Malin -

Min kamera är tillbaka! Jag fann den i en väska jag redan rotat igenom två gånger. Nästa gång ska jag fan tömma skiten redan första gången. Jag har sagt det innan, och jag säger det igen; jag blir så trött på mig själv!

Tomtar på loftet, någon?

Jag har tidigare i min blogg nämnt bandet All Ends (http://www.myspace.com/allends), mest för att min mattelärare från gymnasiet är en av gitarristerna (och han är inte bara snygg och cool, utan rätt grym på musik också). De har gjort en riktigt bra cover på den annars lite uttjatade och tråkiga låten Apologize (original One Republic). Deras officiella musikvideo finns här. Den är definitivt värd en lyssning i alla fall. Det verkar gå väldigt bra för bandet och de släppte nyligen en fullängdare. All lycka och kärlek till er!

Förövrigt är Fall Out Boy som också tidigare nämnt mina favoriter sedan en längre tid tillbaka. Är du en av de bovar som anser att FOB är sell-outs? Ta dig 4 minuter och läs igenom följande 6 anledningar till att FOB inte suger så mycket som du tror:

"In fact, they don't suck at all. One of the most unfairly maligned bands in all the land, Fall Out Boy is despised for such sins as getting really popular and having a glammy showboat playing bass. At least one reviewer pouted that the band's addictive new album Folie a Deux, is too ambitious. Oh, please. Does anyone say that about Radiohead or Animal Collective, or any of the sanctified indie saints? Ambition is good. Ambition means you're trying. Ambition means you have ideas and want them to get a public airing (which is pretty much the essence of the creative impulse), so let's all take a deep breath and stop slapping around a band that's smarter and more fun than a lot of people are willing to admit. Fall Out Boy deserves a break from the hateration for the following reasons: 

1) Folie a Deux is outstanding. It has 13 songs, 10 of which are keepers. Two of the other three tracks (the late-album filler "W.A.M.S." and "West Coast Smoker") have interesting moments. The only song I really hate is the single, "I Don't Care," which says more about the state of the rock-singles market than it does about the state of this album. Top to bottom, it's loaded with smart, hooky anthems. If you, the rock 'n' roll fan, can't get behind "Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes," "Closers" or "20 Dollar Nose Bleed," something is wrong.    

2) They have great taste in collaborators. Would Lil Wayne and Elvis Costello have agreed to guest on Folie a Deux if the band was so awful?

3) They're funny. They have a song called "Coffee's for Closers," a Glengarry Glen Ross reference that shouldn't be lost on the sanctimonious pop culture priests that worship David Mamet but think Pete Wentz is juvenile. Their new album cover features a picture of a boy in a bear suit carrying an actual bear on his back. Their video for "Thanks Fr Th Mmrs" allows chimpanzees to mercilessly mock the band, subtly sending up the idea that Fall Out Boy is so terrible, even a monkey can do better.

4) Bass-playing lyricist Wentz, whom we are supposed to hate because he's in love with lip-syncher Ashlee Simpson, is a charismatic guy, which is not as cool as being a sulky shoegazing tortured genius.  

5) They're fair to their fans. When Folie a Deux came out, they made it available as a $3.99 download on their MySpace page. So much for major-label bands being slaves to their corporate masters. It's hard to think of Fall Out Boy as profiteering sellouts when they're selling their new album at a cut-rate price. (Yeah, they were probably selling it so cheap because that's what it's worth! Good one!) 

6) They're an increasingly rare breed-that is, a massively popular rock band. Quick: Name three other American rock bands with members under 30 years old that can headline arenas Can't do it? Try naming two. How about one?"

Nu är klockan nästan två, mitt i natten, och mina ögon kliar. Det innebär att jag ger upp för idag och beger mig i säng. Tjing.


P.S. Jag är så förbannat trött på att folk som inte tycker om mig envisas med att le så falskt de bara kan, och hälsa på mig, trots att deras ögon lyser av "ta mig härifrån". Skit i att hälsa istället, för FAN. Irritationsmoment nummer 1 idag, ja!