Now I know the difference between gold and brass

Village Voice op ed on indie rock of 2005. Metacritc's top 30 of 2005 so far.

Let the opinions start...now.
AFI just released they 100 greatest quotes from a movie. It's not a bad list but just off the top of my head...
"I want you to hold the chicken between your knees" from Five Easy Pieces,
"this isn't Russia, Danny... is this Russia?" from Caddyschack; and
"it's the one that says 'bad motherfucker'" from Pulp Fiction or at least something from Taratino.
Or one of my all time favs---"InconCEIVable!"
or how about "it really tied the room together"?
Please feel free to leave a few of your favs too.
oh oh and how about "Aren't you gonna take your skates off?I never take my skates off."
or how about "I know we've only known each other for 4 weeks and 3 days, but to me it seems like 9 weeks and 5 days. The first day seemed like a week, and the second day seemed like 5 days, and the third day seemed like a week again, and the fourth day seemed like 8 days, and the fifth day, you went to see your mother, and that seemed ... just like a day. But then you came back, and then later, on the sixth day in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like 2 days. So in the evening it seemed like 2 days, spilling over into the next day, and that started seeming like 4 days. So at the end of the sixth day, on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of 5 days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half. ... I have it written down, I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it."
and I will finish with:
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.

In the NYT's today there was an article and it posted the wrong URL
I feel bad for the anonymous author of the blog The Shins Will Change Your Life. You get lucky and score a high profile place in a New York Times article and the writer screws up your URL. There go all those hits. There goes your A-List status on Blogebrity.Leading into his article on The Believer's recent "music edition, NYT writer Kelefa Sanneh profiles The Shins Will Change Your Life site, calling it "one of the funniest and meanest "music-criticism blogs" and then gives the address: indierock4eva.blogpost.com. the site they printed was wrong. The right site is indie rock 4eva.

Hype goggles. How do hyped up indie bands stand up after the buzz wears off?

A bit ago I chatted up London's upcoming "Don't Look Back" concert series, which will feature bands performing classic albums in their entirety. At the time, only two shows had been announced - Belle and Sebastian playing If You're Feeling Sinister and Mudhoney playing Superfuzz Bigmuff. Hers's the rest:
8.30 The Stooges - Fun House - Carling Apollo Hammersmith
9.15 The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray - Shepherd's Bush Empire
9.16 Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early singles - Koko
9.17 Múm/Cat Power - Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today is OK/The Covers Album - Barbican Hall
9.21 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange - Koko
9.24 Gang of Four - Entertainment! - Barbican Hall
9.25 Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister - Barbican Hall
10.05 Dirty Three/Sophia - Ocean Songs/The Infinite Circle - Barbican Hall

Cow fights man in pasture. Wonderful.

Women and booze equals...well funny/sexy photos.

Another from Village Voice. Right Wing Sesame Street.

Further proof that Oprah is not a nice person. Just imagine Big O if it were your party and someone else tried to crash it. How about that for a "crash moment".

the title comes from Ben Harper's "You look like gold" If you don't have any Ben in your collection please fix that now. I mean it.