July 30, 2004

Miracle Drug

Posted by nerdling | July 30, 2004 09:30 AM

Rivers Cuomo is busy doing everything he can to make sure I regret all the time I've spent over the years defending the first two Weezer albums and my teenaged obsession with them.

Check out the Winston-Salem Journal interview with Drive-By Truckers guitarist Mike "Stroker Ace" Cooley. {Via largehearted boy}

According to largehearted boy, the new Ted Leo album has leaked online. LimeWire, here I come!

Miscellany: AC Newman's song "Miracle Drug" is the catchiest song I've heard thus far this year. If you listen, you'll know what I mean.

Gallo + Lennon + The Brown Bunny. Nothing could get me less excited than the idea of those three things, separate or together.

"Director, writer and producer M. Night Shyamalan has, bafflingly, earned a reputation as a maker of supernatural thrillers for thinking folks, although he rarely seems to be thinking himself. (I do wonder why Shyamalan has any reputation left at all, after giving us that cheapy alien in 'Signs' -- a tall guy skulking around Mel Gibson's TV room in stretchy pajamas.)"

I was vaguely curious about the film but this review pretty much confirmed my suspicions.

If you opened a PayPal account between October 1999 and January 2004, you are eligible for a chunk of the 9+ million that PayPal is dishing out to settle a lawsuit out of court.

UK retailers have bannned the videogame Manhunt after a teen's murder. It's the game's fault! Pepole have no accountability for their actions! The kids aren't all right! They don't know what they're doing! They've been brainwashed!

I know—Judas Priest did it!

Are romance novels becoming legit? Or is it just the fact that they make loads and loads of cash that is reducing the amount of scoffing? {Via largehearted boy}

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