My Bloody Valentine - the good and the bad

My Bloody Valentine is reissuing their stuff...FINALLY!!! That's the GOOD, and it's an awesome GOOD at that. Bad news...CD only. So no new vinyl yet and that sucks. On the bright side, besides Loveless and Isn't Anything, they're also putting out a new collection of EPs, neatly titled EPs 1988-91. I don't have any of the EPs, so I'll probably fork over the cash burgers for that. More GOOD...a new MBV album on the horizon?!?! FCKYA. Here's an unreleased track found over on the Pitchforks...

  Latest tracks by My Bloody Valentine

my favorite tune off of Loveless...

  some more potential BAD...according to Slicing Up Eyeballs, there may be an issue with the labeling of the 2 CDs contained in the Loveless reissue. Ah jeez.

Moonlit Matinees are Back at the Oakmont Theater

Now in its 10th year.  All summer long, Friday and Saturday nights at 10:00pm in Oakmont.  Check out the listings:

MOONLIT MATINEE SCHEDULE:

May 25 & 26 - Pee Wee's Big Adventure
June 1 & 2 - Die Hard
June 8 & 9 - ET - The Extra Terrestrial
June 15 & 16 - The Princess Bride
June 22 & 23 - National Lampoon's Animal House
June 29 & 30 - Predator
July 6 & 7 - Labyrinth
July 13 & 14 - Ghostbusters
July 20 & 21 - The Jerk
July 27 & 28 - Back to the Future Part II
August 3 & 4 - Escape from New York
August 10 & 11 - The Big Lebowski
August 17 & 18 - The Shining
August 24 & 25 - Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Predator? Big Lebowski? Fast Times? FCKYA!!! Surely we'll be visiting Oakmont on a few occassions this summer.

Thanks to Mr Nick on the heads up.  I guess this means The Room will be put on the shelves for the summer, which is the bummer part of this.

Liverpool vs Messi

thanks to TB for that!

1975. Yes, indeedy.

Yeah, it would've been 10 times better had we beat those bastards ourselves. But there's still something bitter sweet about seeing the hated Flyers go down in flames.

It was fun viewing. We saw Giroux snap, Laviolette whine about a non-offsides call (pretty fitting), Rinaldo impersonate a hockey player, and Bryzgalov implode for the series deciding goal. AWESOME. We also had a lot of fun with our new toy created by TB, the #stunned tumblr (see above).

Today we celebrate. Tomorrow, we reflect on who was really to blame for the Pens collapse.

GBV - Class Clown Spots a UFO

pretty cool fan vid for the title track of GBV's new album...

 

thanks to savannasaurus who seems to make quite a few of these. nicely played. Also just heard... GBV is playing the CBGB Fest in NYC this July...same place we'd seen Pavement play a couple years ago.

Also, this is kinda old news, but there is now a GBV Vimeo page. And they added one of our videos... FCKYA!!

Best Player in the World Cries, Snaps

I thought only Crosby cried?  Guess not.  Claude Giroux, the NHL's latest Best Player in the World sheds tears to the refs, throws a tantrum, and then head hunts Dainius Zubrus...

 

The most hilarious part of this video is at the :56 mark (right before Giroux starts whining), when Devils D Mark Fayne nudges Claudia into the bench, Pierre McGuire comments "he's not happy with that." What a baby. Embarrassing.

Easy call for Sheriff Shanahan, here. Or at least it should be. Puck is way gone. Claudia is in the middle of a hissy, and targets the head of Zubrus. Should remind a lot of folk of the James Neal hit in the 1st round.

Now a slew of Flyer "media" folk are stuck trying to dislodge their thumbs from their sphincters. Meat head Chris Therien, the Flyers radio color man, had a whole lot to say about Crosby's antics in Round 1, and the Ovechkin hit the other night on Dan Girardi. Predictably, he remained objectively quiet on the Giroux hit last night. At least until he started dropping child molestation jokes on Twitter.

Stay classy, Flyers.

Breathless - TONIGHT at Regent Square

Liverpool loses. TFC stinks. After today's big Milan derby (FORZA INTER!!!!), I'll have had my fill of sports for the weekend. Tonight at Regent Square, 8:00pm showing of Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 classic, Breathless

 

NBC blows. Saturday night hockey has now become Sunday night hockey. Sorry, not interested. And fuck The Killing. That show has had enough of my time.

The Cup Changes Everything

maybe.  C'MON YOU REDS!!!!!!!

a look back at our last FA Cup winner...

The DEVILS!!!!!

never thought i could root so hard for Ilya Kovalpuke and the NJ Devils. Brayden Louganis took a break from his dives to make a bad line change. Game. Mike Milbury told me so.  Devils up 2-1 in the series...



watching this series is really really tough. Can't stand the douche bag Flyers. And hearing Pierre McGuire pucker his lips while he spews a bunch of his "objectiveness" is even tougher. REAL TOUGH.

Besides that.  Zach Parise.  What a fucking player.

And how in the world is New Jersey shutting down the Best Player in the World?!?  Might as well face it...the Pens suck.

PISSED JEANS coming to Pittsburgh!!!

Pretty jackt for this. Allentown's own, Pissed Jeans....next Saturday at The Smiling Moose in the South Side!! FCKYA!!!! Get TICKETS HERE.  our favoritest video ever...



FCKYA ICE CREAM!!



punk rock like a bastard...



Live at Primavera...

Heads UP: this is a very strange 6:30 START TIME with the doors at 6:00. All ages, unfortunately (no offense, kiddies)...meaning me and my booze will be segregated.

Torts being Torts: "What, are you being a wise ass?"

This guy can be such a bastard.  I love him...

  Seriously...fucking LOVE this guy.

Nail Yakupov

Kid appears to be pretty good...




What I think the Pens should do:

Trade their best 2-way player and best playoff performer of 2012 for another star player who sulks during crunch time, takes stupid penalties, and drops passes into empty spaces that lead to odd man rushes the other way. NOT that I'm stereo-typing, or anything.

As the video info states, Yakupov draws comparisons to Pavel Bure, Alexander Ovechkin, and Ilya Kovulchuk.  And those 3 guys have a ton of Stanley Cups between them, so I say go ahead and pull the trigger.

LET'S GO BABY PENS!!!!!!!  Bring us Calder Cup glory!

For all good kids, it's ANOTHER Guided by Voices record!!

The 2nd of 3 (THREE!) GBV records coming out in 2012.  Pre-order the new and awesome Class Clown Spots a UFO LP from Rockathon HERE.  Also available is a 7" of the title track with 2 non-LP tunes available.  It's gonna be a good year.

warning...this tune will rock you right in the face...

  video by navalorama

FCKYA!!!!!

Sharon Van Etten - tonight!

part of the Warhol Sound Series. Tonight at the Carnegie Lecture Hall pretty pretty pretty music.

The Cabin In the Woods: good times

Kinda felt like The Osterman Weekend meets The Evil Dead, and then the real fun begins.

All in all, The Cabin In the Woods is a fun ride.  It's pretty ridiculous, but that's where its awesomeness lies.  I was a little apprehensive at first, and it probably didn't help that some zit faced kid who served me my popcorn tried his best to spoil it for me.

Some of the horror scenes thru the first half of the film are meh, imho.  They are shot much like the genre of today's new horror: Creativity is often sacrificed for dimly lit sets, shaky cams, and quick cuts to the point where you're left wondering what the fuck just happened.  There seems to be a lot of CG utilized in the latter part of the film, but nothing too cringe worthy.

The best part of Cabin is its humor. It's probably not going to scare you as much you will get a chuckle from it.  The best and most hilarious character is played by Bradley Whitford, who plays Hadley...your prototypical jag off antagonist.  We fell in love with Whitford way back in Revenge of the Nerds 2 when he launched his little, "What'ya gonna do about it Skolnick, you gonna make a little speech?" tirade to the Nerds poolside in Paradise.

Also to Cabin's credit, there is an obvious homage to the genre of past horror.  I'll stop there before I spoil anything.  But our advise is to not read or look too far into Cabin...just go and enjoy.

TRAILER HERE.