I'd say under it's camp, 9 to 5 the film is pretty timeless. I rewatched recently and was amazed that the workplace changes the women put in place are the ones people are still asking for today: flexible schedules, affordable daycare, equal pay. The film is almost 40 years old and we're still debating these things.
Yeah discovering this a few months after it came out was amazing. It just felt so different from other stuff. Raw but with a lot of depth. "How does this concept work so well?" was something I asked myself a lot.
About 7 or 8 years ago, a very lonely neverabadidea went to see Titus alone the Sunday after Thanksgiving. My friend bailed (didn't even text me until two days after). I had broken up with my boyfriend a few months before. I didn't know many people. Doing things alone can be anxiety-inducing. So I decided to get outrageously drunk beforehand. The bar next to the venue was very obliging, some asshole bought me a shot of fireball before proceeding to bash Titus and get all condescending (was he negging me? I'll never know).
I walked into the merch room as the opener was playing and there was Patrick at the table. I wanted a copy of the Monitor on vinyl. The Civil War had been up on Netflix and I spent my Thanksgiving binging it. Hammered neverabadidea thought she was being really intellectual as I slurred about all the cool things Patrick had incorporated into the album. They were out of Monitor vinyls, I was sad. I bought a 7" and had the merch guy hold it for me.
Thankfully the show was amazing and I ended up moshing my troubles away. After the show I found Patrick again. I 100% cut a lot of people who were getting autographs. I just walked up and Patrick was like "Hey, neveranadidea, how's it going?" and signed my 7". I have no idea how ridiculous I looked that night, but Patrick was really cool.
I also got asked out by a random concert-goer who ended up being really into Swedish Metal. I went out with him not remembering what he looked like. It was a weird date.
There is no moral to this story, just that the Monitor is rad and I have some weird but great memories tied to it.
Yeah, I saw him with Desaparecidos a few years ago and it was great. I definitely, though, point to that Bright Eyes show as the beginning of the end for my love of Conor Oberst. Sometimes a crap live show can just ruin a band for you.
I agree! Saw Conor with M. Ward and Jim James years ago (I think this was their first tour together). Conor drank a bottle of Jack and fell off the stage at one point. It just wasn't good at all. I think he's sobered up a bit, so hopefully he can actually play a full show now.
Their annual holiday show in Andover, MA at the old town hall was always a highlight of my high school years. Saw them at Riot Fest last year and they're still as fun as ever.
And a random memory: there's an Austrian bar in London near Notting Hill that stays open until 1am (most pubs close at 11). When I studied abroad my friends and I would go there. The staff wears lederhosen and they serve fondue. There is karaoke backed up by a guy on a piano that only knew like 3 songs. One of them was "Dancing Queen." If you were new to the bar the locals made you do karaoke. Damn, was it fun belting out "Dancing Queen" with some guy in lederhosen backing you up on a keyboard as the whole bar sang along.
According to my personal "Top 20 Sufjan" spotify playlist it's in at number 18. I think part of that is it became everyone's favorite emo Sufjan song, much like Death Cab's "I'll Follow You Into the Dark."
Predatory Wasp is #1. I revisit stereogum's top 10 list far too often and still get mad they left it off. I think we can just all agree that Sufjan just has so many great songs.
The location wasn’t great in the first place. They used to have it further south along the lake that was more open. Though I imagine the crowd was too scared to go to the southside of Chicago so they moved (eyeroll).
Plovers > a mediocre festival
I love New Order, but I’m always amazed at how many people know their songs. I doubt many could name the band, but if “Blue Monday” or “Bizarre love triangle” comes on everyone knows the words.
I think that anyone who thought that this was a good idea should maybe go back and watch the movie. It's really depressing and a real downer until maybe the last 10 minutes. There's nothing "wonderful" about most of the movie.
This reminds me of the Billy Elliot musical. They took all the most heart-warming, emotional moments and made them into over the top musical numbers. It lost all of the heart of the film.
I haven't either. I'm never in a car so I don't listen to radio. I don't go to bars that would play this. Much like "Party in the USA," which I didn't hear for a good 5 years, I won't be devastated when I do hear it but I also am never going to seek it out. I am happy in my ignorance.
I think part of it was this was the pre-internet age. It was harder to discover this sort of stuff as a suburban teen. The Strokes were actually played on the rock stations where I was, whereas Fugazi wasn't. There was always great rock music, but it was a lot harder to find indie-rock pre-internet (and yes, I know there was internet but it took forever to download anything) unless you had a halfway decent college station around.
Limp Bizkit is the reason the Strokes were such a breath of fresh air. I try to explain that to anyone too young to remember how god-awful rock music was in the late 90s.
Chicago is finally hitting some semblance of summer and this seems like the perfect song to go along with it. I have very little knowledge of funk, but everything I hear I enjoy (and I'll admit, most of what I've heard is from the Superbad soundtrack).
I know a lot of y’all weren’t into Father of the Bride, but I saw Vampire Weekend last Sunday and it was lovely. They played for two and a half hours! Not sure I’ve seen a band play that long. SO GOOD.
I have definitely mentioned my love for the Number Ones on dating profiles...but no one knew what it was. Apparently Tinder dudes have terrible taste in music blogs.
I saw Florence last night and she was as fabulous as always. The most endearing part was when she started talking about her anxiety and was like "I'm sure you guys don't realize how anxious I get." And the entire audience was pretty much "Oh no, we all knew that. We still love you." Love you, Florence.
This week was garbage for women in the US and garbage for me personally, so I’ve decided the only way to deal with it is to have a party for one by getting tipsy and dancing to CRJ. No regrets.
They played Soldier Field in Chicago last weekend. I drove past the madness and couldn't believe people were lined up in the rain hours before the show. There was even a giant merch line that was blocks long. I guess people are into these guys.
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