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Have Your Emo Spayed or Neutered

December 24, 2008 / 1 Comment

You have to wonder about the future of journalism when the teen journalism site The Tattoo features a travel article that begins like this: “Do you often find yourself too sad to tie your shoelaces? Do you ever slave over your hair to flip exactly the right way to hide your sorrow stricken eyes? Have … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: aunt, emo, How to fix an Emo teen, Korea, Minha Lee, The Tattoo

Best Concerts of 2008

December 23, 2008 / 1 Comment

The best live shows of 2008

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: After the Jump Festival, Baltimore Round Robin, Baltimre, best concerts of 2008, Boredoms, Boston, Brooklyn, Chairlift, Dan Deacon, Double Dagger, Dr. Dog, Drive By Truckers, Edie Sedgwick, emo, Extra Life, Feet Night, Future Islands, Iron & Wine, Liars, Mark Kozelek, Mass Art, MFA, Mission of Burma, music, New York, No Age, Northampton, Noveller, Nuclear Power Pants, Orpheum, Oxfam Cafe, Paradise Rock Club, Parts & Labor, Pattern Is Movement, Pearl Street, Philadelphia, phonograph cylinder, Ponytail, Red House Painters, Rickenbacker Park, Shudder To Think, Siren Music Festival, Smartgrowth, Somerville, Subtle, Sun Kil Moon, Talking Head, The Deathset, The Hold Steady, the Middle East Upstairs, Thomas Edison, TV On The Radio, Union Square, Videohippos, Vs., Why?, Wilbur Theater, Zach Hill

Names So Bad You'll Want To Bang Your Head (Just Not That Hard)

December 22, 2008 / Leave a Comment

*The AV Club’s annual listing of odds and ends band names has its own devoted section for emo groups. Best/worst name? It’s a tie between Your Kisses Cause Crashes and Blue Skies for Black Hearts. *The Guardian notes a report by the University of New South Wales that says too much headbanging can be bad. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: AV Club, Blue Skies for Black Hearts, emo, headbanging, music, The Guardian, University of New South Wales, Your Kisses Cause Crashes

Your newest family stereotype

December 22, 2008 / Leave a Comment

The Arizona Daily Star’s Carrie Wells has penned the newest family stereotype in a quick piece on theungiftables.com. What does your crazy uncle (or aunt) peg you as? An emo nephew (or niece) of course: “Every year, you have the same dilemma: What can you possibly get for your nosy neighbor, your emo nephew, your … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Arizona Daily Star, Carrie Wells, emo, emo nephew, theungiftables.com, Underoath

The Best Gifts… for those who didn't get them

December 19, 2008 / Leave a Comment

A New York Times article on gifts gone awry reminded me of what is perhaps the one funny thing I’ve ever seen associated with Mad TV: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7IxliAPjAk] Now really, a Tickle Me Emo would be amusing for a little more than a few seconds, right? Otherwise, how would you be able to explain why folks … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: bad gifts, Christmas, emo, Mad TV, New York Times, Tickle Me Emo

Anderson Cooper, Emo Journalist

December 18, 2008 / Leave a Comment

Philstar.com features an interesting piece by Boy Abunda, who goes as far as to call the individually-influenced news reports by broadcast reporters “emo-journalism”: “It was in Anderson Cooper’s Dispatches From The Edge that I started to re-think about the traditional notion that newscasters are not supposed to show emotions, that they are simply mouthpieces of … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Anderson Cooper, Boy Abunda, Dispatches From The Edge, emo, emo-journalism, Philstar

New Music From The Appleseed Cast

December 17, 2008 / Leave a Comment

Stereogum is previewing the newest song by The Appleseed Cast on their weekly Gum Drop posting. Titled “Raise the Sails,” the song hearkens back to the band’s Low Level Owl days, with patient, drawn out instrumentals that make the slow-bursts and waves of noise all the more moving. Take a peek over here. The band’s … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: emo, Low Level Owl, music, Raise the Sails, Sagarmatha, Stereogum, The Appleseed Cast, The Gum Drop

One Last Fall Out…

December 16, 2008 / Leave a Comment

The Village Voice wrote that a secret show by Fall Out Boy in NYC’s Washington Square Park was shut down by police earlier today. This prompted Patrick Stump to perform some a cappella renditioning of the band’s material, not unlike the highly politicized and potentially-violent confrontation that Rage Against the Machine had this summer at … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: a cappella, emo, Fall Out Boy, music Washington Square Park, NYC, Patrick Stump, Rage Against The Machine, RNC, The Village Voice

Good… or Creepy?

December 16, 2008 / Leave a Comment

At number 9 on the AV Club’s “Worst Films of 2008” list, the premise for “Good Dick” and one of it’s main characters sounds a bit off… too off: “Ritter is the kind of cutesy emo-boy who sleeps on Palka’s couch, then wakes up early so he can tie a string to her foot, attached … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: emo, film, Good Dick, The AV Club, The Onion, The Worst Films of 2008

Behind The Back Battles

December 15, 2008 / Leave a Comment

How about this quote from The New York Times on Caroline Kennedy’s attempt to gain Hilary Clinton’s Senate seat: “Already, some other Democrats have pointedly questioned her credentials for the job. Rep. Gary Ackerman, a Queens Democrat, said last week that he didn’t know what Ms. Kennedy’s qualifications were, ‘except that she has name recognition … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Brandon Flowers, Bush, Caroline Kennedy, emo, Fall Out Boy, Hilary Clinton, Killers, music, New York Times, Pete Wentz, shoe
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