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TheRunningboard7 commented on Your Half-Year in Adult Contemporary Report: Nostalgia For 2007 Is Already Kicking In

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:38:25 EDT

@R'ock You Like An Iracane: Would not surprise me if it has been here before. I've only been checking Gawker/former-Gawker sites for a little over a year, I believe.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Your Half-Year in Adult Contemporary Report: Nostalgia For 2007 Is Already Kicking In

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:16:15 EDT

@SomeSound-MostlyFury: Dillinger feat. Sade... ... i cannot even imagine that product.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Your Half-Year in Adult Contemporary Report: Nostalgia For 2007 Is Already Kicking In

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:43:52 EDT

I love me some Michael Buble. Not so much that song, a whole lot of everything else.

You ever think about how horrible a bill your concert would be if your favorite acts toured together? Sade, Dillinger Escape Plan, Bear Vs. Shark, PJ Harvey, Mos Def, and Between the Buried and Me!! TONIGHT Only!!

TheRunningboard7 commented on "Chinese Democracy" Whispers Finally Get Some New Storylines

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:21:37 EDT

That guy's getting punched in the dick by all of his co-workers right now. Fairly hard.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Let's Try To Predict The Grammys (Part Two)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:35:02 EDT

Lupe Fiasco's album is my favorite of his proposed list. I have no need to predict my own list, I'd have to think too hard. Looking at his, though, it is an easy enough choice for me. But, much like enjoying Coheed and Cambria, if one can, I don't try to make sense of the concept album, and take it song by song.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Cuervo Girl Throws A Pretty Decent Splitter

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:16:17 EDT

I was at a Royals vs. White Sox game in Kansas City (Arrowhead is beautiful by the way). It is two stadiums int he middle of what looks like a 200 acre hilly cow pasture. So out of place.

Anyway, a Royals fan shouted at Crede probably the best insult I've ever heard: "YOU SUCK SO BAD, YOU SHOULD BE PLAYING FOR US!"

Genius.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Are You Ready For Coheed And Cambria's Concept-Album Marathon?

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:29:20 EDT

I can't believe that Chris left Dillinger Escape Plan to join this group. Even as a Coheed fan, I don't see how the drumming in this band can be as satisfying as the drumming in Dillinger.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Please Explain The Appeal Of Ray LaMontagne To Me

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:23:38 EDT

Chicks dig beards. End of story.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Castlevania Movie Sees Belmont Armed With "A Fucking Sword"

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:37:30 EDT

And then Belmont is played by milla jovavich. I mean, why not?!

TheRunningboard7 commented on Hamiltonmania, Rick Reilly On Race, And Chase Utley Tells New York Fans Where To Shove It

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:32:45 EDT

It's a great time for blogs when in hearing "This is like a Kiwanis Club meeting!", my first thought is 'Lord, I cannot wait to see what Deadspin has to say about this'. I'm sure there were many more with the same thought process.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Warring Fandoms Further Prove That The Internet Should Have Age Restrictions

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:52:08 EDT

That kind of fandom should only be reserved for Neneh Cherry.

No moneyman! Can win my loo-oove!

TheRunningboard7 commented on Avril Lavigne's Clothing Line Just As Awkwardly "Punk Rock" As Its Designer

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:52:51 EDT

@Maura Johnston: If only i'd've found the clip to post. Somedays, even librarians can't find everything they want on the internet. A sad display of skills on my part.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Avril Lavigne's Clothing Line Just As Awkwardly "Punk Rock" As Its Designer

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:47:08 EDT

HEY HEY YOU YOU I'M GONNA STEAL YOUR CLOTHING

(Does anyone else think the only good contribution Avril Lavigne has had was Kelly Kapur appropriating her song to talk shit to Pam?)

TheRunningboard7 commented on This Just In: People Trust Their Friends' Music Recommendations

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:57:03 EDT

I thought maybe I'd try taking pitchfork recommendations over friends and independent hxcmp3.com seeking (does that even exist anymore?), but then I decided that I could never trust anyone who gave the album containing "Trapped in the Closet" a 7.4, or the institution which allowed that review to be published.

Now I peruse the XM, ask my friends, and check out bands I might read about on blogs, but not with a glowing recommendation always attached.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Whither The Live Album: The Debate Continues

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:21:53 EDT

Oh! How could I forget! I picked up Darren Hayes' Time Machine Tour. Never liked Savage Garden, but his recent solo album really tapped into Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel something fierce. Great DVD, too.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Whither The Live Album: The Debate Continues

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:11:27 EDT

I definitely buy more live dvds than cds. I know I bought the Live Primus cd from the Aragon Ballroom because it was awesome and I was there... Most recently I had to replace my copy of the live Nine Inch Nails DVD "And All That Could Have Been".

Before that, as far as CDs go: Dave Chappelle's Block Party Soundtrack... does that count?

TheRunningboard7 commented on A Long Listmaking Exercise For A Long Weekend

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:47:24 EDT

Way too late, but I'd feel bad for trying and not following through. The hardest thing will be not listing my omissions and seconds and ties (because that would be ridiculously huge), but here's the list.

1982 - thriller, michael jackson
1983 - shout at the devil, motley crue
1984 - the smiths, the smiths
1985 - brother in arms, dire straits
1986 - master of puppets, metallica
1987 - Diesel or dust, midnight oil
1988 - green, rem
1989 - the real thing, faith no more
1990 - ritual de lo habitual, jane's addiction
1991 - sailing the seas of cheese, primus
1992 - psalm 69, ministry
1993 - undertow, tool
1994 - dulcinea, toad the wet sprocket
1995 - destroy erase improve, meshuggah
1996 - aenima, tool
1997 - ok computer, radiohead
1998 - hello Rockview, Less than Jake
1999 - metropolis pt. 2: scenes from a memory, dream theater
2000 - stories from the city, stories from the sea, pj harvey
2001 - lateralus, tool
2002 - el cielo, dredg
2003 - war all the time, thursday
2004 - miss machine, dillinger escape plan
2005 - good apollo, i'm burning star iv, volume one: from fear through the eyes of madness, coheed and cambria
2006 - the avalanche, sufjan stevens
2007 - colors, between the buried and me
2008 - obZen, meshuggah

TheRunningboard7 commented on A Long Listmaking Exercise For A Long Weekend

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:10:22 EDT

You all make me feel bad for having to only start my list in 1982...

That being said, I would have to think really hard, too long to likely respond to this blog. I will just say that Maura: god bless you for your 2000. That album can swallow me whole on a bad day and raise me up on a good one like few other albums can (and thank god Dream Theater's Metropolis pt. 2 was in 1999: it was the only album I thought could knock out Harvey on my internal list).

TheRunningboard7 commented on New Saints Row 2 Trailer Unveils Existence of Plot

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:45:36 EDT

@Sniper_Zegai: It's only a spoiler to the 10 people that beat SR1.

See what I did there? A stab at a game I actually liked. Oh, but true.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Everyone who thinks "hey,

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:54:41 EDT

I have an odd feeling that Furry Rock will become huge, as the only affordable touring a band can do will be in Second Life.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Lollapalooza: It's All In The Timing

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:31:36 EDT

I enjoy RATM enough to sit through propaganda. In fact, I wouldn't leave the AT&T stage that day. And the next day? So on that Saul Williams show.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Austria Gets Its Rocco Mediate On

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:26:07 EDT

easily my favorite Spoon song.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Metallica Cannot Think Of Anything Better Than "Death Magnetic"

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:40:58 EDT

@TheRunningboard7: After reading my comment, and your post, I think Sex Caldrounic is my new favorite potential Metallica album title.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Metallica Cannot Think Of Anything Better Than "Death Magnetic"

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:30:59 EDT

Wax ecstatic
Death Magnetic

noun adjective

I'm thinking this is a good set up for a name competition.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Bonnaroo: Kanye West Gets Up With The Sun

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:40:26 EDT

read: weak (thank you English BA... for nothing)

TheRunningboard7 commented on Bonnaroo: Kanye West Gets Up With The Sun

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:39:44 EDT

I was just discussing with my friends that I'm discouraged from going to festivals because I'll have to make a tough choice on who to see at some point. Was he playing against someone else beforehand?

I do know that overblown sets are generally making up for something, and to be honest, most rappers come across week live anyway... ... sans J-5. (i'm sure there are others)

TheRunningboard7 commented on Breaking: R. Kelly Is Not Guilty

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:53:46 EDT

If only less people thought like Riley...

TheRunningboard7 commented on "Heaven's Metal" Magazine Gets Slightly Less Heavenly

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:49:14 EDT

"your womb is a sewer :: your womb is manure"
I think that may be my favorite line on the entirety of War Party

TheRunningboard7 commented on (Somewhat Cool) Old Guys Added To Download Festival

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:47:13 EDT

@sicksteanein: @2ironic4u: I do really like Brand New. Devil and God (etc.) was an album I really liked, but in all of their albums, I am hard pressed to find irony, and I worry they really take themselves that seriously (as compared to, say, Taking Back Sunday: a band I like a lot less, but at least they know their job is to be full of shit). They can keep feeling however they choose, though, as long as the music stays good.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Chris Martin: Limp Bizkit Fan

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:43:36 EDT

Without shame, I can state the Wes Borland did a sweet tap move on one song from 3 Dollar Bill, Yall, and I frequently rip the technique off when writing music, if even for a brief measure. I still think he's a great example of Mesa tone (unfortunately, this showed best on later albums).

TheRunningboard7 commented on Do We Have Our First Rock Band II Artist?

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:34:18 EDT

if rock band made their songs hard, I might play it.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Games Have Endings Too, You Know

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:31:50 EDT

GTA IV can't end poorly! It got a 10/10 from everyone! They all played the game to the end... right? right? ... ... At least with movie reviewers, you know you're getting a complete opinion, even if its shit.

TheRunningboard7 commented on Stan Lee, Ellijah Wood, Carlos Santana... and Crecente Duke it Out With Spore's Creature Creator

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:08:47 EDT

David Lynch? We are all fucked.

TheRunningboard7 commented on M.I.A. Cancels European Tour To Garden, Get Nails Done

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:07:20 EDT

I still say preggers.

TheRunningboard7 commented on All the aging hippies end

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:24:20 EDT

LEAVE KC SUMMERS ALONE!

TheRunningboard7 commented on Pastor Calls For Burning Of Music (With Fire, Not A CD-ROM Drive)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:06:06 EDT

I think he should illegally download the albums to steal their profits, then burn his hard drive. It would hide any pornography.. (you know, only if it is there [which I'm sure it isn't {right, rev?}])

TheRunningboard7 commented on During her Friday night show

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:09:39 EDT

Maybe she's preggers?

TheRunningboard7 commented on Cedric Benson Runs Past More Red Lights Than Defenders

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:57:31 EDT

I'd like to thank Jesus for pretty much punching Jerry Angelo in the face until he has to admit Benson is a complete and total fuck-up.

TheRunningboard7 commented on So, Yeah, Active Week

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:13:58 EDT

@Secret Identity: I think I've been checking this blog less than a year.