friends mistaken for coveys

clearly this needed to happen.




There is an ABSOLUTELY unforgivable funk-instrumental on the Arctic Monkeys EP, called "Chun Li's Spinning Bird Kick," and as far as I can tell the rest of the album sounds like early Strokes outtakes, with more...cockrock solos?...I mean, yeah, I'm sure it's better than the new Richard Ashcroft record, but?

Going to IASPM on Thursday to give a paper on art-school trained pop musicians and gender performance, riffing on "disruption" and the performance of failure as a way for the folks to challenge performance conventions. my tempting fate?