2008

Today I find myself sitting on my couch next to my mounds of used facial tissue, Robitussin and other miscellaneous drugs procured from the local Walgreens, as I’m STILL recovering from this year’s ‘roo. On Saturday of last week I found myself getting sicker and sicker while working in Centeroo. It t’was a combination of cold and allergies according to my doctor. But no matter what it is — I’ll still call it the Bonnaflu. And let me tell you getting sick at a festival is the absolute worst — I would not wish it on anyone except Kanye West.

This was my sixth Bonnaroo, I’ve attended every year except 2005 when I opted for Summer Camp instead. It’s very hard for me not to go to Bonnnaroo as it’s less than 30 miles down the road. And over the years, I’ve learned how to pack for it and be prepared for anything because, unlike most of my friends, I have yet to attend the festival in the luxury of an air-conditioned RV.

For the second year in a row, I attended with HeadCount to register festival goers to vote. We arrived on Wednesday to absolutely wonderful weather. We got our booth in Planet Roo setup for the next day and setup our campsite as well. We spent that evening grilling out, catching up, watching the sunset and just having a good time. And even though I go to Bonnaroo for the music, sometimes the time spent at the campsite is just as important and just as fun. The team we had this year was fantastic. Every team member was top notch and I was once again, very proud to be a part of something as awesome as HeadCount.

READ ON for more of Jennifer’s thoughts on her ‘Roo experience…

Last night I trekked out to Brooklyn to catch former Blips artist The Weather Underground play their first ever New York show at Park Slope’s Union Hall. Performing for a

We’ve got our first “You Be The Judge” situation of 2008. Andrew Hoepfner of little-known indie band Creaky Boards accuses Coldplay’s Chris Martin of stealing the melody of Viva La

As we prepare for My Morning Jacket to own our collective faces at Radio City Music Hall this evening, let’s start the day with a mix of live tunes from the gents. The first mix is full of originals, while the second mix features a varied assortment of our favorite MMJ covers. Man, it’s gonna be tough to get any work done today.

I couldn’t resist picking my favorite MMJ song, Anytime, to start the mix strong. Next, we mellow things out with Golden, which gives way to the orgasmic tones of Touch Me I’m Going To Scream Pt. 2. I’d really like to see Cobra tonight, so I threw that into the compliation before closing the mix with mindblowing versions of What A Wonderful Man and Off The Record.

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READ ON for the second part of our FMT featuring seven terrific covers…

Back in May, Luke Sacks penned a letter to Kevin Shapiro asking for the release of five incredibly-epic Phish shows. Well, it looks like Shapsio got the message, as Phish

There must be something scientific in the development process of human’s music taste that varies depending on if you have an older brother or sister in your formative years. Being the former, there’s a serious glitch in my Motor Cortex that malfunctions from time to time and attracts toward some seriously questionable material. I attribute this entirely to my sister.

Anyway, the following is a list of some of the guilty pleasures that may or may not be on the iPod and may or may not be on the recently played playlist. Thanks a lot sis. Then again, my younger brother likes STS9 and superpokes with heady Crystals on Facebook, so I guess you can’t win either way. Read on for ten of the guiltiest of guilty pleasures. Credibility is overrated anyway.

10) Who’s Johnny – El Debarge:

Ahhh, the astonishingly underrated 80s hit, “Who’s Johnny?” – the theme from Short Circuit by the one and only El DeBarge. If there is one good thing about being subjected to a list of terrible eighties guilty pleasure songs it’s that they never disappoint in the video department. The courtroom dance segment at the end is simply epic and there is a really nice cardboard cutout of Steve Guttenberg in there. This must be one of those Night Courts. If you’re seeking some new moves, look no further than the jury. Side note: I think actually owned that VCR.

READ ON for more of Rupert’s list of 10 Guilty Pleasures from the ’80s…

It’s been a bit of a hectic week for me as the real job has been getting in the way. I’ve been so out of touch that Google Reader is

Cheese is an important part of everyone’s diet, and it certainly stands to reason that one should get their fair share of the film variety. Now, current cinematic cheese includes everything from Martin Lawrence driving his daughter across country in Disney’s College Road Trip, the Flaming Lips’ Christmas on Mars, Atonement…wait…that was for real, any movie starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McCanaHeycanIstillhaveacareer, and the legion of So I Know Who Knocked Up 40-Year Virgin Ron Burgundy’s American Pie Axe-Murderering Mother movies to enjoy after the long-delayed lobotomy.

Then we have the sci fi/fantasy/horror/big ugly cheap costumed monster variety. Back in the day—the early 1960s—Roger Corman could be relied upon to churn out low budget cheese classics which sometimes featured future superstars like Jack Nicholson. In the 1970s, we got disaster cheese from Irwin Allen like landmark sludge called Earthquake. In the ’80s, well…just about every movie made in that decade classified as cheese with synths, pastels and that dude from Grey’s Anatomy when he was just plain McDorky. The ’90s had a weird variety of cheese which included variations on early ’80s slasher films with nifty titles called Scream, Scary Movie, and So…I’m Hot, Get Over It.

This week’s selection from the hard block cheese portion of the film aisle of the celluloid supermarket next to the rotting vegetables of poor M. Night’s slowly dying career is a pure low-budget mocking of all that was cheese back in the early ’60s black-and-white heyday of the Corman era. This time, it is completely played for laughs. Our Hidden Flick is The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and as the title indicates it is an important study of our current archaeological studies in Cadavra, Massachusetts starring Angelina Jolie, Harrison Ford, Matt Damon, Denzel Washington, and Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog. READ ON for more…