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I don't think you guys really thought things through when you christened your band. When I first heard the name, I assumed you were some sort of hippie jam band, like The String Cheese Incident, or Uncle Jethro's Psychedelic Flapjack (a name I just made up but you can't even tell, because hippies name themselves things like that). I saw you guys on Conan the other night and discovered that you not only are not a hippie jam band, but that you seem to be a legitimate band and not just a bunch of goofball jokers who you would expect to name themselves The Airborne Toxic Event.

There's no way to put this delicately, so I'm just going to say it: the name of your band sounds like a euphemism for a fart. Was that the plan? Naming your band after a bodily function might work fine when you're a bunch of slackers killing time in college after class, but you guys are releasing singles and going on talk shows now, and the name of your group still sounds like a description of a particularly lethal dose of hot & spicy curry flatulence. Do you realize that if you are successful, you could be recording for years under that name? You guys are all in your 20's now, I assume, but if things go good for you, you could realistically find yourself in your late 40's and playing in a band seemingly named after a fart.

In your 40's. In a band named after a fart.

Pretty short-sighted of you, The Airborne Toxic Event. With any luck, you guys will all go mad with fame, wind up hating eachother and break up, so you can bury this idiotic band name and we can all agree to never speak of it again.

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Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:54:00 -0700 Quote This http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/quote-this http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/quote-this

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Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:37:00 -0700 Truth on Tuesday http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/truth-on-tuesday http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/truth-on-tuesday

When I was in high school, a popular kid (who I didn't know nor was even aware of) died in a car crash or something, and my geometry teacher, in some attempt to deal with the student body's anguish or get us all to think about how limited our experience really is in this world, played Pink Floyd's "Time" in class.

Now, I'm not a fan of Pink Floyd. I have none of their albums. I will admit that a couple of their songs are kinda cool, but I would never put them on on purpose. But for some reason, this song lingers in my brain, and I find myself singing it aloud when I'm bored quite a lot of the time, you know, when I actually am frittering and wasting the hours in an offhand way. It sort of seems like the theme song of my life sometimes, which is funny: a band I don't even paticularly like providing the soundtrack to my life.

I wonder sometimes if it's because that geometry teacher, and her belief that playing a 15 year old Pink Floyd song in class would have some sort emotional significance, somehow programmed my brain to believe exactly that, and that possbilility really irritates me. Because I don't to be the sort of guy that shuffles around singing the lyrics to Pink Floyd songs that he doesn't even really like that much.

Then again, sometimes I sing "The Night Chicago Died" to myself, which is a song that absolutely nobody in their right mind is a fan of.

But I can't really be held responsible for that one, either. It's all Jack Black's fault:

 

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Sat, 28 May 2011 09:45:20 -0700 Leonard Nimoy Is the New Betty White http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/leonard-nimoy-is-the-new-betty-white http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/leonard-nimoy-is-the-new-betty-white

Fucking superb.

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Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:55:00 -0800 Well, Shit http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/well-shit http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/well-shit

I downloaded the new Dead Weather album today, and as I listened to it I wondered idly when the next White Stipes album might come out.

It looks like the answer is never. Less than an hour after listening to Jack White's new project, I read news of the band's official disbanding. The statement was released today.

I can't say that I'm surprised. The "band" felt really unfocused and disjointed on Icky Thump, and lately Jack's been doing everything in the world except working with Meg.

So, I sort of expected it, and I can accept it, but I don't have to like it.

Not one bit.

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Sat, 29 Jan 2011 11:43:00 -0800 Top Five: Songs That My Mother Liked to a Nearly Pychopathic Degree in the 70's and 80's http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/top-five-songs-that-my-mother-liked-to-a-near http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/top-five-songs-that-my-mother-liked-to-a-near

1. Kim Carnes--"Bette Davis Eyes"

2. Alicia Bridges--"I Love the Nightlife"

3. The Village People--"In The Navy"

4. Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes--"Up Where We Belong"

5. Bette Midler--"Wind Beneath my Wings"

(Top Fives won't always be funny. Sometimes they're informative, and sometimes they're just about you sharing my pain.)

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