Well, our economy is going to shit. As Sarah and I chatted about spilled coffee in Studio A, the world’s most celebrated financial geniuses, hailing from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and may other respected institutions of education and research, were powerless on Wall Street as stocks plummeted almost 9 percent.
Fortunately, the show goes on.
As the “American Dream” fades further and further away from grasp, trust WTBU to continue providing 22 continuous hours of radio and Jen Choi & the Life, for random news and (most importantly) free mp3s!
Take a look at this week’s playlist after the jump:
My favorite meal at The Other Side Cafein Boston’s Back Bay, the Brie Cheese Wrap, comes to roughly $8 (that’s not counting dessert or PBR), while a typical meal that I can afford, a bowl of Ramen noodles or Easy Mac, runs between 99 cents to $4, leaving more than enough left over for my favorite 40 oz.
Before nearly $1.2 trillion dollars ditched the stock market, Monday, marking the third largest single day loss since WWII, Ramen noodles and some crap-tastic boxed wine was a pseudo-gourmet feast reserved for lazy college kids all across America. A choice, among many others, we students willingly make and grow more and more fond of regretting.
Living like poor vagabonds is a trademark that signified a passage though four years of schooling before having to really start acting like adults; however, this whimsical indulgence has become the grim reality of our new futures.
Who has money for real fruit juice anymore? Knowing this, Kraft Foods Inc. has begun airing radio ad campaigns for the first time in nearly 11 years. At the same time big cereal and soup companies are also pouncing on this recent fall-out.
Get ready to live America: the good life may look more like Man v. Wild than Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.
Is art imitating life, life imitating art or do you just have a pillow strapped to your head?
Thanks to the inventors of the Eye Contact Glasses, the Polite Umbrella, and, my all time favorite, the Self Sustainable Chair (which actually is not self sustainable at all once you actually decide to sit on it), the world this that much closer to finally achieving heaven on earth.
Say goodbye to those dreary Mondays when leaving your bed sounds as attractive as someone taking a shit on your face.
From now on, your bed will never leave you.No matter how old and fat you get, your all new Pillowig will never leave you for a thinner, funnier, and all around better version of you (although the friends that you have left definitely will).
What more can a blogger as for?
“A Dreamy Day of Day Dreaming of You” – Of Montreal (2001 Kindercore Records) Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse
Is this going to be one of those entries where Jen Choi really has nothing write about so instead she rambles about the weather and her feelings? Yes!
It’s hard to be down when I wake up to a combination of high winds and rains. But, why do I feel so sad?
1) Danish dance duo, Junior Senior are going their separate ways to “focus 100% on making music on our own, as we have been doing for the last year.” The news was released early on Friday via an official statement on the group’s myspace which has also been remained “Junior Senior R.I.P.”
…just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse, the gods throw me another curve-ball:
2) Those two hot chicks, Devendra Banhart and Natalie Portman, are over! Natalie will finally have to start dating and failing like normal people do: with an OkCupid account and a very shallow understanding of politics (you know, to sound political and stuff). None of this shit:
A fan of Banhart’s music, Portman had asked him to donate a track to the charity compilation she curated on iTunes, Big Change: Songs for FINCA. She returned the favor by forgoing her usual fee to appear in the video.
It’s so cold. This can either be intense emotional distress or the early signs of S.A.D. either way, I will eat an entire pint of Rocky-Road on my break.
PS. Critical Mass is today! Copley Square @ six. Bathing suits optional…but sort of mandatory.
“Rains On Me” – Tom Waits (2006 ANTI) Orphans: Brawlers, Brawlers & Bastards
Life’s good when you’re Josh Hartnett. When a days work consists of being beautiful, buttoning up the occaisional starchy designer shirt, and batting away your many barely-legal hoe slaves, there’s not that much to be worried about.
In a recent advertisement for Diamonds, a fragrance for men, Armani employs Hartnett’s soul piercing eyes and Interpol’s single “Slow Hands.” Such a strange combination requires further information; yet, that’s like trying to explain the meaning of life.
All we have to know is that we are ugly, poor (or soon to be poor), and boring. How do we fix this dilemma? Buy Armani Diamonds for men!
But what about the economy? Josh Hartnett takes shits the size of Senator McCain that smell like fucking roses.
Think progress, think change, think, Hartnett-Banks 2008 for America!
Oh yes, the Motor City Madman himself, Ted Nugent has a bitch-crush on Republican VP candidate, Gov. Sarah Palin.
In a letter to the ultimate “hot librarian” of American politics Nugent writes:
Dear Governor Palin,
Please accept this copy of my new book, “TED WHITE & BLUE-The Nugent Manifesto” for you and your family. As a proud fellow American hunter, fisherman and lover of Alaska’s soul cleansing magnificent Spirit of the Wild, we who live our American Dream by God, truth, logic, goodwill and decency, thank you for bringing such defiant common sense and self evident truth back to the GOP and politics. We wish you Godspeed for the best hunting and fishing season of your life and pray to God almighty that you bring your bold spirit to the White House.
Godbless,
As a vocal advocate of hunting and Second Amendment rights, Nugent’s open affection for all things Palin shouldn’t be a surprise, but I just feel so betrayed. “Cat Scratch Fever” was such an inspired piece of art.
Soaking up the last rays of Summer, Sarah and I welcomed Monday’s hurricane winds with a playlist worthy of even the pickiest ears (minus that one Islands song that we had to play).
C’mon guys. We Bostonians have always had major-city street cred for our intellect and…i guess the freedom trail(?). But what the fuck?!?
According to Travel & Leisure, we aint got shit. Ranked 6th in intelligence and a sad 17th in attractiveness, it’s hard to travel outside Beantown with my head held high. Goddamn, I thought we were the “Athens of America.”
At this point we have one of two options:
1) Shut down Newbury and Harvard Sq. until we at least beat out fucking Austin, TX, in intelligence.
or
2) Get the Harvard and MIT kids to take it easy and start working on their looks rather than all that bio-astro-mathy shit. (Let’s aim for 2nd place, because there is no way we are beating out Miami and all of it’s bikini clad beach bunnies.)
This is absolutely atrocious. Good thing we’re second best in the “Historical sites/ monuments” category.
“What We Had” – Handsome Furs (2007 Sub Pop) Plague Park
Oh Jesus, I know racism is bad, but it’s just so funny (especially when it’s true)!
I remember visiting Korea in the summer of 2001. My favorite aspect of the trip was hands down the pleasant sounding yet horrendously nonsensical English phrases that plastered the streets.
Oh the nostalgia.
Nearly seven years later, EngrishFunny.com has given me the opportunity to relive that excitement.
Thank goodness for my solid Asian heritage or I know my inbox would be flooded with hater mail.
“Big In Japan” – Tom Waits (1999 Epitaph) Mule Variations
One of the greatest things about working at Boston’s best free weekly magazine, The Weekly Dig, is the absolute plethora of local music we have streaming in daily.
Just this Wednesday, I found myself listening to Cambridge’s best kept secret, Passion Pit.
Passion Pit, a Books-esque hybrid between Animal Collective and Air France, was voted Best New Act in 2008’s WFNX/ Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll.
This experimental, electronic act really isn’t much of a secret anymore. Having performed with names like Girl Talk and Death Cab For Cutie, their talent has not gone unrecognized.
This Fall Frenchkiss Records will reissue the group’s break through debut EP, Chunk of Change, preceding the much anticipated release of a full length in January.
See what all the commotion’s about next Thursday (9.18) at Great Scott at the band’s CD release party!
Well, our economy is going to shit. As Sarah and I chatted about spilled coffee in Studio A, the world’s most celebrated financial geniuses, hailing from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and may other respected institutions of education and research, were powerless on Wall Street as stocks plummeted almost 9 percent.
