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Okay, biggest spit-take I've had in while is you holding up "Let It Bleed" and saying "Good job, Rolling Stones."
Insightful!
But seriously, this was hilarious, thank you. Also, dig the holiday-sounding saxophone in the background. Nice touch. 2009 can't come fast enough.
I'm so jealous of your record collection.
but I'm excited about this vblog thingy.
2009? But I want to see your thoughts on Let It Bleed NOW. 2009? What, are you joining the writer's strike?
Whoa, Bill Fay in the background? You have stolen my heart, woman!
Oh my god for sure, Taang! That makes me feel olde.
Superclever! This rocks.
This is an excellent companion to the stellar new sketch-comedy video just added at www.thunderant.com called "The Perfect Song"
For the uninitiated, Thunderant is a sketch-comedy project website started by Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen (of SNL) that brokers in hilariously awkward situations like cloying dates and the politics of feminist bookstores.
Sorry Carrie, hope you don't mind the plug! Keep up the great work. Funny funny stuff!!!
2009?!?! rip! that's the greatest thing ever. are they all alphabetical? i totally agree with joe palca.
yes! I have that Talking Heads album. I borrowed it, more or less permenently, from my aunt along with some Elvis Costello and The Boss's Nebraska
nice record collection.
how many do you have?
and what would you say is your favorite?
top 10?
Brilliance.
Full circle from a previous entry:
"Let It Bleed" is one of the records I found in my stepfather's collection.
This is so great. Please make it a regular feature - then we can do vlog responses with choice cuts of our own. Battle of the vinyl shufflers.
I really enjoy your blog Ms B.
coolest... vlog... evar.
Maybe you'll stick a book in there randomly to review? I'm always looking for a good book and you seem to know some good ones.
Quite a novel idea. I came across this today in my surfing, it's a website devoted to weird records. Enjoy.
I really hope there are more vlogs from you Carrie.
wonderful. the pastels. now i'll always want to pronounce their name incorrectly. will this vlog tell us where we can find 1960s commercial instrumentals like the one feature in this entry? i certainly hope so.
Actually, the music is from the intro to a Bill Fay song. He is amazing. -CB
Nice record collection. The only downside to having one that big: lugging it all around when you move. I practically need a separate U-Haul just for that.
Hilarious new episode of Thunderant, too.
Brilliant! This is how record reviews should be done...forever.
What I want to know is where can I get the record for the soundtrack for True Stories film performed by the actors and not the talking heads, but of the actors giving their interpretations of talking heads songs...
That was amazing. I'd also like to say that the new Thunderant made me laugh ridiculously hard, a nice closer to my week.
But 2009? Can it be before? Please?
Ha, Ha. Priceless. See I told you girl. I knew it. That was fun, and totally "with it." Great idea, btw, muchas kudos to you senorita. Hey, wait a sec, that's a quick recovery from the flu. Thankfully for you it wasn't a 102-103 degree type of thing.
N' what's with all this 'ThunderAnt' stuff? I thought it was some new alternative band that I was out of the loop of when I first noticed it many blog's ago, or, err, last month.
Again.., that was witty.
Harvey's Irony-o-meter is picking up a signal...
I laughed.
Brilliant! You make surfing the internet at work a completely justifiable endeavor.
hilarious.you should record an album that is only you reading liner notes.
hahaha..true stories...you sounded sarcastic when you were reading David Byrne's liner notes. I'm a huge TH fan. Are you?
Anyways, well done....you're awesome Carrie...
loved the new ThundeAnt..
Pink belt!
Carrie, you rock (in more ways than one!) Loved the vlog, can't wait for more!
Steve Inskeep would totally say that. Nice work with the iMovie friend.
Does anyone out there have Flux-compasidor??? My DeLorean is in the shop, and I know would like to skip right past 2008...
After seeing that Wall of records... I now am glad, I started getting into music in the age of CD's... But at the same time... a crappy record tends to get lost amonst the rest of the collection... where you cant really hide the big wide double CD "Michael Jackson HIStory" from the rest of your cd collection... (Oh trust me, I have even worse from back in my DJ'ing days... maybe I should take them to Goodwill)
I'm just happy that you used the word "vlog" rather than "vodcast" or "v-log." Shuttering just thinking about it.
Meanwhile, maybe from now on we could use "Palca" as the official greeting on your site. Perhaps it could be like aloha and you could use it for goodbye as well.
You remind me of my childhood.
Namely, because you are a goof.
Secondly...
as a kid I would pull a record and another and another out of alignment to gaze at the brightly hued, mushroomy covers. Then my dad would groan at the stacks of alphabetizing I had created for him.
& thanks for the laughter [yet again]
Don't stop - go go go! It's laugh-out-loud good and so, so musically wise...
Utterly riveting!
you're not like one of those nerds who will sit in front of their wall of records talking about their collection until you quietly back out of the door and run away. right?
i once had a flatmate who'd do that and then occasionally even followed me to my room with a bunch of records yelling about how everyone is connected to mike watt!
i am sure he is reading this. hello andi. XD
Thankfully, I'm this funny!
Well done.
Have you considered using Vimeo instead of YouTube to host videos? It's a much better alternative in my opinion. I only suggest it because I hate YouTube so much. I think you deserve better.
Where can I get shelves like that for my records?
Hey! C'mon, Carrie. The Primitives were a good band!
They were no Darling Buds, however.
I hope there are more vlogs comin'! I liked this... heh, whether it was meant to be ironic or not. The bit with your "shuffling" is priceless.
(Let it Bleed is my favourite Stones album! But screw True Stories. Augh, that's gotta be my least favourite TH rekkid. They went from Talking Heads to, like, The David Byrne Show: now with two hundred present MORE PRETENSION! /rant)
I hope to see much more of these in the future. To hell with ipods and all mp3 players alike.....okay so mine is broken but I really enjoyed this vlog. Absolutely hilairious!
Carrie Brownstein is a writer and musician. She was a member of the critically acclaimed rock band Sleater-Kinney. Her writing has appeared in 'The New York Times,' 'The Believer,' 'Pitchfork,' and various book anthologies on music and culture. Read Carrie's F.A.Q.
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