Kilgore Trout Is Dead

Kilgore Trout is Dead

the tipping point. (presented lower case)

there are more people available on facebook chat than aim. heads will roll.

Win Some Lose Some

I had a McDonalds' Double Cheeseburger today. It had an extra patty on it. At no extra cost I enjoyed a McDonalds' Triple Cheeseburger. Everything was going great.

Then I was chased 2 blocks by a huge pitbull someone just let off it's leash the dog was bark and pouncing at the back of my legs. I have been violently mugged twice but this was the scariest thing to ever happen to me.

No great closer. Just wanted to share.

The greatest piece of musical journalism ever.

I just though about the greatest piece of musical journalism I've ever read. It was back in the heady days of 2003.

Pavement Reunion

Wow! And I thought I had nothing to Blog about!

Pavement, only my favorite band ever, have been hinting at getting back together. I have it on good authority that the following events have offered Pavement ungodly amounts of money to reunite:

- Ben Gibbard's Bachelor party. Ben has offered $12 million but insisted that they only play songs from Terror Twilight assuring that his and everyone else's minds will not be splattered on the walls of the strip club after being completely blown.

- Bonarroo Ontario. Canada's version of the hippy fest. Fun fact: do to trade complications they didn't even need to license the name!

- Feed Gary Young Benefit. I don't see this one happening.

- All Tomorrow's Parties NY. You're probably surprised that with Flaming Lips and Animal Collective already booked this would be happening. They actually just want Pavement to stand around handing out flyers for next year's show, which they would be headlining, under a different name.

- MTV Video Music Awards. An all-star tribute to 120 Minutes featuring The Happy Mondays, They Might Be Giants, Mazzy Star and Korn(reuniting with original guitarist Head).

- Leonard Cohen World Tour 2008. Pavement have been asked to back the singer songwriter for his tour of only the most famous opera houses on the globe.

- The Obama Inaguration. Along with the reunited Fugees. That's Barak's musical wheelhouse.

- An all star tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival. Interestingly this seems to be the most likely one. Playing alongside Jeff Beck, 3 Doors Down, Travis Tritt, Throwing Muses, Drive By Truckers, Lee Scratch Perry, The Headlocks, Jewel, and The Stringcheese Incident. Seriously, when tickets go on sale just buy them, they will be added to the bill.

I haven't blogged all week!

I have nothing interesting to say about planes in the Hudson or the Golden Globes. Anything worth saying about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been said a million times before and can be simplified pretty easily: irrelevant.

Why would I waste your time?

Oh, I like Arthur Russell all of a sudden. Couldn't be much later on that train I suppose.

Saw Frost/Nixon Ron Howard's best movie if you ask me. (But I generally hate him as a director.)

Hmmm... top 5 things of my week:
5. Hospitals - Hairdryer Piece An awesome slice of atmospheric noise with pop burried deeper than you once thought humanly possible. Came out last year, good discovery for me though.
4. Mickey Rourke's Golden Globe In your face Sean Penn.
3. Vitamins Been sick all week, vitmains might be a false hope but when you can't breath at night you take what you can get.
2. 30 Rock and The Office Haven't watched them yet but my heart swells knowing they are on my DVR awaiting my eye's embrace.
1. Weekends It's here!

So yeah, big show tonight...

Sean Penn Continues To Be Charmless

Perhaps to reaffirm what an impressive actor he is Sean Penn, receiving an award for his incredibly charming portrayal of Harvey Milk, decided to show just how charmless he continues to be at the Critics' Choice Awards. He dissed Mickey Rourke! (Who rightfully should've been accepting the award for his gut wrenching turn in The Wrestler.)

Penn: "At heart this is a beauty contest, so I had an advantage."

You're taking a dig at the dude's horribly deformed face?! That's what bloggers do Sean. Tsk tsk tsk.

UPCOMING!

Come see Mancrush!!!! Next Weeek!!!!!

The Worst Thing That Could Ever Happen

The NY Mag Vulture Blog has reported that AMC still hasn't agreed to give Mad Men creator/genius/god-like television force Matthew Weiner whatever he has asked for. This is no less than a full on cultural crisis and requires immediate bipartisan government intervention. Any politician that keeps quiet during this period should be held responsible for the collapse of all that is good and significant in the world.

Someone Let R. Kelly Piss On Them

It's his 42nd Birthday!!!

The Only 5 Blogs That Matter

So it's been proven over and over again that blogging doesn't matter. If it did matter the following would be all you would ever need.

5. Matablog - The label that made me an indie-rock fag and ensured my alienation from literally everyone in high school continues to insulate me from the outside world with snarky opinions and updates on seemingly literally all of my favorite bands going(Times New Viking, Jay Reatard, Fucked Up).

4. Letters To Your Former Employer - With the economy in disarray we can expect to have a lot more fodder for this expertly conceived blog. Hilarious, topical, occasionally seedy.

3. The Unblinking Ear - My Staten Island blogging competition would begin and end with The Unblinking Ear if he ever wrote about(or even acknowledged) Staten Island. As is no one does except Ben Johnson, but he has to share his blogs with a variety of people whom I cannot condone or condemn.

2. WFMU's Beware the Blog - The best radio station in the world has a blog befitting it's reputation. DJ's post wonderful articles on a diverse array of audiophile friendly topics. Several of the most interesting 2008 year end lists can be found on the blog right now!!!

1. New York Magazine's Vulture - The best pop-culture blog on the internet. Uniquely specific and detailed episode to episode coverage of television, culture news, mp3 roundups, and much more.

A Second Opinion: ABBA vs. Lykke Li

Below is an impromptu conversation started as a result of something Tim Duffy didn't agree being said publicly by someone(in this case his brother/blogger Patrick Duffy) that Tim can reach by instant message.

3:35 PM
me: i just realized you called lykke li "perhaps the catchiest music to ever come from sweden", um abba?!?!?!?!
Patrick: hence the perhaps
me: no perhaps ABBAAAAAAAA
Patrick: yes, it was meant to be a comparative statement to elicit just this response
it captures just how catchy she is that she could be considered on that same plain
me: ABBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Patrick: listen, we all know and love ABBA but it's time for someone else from Sweden to shine through and not just for their quirkiness
me: fuck you, i can't believe you're doing this
Patrick: I'm not doing anything
I'm trying to help sweden
they need to stop relying on the reputation of abba
me: you reallymight have alienated me forever i hope you're happy
Patrick: Tim, I love ABBA just as much as you do
me: no
Patrick: but this is absurd
me: you
do
not
Patrick: Lykke Li is a perfectly acceptable swedish pop star
maybe it's time to come down off your high horse
and accept other swedish bands and artists
you were able to move past Klee weren't you
me: i do, but aaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Patrick: no one even remembers ABBA anymore
they think they were covering the village people
me: i'll fucking end you
Patrick: the last time you said that I had a bruise under my chine for a week
but yeah, ABBA are relics
it's time to move to the future
me: you're a fucking relic!
you're a fucking ghost!
you hear me!?
a fucking ghost!!!!!!!!!!!!
Patrick: having the time of your life...dance, dance, dance...they go so well together
Abba could totally open for Lykke Li


6 minutes

3:54 PM
Patrick: that was fun
we should do it again sometime
me: fuck you

Disclaimer: It might be easy to write Tim Duffy's opinions off, as the parallels between his love of Abba and Tom Scharpling's of the Best Show on WFMU are similar and he also co-opted Tom Scharpling's "You're a ghost!" refrain. To some extent I suppose you'd be right, but co-opting the truth is always a good idea isn't it?

Kim's Underground on St. Mark's is Closing!

How sad. I always loved that I could bounce between Kim's and Other Music to check pricing and just general record availability. Now where will I browse when I decide I want $1 pizza for lunch!

I went today, everything is 30% off, got The Unblinking Ear's record of the year Celebration by Thomas Function, Portishead's Third, and a Jonathan Richman 7" that is recent and probably crappy but I really liked the song title("You can have a cell phone that's ok but not me").

Mancrush Video/New Year's Show Preview

Casey: i watching the clips last night
i have ideas of how i'll edit it
i'm gonna just piece together what's funny
create a build
like have the crazy stuff later on
cut out any pauses or drags
me: good
we can pause and drag live
Casey: right

Mancrush at Martini Red(372 Van Duzer Staten Island, NY) 10pm this Wednesday December 31st(New Year's Eve)

House Music, A Poem

ump-tst, ump-tst, ump-tst, ump-tst

Dear Pitchfork,

Seriously?!


It's not funny anymore. Grow up.

Love,
Tim

Records of the Year 2008

In the name of efficiency and beating the big boys to the punch I present an un-notated year end records list. I may elaborate in the next few days but maybe I'll just let it speak for it's self.

10. Deerhunter - Microcastle
9. Zomby - Where Were You In 92?
8. The Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
7. High Places - High Places
6. Brownwater - Brownwater EP
5. Air France - No Way Down
4. Harvey Milk - Life... The Best Game In Town
3. Jay Reatard - Matador Singles 08
2. Beach House - Devotion
1. Times New Viking - Stay Awake EP

Songs of the Year, Year End Mixtape Tracklist

Maybe I'll like post mp3s or write something about these songs at some point. These are in mixtape and not quality order.

1. Times New Viking "Pagan Eyes"
2. Little Boots "On Repeat"
3. Lil Wayne "A Millie"
4. Ninjasonic featuring Vivian Girls "Go Tell The World (Remix)"
5. Deerhunter "Never Stops"
6. M83 "Graveyard Girl"
7. La Roux "Quicksand"
8. Air France "Always Collapsing At Your Door"
9. Beach House "Gila"
10. Vampire Weekend "M79"
11. Jay Reatard "No Time"
12. The Magnetic Fields "Too Drunk To Dream"
13. Brownwater "The Brown Green Lantern"
14. Heartsrevolution "Digital Suicide"
15. T.I. featuring Rihanna "Live Your Life"
16. The Mae Shi "Run to Your Grave"

Best Record Art of the Year

Do people even make record sleeves anymore? Well, yeah some do. Some just give you a jpeg. Still artwork associated with album is alive and well, just look!

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My Unpopular Opinion

As a guy who recently alienated both family and friends making a 9/11 joke in the Staten Island Advance perhaps I am the wrong person to say something. However, I can't stand idlely by while a very funny moment on SNL is treated like a hate crime. Fred Armisan's Governor Patterson is pretty hilarious if you ask me(and anyone else who was in the room with me at the time). It's so over the top that I think to take offense is imature.

Seriously, is the governor's disability supposed to insulate him from a little teasing. It's a cartoon. Like Mr. Magoo. A cocain loving Mr. Magoo.

10 Things I Will Not Evaluate Before Year End List Season

This is my first public list of the season. It's the most wonderful time of the year!

10. Kanye West '808s and Heartbreak' - Kanye regularly appears on my year end lists and this album is controversial. From the sound of things I'm a fan, too bad it won't be making any year end lists.

9. The Wire - I never watched The Sopranos either.

8. Iron Man - My favorite comic book super hero makes a movie with the always entertaining Robert Downey Jr. Where was I?

7. Gossip Girl - OMG! I've seen an episode of this and I have a sense I'd like it, in that Degrassi kind of way. It's gotta be better than Heroes.

6. The performances of Kate Winslet. I cannot imagine myself seeing one of the two incredibly stark movies Kate Winslet is in right now.

5. Slumdog Millionare - This movie sounds so charming. Too bad with a recession and the holidays I will be so apprehensive to see a movie that it will have to wait.

4. The Wrestler - This comes out on Christmas. The window between boxing day and New Year's is so small.

3. Deerhunter 'Weird Era Cont.' - I love Deerhunter, for some reason though Emusic my legal music resource only has the first of the two album set.

2. Jazz, Theater, most fine art, Literature - If it wasn't for low-brow I wouldn't have no brow.

1. The Dark Night - Anyone heard anything about that new Batman movie? It looks like it could be good.

Shaolin Reprasent!!!

The Onion is dropping some serious S.I. science today!

Free the Juice!!!

Let's send OJ a cake with a file baked into it.

蟑螂妹是什麼意思?♀?密碼44444

(The below is a translation of a message I recieved to my work email. The original in Japanese is below. I'd love your thoughts.)

Lu is still talking younger sister thigh thigh construction has been behind a sister ~
Blind to tell you squint called cockroaches sister ~
Cockroach-mei
Lu Tungou after the construction of what is good fuss!
Japan now have been exposed in roach before .... there is enough to be indecent construction

In order to prevent leaks, so add a password

Original:

現在還在講露股溝妹ㄉ股溝妹已經落伍了～
告訴你瞎瞇叫蟑螂妹～
蟑螂妹
露後臀溝有什麼好大驚小怪ㄉ !
現在日本都已經在露前蟑螂鬚....實在有夠不雅ㄉ

為了防止洩密,所以加了密碼(44444)

Victory By Any Other Name Would Be A Loss

I am a liberal democrat. Anyone who reads this blog should know that. But believe me when I say I am thrilled that the better man won the Georgia run off yesterday. Or the better named man at least.

Jim Martin may well have been a good moderate democrat in the senate, but could he ever weild the power of a man named Saxby Chambliss? How many people could? How would it look when a "Jim Martin" tried to hold is own? Wouldn't ever sour note coming from his mouth just strike the ear like the empty words of a man who could literally be anyone in America? The shear blandness of it all meant this win was a must in the Saxby Chambliss column.

Some will say this victory was Georgia stating their lack of support for one party government, some will say that when Chambliss won the first time around(without getting a Georgia required 51% of the vote) it was already over, some will say that for minorities and lower income Georgians the election ended last month. Well they will all be wrong. The victory of Senator Saxby Chambliss has nothing to do with ideology, political calculation, coincidence, or even the will of the voters. It just so happens that the name Saxby Chambliss is indominable.

My little brother is better than me in everyway.

So my little brother is a bit of a genius. He graduated very near the top of his class and is going to Boston University on a very generous scolarship. At least I was funnier than him. He couldn't take that from me...


Gah!!!! WHY?!?!?!

Dear Weird Al,

I'm psyched about the new album seriously. When tomorrow's T.I. parody drops I'll even buy the thing on itunes.

But I have a suggestion. Now mind you I have no conception of how difficult it is to learn and rearrange music on an accordion, but none the less I have a suggestion.

"Weird Al" I ask of you, cover the entire Girl Talk album as a polka. With the economy in free fall don't you think we need a bipartisan artistic endeavor like this?

I hope this finds you well. If at all.

Best Regards,
Tim Duffy(a lifetime fan)

New Weird Al!!!

Dropping tomorrow! The streets is waiting!

Conservative Editorialists Think McCain Is Most Effective In A Prison Camp

Today on cnn.com consevative commentator Ed Rollins was chatting up what McCain can do to turn his campaign around. It all checked out, I suppose, until this tid bit:

"From what I hear, the campaign's plans are to put John McCain back in the seat of his A-4 Skyhawk bomber and drop bomb after bomb on Obama to try to convince voters he is unfit to lead."

Does anyone in the campaign recall the last time Jon McCain was in an A-4 Skyhawk bomber he was shot down and imprisoned for 5 years?

"Can I call you Joe?"

How adorable is Sarah Palin?!

Have You Heard About Ocean's 14?

It's called Weekend at Bernie Mac's.


(This joke was co-written by Kevin Devlin.)

In Alaska...

...gubenatorial debates are held at local comedy clubs.

I hope Joe Biden's been hitting open mics.

What The Fuck Kanye?!

Come on man!

I Am A Failure At Blogging

My friend Bart told me so.

Dis-Unity

It is really rude that Barak Obama gave Joe Biden my email without asking. Faux pas.

Andrew Phillip Tipton Wants To Be Your Friend

This is an adorable video for a really good song. Andrew Phillip Tipton is a Staten Island musician. His album is called The Champion of Love.

Directed by Geoff Celis

Dilema: Times New Viking/Deerhunter Tour

Times New Viking and Deerhunter are going on tour in support of two of the top 5 best albums of the year so far.(Not to mention the new 5 song EP from TNV that is probably my most anticipated record of the fall. Well almost.)

So everything is great let's buy tickets, Right?! Not so fast. These bands are playing two New York Dates and they're on the weekend... in November! I don't know what kind of raging parties might be going on that weekend. These dates surely should have been announced with less lead time. What's worse is one of the dates has an awesome opener(Vivian Girls) but the other is at a preferable venue, both commuting wise and asthetically.

Convenience vs. one more excellent band. These are the kind of problems I love to have.

The Dates In Question:
Fri-Nov-07 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
Sat-Nov-08 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom

My Older Brother Is 4!

In Blog years my older brother is 4. You might know his work. He's having a show with a few cool bands. My favorite are local (as in S.I. local) heroes the Great Unwashed. But you should really just come for the drinking and the celebration of blogs. The show is on August 30th. More info on the flyer!

Holy Shit!

If Barak Obama becomes President do you think he can convince the Fugees to make and release an album?

Barak Obama's Favorite Song

Will Arnett...

...is going to be on Sesame Street.

I hope he saws Elmo in half.

I'm Not Blogging...

...til I have something important to blog about.

Dear Jay-Z,

Love the new song. Seriously, you seem to be in a fighting mood. We love that from you. One thing though, I see you're planning to call your new album The Blueprint 3. Not to step on toes, but does your mandals wearing ass really think that's a bright idea?

Remember The Blueprint 2? Yeah, no one else does either.

I'm just saying it cause I love you Jay.

Money Cash Hoes,
Tim


BLUEPRINT 3 from kwest on Vimeo.

New York Times WTF

So I'm no linguistic or racial sensitivity expert but the following sentence from the New York Times today rubbed me the wrong way:

"Even stalwart Republicans acknowledge that items related to Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, may become especially valuable if he is elected because he would be the first black in the office."

THE FIRST BLACK IN THE OFFICE?!

The article, if you're wondering, is about political campaign merch collectors. They're a bit like stamp collectors only slightly more sad and a whole lot more scarce.

Evan Bayh wants to be Vice President

You can just see it in the kung-fu grip he has on Barak's arm and that desperate look in his eyes. "Please man, I need this right now."


Side Note: I really like people from Indiana. In fact I'm pretty sure I've never met a dick-head from Indiana and I've met a lot of dick-heads. Evan Bayh is most likely not a dick-head.

Wow.

See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die

Brooke Shields, Kinish

Today I saw Brooke Shields by Broome and Broadway. I also saw the guy who sells me kinishes.

Guess who I was more excited about?

Yum, mustardy.

King Khan Interview on Pitchfork

So King Khan(with some help from his Shrines) rocked balls off at McCarren Pool yesterday. (I literally saw dozens of men straining to regrow their junk during Deerhunter's solid set only to have them re-rocked off by the Black Lips soon after. What a waste of balls.)

He was interviewed by the Fork today:
"King Khan: That's the secret of the whole Kukamonga Death Cult: I dress up like a homeless person wherever I tour, because it's anti-sexual. When I tour, I'm neither homosexual or heterosexual-- I'm hobo-sexual. So that basically opens yourself up to anything at all-- you could have sex with a piece of cheese and it would be totally natural."

Wow Guys.

Swing vote was really fucking amazing. I'm going to see it again today. Maybe even tomorrow.

Wow.

I think my sandwich is a little too big for me.

No homo.