The Useless Critic 2.0

Virgin Mobile Free Fest 2011 free Friday @ 10 am gets you: - Cut Copy - The Black Keys - Deadmau5 - TV on the Radio - Grace Potter and the  Nocturnals - James Murphy (solo) - Patti Smith - Big Sean - Bombay Bicycle Club - !!! - Calvin Harris - Okkervil River - Empire of the Sun - Ghostland Observatory - Cee Lo Green - Two Door Cinema Club - Alberta Cross - Teddybears - Porter Robinson - Eclectic Method SEPTEMBER 10 2011 MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION

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...

STRANGE MERCY SEPTEMBER 12TH

OMGOMGOMG the poetry nerd in me today has ejaculated, my friends. A TED HUGHES POEM ABOUT THE DEATH OF SYLVIA PLATH HAS EMERGED. read about it here . shit! those words. "your wife is dead." also, Sylvia Plath is being interred in New York City next month? SAY WHAT? ROADTRIP????