All posts by G. Gordon Gritty

Seinfeld Cast on Curb

Canada.com:

Hey, you. Shmuck! Yes, you.

The cast of Seinfeld is about to reunite for a five-episode run of Curb Your Enthusiasm. You got a problem with that?

Good.

Because Larry David, Curb’s iconoclastic writer, star, producer and complainer-in-chief, doesn’t need another reason to get angry.

David, seething with mock indignation, took the stage moments after a highlight reel from Curb’s seventh season was shown to reporters at the semi- annual gathering of the Television Critics Association.

The co-creator, one-time head writer and executive producer of Seinfeld has done what he once swore he would never do: Talk the cast of Seinfeld into a reunion.

Never got much into Seinfeld, but very very excited none-the-less for this season of Curb.

Quote of the Day

The quote of the day comes from great Catholic thinker G.K Chesterton. Chesterton advocated an economic philosophy known as Distributism, encouraging as many owners of production as possible.

“Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.”

CD Review: Julian Plenti is…Skyscraper

Band: Julian Plenti
Label: Matador
Release: 2009

1. “Only If You Run” – 9.8
2. “Fun That We Have” – 9.5
3. “Skyscraper” – 9.5
4. “Games For Days” – 9.8
5. “Madrid Song” – 9.1
6. “No Chance Survival” – 9.3
7. “Unwind” – 9.5
8. “Girl on the Sporting News” – 9.3
9. “On the Esplanade” – 9.6
10. “Fly As You Might” – 9.7
11. “H” – 9.0

Comments: Paul Banks is down to serious business with this, which is seriously amazing. The critics hit the mark when they categorize this as part folk, part pounding art rock. A lot of it is better than Interpol — and that’s saying a lot.

Grade: 9.5

CD Review: The Satanic Satanists

Band: Portugal. The Man
Release: 2009

1. “People Say” – 8.3
2. “Work All Day” – 8.9
3. “Lovers In Love” – 8.6
4. “The Sun” – 8.8
5. “The Home” – 9.3
6. “The Woods” – 8.8
7. “Guns and Dogs” – 9.1
8. “Do You” – 9.3
9. “Everyone Is Golden” – 9.4
10. “Let You Down” – 8.6
11. “Mornings” – 9.6

Comments: What’s going on in this album is essentially marginalized pop music. It’s the kind of music that could easily become “big,” but as a whole is a bit too obscure for that level. I sense a variety of reggae and R&B influence. For its genre(s), it’s no doubt top-tier. The latter half of the album consists of some of the best pop-rock this year has seen.

Final Grade: 9.0 out of 10

Descendents Girl Vs. “Black Lips Girl”

http://www.imposemagazine.com/welcome-black-lips-girl/22590/

So yeah no doubt “Black Lips Girl” looks like she can really go nuts during a show, but as one commenter pointed out…look at Descendents girl. “Black Lips Girl” is stealing Descendents girl’s spotlight. I vote Descendents girl.

Speaking of the world’s greatest band…check out this “Drop I Hold” remix:

CD Review: Eskimo Snow

Band: Why?
Label: Anticon.
Release: 2009

1. “These Hands” – 8.1
2. “January Twenty Something” – 8.7
3. “Against Me” – 9.2
4. “Even the Good Wood Gone” – 8.3
5. “Into the Shadows of My Embrace” – 8.5
6. “One Rose” – 8.3
7. “On Rose Walk, Insomniac” – 7.5
8. “Berkeley by Hearseback” – 7.7
9. “This Blackest Purse” – 8.8
10. “Eskimo Snow” – 8.1

Final Grade: 8.3

King Khan & BBQ’s Invisible Girl

The King Khan & BBQ Show, wacky motherfuckers that they are, don’t announce new albums via press release, the way sane people do. Instead, the dynamic garage rock duo jump on their MySpace page and post an alternately informative and annoying “KKBBQ Infomercial” featuring tons of song clips and goofy voices. (Whoever does the Snaggletooth impression should really consider never doing a Snaggletooth impression again.)

So here’s the pertinent information: The new album will be called Invisible Girl. It’s out on November 3. The infomercial promises “12 songs loaded with kicks”, and someone describes it as “a love story of hate.”

And just apparently the Almighty Defenders/King Khan & BBQ Show tour will kick off in late October.