23Z

so. i cooked a lot on tuesday. baked lemon basil tofu. it is good. i made some broccoli rabe to go with it. i love broccoli rabe. i made an awesome dinner with my left over broccoli rabe. the baked lemon basil tofu is for lunch, at work, with carrots!

saute in olive oil:
two cloves of garlic
one tomato
all of your broccoli rabe
those small white bean jawns!
lots and lotsa cayenne
red pepper flakes.

then
make some whole wheat rigatoni

put them together.....

since my broccoli rabe was all left over like, i also sauteed another clove of garlic with another tomato with a lot more cayenne. perhaps you could add that. it is good. with a salad. also, i imagine it is going to make a nice cold/left over-y work day lunch.

yall have any other recipes?
simple veg and spicy, please?

some jazz yousendit links (only good for seven or so days)

2005-12-09T02:51:17Z

this is a fun idea herbz.

2005-11-18T05:38:18Z

1. Pick ten of your favorite movies and choose one still from each movie.
2. Post those stills in your journal.
3. Have your friends guess which movie goes along with each screen still

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

SEVEN

EIGHT

NINE

TEN

i look forward to seeing this
(the images together).
but not broken images. i don't like those.

for H. :

2005-10-17T01:52:24Z

Good Luck!,

love, Matt

this heat

2005-09-20T12:35:31Z

i am ready for cool weather.

PUT ANOTHER ONE IN THE WIN COLUMN FOR THE FIGHTING PHILS (not tonight)

2005-09-05T05:21:59Z

guest/him = t.j.

him: seriously i just broke my cell phone...

me: really?

(time passes)

him: no. it still works.

(time passes)

(noise from phone)

him: it still works.

attn: everyone

2005-08-24T04:04:25Z

order paintings from
www.stevekeene.com

now 1133 has its color!

1 2 I CAN'T HEAR MYSELF

2005-07-16T04:46:52Z

four or so more hours.
a day. or so. or so.

SMOG, rivers! love!, yeah.

30 mins of JUMPROPE a day from here on out. or so i say. yeah yeah yep.

2005-06-20T03:58:48Z

so. 24. eh? weds. you say, huh? i am busy birthday. i'll work you in?
i want: not another thunderstrom.
and MORE new shoes.
and moving back to illadelph (don't get me wrong LV. i love it here. but
it ain't home. but i do love you LV. i do. i ain't tired of la commute per se. but yeah."you feel me yet?!")
and and and
my beard back.
please.
now:
back to sleep trying/nba finals w/IPOD.

what up in yall jawns?

mttcttr @ 2005-05-11T00:03:00

2005-05-11T04:04:37Z

we'll fuck you up!

mttcttr @ 2005-04-14T23:58:00

2005-04-15T03:59:42Z

mttcttr @ 2005-04-12T01:24:00

2005-04-12T04:49:45Z

Asra Nomani told a beautiful story about parrots and Daniel Pearl on the Marty M-C show on NPR Radio today. i am glad i was stuck in traffic.

It was not about this parrot.

u don't know me / u don't know what i am going through

2005-04-03T07:49:32Z

" i still never told you about unstoppable sorrow "

" you gone make me bring a chevy to a real slow creep "

herbalerb: hit me up about 2nite if you going to Zs. only plans now = thai food and reading

2005-03-11T17:22:12Z

came home for lunch break.
because i am european.
and i heard loud flapping.
and persistent banging.
it was a bird.
on the second floor.
flying in to the window.
i checked my email.
got a glass of water.
got the mop.
and used the mop to open the window.

the bird flew out.

"Sick of sitting round here trying to write this book"

2005-03-09T04:22:02Z

'Governors on Sominex' by David Berman

It had been four days of no weather
as if nature had conceded its genius to the indoors.

They'd closed down the Bureau of Sad Endings
and my wife sat on the couch and read the paper out loud.

The evening edition carried the magic death of a child
backlit by a construction site sunrise on its front page.

I kept my back to her and fingered the items on the mantle

Souvenirs only reminded you of buying them

* * *

The moon hung solid over the boarded-up Hobby Shop.

P.K. was in the precinct house, using his one phone call
to dedicate a song to Tammy, for she was the light
by which he traveled into this and that.

And out in the city, out in the wide readership,
his younger brother was kicking an ice bucket
in the woods behind the Marriott,

his younger brother who was missing the part of the brain
that allows you to make out with your pillow.

Poor kid.

It was the light in things that made them last.

mttcttr @ 2005-02-16T22:46:00

2005-02-17T03:48:23Z

remember that post i made:

school = done OR sometimes I can't find my good habits
[15 May 2004|10:04am]

when i was all like "can somebody help me find a copy of 'City of Daughters' by DESTROYER"????

well. yeah. i doubt you do.

but. yeah. today i finally got a copy of ''City of Daughters' by DESTROYER!

wonderful.

a good day.
a fast week.

mttcttr @ 2005-01-29T08:19:00

2005-01-29T13:26:42Z

So long Sammy? You will lover the Harbor. And I will love you being gone. That is if you really are going to Baltimore..

It is not polite to point Mr. Sosa.

i think his wordrobe included whale pants and duck boots

2005-01-12T04:49:58Z

mttcttr @ 2005-01-05T08:28:00

2005-01-05T14:01:24Z

psychic pain

2004-12-18T08:08:35Z

top TEN RECORDS OF 2004 and MORE!
00. http://www.all-baseball.com/cubreporter/
01. destroyer - your blues
02. little wings - magic wand
03. the complete strategist - we care
04. the magnetic fields - i
05. devendra banhart - rejoicing in the hands & nino rojo
06. ted leo - shake the sheets
07. animal collective - sung tongs
08. the skygreen leopards - one thousand bird ceremony
09. the hold steady - almost killed me
10. guided by voices - half smiles of the decomposed
11. elliott smith - from a basement on the hill
12s. lots mores records.

top 5 REISSUES
01. duke ellington - blues in orbit
02. pavement - crooked rain, crooked rain LA DESERT ORIGINS
03. ceciel taylor - conquistador!
04. larry young - of love and peace
05. swell maps - trip to marineville

are you foreal or just foreactionary?

2004-11-04T13:00:04Z

Douglas Wolk says what I have been feeling:
"Enough of this "get me a ticket on an aeroplane"/"Canada here I come" crap I've been hearing from a whole lot of otherwise smart people for the last 12 hours or so. Alternately, you know, you could stay right here, fight for the people who are going to get screwed over for at least the next four years and don't have the option of running away, and maybe even get your crybaby asses involved with local or state politics. Run for the House, run for the Senate, aim to be a state or federal judge, make a difference, instead of waiting for somebody else to make it for you. I mean, half the people I know who've been saying "mmm, how long does it take to get citizenship in Barbados?" have Ivy League degrees. Might as well do something useful with that privilege, you know?"

a useful link from http://www.sashafrerejones.com from Harpers about leaving the country

herbie is right.

2004-11-01T13:03:58Z

WhazzzzzzzzzzzzzzUP!!

Now I am going to put a T-Shirt on and go to work. For real.

click click click.

2004-09-30T04:31:51Z

- the cubs have been extremely frustrating. they cannot lose these games. at this point in time i feel that they do not deserve to have a post season. last halloween i had my steve bartman costume. i told michael that i would go as whatever ruins the cubs post season again this year. i jokingly was all like "looks like i will be The Giants". for real. more like sammy, or LaTroy Hawkins or whatever. extremely frustrating.

- all sorts of 'work stories'. probably not appropriate for this thing. so they will not go here. the short of it: i enjoy going to work most mornings. it is often funny, usually challenging. things will really be picking up soon as my 'case load' continues to increase.

- about 1 and 9/17th listens of SMiLE. so far so good. brian wilson's voice is much stronger than i thought it would be. that was my biggest concern. yeah i know it probably was/is everyone elses. bu yeah it sounds great. will take awhile to get and all. will be worth the time.

- BBC NEWS Photo Journal: Darfur Refugee

- this friday Free Jazz Duo at the SLOUGHT = Assif Tsahar, saxophones/clarinets & Tatsuya Nakatani, percussion

-one of many reason to love S/FJ.

-and the show in the LV on Saturday!

mttcttr @ 2004-08-29T17:27:00

2004-08-29T21:29:01Z