Comments on: Already? No, Really… Already!?

By: Cory

Cory — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:45:07 +0000

Alright Jeff, before your snark machine goes into full effect, Hey Venus! was released in the states on January 22, 2008… the good ol’ U.S.A. Listen buddy, ’round here we tend to go by when things arrive in the greatest nation in the world. You might have heard of that place, “land of the free, home of the brave” ring a bell? Maybe you haven’t heard of it, what with all of those copies of People’s Weekly World crammed into your ears.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to listen to my copy of “The Angry American” for about six hours, while trying to wash that left-wing, commie, “we are one world” garbage out of my brain.

By: Aaron, Chiming In

Aaron, Chiming In — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:53:47 +0000

Yassir. As in Yes sir, not as in Arafat.

By: jeffffff

jeffffff — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:09:11 +0000

Two things: Hey Venus! came out last year, and Stephin Merritt released Showtunes just in 2006… so it hasn’t been THAT long since we’ve heard from him. It is a fine album, too!

Lastly, Aaron’s coined an awesome new term: “medical intention”. Like how “drug attics” need “medical intention”!

By: Aaron, Chiming In

Aaron, Chiming In — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:06:33 +0000

No need to verbally lop off anyone’s head. I am at peace with the fact that anyone who would attack R.E.M. is either a) in need of medical intention, at the very least psychiatric observation. or b) ass.

Cory, you define God R.EM. perfectly. You leave out “Supernatural Superserious” from your list of Accelerate highpoints.

Fart.

By: corygraham

corygraham — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:47:01 +0000

This is, indeed, Cory freakin’ Graham from Powell County! The internet is such a small world.

By: Matt Sparks

Matt Sparks — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:24:23 +0000

Is this Cory freakin’ Graham from Powell Co? Holly balls! I found your blog through my friend Zach Hightower’s blog. Small world.

By: corygraham

corygraham — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:26:25 +0000

I eagerly await the moment when Aaron chimes in, verbally lopping off your head for attacking R.E.M. I guess that’s the wonderful thing about them, when they’re good they’re so much better than everyone else that it makes you want to smash your record collection. When they’re bad, it makes sitting in coach on a transatlantic flight between two WWE wrestlers while your ears refuse to pop seem almost romantic by comparison.

By: Brinton

Brinton — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:18:59 +0000

I thought Kimya Dawson’s Loose Lips and Cat Power’s version of Sea of Love were far and away the standouts on the Juno soundtrack. I love soundtracks. One of the best musical days I ever had was picking up the Vanilla Sky and Royal Tennenbaum soundtracks on the same day at Hastings.

I’d take issue with your adoration of Accelerate, but I’ve been in that particular argument a time or two before. There’s just no talking to REM fans. Not saying it isn;t good by the way, it is.