aw that's a real nice thing steve.
― IT WASN'T NOT FUNNY! (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
er, I thought Albini was a jerk. CONFUSING
― lukevalentine, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i met him once when shellac played my friend's wedding and he was super nice and polite, even talked with their parents and everything.
― IT WASN'T NOT FUNNY! (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Line-up for next week's Letters to Santa benefit in Chicago. Second City has about 200 seats, so it's a nice, intimate place to see bands. I saw Shellac there at 3 a.m. a few years ago, for an audience of about 50; saw Tweedy, Robbie Fulks, and Jason Molina as well. The Blisters is Tweedy's kid's band--maybe 12 years old, now.
Again. Again. Again.24 hours of improvisation and music. Second City ETC 1608 N Wells St Chicago, ILAll-ages$15 for entire 24 hoursTickets available at the door only.Tuesday December 15 6pm through Wednesday December 16 6pmhttp://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=146133034046&ref=tsAuction items, raffle prizes, music and funny
Confirmed Special Guests7pm Jeff Tweedy10pm Robbie FulksMidnight Asssscat with Horatio Sanz & Matt Walsh with Chicago Guests3am Flash Mob Marching Band6am Bonnie Prince BillyNoon Nina Nastasia2pm The Mountain Goats4:30pm The Blisters
― Action Orientation (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
haha, Shellac plays weddings? wow. but yeah, it seems like Albini likes (or liked) being provocative, but most people who work with him seem to love the guy.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah basically my friends are super fans and his wife to be just emailed bob weston i think and ended up chatting with them about it...they basically had to pay enough to cover the opening touring band's room & board (had a band from NZ on the shellac tour) but anyway it worked out with their schedule and it was really fun, my old band got to open...
they played most of "la grange" and about 30 second of "shout at the devil" wish i recorded that set
― IT WASN'T NOT FUNNY! (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/9109/stevealbini02dx3.jpg
― too shart (am0n), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Steve Albini's cookery blog..
http://mariobatalivoice.blogspot.com/
― Night Nurse with Wound (Jack Battery-Pack), Friday, 10 June 2011 11:04 (twelve years ago) link
"I have also successfully cooked for our cats."
classic!
― Night Nurse with Wound (Jack Battery-Pack), Friday, 10 June 2011 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
I like how if you go back to the first few entries it reads like the blandest most uninspired cooking blog ever - think there might have been rather a lot of feet-finding here
his 'great mate' Luke Haines just started one as well, can't quite figure out how much his recipes are trolling (unless you're Paul Weller)
― Beth Gibbons & Foreskin Man (DJ Mencap), Friday, 10 June 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
Now that is worth bookmarking!
― Mark G, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:03 (twelve years ago) link
lol yeah I subscribed to that one
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 10 June 2011 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
he sure does make a lot of pasta
― call all destroyer, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
Love how all of Albini's hobbies - online poker! cooking blog! - reveal him to be the nice, normal guy his reputation doesn't always convey. Though I think he's mellowed a lot as he creeps toward 50.
Now, an Ian MacKaye cooking blog, that would be a surprise.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
I remember when Fugazi did a recipe column for Maximum Rock'n'Roll and it was for fucking oatmeal, no joke.
― NickB, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
The Haines food blog is fucking great.
― oppet, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
Luke Haines?
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
x-post
Ian M.'s been a vegetarian for awhile and a parent for a few years so maybe he could do some interesting blog posts
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
in some recent henry rollins interview (on wtf i think) he was talking about how he basically hates the whole 'eating' thing and mostly eats oatmeal.
― adult music person (Jordan), Friday, 10 June 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Friday, 10 June 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
The only time I have ever followed a musician's recipe was when I made spicy bean burgers from Richard Youngs' vegan cookbook. They were horrible btw and my family hated them.
― NickB, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
Please tell me that somewhere in the comments on the Albini blog, Michael Gerard has complained about the quality of his hamburgers.
― NickB, Friday, 10 June 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
Man, I get this all part of Albini's cranky old man persona, but I call bullshit on this (from his Gothamist interview):
I’m an exceptionally lucky man in that I’ve never heard a note of Lady Gaga’s music and you could sit her on my lap and I wouldn’t recognize her. I know that she’s a cultural force at the moment but I’m quite satisfied in having dodged that one. It’s like a truck drove by spraying shit from a nozzle over the entire neighborhood and I happened to be under an awning. You know?
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 3 October 2011 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
I bet he has a Lady Gaga poster above his bed.
― StanM, Monday, 3 October 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
Did you know he was a poker ace?
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Monday, 3 October 2011 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah; he can get dangerously close to "the guy at parties who loudly tells people 'I don't even OWN a TV'" at times.
― She Got the Shakes, Monday, 3 October 2011 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
His whole "You know what I can authoritatively declare sucks? This thing I've never heard/experienced!" schtick is getting old(er).
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 3 October 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
Someone needs to tell him that shouting this kind of thing hasn't earned anyone "cred" since at least 1995.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 3 October 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
love this guy--he's prolly not worried about his cred either at this point. he's having a laugh you know?
― Mr. Que, Monday, 3 October 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
Too bad it's not a funny laugh.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 3 October 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
i'm going to drive by his house and play lady gaga really loud.
― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Monday, 3 October 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
lol this is a quality zing imo
I remember when I saw Shellac last year play at Bell House that it was pretty striking to see a band live that was playing really direct, aggressive music that wasn’t trying to be pretty or poppy. It just seems from my perspective that there aren’t many bands that are making dark or ugly music anymore. Well, it sort of depends on the idiom really. There’s a lot of sort of grungy metal and punk stuff where every single band is trying to make aggressive music.Yeah, I guess I’m referring more to the... Bands that play at the clubs you go to.
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 3 October 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
not a zing imo
also Albini is awesome
― great zing-balls (crüt), Monday, 3 October 2011 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
He'll go through what the rest of us went through a few summers ago: "Bad Romance" will be playing in the background somewhere, and someone will tell him that it's Lady Gaga, and he'll have the thought "Oh, that's Lady Gaga? I hear that at the supermarket, etc."
― per metal injection (Eazy), Monday, 3 October 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
getting mad at Steve Albini for being cranky about pop music seems like an eternally losing bet, like getting mad at Henry Rollins for going to the gym
― the tax avocado (DJP), Monday, 3 October 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not mad at him, I accept it as part of his "thing", but I don't buy this particular one at all.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 3 October 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
man if you don't get some lols from that Gothamist interview then you are crankier than ol' Steve A, that shit is full of guffaws
My brother actually played in a pretty well known ska band and he claimed that ska is more popular now than it ever has been. Oh, which band was it?They were called Mephiskapheles. I was going to say please let it be Mephiskapheles. Was he horn?
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 3 October 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
okay lol
― the tax avocado (DJP), Monday, 3 October 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
really? you seem kind of furious at him, man
― Mr. Que, Monday, 3 October 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
no, I'm more lol @ him
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 3 October 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
this is all better if you imagine he was wearing a Hello Kitty cardigan during the interview
― the tax avocado (DJP), Monday, 3 October 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
So this is an interview for Gothamist, which is a New York-centric website.I believe you. Do you have any New York stories that you’d care to share?No.
lol
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Monday, 3 October 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
seriously, as a guy who thankfully does not have to interview as many musicians as much as he used to, i appreciate anyone who provides good copy, even if it's at the interviewers expense. at least if you ask albini an asinine or boring question you're going to get a zing out of it.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Monday, 3 October 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
I wouldn't recognize Gaga either, but then I don't recognize ILXors I know unless I see em at least once every 6 weeks.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 October 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
saw Shellac for the first time last week and was genuinely surprised at how good they were. stage banter itself worth the price of admission.
― circa1916, Monday, 3 October 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
yeah shellac rules, i've seen then...god...over dozen times at least
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 October 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
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― wasabi pea-sized masculinity (latebloomer), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
pity most of their albums since AAP are patchy as hell
― Master of Treacle, Monday, 3 October 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
really? i like terraform the best by far
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
greyhound was pretty patchy though