Dance Floor Exhaustion (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} woekitten) wrote,@ 2008-12-01 19:56:00 |
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The Killers tour with Captain Trips
The other day I was trolling for news as part of a job that requires me to troll for news. Associated Press said to me, "Ummm, you do know The Killers have a new album out, right?" and I was like, "Oh my stars!"
It's called Day & Age and it falls comfortably in between the ridiculous fun of Hot Fuss and the plain ridiculousness of Sam's Town. Listening to it requires no effort on my part other than hitting "play" (hey, that's complicated shit). I'm still trying to scrape up my brain from the beautiful car wreck that is Chinese Democracy, so I'm not adverse to digestible background music right now.
Day & Age has a track called "Neon Tiger." Hmm hmm hmmm. Have things come full circle?
Sam's Town had a lot of energy, but Brandon sure was pissed off about something. It might have been Green Day's American Idiot or it may have been a cloud; it never was clear. A good deal of Sam's Town also sounded like new-ish U2, the difference being that Bono can still write sensible lyrics on occasion. Brandon's followers were stuck with brain, refrain, cocaine.
Day & Age still sounds You-Twosey, but Brandon took some time out to nurse his sprained vagina and now he's all better and having fun again. In the spirit of the season: "A+++++!"
What else is going on in my epic life. Oh yeah! I've been collecting The Stand, which marks the first time I've collected a US comic series since Preacher. I had wondered how King and Company would manage to cram a ten million word count into the comic format. The answer is easy: cut out all instances of the book's severe profanity and there's a nice drop right there.
Frannie's father also can't slap his harpy wife, but Poke can still have half his face blown off. The real benefit to this grade of censorship is that maybe Frannie and Stu won't be allowed to have sex every ten seconds and we can get on with the story.
Nick Andros rules, of course. The comic nails Larry Underwood's undulating morals as well. Will my very favourite character, Glenn Bateman, suffer the same injustice that saw him cut from the movie? Life's Great Survey says, "Nadia sucks, so yeah, probably."
The other day I was trolling for news as part of a job that requires me to troll for news. Associated Press said to me, "Ummm, you do know The Killers have a new album out, right?" and I was like, "Oh my stars!"
It's called Day & Age and it falls comfortably in between the ridiculous fun of Hot Fuss and the plain ridiculousness of Sam's Town. Listening to it requires no effort on my part other than hitting "play" (hey, that's complicated shit). I'm still trying to scrape up my brain from the beautiful car wreck that is Chinese Democracy, so I'm not adverse to digestible background music right now.
Day & Age has a track called "Neon Tiger." Hmm hmm hmmm. Have things come full circle?
Sam's Town had a lot of energy, but Brandon sure was pissed off about something. It might have been Green Day's American Idiot or it may have been a cloud; it never was clear. A good deal of Sam's Town also sounded like new-ish U2, the difference being that Bono can still write sensible lyrics on occasion. Brandon's followers were stuck with brain, refrain, cocaine.
Day & Age still sounds You-Twosey, but Brandon took some time out to nurse his sprained vagina and now he's all better and having fun again. In the spirit of the season: "A+++++!"
What else is going on in my epic life. Oh yeah! I've been collecting The Stand, which marks the first time I've collected a US comic series since Preacher. I had wondered how King and Company would manage to cram a ten million word count into the comic format. The answer is easy: cut out all instances of the book's severe profanity and there's a nice drop right there.
Frannie's father also can't slap his harpy wife, but Poke can still have half his face blown off. The real benefit to this grade of censorship is that maybe Frannie and Stu won't be allowed to have sex every ten seconds and we can get on with the story.
Nick Andros rules, of course. The comic nails Larry Underwood's undulating morals as well. Will my very favourite character, Glenn Bateman, suffer the same injustice that saw him cut from the movie? Life's Great Survey says, "Nadia sucks, so yeah, probably."
