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    Here's an awful performance, but hey, I think the impromptu song at the end about the mic not working when it obviously does might be some of their best work. I wouldn't go back to the late '90s if you paid me. (Full disclosure: I was there and it was one of the worst weekends of my life.)

     

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    Actually, my least favorite trend with sports uniforms is how teams moved away from visually appealing colors towards darker combinations for a "tougher" appearance. I used to like the Broncos' uniforms when they were a simple orange and blue, but I think that blood-orange lightning bolt with the midnight blue outfit is pretty awful. Same with Golden State: they had a royal blue and gold combo that was very classic looking, then ditched it--like Denver--for midnight blue/blood orange. What's with that?

     

     

     

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    I don't care if I am the biggest nerd on the block; I'm stoked for the Presidents of the United States of America's fifth full-length: These are the Good Times People.

     

    Sign me up for that one too!

     

    Fair warning though: I don't know what to expect, since Dederer, the original guitarist, was for all intents and purposes replaced by the touring guitarist, who was promoted to a full-fledged member. Luckily, the frontman, Ballew, was always the principal songwriter, but lineup shifts usually spell disaster for groups I previously enjoyed.

     

    Bump just to note that it's release day for this particular album. You can hear the single, "Mixed-Up SOB" on www.presidentsrock.com (along with other new tracks "Deleter," "Truckstop Butterfly" and "Ghosts are Everywhere" - and none of which I've listened to). The single is, disappointingly, pop-punk (although Ballew for some reason calls it "Cars-y"). Though I remember the lead single for Love Everybody, "Some Postman," was annoyingly radio ready, the rest of the album was solid.

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    I liked it, but in all honesty I felt like it was market tested to the hipster crowd. For instance,

    she spends the entire movie talking about how she loves the early days of punk, yet she's playing one of those indie-rock-cum-classroom-sing-along-ditties that hipsters love in the last scene that I didn't think a punk devotee would be into, but maybe I'm wrong about that.

     

     

    I agree with a lot of the criticisms people have for this but this one is just stupid. People can't love more than one kind of music?

     

    Well, I was using that example more to illustrate how hipster-focus tested parts of the movie felt, and that the same forces that homogenize high-profile releases into bland, inoffensive diversions aiming for mass appeal have found a formula that works for the audience of "indie flicks." Though I'm probably reading too far into how disingenuous it was/wasn't. At least I hope I am.

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    I liked it, but in all honesty I felt like it was market tested to the hipster crowd. For instance,

    she spends the entire movie talking about how she loves the early days of punk, yet she's playing one of those indie-rock-cum-classroom-sing-along-ditties that hipsters love in the last scene that I didn't think a punk devotee would be into, but maybe I'm wrong about that.

    Or substituting quirks for character development, like constantly eating Tic-Tacs and wearing running shorts, a Nietzsche fan taking a vow of silence ("Little Miss Sunshine"), or drinking beer in your tighty-whities while admiring yourself in the mirror ("Squid and the Whale").

     

    Also, perhaps times have changed way beyond me, but I found the dad's lack of anger to the news a bit unrealistic.

     

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    I actually missed the riots because I left Sunday morning with the most horrendous sunburn I ever had to this day. There was a lot of chatter after the event that this is what happens when you give a Woodstock to "a generation that didn't deserve one," but I honestly feel the riots (though not the person-on-person violence or the sexual assaults) were warranted. When you stick people in third-world conditions (no sun cover virtually anywhere during a cloudless heat wave; no emptying of the overflowing porta-potties for FOUR DAYS), then charge $8.00 for a 20oz. bottle of soda (not hyperbole), you kind of have to expect the result.

     

    Another time, I also witnessed a lackluster RHCP show. Foo Fighers opened and blew them away. And this was "...Nothing Left to Lose" Fighters and "Californication" Peppers, where the former was on the decline and the latter was supposed to be "better than ever." That made it more surprising.

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    I think Washington is really into Fassel, for reasons I can't comprehend.

     

    As for the Super Bowl, the Onion's Sports Page is weighing in:

     

    "Patriots' Season Perfect for Rest of Nation"

     

    http://www.theonion.com/content/news/patri...erfect_for_rest

     

    "The worst part for me is that none of them seem to enjoy playing football," said Lexington, KY-area mechanic Jack Colgrave. "Even when they were winning, all they did was taunt—Randy Moss taunting crowds, Wes Welker telling people they sucked, Brady sneering at the very idea they might get beat someday. What a bunch of absolutely perfect assholes."

     

    "Did their team plane land safely back in Foxborough?" Colgrave asked. "It didn't happen to lose altitude over Boston, burst into a cartwheel of flames, throwing players like Roman candles across New England, and then slam into few dozen loudmouth Patriots' fans houses? It didn't? Well, I guess no football season is perfect."

     

     

     

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