Here's a picture that appeared in a front-page N.Y. Times article today. It shows Obama looking more badass and presidential than Will Smith and Bill Pullman in Independence Day combined. It also shows downtown Raleigh professionals regressing to boy band-era antics. Note the guy on the left holding a disposable camera. 1) I haven't seen one of those in a long time, and 2) I'm pretty sure that guy said to himself, "Crap! Of all the days to leave my digital camera at home!" then ran down the street to CVS and found this bad boy.
In other news, I only recently became aware of Raleigh Wide Open, a FREE music festival two weekends from now coming to downtown. The headliners will be Chuck Berry and Lou Gramm (dinosaurs whom I had to wikipedia but who are apparently rather significant to mainstream Raleighites), but the surprising news is that on an "alternative" stage (overlapping with Lou Gramm's performance) will be ISLANDS. Yes, Islands. There has been very little press about this, and I had to scour the internets to confirm it wasn't some local band with the same name.
Also on the alternative stage will be local-boys-who-made-it-big Annuals, who have appeared on Veronica Mars' soundtrack and Conan O'Brien, and have been featured by Pitchfork and Spin (and I swear I heard Rolling Stone somewhere), and with whom a couple of my friends rubbed elbows back when said friends were in a band called "Triggerpull" (seriously).
I can't wait to meet Raleigh hipsters at the Islands show. All five of them.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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8 comments:
aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! yay! i love your writing!
also, i saw the islands a few years ago in athens. you receive 5 hipster points. after 25 points i will step on your new chucks repeatedly until they are dirty enough to wear to a dive bar.
keep writing!
What about the most kick ass U.S. president? Harrison Ford. Running on a platform of you getting off his plane.
I heard that if you dub Air Force One with the sound track to Snakes on a Plane both movies make a lot more sense.
I actually came to your blog just to share that Obama picture with you, but you already beat me! What's next, you're going to screencap Chuck's shark sweaters and Degrassi's McSweeney references?
Also, Atlanta for Labor Day weekend, please?
Oh, awesome! I wasn't sure if I could legally embed it. To answer your questions, 1. Not if I don't solve this cable problem. What McSweeney's reference? 2. I'm seriously considering it!
Soooo much pop culture on this blog! who are you, graham?! And daaaamn, you're right, Obama looks fine in that photo. (insert ellen style grunt in here).
I think I had that disposable camera. In 1999, on the eighth grade class to Arizona. I dropped it into the Grand Canyon by accident, so the photographs of Benji Kleinman and Sarah Friedman kissing during an illicit game of spin-the-bottle are lost forever.
P.S.I made Sarah Friedman up - apparently, despite going to the jewiest school that ever did Jew, there wasn't a girl in my class with a Jew-y enough name for my narrative purposes.
And I'm too waspy to have realized Sarah Friedman was a Jewy name. Does that mean Benji Kleinman's your go-to stand-in for middle school stories? All these years I just thought he lived an action-packed life...
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