First of all, yeah I know, 80’s Prom Party Theme = Totaly Lame. It’s a co-worker’s birthday party. I work in Concord. There are 100 people that will be attending. I would bet my blackberry that Patsy and I will be the only attendees who have heard of Wolf Parade. Get it? But, as Hip will also tell you, it’s part of our civic duty to freak out squares every once in a while. Kind of take stock of where you are as a cool person with cool friends. A litmus test, if you will. Does your coolness transcend social bounds? Or is it limited to the esoteric in-jokes of your immediate friends? The answer usually depends upon how drunk I am.
But second, the idea of an 80’s party got me thinking …. It’s going to be really easy to do a 00’s themed party. Just think, ten years from now, it’s going to be simple to just dress like a 00’s hipster. And we, friends and fambly of the Jo-tel, city-dwellers most of you, will know better than anyone: tight black years, zip-up AA hoddie, TRADITIONAL VANS, music like: Bloc Party, The Strokes, Yeahs Yeahs Yeahs, The Killers, Stars of the Lid. BEARDS! Beard of Stars! The only hard thing will be the pronunciation. “Oh’s”? “Aught’s”? Also, just curious: is something going to step up and knock off Kid A, or is the best of album of the 00’s going to be something that was released on February 2000? Deerhoof, Animal Collective … I’m looking at you.
-Shark
10 responses so far ↓
bmk12000 // Jun 20, 2008 at 9:02 am
“kid a” will not be topped. zero percent chance.
Gabbeh // Jun 20, 2008 at 1:44 pm
“Blinded by the WHITE…revved up like a deuce, another motor in the night”. The new banner picture has some blindingly pasty skin on it. Make it stop! Make it stop!
Kristin // Jun 20, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Critics are saying that My Morning Jacket’s new album “Evil” has taken the same departure that Radiohead took from OK Computer to Kid A. Also, in Chris Martin’s interview for Rolling Stone this month he said he “would give his left ball to have written OK Computer”. The thought of someone actually saying that made me laugh out loud.
Hip E. // Jun 20, 2008 at 4:24 pm
It’s a bad sign for Evil Urges that the two catchiest songs so far both seem to be teenage love songs to Jesus:
“I’m amazed at the evolution/
I’m amazed at the lack of faith/
I’m amazed at the love we’re rejecting/
I’m amazed at what we accept in its place”
and
“you devised a simple plan that would change the fate of man/
you thought of everything”
That said, they’re both good songs. I was one click away from buying tickets to their 9/19 show at the Greek, but held off. I’ll get there though.
Johnny D // Jun 20, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Gabbeh, we’re just prepping for summer. Waterpark anybody?
Lou Dobbs // Jun 20, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Gabbeh, shouldn’t you be somewhere stealing somebody’s job?
bmk12000 // Jun 22, 2008 at 9:53 am
although i just listened to “runners four” and, i don’t know, maybe the ‘hoof do have it in them. 50:1 shot, but it’s possible.
Shark // Jun 22, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Their new album is called Offend Maggie . I’m not sure that one has the titular fortitude to pull off such a grand feet.
Gabbeh // Jun 23, 2008 at 11:44 am
I am stealing Jeff Wolf’s job. Or at least his law school seat because the “only reason I got into Berkeley’s law school is because I am Mexican”.
Jay or Dan // Jul 8, 2008 at 9:54 pm
I’m interested in Deerhoof and I like Animal Collective way more than PETE, but you’ve heard Kid A, right?
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