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[ateolf]

very little to share...though i did purchase a Roland KC-500 keyboard amp on ebay...this should help the band out tremendously when it arrives...in so many ways...one of its best features (aside from being made for keyboards/synths) is that it has four independent channels...quite bitchin'...i went over to Jacques in hopes that practice would happen...unfortunately it did not...at least due to unavoidable circumstances and not just someone fucking off...so hopefully practice should be happening again in the near-future...and hopefully things start going more smoothly when that amp arrives, as opposed to the haphazard set-up we've got going now...i sat around Jacques' watching teevee...went home...watched The Boondock Saints...hopefully i'll bed myself soon, for i've class in the wee hours of the afternoon...oh shit! and i forgot the most zany bit of news of all! in the midst of teevee-watchin' i saw this terrible terrible terrible commercial (some jeans company...Levis?) and what the fuck should be playing in the background but Mogwai! "Summer" (Ten Rapid version) i guess it's not that bad 'cuz there's no way anyone unfamiliar w/ Mogwai could identify it as anything other than incidental commercial music, but i guess it's just that the actual commercial was SO fucking terrible...i hope they at least got a bunch of money from the deal...

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[amohongos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they pretty much blow. The Malkmus solo stuff isn't much better.

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

i still haven't heard any of his solo stuff...from what i heard of it, i'm not in any big hurry either...though it seems like it'd be better than PSoI...continuing on in the direction Pavement was headed...which wasn't a good direction for them, but at least none of their albums were bad...(at worst [Terror Twilight] they were still pretty good to good...)

[amohongos.livejournal.com]

His solo stuff sounds a lot like Terror Twilight; the song "Major Leagues" more than anything. Imagine if you will: Indie Rock, Top 40 alterna-blandness, classic rock, and believe it or not, wanky guitar solos. Now throw it in a pot, overproduce it to the point of sterile perfection, and stir.

That's not to say that there aren't amazing moments on his debut and his forthcoming Pig Lib. It's just to say that there aren't many. It's worth a download.

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

yea, that paints the picture i've had of it...