Covidiots in music

xxxp - I always have to show my vax card but pretty rarely ID. I don't go to bars though, and only hit up restaurants for lunch in downtown sf.

If this dude walked in with Julian Casablancas' vax card I'd also probably ask for i.d.

https://musicfeeds.com.au/assets/uploads/2020/12/Julian-Casablancas.jpg

Truly glad I was always too broke to become truly "into" cocaine when I see pics like that.

jfc, he's four years younger than me

jfc, he’s thirteen years younger than me.

jfc, i lost my hat

I dunno, he looks ok in this picture:

https://media.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/1218/files/2020/12/laverne-and-shirleyandrew-squiggy-squiggmann.jpg

lol

"Kiss me now that I'm ollldeerrr...."

was he the one with herpes? I get them confused

In that pic with the mic he looks like someone who's spent the last 20 years snorting one continuous line of coke. To the point where he's probably trying to snort that mic.

"Casablancas has maintained a teetotal lifestyle since 2009"

"Coke and nothing but coke. It keeps me pure. I hate food."

Ah, Bowie's "Thin White Duke" diet.

Or Jimmy Page's all-banana-daiquiri regime of 1976.

Lol ❤️ the Carlos D callback sarahell

(xxp) Coke, milk, and green and red peppers.

Not even full fat milk.
https://i.gifer.com/12YS.gif

Possibly with a fly in it for protein.

I saw the Strokes at that same festival (Outside Lands) ten years ago and I was kind of blown away at how funny he was on stage. The opposite of all the other bands playing their "80,000 people are watching us" sets. He seemed drunk but in a show-enhancer type of way. They fuckin' killed it, and I don't really know much about the Strokes, other than they killed it at Outside Lands ten years ago. But his stage banter was even better than the music.

"It's so cool to be playing in the woods. It's like Last of the Mohs."

I don't know if I'm describing it well but the detached, deadpan delivery had people, including me, falling down laughing. Delayed laughter that infected the entire crowd. Took a few seconds to process what he'd said.

Later they played "Last Nite" and he sang "American Girl" over the entire song.

I don't get why people think those songs sound the same. I guess there are a few fleeting similarities? Tempo? Anyway, the only time I saw the Strokes they were opening for Tom Petty. They were fine.

in retrospect, one of my few "right place right time" shows was seeing the strokes somewhere in STL at a tiny, tiny club, just when they blew up

they were excellent

We saw them 4-5 times, in their prime... the best was at Universal (Gibson) Ampitheatre (R.I.P.); Julian came into the pit with a super-long mic cord, and walked around singing while everyone went nuts around him. It was pretty memorable...

I love those first two albums - they actually make a nice double. (I remember burning them on to one disc since they ran under 40 minutes each, and it more or less felt seamless.) I missed all the hype they got in 2001, but even though I never got into album #3 and the rest, they seemed pretty excellent for a short while.

everyone who isn’t a herb knows the first two albums are solid

Is ILM on a mission to bring "herb" back into regular use again?

xpost -- Hmmm.

Tempo?

They’re the opposite of loudquietloud it’s just mediummediummedium.

The first album is fine but best enjoyed one song at a time because it’s so unrelentingly samey.

Lol, I remember seeing the Strokes when they opened for GBV before their first album really blew up. GBV fans gave them so much shit that when Pollard came on stage he started ranting at his own fans.

Funny, I also saw the Strokes really early, opening for Doves in the 7th Street Entry.

Julian was wasted and stumbling around and tripped on these stairs and fell on me and came so close to burning me with his cigarette but I caught him and held him up

opening for doves

:D

Is ILM on a mission to bring "herb" back into regular use again?

― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3jxl5TdjKo

There was a whole series of those BK "Herb" adverts and they were all terrible. It's widely regarded as their worst-ever ad campaign, successful only in getting people named Herb to avoid getting food at Burger King for the rest of their lives.

Strokes apparently flew back to NYC to play a pro-climate change rally

In addition to encouraging people to search for Herb, Burger King added an "I'm not Herb" promotion to their marketing campaign. Because Burger King claimed to be angry at Herb for not eating at their restaurants, they offered a 99-cent Whopper hamburger to everybody except Herb. To get the discounted price, customers had to say, "I'm not Herb" while ordering. Customers named Herb were told to say, "I'm not the Herb you're looking for".

good god it's not 2003, we don't have to keep pretending The Strokes were good to get into the bar

But we do need a vax card and ID

They were good when I was high schooler in love with drugs and art and other young men who were in love with drugs and art and young women.

Strokes more like Snooze.

I mean, I always assumed their name was a reference to the jerking-off hand gesture, so...

also what the guitar riffs sound like

I thought they were a swim team

They are midnight strokes imo

Ugh.

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/exodus-singer-rails-against-socialist-vaccine-mandates-defends-his-support-of-donald-trump

"Do you know, when I go to Australia or Mexico, I have to fucking get a visa to come into your countries. Why doesn't anybody have to have a visa to come into my country? That's bullshit."

^This bit of flotsam in the sea of stupid made me curious. As far as I can see, Mexico's list of countries whose citizens don't need a tourist visa (for visits less than 180 days) is shorter than the USA's list (for visits less than 90 days). Also, the US is on Mexico's list, but it ain't reciprocal.

Australia does seem to require a tourist visa for visitors from most anywhere; but it allows passport holders from a short list of countries – including the US – to make do with something called an "Electronic Travel Authority" (when its borders aren't closed for Covid, anyway).

*sorry, I meant Mexico's list is longer than the USA's

Sadly I knew that about Zetro. Nice guy in person when I met him but dumb and infuriating as a right wing uncle at a family reunion.

Surprised Holt puts up with it

Broken Social Scene just postponed a date here in Toronto if anyone wants more proof of the "rumour" that Kevin Drew is anti-vax

Thousands of people have retweeted a picture shared by Right Said Fred of a sign urging parents to donate their children’s organs at a vaccine clinic.

The photo has been manipulated, and the original says nothing about organ donation. https://t.co/PhZeNaBICN

— Full Fact (@FullFact) November 8, 2021