The Useless Critic 2.0

So, I went to Coachella for the first time this year, right? It was amazing, for the most part. I only say for the most part because of something that happened the first night that had nothing to do with the festival itself. BUT ANYWAY. The third and last day, Death from Above 1979 performed. It was their first real show in maybe 5-6 years. I really wanted to see them even though I only knew one song, "Romantic Rights", and even that I knew vaguely because the friend that I was with at Coachella had put it on a mix she made for me and it was cool and everything, whatever. However, during their set the equivalent of a musical orgasm (aurgasm?), eye porn, etc etc occurred that made me reevaluate my life and changed my life for the next couple of months so far thereafter - I became OBSESSED with Death From Above 1979. Obsessed. Specifically with the lead singer, Sebastien Grainger. Hell, I even became slightly just as obsessed with the pornstache and the shittiness of fellow mem...

Growing up, my sister used to play Casey Kasem's top 40 all the time, Sunday mornings. I remember being flabbergasted when I found at Casey voiced Shaggy on Scooby, which isn't so flabbergasting when you consider that Shaggy was a big hippie and I'm sure C may have been (well not so sure, but the top 40 did begin in the 1970s). then I started listening to it, my pop music stage in middle school. Man, I remember hearing Destiny's Child and Jennifer Lopez and all that shit I used to love on there. and then No Doubt and my adolescent heart would skip many beats. well, once I got into Radiohead in ninth grade, I was like "fuck this shit" (excuse my language profanity is my big vice, and interpals) and stopped listening. but I found out today that CK did his last broadcast. and thus ends thirtysomething years...which really shows you how outdated radio is becoming, how irrelevant top 40 stations are. I only listen to XM in the car now, and before that, just my ipod...