Trust me, if I had the financial resources to refund you for that last CD, I would. In fact, I'd say "investment" is a pretty apt word. I'd pay you twice what it initially cost if I could get every last one of you to burn it (and by "burn it" I don't mean "make more copies"... I in fact mean the opposite).

Besides, technically LIME is not putting out a new CD. LIME is a shitty name for a shitty band that existed 6 years ago. I was friggin 16 when I started playing in that band. I didn't know "dick all" back then. It's an entirely new band putting out this new CD. Trust me.

that puck handling crease is ridiculous. puck handling is a skill that was developed by the best and most ingenuitive goalies to help their team relieve the pressure from the unbearably lame "dump and chase" offensive strategies. plus whenever goalie comes out of his net he takes a risk of allowing his net to be open. how many times have you seen a funny bounce off the boards lead to an open net goal?
two thumbs down for the puck handling crease.

Speaking of assholes Par, you need to give me a ride in your van sometime, I haven't said hello to your god in the book in a while.

and it's like, "fuck all y'all"

from the current issue of VICE

Yes, Alison. Heaven forbid I make a sarcastic comment. The world may end if ever I was not serious. It's a good thing I haven't been bugging Jere about that for weeks, or else I'd really feel like an asshole...

The AHL has extended the rule limiting goalie puckhandling for the remainder of the season. Shown below, the goalie cannot play the puck between the two diagonal lines behind the net. It's an interesting compromise, as compared the NHL's proposed rule against all puckhandling for goalies. I'm curious to see how the goalies take this in the future:

Dude is just chilling. He's unflappable. You could be like, "Humpty, what if nobody shows up to our party?" and he'd be all, "Don't worry about it doood."


Dude, 2,752 people died in those buildings and the best you can do is that a fictional character for little kids is depressed about it? Who else is bummed out, Barney the Dinosaur? Why don't you just have the leprechaun from Lucky Charms holding a dead fireman in his arms screaming, "NOOOOOOOOOO!"?

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NEW POSTAL SERVICE SINGLE!!!!
tracklisting:
01 We Will Become Silhouettes
02 Be Still My Heart
03 We Will Become Silhouettes (Matthew Dear remix)
04 Nothing Better (Styrofoam remix)

(from pitchfork)
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REVIEW OF A TALKING HEADS COVER BY THE ARCADE FIRE (from pitchfork)
The Arcade Fire: "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"
[Live in Boston, November 12th, 2004]
On their most recent tour, The Arcade Fire have taken to covering the Talking Heads' "This Must Be the Place". The good news is that the Montreal group's stilted rhythms and theatrical delivery are a near-perfect fit with Speaking in Tongues-era Talking Heads. The bad news is... they use steel drums. It begins with a boisterous drum machine and clockwork guitar arpeggio before those main offenders kick in with the melody, sounding like buskers at Epcot.
Regardless, the crowd is receptive to the song-- some people even can be heard singing along (I suspect the band are pretty cognizant of their audience' tastes). However, the band doesn't stray from the original; they just play it with different instrumentation. Maybe the melody is naive enough to imitate, but the original inverted the most mechanical instruments and beats into something powerfully emotive, and it hinged on Byrne's lyrics and delivery. The words were atypically sentimental for the Heads frontman, preaching a simple "home-is-where-the-heart-is" morale through imagery and understatement. So it irks me that when Byrne was at his most impassioned in the final verse, singing the "You'll love me 'till my heart stops/ Love me 'till I'm dead" bit, singer Win Butler has the nerve to bleat through those lines like a child. While that vocal affectation may work for the subject matter of AF originals, it robs this song of its impact, leaving not much more than Caribbean percussion and whining fiddles.

This has long been my favorite Talking Heads song, so maybe I'm being too harsh on a track that's simply a treat for those in attendance. The song is played competently, faithfully, and with spirit. But this is a high target to aim for; by the time they released Speaking in Tongues, Talking Heads played pop music with a level of subtlety that The Arcade Fire have yet to uncover-- transcendent live show or not. [Jason Crock; November 24th, 2004]

not seeking a refund on a poor performance, or bad CD is entirely antithetical to our system of meritocracy- i mean, that's like graciously tipping a waiter regardless how well his service was.

(it's just a point, i neither agree nor disagree with you)

dying in a dark alley would suck, unless i was a homelessexual (that's a love of bums of another kind)

lame-o Paras. what about supporting your friends? jeeze... searching for kickbacks...


If I could roll my eyes on here, I would.



I mean, really, you don't see people going up to Sloan (for instance) and saying "I didn't really like your first album, but your stuff on this most recent album really rocks, d'you think I could trade in the one I don't like for this new rockin' one?" or "hey, dude, the first concert I ever saw you at really blew, can I trade you that ticket for a ticket to your upcoming show?"

Bands evolve, it's what they do, and as their friends, we have to be there for them... and not seek refunds on the money we spent to help them out (to pay for the cost of printing cds) a couple of years ago. I mean, it's not like this was money I lent to them to buy lunch... that I'd want back. This was different.

I'd say just d/l it and save your money for the LIME/LDF albums coming out in a month or two. That would be a much wiser investment.