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THAT's Conor Oberst?!?!?! I just read a review of the new Bright Eyes record in the Red Eye yesterday and he's like in his late 20s! That's kind of freaky. He reminds me of Kelly from the Bad News Bears, except not as, um, tough:

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2006/writers/richard_deitsch/12/14/media.circus/p1_haley.jpg

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. Conor is 27 apparently. There is a pic of him in 7th grade on wiki

― KitCat, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Like, I said, sometimes they start to look icky:

http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/Movies/Actors4/Jackie3_150.jpg http://www.thefilmexperience.net/images/2006/littlehaley.jpg

(Not that I ever actually fancied Jackie Earle Haley.)

― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

People aren't over Bright Eyes yet? Hello, year 2000 nostalgia.

― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

What do guys like that who "look 13" at that age look like in their 40s?

Pretty horrifying (see Davy Jones and other wizened teen idols).

Also, Oberst has long hair now, so jaymc will have something to hang onto.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Nation Planning Surprise Party To Cheer Up Conor Oberst

OMAHA, NE—American citizens are coordinating efforts to lift the spirits of wünderkind singer-songwriter Conor Oberst, sources reported Monday. "I saw Conor's picture in a Spin article about Bright Eyes, and he just looked so down," said Lindsey Keisner of Youngstown, OH, one of the party's 4,000 planners. "The country feels really bad that he's going through such a rough spell, so next Friday, everyone who can should meet in Omaha with balloons, funny cards, and silly little gag gifts." Britt Daniel from Spoon will lure Oberst to Omaha by asking him to overdub some vocals.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oberst's mother claims that he was banging since he was two years old.

LOL

Also, I didn't know his older brother was in Sorry About Dresden, whom I saw open for the Strokes in NC. I liked them a lot.

I had an age appropriate crush on Jackie Earle Haley when I was eight. Kind of like how 12 year old girls have age appropriate crushes on Connor Orbersteretttsst.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Jackie Earl Haley is a bad comparison for what CO will look like when he's older b/c JEH looked 13 when he WAS 13, whereas CO looks 13 at 27. Or at least is styled that way in photos.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

I think Conor Oberst will look like Emmanual Lewis when he's in his 40s.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

CO will look like when he's older b/c JEH looked 13 when he WAS 13,

are you sure? wasn't jeh one of the cutters in breaking away?

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

IMO the best thing to come out of the Saddle Creek incestuous band scene was Cursive's Domestica. Oh god how I loathe the Faint.

xxpost LOL

― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

meaning he was playing a college-aged dude (convincingly, except for his stature) in 1980 or so.

beartrap.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Lesse... Bad News Bears was made in 1976 and JEH was born in 1961, which would have made him 15 when he made the movie.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Breaking Away was 1979, making him 18 - college age.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I have never written nor spoken about Conor Oberst this much in my life, and I own a Desaparecidos CD.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

shit it was 76? i thought it was later than that. i must be thinking of the bnb go to japan.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

PLEASE DON'T BRING BEARTRAP HERE?

― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

It's kind of creepy that a guy in his late 20s can look like that.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

xp - I thought it was later, too! I am almost positive I saw it at the drive in with my parents.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Whenever I am in Michigan I feel like I need to hunker down and ride it out. I feel like the areas of the Midwest that lies between cities is hostile to my system--sort of like if you have to run into a smokey room to rescue a baby.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

I will not stop discussing Michigan until I'm not in Michigan.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Conor is 21 in the first photo.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Those eyes, those sighs, theyre part of the tender trap

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

THIS SNOW IS BLOWING MY MIND

― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

IT IS LITERALLY MAKING ME GO INSANE

― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

LLIITTEERRAALLLLYY

― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

GOING

― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

INSANE

― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Awww, I like Conor. Although I hate admitting that because people tend to get the impression that any Bright Eyes fan is some rabid obsessive that worships at the altar of Oberst. I just happen to love the way he throws himself completely into everything, even when he ends up looking like a pretentious douchebag. He's got some great moments buried in all of his albums.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

(pop)

― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

THIS SNOW IS BLOWING MY MIND

weekend on a wednesday.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

THAT WAS MY BRAIN EXPLODING

― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

It's not going to start snowing here until this afternoon. By the time I am trying to drive the hour back here from Saginaw, the roads ought to be getting shitty.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

this is a warm-fluffy-sock day.

― JuliaA, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

I just found out my sister is coming home this weekend, so now I kinda want to go to Michigan too. Damn it, why wasn't I informed of this earlier?

― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

I am so not going to class today. Gross.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

this is a go the fuck back to bed day

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Calling C.O. sullen is one of those misleading things, like calling Leonard Cohen depressed, when both of them (at their best) are really making music about transcending that stuff in a moment of ecstacy.

I mean, it's kind of a schtick - a voice and body trembling so much that it sounds like he's going to start sobbing in pain or transcendent happiness - but I think it's a heartfelt schtick.

Speaking of heartfelt schtick, there's a great photo of a Stooges concert on the front page of today's NY Times Arts section.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

No one here has any sisu.

― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/04/11/arts/11stoo_CA0.600.jpg

― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Eazy, like I said, I've only actually heard one Bright Eyes song, to my knowledge, so when I said "sullen" I was referring to the photo I posted.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://a763.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00958/26/75/958995762_l.jpg

― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

It's funny seeing that photo again, now that I know Jenny and Ben and Gerard.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

John, you should try the 'I'm Wide Awake, etc.' CD - you might like it.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

EZ your robut-esque dance pose in that pic cracks me up.

― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Surely you knew Jenny at the time, that was less than a year ago?

― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's a heartfelt schtick

but don't you see that just makes it worse

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Robot boxing. I knew Jenny, but now I feel like I know almost everyone on that stage better. And crazy that the 'nasta month at Schubas was a year ago!

― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

FYI: Youngbl00d Brass Band is playing at Subterranean this Saturday.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hot 8 Brass Band is at House of Blues on Friday.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

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