August 2012

Does anyone have – or know someone who has – an advanced degree in a field that’s not related to their bachelor’s degree?

At least crotch rockets are really loud. “Asshole approaching!” they seem to say.

So, um, the new Swans album is ridiculously fucking great.

The maggots are falling like rain.

Laying it down with @larrylegend. (Not pictured: @jasonhawkins.) instagr.am/p/O5ebVYBMZY/

Last month, I expressed some concerns about remix culture and the questionable value of much of its output. Shortly thereafter, as if in response, the juggernaut of skewed pop music known as Beck revealed that his next album, Song Reader, will be released exclusively as sheet music.

The songs here are as unfailingly exciting as you’d expect from their author, but if you want to hear “Do We? We Do,” or “Don’t Act Like Your Heart… See more →

My latest contribution to @thepastrybox is about Song Reader, Beck’s bold new experiment in user-generated content. the-pastry-box-project.net/rob-weychert/2…

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Quicksand (48), Ass Ponys (24) & Unwound (15) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

My belated first stab at writing tab.

Tonight, my glasses spent about twenty seconds on the floor of a crowded and rowdy Bowery Ballroom. Then they were returned to me, unharmed.

Longboard ready for the road. Quicksand show tonight. Today is Stuff I Didn’t Get Around to Doing in the ’90s Day.

Ladies and gentlemen, the USA brings it back home! I am overjoyed to report @NordicThunder is your 2012 Air Guitar World Champion!

“A bro-mantic ‘Once’ if it had been directed by Cameron Crowe at his peak,” or, “Not quite preferable to oral surgery.” trailers.apple.com/trailers/indep…

No one at this press conference is good at their job. nytimes.com/2012/08/23/nyregi…

Not many new movies are catching my eye these days, and whoever thought it would help to return Matthew Lillard to the big screen was wrong.

So, @ATT, I am getting dangerously close to 100% calls dropped. FYI, in case you feel like being something other than an unfunny joke.

Not one surprise in the aggregated People’s List on Pitchfork. Snoozerrific. pitchfork.com/peopleslist/

Of the nineteen artists in my People’s List, can you guess which five I haven’t seen live? peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/8f867850/

“A legitimate rape victim would know to have a minister exorcise the unwelcome sperm.” #WhatToddAkinMeantToSay

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Wussy (81), Dead Can Dance (36) & Red Hot Chili Peppers (15) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

Just finished season two of Treme. If anyone needs me, I’ll be playing music for the rest of the day.

Terrible news about @YourBaroness’s bus crash in the UK. Sounds like everyone’s banged up but will be okay. I hope so. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

In honor of the twentieth anniversary of my first concert, here is an approximate recreation of it. rd.io/x/QFyuL1J0RQ

My AC has insulated me from street noise for most of the summer. To celebrate me turning it off, the mobile tree shredder has arrived.

Finished my People’s List (Top Albums 1996–2011) for Pitchfork. As it turns out, my list is very caucasian. peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/8f867850/

Re-up.

Somehow it took nearly seven years for @ChamberMonster and I to have our first conversation about the serial comma. It did not go well.

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Link Wray (46), The Ventures (25) & Wussy (17) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

This weekend was awesome. Here are its lowbrow and highbrow bookends. instagr.am/p/OPy9vvhM9b/

Do you walk on the Manhattan Bridge bike path? Two questions:

1. Why would you do that?
2. Would you please stop doing that?

Scowling crust punk girl who just walked past the line for the Wussy show: “Is Cher playing tonight?”

There’s a good story in here somewhere, but unfortunately this documentary about former Hole drummer Patty Schemel doesn’t seem to have much faith that it can reach very far outside Hole’s fan base. A lot of narrative polish it might have employed for the sake of the rest of us is eschewed in favor of making sure the fans get to hear about every last moment behind the scenes (and making damned sure everyone knows… See more →

Yesterday in Philly, my neighbor was the only person on a busy bridge that tried (and failed) to stop a jumper. What the FUCK, Philly?!

If one thing eventually drives me out of NYC, it will be The Rumbler. youtube.com/watch?v=JZlsCt…

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Superchunk (35), Naked City (25) & The English Beat (24) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

Ugh.

Emerged from my cave to find out about this Ryan Lochte guy. America, we really need to be more selective about our Olympic media darlings.

Eighteen years later, I just realized Link Wray’s “Rumble” was left off the Pulp Fiction soundtrack album, making it woefully incomplete.

Free shows with a supply/demand dynamic that makes you camp in front of a venue for hours are only free for people whose time is valueless.

It’s great when a guy gets hacked and he’s told it’s his own fault for not living his entire life in a TSA-style dome of “secure” misery.

Made an air guitar edit this morning that is a strong contender for 2013. Is it next summer yet?

If I’m typing in your search field while your page is still loading, don’t erase my text when your page finishes loading. That’s just rude.

I. Have. Quicksand. Tickets.

Today In Unreasonable Cultural Completism: All 51 of Disney’s animated theatrical features are now in my Netflix queue, in order of release.