waking jonas is dealing with that outfit.

ok so

generally i like to pretend that i’m cooler than an impulse purchase at a corporate whore store like starbucks but i’m not. especially when it is this:

a fucking new wave compilation, of which there are only two left in the display. so i already have most of the songs on the cd. but i also don’t have some of them.

it’s friday and i want to listen to brass in pocket…which is not a new wave song, starbucks. whatever though.

tonight is the presets show at….whatever venue we are going to see it at, they all run together. it’s the eve of memorial day weekend 2008 and i have had enough coffee.

you bought that?

oh christ.

the one thing that I can say that I am glad that they put Ian mculloch on the cover… which reminded me that i don;t have ANY fucking CD’s of Echo and the Bunnymen…

so… I mean… coolio and all.. but I bet all they put on there was killing moon right?

ack.

and yeah… The Pretenders are definitely New Wave… they are about as New Wave as New Wave gets… it’s just no one remembers what New wave was… but really… new wave was like Siouxie’s album Join Hands… The Chameleons… it was really more Punk than synthpop when it first hit… and then it went synthpop… huh… I actually like the wikipedia entry…

“The term New Wave itself is a source of much confusion. It was introduced in 1976 in Great Britain by Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren as an alternative label for what was also being called “punk”. The term referenced the avant-garde, stylish French New Wave film movement of the 1960s. The label was soon picked up by British punk fanzines such as Sniffin’ Glue and then the professional music press.[1] Thus, the term “New Wave” was initially interchangeable with “punk”.”

anyway… kinda interesting… I dunnknow

I should be pursuing my PhD.

ack.

the pretenders are a new wave band. brass in pocket isn’t really a new wave song.