Here is the preview to Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields, a documentary which I will be seeing the shit out of.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
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Yeah, but is there a Sasha Frere Jones smackdown scene?
The difference between his speaking voice and his singing voice surprises me every time. (I am an idiot.)
Who let Sarah Silverman in off the street?
A documentary about an asshole full of people who praise and suffer said asshole for his rote pop exercises.
And the first blog on your site is praising Vampire Weekend. Discount!
The praise is awfully faint.
Kevin Barnes makes Trent Reznor look like Jesse Ventura.
People who wear hats indoors are hiding something.
It's that they're mannequins riding shotgun in the HOV lane.
J.D Salinger, Stephin Merritt - Antisocial Misanthropes brought to you by 'The Awl.'
(also: Stephin? with an 'i'?)
"The guy is just an inscrutable genius, down to his impossible name and his condescending leer."
Nope.
"The Cool Crowd" Porn.
I love him so much that I wish he wasn't gay so that he could be my shitty, shitty boyfriend.
He is charming, but it drives me crazy how he holds his ear in pain during applause (really, he really does.) Didn't stop me buying tickets, though.
Apparently he does that because he's hyperacusic, which means that he's overly sensitive to certain kinds of sound.
I have a really really mild form of hyperacusis. In my case, this means that computers and air-conditioners can sometimes sound intolerably shrill. So I understand his pain, sort of.
I'll most likely be shitting while seeing this, rather than seeing the shit out of it.
I miss Dick's Bar, but I miss seeing him at Dick's Bar even more.
Is this another one of those dumb celebrity makeover shows?
I was actually looking for a way to get a break from all the honesty in pop music.
solution: only listen to the music of Ke$ha. Problem solved.