BRING ON TOP CHEF

this time of year, two (two????) years ago, roddy gave me a copy of the newly mastered idlewild fifth and asked me to mull it over. i walked with it to and from work, soaking in something very different than "the remote part." i ended up falling in love with that record, though even i was shocked when the NME gave it a 9 out of 10. i love idlewild, but i dont think "warnings/promises" was a 9/10 record. so this morning left me wondering, can the NME ever give a retraction? not that i want them to tear down the last i-wild offering, but if the last one was a 9/10, i dont see where the fuck this forthcoming one is gonna fit on the scale. it may very well be their 14. "make another world" is exactly the record idlewild had to make for 2007. it has rock jams that will find similar favor to shit like "paint nothing" and "i am what i am not" while also being entirely modern and dare i say, a tad DISCEMO in parts!!!??? maybe all those nights of dragging roddy to the dark room paid off.

anyway, while i would like to say that listening to the new record has been keeping me from updating, that would be a lie - i only started with it this week, refusing to pay attention until allan left new york (in my mind, listening to a bands new record in front of a band member is like opening a gift in front of the giver. what if it sucks? you can totally read my reaction on my face, and i didnt want to risk it).

its been a busy time chez me. following the mets is proving to be an olympic brain sport. i went to game one of the NLCS and have otherwise left a butt-impression on the chairs at reservoir on university. ive gone to see a few bands - built to spill rule hard when youre stoned, and young love, how youve grown! ive drank a kings ransom in zygo. ive all but denied the fact that art brut have arrived in new york and i have to have that kind of fun again (denied in that im going to game six tonight - if i make it to warsaw after, all the better). ive had takeout margaritas. ive played with monkey. ive seen "little miss sunshine" which was so fucking good (though i swear one of the girls in the beauty pageant segment is really a little person in a big world).

oy va voy what else. i cant even think yet. i need my iced coffee. everyone needs to be at the annex tomorrow for the art brut fete....