May 2012
48 posts
RIP Ween →
aquariumdrunkard.com
I say goodbye to one of the weirdest bands ever to work with a major label. Ween were the first band I ever loved who were truly out of the mainstream. They probably changed my life.
“Americans don’t want excellence, and we certainly don’t want long-term sustained excellence…We want to maintain our high ideals, without needing to walk the walk. Nobody can hate the Spurs, so nobody wants to love them.”
—from Matthew Yglesias’ excellent essay on how the American sports fan’s apathy towards the San Antonio Spurs demonstrates our own hypocrisy. As a fair-weather Hornets fan, I hated the Spurs for precisely two weeks during the 2008 NBA Playoffs, and have returned to being vaguely aware of their existence/success.
Pantera Look Back at 20 Years of "Walk" | Spin.com →
spin.com
There’s something uncomfortably sweet about this sentence having come from the most intimidating voice in Orleans Parish:
Anselmo: I am born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. So whenever I attend a Saints game, I hear it cranking through the huge Superdome speakers. Being in your own stadium for your own football team and having it played over the big PA, you can’t beat it, man.
