http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:40:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-54372 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-54372#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:40:36 +0000 numbersix http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-54372 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-54372/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-53436 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-53436#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:49:50 +0000 Natasha Vargas-Cooper http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-53436 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-53436/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52410 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52410#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:35:20 +0000 bob222 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52410 happy New Year guys]]> happy New Year guys]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52410/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52103 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52103#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:31:34 +0000 Brad Nelson http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52103 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52103/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52102 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52102#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:30:59 +0000 Brad Nelson http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52102 but this person who thinks you are weird has never danced on the precipice.]]> but this person who thinks you are weird has never danced on the precipice.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52102/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52096 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52096#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:27:36 +0000 Brad Nelson http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52096 got in the way of the tunes, man. I also suppose at the time I was looking for more bombast in a record about ghosts and death (it may indeed be bombastic, I don't remember it well), which I was served soon enough with Funeral, which... I don't like to get all down on my younger self or anything, his intentions were sweet-natured if a little given to big empty indie nothings, but fuck that record. My worst year musically was 2004, where I bit onto every 8.0-plus review Pitchfork published and followed it into bored oblivion (revelation of "this is a fucking terrible practice because this is fucking boring music" came to me while listening to Architecture in Helsinki). My reaction was to listen to a lot of punk rock and metal. Both were the sort of calculated decisions you make when you're still establishing your taste--you find this great group of people who are smart and funny and are into the kind of stuff that seems like it's gonna alter you, so you wear its skin for a while until you can't distinguish yourself from it.]]> got in the way of the tunes, man. I also suppose at the time I was looking for more bombast in a record about ghosts and death (it may indeed be bombastic, I don't remember it well), which I was served soon enough with Funeral, which... I don't like to get all down on my younger self or anything, his intentions were sweet-natured if a little given to big empty indie nothings, but fuck that record. My worst year musically was 2004, where I bit onto every 8.0-plus review Pitchfork published and followed it into bored oblivion (revelation of "this is a fucking terrible practice because this is fucking boring music" came to me while listening to Architecture in Helsinki). My reaction was to listen to a lot of punk rock and metal. Both were the sort of calculated decisions you make when you're still establishing your taste--you find this great group of people who are smart and funny and are into the kind of stuff that seems like it's gonna alter you, so you wear its skin for a while until you can't distinguish yourself from it.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52096/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52081 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52081#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:07:40 +0000 katiechasm http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52081 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52081/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52071 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52071#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:34:46 +0000 Brad Nelson http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52071 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52071/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52064 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52064#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:24:46 +0000 Brad Nelson http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52064 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52064/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52063 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52063#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:23:47 +0000 Brad Nelson http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52063 They Put us In a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top at the local library, where I also first discovered Fugazi's The Argument, so it is also essentially where I was born, I exploded from its thin, shoe-worn blue rug a being of mutant punk rock, fuck everything, everything is fucked. Monument shorted me out on first listen, its drug funk and endless looped coda made me its car wreck, its burning debris. Fuck beauty I want to die.]]> They Put us In a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top at the local library, where I also first discovered Fugazi's The Argument, so it is also essentially where I was born, I exploded from its thin, shoe-worn blue rug a being of mutant punk rock, fuck everything, everything is fucked. Monument shorted me out on first listen, its drug funk and endless looped coda made me its car wreck, its burning debris. Fuck beauty I want to die.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52063/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52049 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52049#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:01:56 +0000 Brad Nelson http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52049 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52049/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52039 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52039#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:45:06 +0000 MatthewGallaway http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52039 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-52039/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-51898 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-51898#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:21:28 +0000 Gef the Talking Mongoose http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-51898 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-51898/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-everybody-in-his-or-her-own-life-needs-a-hobby-by-matt-ealer#comment-51844 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