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Archive: December, 2012
Before we hit WHOWHATWHERE, let us thank Lindsay Lohan for not punching anyone in the face or ramming into our cars during her time here to see-and-hear her man Max from the Wanted at Wells Fargo Center’s Q102 Jingle Ball last night after a stay at the Omni Hotel. There was no attempt to keep LiLo’s visit a secret. Her arrival was announced from the stage and the station took a photo that wound up on TMZ. Flaunt it.
Philly’s good film news is that Paranoia has been back for a week with filming having resumed on Monday. So far, Liam Hemsworth and co. have lensed at the long unused Tangerine (for a club bar scene), the Four Seasons (a hotel bar scene) and Rogue’s Gallery (a bar bar scene). Solid stuff. Sadly though, Greater Philly Film Org doyenne Sharon Pinkenson tells me that David O. Russell and Bradley Cooper’s next film (after Silver Linings Playbook) the one Cooper told us in August during The Words premiere at the Prince would start filmin in spring 2013 (the ABSCAM flick with Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Jeremy Remer) — is now headed for Boston. “Pennsylvania is out of tax credit money,” exclaims Pinkenson. Is there no Kickstarter we can cobble together for this?
Speaking of getting money together for something worthy: Philly’s Ropeadope record/apparel label, along with the Nelson Riddle Foundation, is looking to benefit musicians of New Jersey and New York hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy. Ropeadope did the same in 2005 with its “renew Orleans” program which raised nearly $100,000 for musicians hit by Hurricane Katrina. Buy a shirt and proceeds go to “renew jersey” and “renew york” relief efforts.
My parade of preferred tracks goes marching on. (Click here to see them all so far.) I love this song. The video weirds me out. I don’t know what constitutes NSFW, but be warned that this video contains zombie-ish pawing at grey boobage for some reason.
LOVE NOTE RECIPIENT: Class of 1923 Arena at the University of Pennsylvania
I AM: A 26-year-old bridge engineer and burger blogger who grew up thinking of NYC as my home city but have quickly been falling for Philly.
MY LOVE NOTE:
Dear Class of 1923 Arena,
When I'm not climbing bridges, crawling through tunnels or shoving burgers down my gullet, I'm thinking of you. You may not have the best ice, but when I set foot on it and knock around a frozen piece of rubber, I have no worries in the world. All my stress is gone. We may only see each other once a week but the time we spend together is something I always look forward to.
I hate to tell you that we have to break up once spring is here, when I pick up my seasonal relationship with another local partner, Wissahickon Skating Club.
Love,
Brian Lim
View galleryMy parade of preferred tracks goes marching on. (Click here to see them all so far.) It can't all be pretty and poppy. Pig Destroyer put out Book Burner this year, and it's loud and blunt like grindcore should be. I think. What do I know? I know I don't support burning books, but I guess I'm okay with pig destruction since I like bacon and this kills the pig.
My parade of this year’s preferred tracks goes marching on. (Click here to see them all so far.) Cold Specks, I Predict a Graceful Expulsion, was one of my favorites this year. It's soulful and gloomy an great for listening to straight through.
Pusha T stopped by the Blockley last Thursday night to perform for hip-hop week (Philadelphia’s Freeway, Talib Kweli and Stalley were there earlier in the week), marking the first time he's played Philly since joining his G.O.O.D. Music labelmates on stage at the Budweiser Made in America festival. He was also performing with A-Trak and A$AP Rocky in New York City on Thursday night, which is the reason he didn't arrive for this show until 12:30 a.m. Despite the delay, the Blockley exploded when the Clipse member appeared on stage.
While most fans appreciated “Exodus 23:1” and “I Still Wanna” (especially when fellow Re-Up Gang member Ab-Liva came on stage to perform his part), it was Cruel Summer tracks “Mercy,” “I Don’t Like” and “New God Flow” that got the crowd excited. He was only on stage for 45 minutes, but Pusha T gave an energetic performance and kept the bar’s crowd entertained with some of his characteristic, intelligently menacing wordplay.
You know the drill. Every night at midnight I'm posting the best stuff I heard this year. These songs usually have decent videos to go with them. Like everything The Heartless Bastards do, this song's kind of a groovy slow burn. They put an album this year called Arrow and it is damn good.
We don't do a lot of sports coverage on Critical Mass, but with the shitty season the Eagles have been having, we thought it would be fun to walk down Broad Street — a thoroughfare the Birds probably won't be parading up any time soon — to get reactions and advice from locals who are fed up with the troubled state of their team and, especially, its coach.
Weighing in on the issue is the Internet's favorite Eagles enthusiast, Bryant Moreland (better known by his YouTube handle, EatDatPussy445), who expresses some of his own Eagles-oriented frustrations.
Who knows, maybe this'll serve as some sort of inspiration as they take on Dallas tonight at 8:20 p.m.
Go team?
Assuming I don’t run out, I’ll be posting some of the best songs/videos of the year every night at midnight. Or my favorites, anyway. Some might be great songs with awful videos. Or vice versa. Some could just be hipster bullshit. Hopefully you’ll discover something you like. The reunited GBV do not actually appear in this video, but we do get Jon Glaser (star of Delocated and a Conan regular).
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