Collected Thoughts 01-29-09

• I'm liking the new Blue Horns record an awful lot. It's like somebody made jangly indie album with a post-punk band's gear.
  

• Pitchfork is devolving into self-parody. The way they carry themselves, supposedly "above it all," but then willingly embrace what they're "above" is just getting absurd. Look at their front page today, all information on musical acts but nothing about music:
  
  
  
  • Fleet Foxes Hate Major Labels! (Whoa!)
  • Super Fury Animals + Neil Diamond! (new + old = relevant! lol!)
  • Bob Dylan + Will.I.AM + Pepsi! (new + old + product = OMG!)
  • Modest Mouse... no Johnny Marr! (SADFACE LIGHT A CANDLE)
  • The Hold Steady and Rachael Ray! GRAMMYS. OMG MASTADON.
  
  

• Twenty-eight years ago:

• I'll re-post this again when it has more content, but you can follow the Dungeons and Dragons campaign I play in. I know! You're thrilled to hear this!
  
  Right now only the early adventure logs are listed, with few NPCs or characters. (Though my character bio is up and definitely worth a read.) Here is a sampling of what sort of deranged madness is to come in the adventure logs not yet posted:
  
  "Our fourth Adventure finds the valiant party racing to the aid of Nimozoran the local wizard, who has been kidnapped by his own students. After racing to his great tower they leap into a teleportation circle and found themselves at the gates of a marble school building jutting from the side of a floating mountain.
  
  Carving their way through the enchanted student body the group finds poor Nimozoran sealed in a crystal cage. The group shows its true colors by setting the school aflame, looting what they can carry, brainwashing an emotionally scarred young Halfling into slavery, and causing the great temple of knowledge to fall from its mighty heights, flattening a quarter of the city below. They then blame the disaster on poor murdered Nimozoran, and walk away beloved by the population they decimated."