Comments on: Rock Scribe Hype Jobs That Blow Goats

By: evski

evski — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:39:36 +0000

“Buttermilk biscuits, indeed. The muse of breakfast. The inspiration that causes jellies to drip and margarines to run. To where is anyone’s guess, for the options are limited to the eggs and the gullet, and yet you will not find them running there. The plate is the realm of the egg, who plays host to various sausages and bacons, Canadian or otherwise, and the vast array of potatoes that make their own sordid way to the breakfast table. But it is the egg that stays the course. The potato, in all its informality, can hope only for tangential companionship to the egg, but it is the meat with whom the egg slumbers. Such is the way of our sensual world. But the buttermilk biscuit, in its heady rise, can surpass the egg in stature, its sillouette streamlined against the pallette for inclusion in other meals, such as the venerable dinner. Possibly brunch, although brunch is generally regarded as the rich uncle of breakfast, and thus is primarily good for entertaining guests in the foyer and telling hilarious stories in a voice that is two notches too loud for the room. You will find the buttermilk biscuit there, in the foyer, laughing, but you will also find it, hours later, seated at the right hand of the filet mignon or the king crab. I suppose in the case of the latter, it would be seated at the right claw (and come to think of it, the filet has no hands at all). It is the subverter of breakfast convention, this biscuit. It is the mime at the window. It is the first-class upgrade on the long flight from LAX to Brisbane. It is the kind hand that massages the throat before giving the euphoric squeeze. It is karma baked up in 12 minutes. It is the wheel. And it spins at the speed of delicious.”

i didn’t write that, but i had to share, the whole food tangent and whatnot. anyhoo, MMJ put on one of the best shows i saw last year. it takes a lot to impress me live these days. why pay $10-15 to watch someone look bored while they plow through their own songs?

By: Oliver Hunt

Oliver Hunt — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:53:27 +0000

Foodâ€¦seriously, what a bunch of overrated, over-hyped hipster bullshit. Who wants some communion wafers?

I agree, but you try telling the kids that. Fuck, they eat anything, when they say it\’s all good they mean its all good.

I would like to take this moment to encourage the kids out there to try the alternatives. Namely, anorexia and bulimia. Your average hipster is just a bit too…um…pnuematic, maybe?

Come on kids, just stop eating.

By: Oliver Hunt

Oliver Hunt — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:28:16 +0000

â€¦ himself talking?

My tinnitus

By: M'ris

M'ris — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:32:30 +0000

i’ll agree with MMJ. i saw them open for guster (don’t even start with what i was doing at a guster show) and was so blown away by their mediocrity that i wandered away in search of the moon bounce. yes, there was a moon bounce.

By: exZAKtly

exZAKtly — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:03:12 +0000

Popcorn: seriously, how this complete joke of a “food” ever made it out of central america is beyond me. It tastes like Bea Arthur’s back shavings and smells worse than a bum who just shat his pants in a puddle of cat piss. Plus, those damn husks get stuck in your mouth…

Pizza: do you know what it’s like to run naked, backwards through a cornfield on a moonlit night? It’s exactly like eating a piece of stuffed-crust, pepperoni pizza from the local Pizza Hut, that’s what. The pepperoni looks like it just gave birth to a porcupine named pedro and shat out a cactus named copernicus. I ate a piece of pizza in kalamazoo, michigan once and I shat for days…

Baskin Robbins Ice Cream: fuckin great. Another delicious after-meal treat that thinks it’s going to make your entire fuckin’ day. as frozen yogurt’s older cousin, you’d think ice cream would do a little more than bind up my bowels for weeks at a time…NOPE, I haven’t BM’d since January. 31 flavors? Puh-leez. This ice cream place in my hometown called Pittsnoggle’s totally had like at least 34 flavors - but I didn’t like any of ‘em…

Food…seriously, what a bunch of overrated, over-hyped hipster bullshit. Who wants some communion wafers?

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:13:02 +0000

iâ€™d be curious to know what oliver actually LIKES to listen to, if anything.

… himself talking?

By: joiezabel

joiezabel — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:08:01 +0000

even though i like most of these bands, i must say that i found this article amusing, even if ridiculously full of officious, bag-of-hot-air, over-the-top statements of sheer buffoonery. i’d be curious to know what oliver actually LIKES to listen to, if anything.