mishaps commented on A Reader Writes: Can You Help Construct Her Evacuation Playlist?,
at 1:11 PM on Aug 28
Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band, "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" came to mind first but it's not quite what's being asked for.
Nora O'Connor covering "Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again"
REM, "Leave" (too on the nose?)
Bad Livers, "Counting the Crossties" or "Shufflin' to Memphis" (downer or upbeat, respectively)
The Mountain Goats, take your pick from the "Going to..." series, "Last Man on Earth," "New Monster Avenue," et al.
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mishaps commented on Dolly Parton: Not Dead,
at 2:38 PM on Aug 25
I am reminded of that back in the day SNL skit with Natalie Cole doing followups to "Unforgettable" with all her dead dad's dead friends -- Tammy Wynette shows up to sing, to the tune of "Stand By Your Man," "I am not dead!/This is how rumors get started..."
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mishaps commented on Question of the Day: Do You Use an Alarm Clock or Your Cellphone to Wake Up?,
at 7:07 PM on Aug 14
I used to only use my cell phone on the road, so that its alarm meant "wake the hell up, client meeting!" But then my old alarm clock broke, the replacement I bought for it proved to be subpar, and I got an iPhone, so I am using that as my alarm clock until I can meet my own admittedly obsessive alarm standards.
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mishaps commented on Elizabeth Wurtzel Really Misses The Monoculture, Man,
at 2:33 PM on Aug 11
"It's a toss-up between August being a slower-than-molasses news month or this piece taking that long to edit just to get it to a place of relative coherence."
My vote is all of the above, plus Wurtzel having a friend in editorial.
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mishaps commented on "Project Runway" Picks Out The Brown M & Ms,
at 4:54 PM on Jul 24
@thearcanemodel: Oh, there is no other reason leather-chick could have been allowed to stay around last time -- her design managed to be worse than the slasher-raincoat one!
I thought Kenley's dress was great, but she had so much attitude about having her fabric chosen for her by the model that I was almost, almost glad that she didn't win.
I look forward to -licious dude's freakout when he starts to get pale.
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mishaps commented on "The Believer" Music Issue: Is Rick Moody a Martian?,
at 5:35 PM on Jul 14
@Michaelangelo Matos: I thank you from the bottom of my shriveled obsessive-compulsive heart.
I like Moody's fiction, and I think you might actually like some of his short stories (flip through Demonology, which has a lot of stylistic trickery but also some truly great writing) but the man should be forcibly prevented from ever writing about music again.
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mishaps commented on The One Comment That Might Very Well Sum Up The Kerfuffle Over Brooklyn Vegan's New "The Week In Music Licensing" Feature, at 5:51 PM on Oct 31
And that, my friends, is the state of the music world in fewer than 25 words.
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mishaps commented on John Lydon Gets Bitter, Er, Butter, at 6:22 PM on Oct 2
god saaaaaave.
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mishaps commented on Ralph Stanley Takes To The Airwaves For Obama, at 4:35 PM on Oct 2
This ad makes me so happy.
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mishaps commented on A Reader Writes: Can You Help Construct Her Evacuation Playlist?, at 1:11 PM on Aug 28
Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band, "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" came to mind first but it's not quite what's being asked for.
Nora O'Connor covering "Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again"
REM, "Leave" (too on the nose?)
Bad Livers, "Counting the Crossties" or "Shufflin' to Memphis" (downer or upbeat, respectively)
The Mountain Goats, take your pick from the "Going to..." series, "Last Man on Earth," "New Monster Avenue," et al.
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mishaps commented on T.I. And Rihanna Do The Numa Numa Dance, at 7:40 PM on Aug 26
My head just exploded.
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mishaps commented on Dolly Parton: Not Dead, at 2:40 PM on Aug 25
(My mistake, she doesn't sing, she's talking, and Natalie sings.)
[snltranscripts.jt.org]
Tammy Wynette has, of course, since died.
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mishaps commented on Dolly Parton: Not Dead, at 2:38 PM on Aug 25
I am reminded of that back in the day SNL skit with Natalie Cole doing followups to "Unforgettable" with all her dead dad's dead friends -- Tammy Wynette shows up to sing, to the tune of "Stand By Your Man," "I am not dead!/This is how rumors get started..."
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mishaps commented on "New York Times" Still Allowing Serial Charticlist To Run Amok, at 4:40 PM on Aug 19
See, I read that "huh?" as a "how is this song even on this list?" sort of "huh" not a "never heard of it."
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mishaps commented on Question of the Day: Do You Use an Alarm Clock or Your Cellphone to Wake Up?, at 7:07 PM on Aug 14
I used to only use my cell phone on the road, so that its alarm meant "wake the hell up, client meeting!" But then my old alarm clock broke, the replacement I bought for it proved to be subpar, and I got an iPhone, so I am using that as my alarm clock until I can meet my own admittedly obsessive alarm standards.
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mishaps commented on Elizabeth Wurtzel Really Misses The Monoculture, Man, at 2:36 PM on Aug 11
Also, seriously?
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mishaps commented on Elizabeth Wurtzel Really Misses The Monoculture, Man, at 2:33 PM on Aug 11
"It's a toss-up between August being a slower-than-molasses news month or this piece taking that long to edit just to get it to a place of relative coherence."
My vote is all of the above, plus Wurtzel having a friend in editorial.
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mishaps commented on So the Spin Doctors are playing, at 11:55 AM on Aug 4
Oh my God, now *I* have "Two Princes" in *my* head.
You'll pay for this, Maura.
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mishaps commented on Hey Courtney Love, What's On Your iPod?, at 12:17 PM on Jul 28
Maura, embrace your share of the zeitgeist!
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mishaps commented on "Project Runway" Picks Out The Brown M & Ms, at 4:54 PM on Jul 24
@thearcanemodel: Oh, there is no other reason leather-chick could have been allowed to stay around last time -- her design managed to be worse than the slasher-raincoat one!
I thought Kenley's dress was great, but she had so much attitude about having her fabric chosen for her by the model that I was almost, almost glad that she didn't win.
I look forward to -licious dude's freakout when he starts to get pale.
more »
mishaps commented on "The Believer" Music Issue: Is Rick Moody a Martian?, at 5:35 PM on Jul 14
@Michaelangelo Matos: I thank you from the bottom of my shriveled obsessive-compulsive heart.
I like Moody's fiction, and I think you might actually like some of his short stories (flip through Demonology, which has a lot of stylistic trickery but also some truly great writing) but the man should be forcibly prevented from ever writing about music again.
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