August 2013
Month archive / 33 posts

Looper

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

Death by Fire
Hello. I am a man. I rarely, if ever, feel the need to publicly expectorate. I know there are others like me. That is all.
Every day, I am stunned anew at the completely inopportune moments Brooklyn drivers routinely choose for making U-turns.
Barclays Center events haven’t wreaked as much havoc on the neighborhood as people feared, so tonight’s VMAs are showing them how it’s done.
My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Afghan Whigs (11), Wussy (11) & True Widow (7) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…
Ladies and gentleman, the USA takes it home again! Mean Melin (@SceneStealrEric) is your 2013 Air Guitar World Champion!
Apparently folks are upset that Ben Affleck will play Batman. Hey, while you have Hollywood’s ear, maybe ask them to make movies for adults?
“He looks familiar. Didn’t he play an alien scientist? Or maybe he was on Reading Rainbow.” —@ChamberMonster
Me: “I’m warm. Are you warm?”
@ChamberMonster: “I was not floor-punching.”
Whiskey and ginger. instagram.com/p/dK-bZfMGUV/
Kristen Schaal does her best Windhammer impression.

Last night was amazing. Not Windhammer’s best showing, but who cares? @LtFacemelter is your 2013 @usairguitar champion, as he should be.
My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Ennio Morricone (18), Run the Jewels (11) & Death Cab for Cutie (9) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…
2013 US Air Guitar National Finals
People of Los Angeles: I have arrived. Come see my friends and I battle for @usairguitar supremacy on Saturday: concerts.livenation.com/event/09004AC5…
This is my first Virgin America flight. No one has offered me any ecstasy yet.

Just Enough Research

Heathers

Piranha
It may be a cold case at this point, but we mustn’t give up on bringing the inventor of the CD jewel case to justice.
My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Shudder To Think (84), Operation Ivy (26) & Revocation (20) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

Restrepo

Tabloid

Deathstalker
The problem with personal responsibility is all the self-loathing.
Too much quiet solitude makes me start singing in a contrived timbre somewhere between Scott Stapp and latter-day James Hetfield. Send help.
Apparently both spellings are acceptable, but I much refer “hooray” to “hurray.” You?
“My otherwise normal head contains twenty identical eyes. Ironically, this impairs my vision.” lyricssummarized.tumblr.com/misfits (via @petersm1234)
Contemplating starting a monthly @333books club. /cc @fchimero @iamrumz @pdoughbrie @MerrittJMerritt
My Top 2 #lastfm Artists: True Widow (7) & Mr. Bungle (4) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…
Today marks three years for me as a Brooklyn resident. Am I a New Yorker now? Or do I have to have someone throw up on me in the subway?