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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
The New York Times had a great two-hitter of music articles this weekend: *Jon Caramanica’s profile on Patrick Stump, mainstream rock’s “most invisible frontman,” offers some great insight into Fall Out Boy and has given me even more newfound respect for the band. Even as they flirt with tasteless arena rock, the band sure manages … [Read more…]
A countdown of the best albums of 2008, in all their colors.
You know emo’s hit a certain cultural tipping point when unassuming ESPN writers name drop it just to get a reaction from readers. Such is this sentence by Rick Paulas, reporting on the MLB Winter Meetings: “Most of the stuff littered across the giant mess on the floor is for baseball execs (i.e. new radar … [Read more…]