Me: I’m totally using this to teach passive voice in a few weeks http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/28rodovich.html
Friend: that’s awesome! I want to think of more; lyrics are easier than titles: “If my sweater should be desired to be destroyed by you.”
Me: Big butts are enjoyed by me, and lies cannot be told by me. This fact cannot be denied by other brothers.
Friend: rap, huh? true to my roots. “be stopped, be collaborated with, and I may be listened to (?)” OR “this can’t be touched”
Me: Before an ocean is created by this river / before my heart is thrown back on the floor by you…
Just got Every Time I Die’s New Junk Aesthetic on vinyl - limited edition pink vinyl, no less - and it sounds like a completely different recording. I realize it’s pretty pretentious to wax* poetic about how awesome records are, but honestly, I feel like somebody just picked enormous wads of cotton out of my ears and then threw ice water in my face. It’s like I’m emerging from Plato’s cave every time I listen to a record.
* See what I did there? Wax? Vinyl?
Finally got around to listening to the new Alkaline Trio single. After Agony & Irony (which I feel is an uncannily apt title), I was ready to give up and retreat back to 2000, but I’m not totally disgusted with this. The bassline, at least, sounds like a version of the Alkaline Trio I know and love, and that gives me hope. Considering a pre-order.
