Should I go see Zooey Deschanel? She is coming to my town.

other dude is cool and the gang.

check them out. they put on a good show.

her sister is way hotter - maybe she could start a band with Sam Beam or something...

I am not so much into M Ward as some. Never heard She and Him. But I do have a crazy crush on ZD.

XPOST OMG Emily is no where near as hot as Zooey

oh shit mods delete thread

So wait, you're asking if you should go for totally creepy reasons, but you won't go if it'll be a 'creepfest'?

Creepfests are ok

He doesn't want to be out creeped at the creepfest. Or out creped.

the album is pleasant but dull. the melodies seem a bit aimless; i can tell with they're going for, and they're close enough to be kind of satisfying, but they miss by a bit--just aren't well-constructed enough. her voice has a nice "grain" and she does some neat things with it but maybe too laid-back?

anyway just sayin'. can't find a thread on the SHE & HIM LP.

up your crepe game

http://theramblingrountrees.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/crepes.jpg

not to be outcreped...

guys I totally forgot about the whole "crepe" meme but i'd already planned on going and having some delicious crepes after work today

I am hoping that she joins M. Ward onstage at Pitchfork Fest, because there's no way I'm watching that dude otherwise.

he's biracial though!

Best Arguments for Miscegenation: The Biracial Hotties Thread

U.S. cities that have become unlikely homes to immigrant communities

Uh?

Biracial hotties! "Exotic" "immigrants" in places you'd never expect them!

The first thread was, in retrospect, not the best idea I've ever had. I'm not sure why you've mentioned the second, though, unless you're another person who has a problem with the word "unlikely," in which case I think I explained myself pretty well on the thread. Or is the very topic of the thread somehow out of bounds? Because however inarticulately I may have expressed myself, I still think it's a pretty fascinating subject.

xp I never used the word "exotic."

I mean, suggest how I might've approached that subject differently. I don't think I was being any less sensitive than a PBS documentary would be about the same topic.

I GUESS WHAT I AM SAYING IS DON'T TALK SHIT ABOUT MY BRO BECAUSE YOU ARE A REALLY CREEPY DUDE BASICALLY.

I don't even know your bro, and I think most people who have met me would concur that I am not very creepy, even if some of my ILX posts might suggest otherwise.

GOD THE SHIT I WOULD PUT IN HER ASS

LOL@ade.

Jaymc, I'm sure gabbneb and deeznuts think you are so awesome but your taste in music, however, is not.

he went there

xp Who are you now, Stormy Davis?

And yeah, I don't know that we would really get along, primarily because your taste in music fucking SUCKS! BIG TIME! stop being a frickin follower-boy ILM hiveminder and get one taste for chrissakes. try listening to some records made before the year 2000 once in a while. jesus.

-- Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:09 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

Yes!

But no seriously, would you say the same thing about Matmos, Momus, or MtnGos or some other band you're "down with on the NET!"? No, because I think you are polite.

So be careful who you talk shit about because you could appear to be impolite (like me). Learn from my mistakes.

Steve Shasta

PS: Dude is a great musician and I'm deeply sorry that all that heavy-handed B&S pabulumic tripe that you listen to has made you a cloth-eared naif.

btw Stormy Davis OTM

What are you even talking about? Oh wait, M. Ward? Haha, I didn't even realize you'd gone back to what this thread is about. I dunno, man: I've heard a few M. Ward songs and they didn't really do much for me, but I kind of like the She & Him record.

But that's sort of a weird comment to be making re politeness, because if everyone on ILM held their tongues about bands they didn't like, the board would be doomed. And your comparison to Matmos, Momus, and the Mountain Goats doesn't really hold up, because M. Ward doesn't post on ILM.

I like some Belle & Sebastian stuff but certainly not all of it and I wouldn't even say that they're a fair representation of the kind of music I like. Still, even if they were, I'm not too bothered: I get frustrated when people misconstrue my intentions (as with your calling me out on the immigrants thread), but I'm not so insecure that I'm going to care how you feel about the music I like.

Anyway, we both like Pavement and Fleetwood Mac, so it's all good, bro.

duuuuuuuude there is no way im as creepy as gabbneb

btw cankles otm

I think the new She & Him single, "In the Sun" was made for people who found "1-2-3-4" by Feist too hard-edged and ominous. It has a nice arrangement and subtly diverting MOR melody though.

haven't heard it but great video

Have you only watched it on mute so then, you filthy bugger? ;-)

this is like the most inconsequential and unmemorable music ever

sort of suspicious of people who are really, really into it

Lord, to have as few cares as I did upthread.

Although jaymc still creeps me out, sorry bro.

Also "she" knows more about Twin Peaks then anyone hardcore geek you know, it's rad.

jaymc is super NOT creepy, trust me

yeah but that's coming from you.

http://www.american.com/graphics/2008/february-02-08/Salt%20feature.jpg

suggest ban

picture me lollin

this thread is hilarious

Am I crazy or is the new video somehow a takeoff of Britney's " Baby One More Time?"

I READ HRO TOO

i've got mad love for M. Ward but this is wack.

wtf this thread

It's a good tune. I find amateurist's criticisms a tad on the millenarian side. ;-)

New album is streaming at NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124615798&ft=1&f=1039

On first listen, I like this a lot -- a lot more confident-sounding than the first record, if a little less "spontaneous."

It's not bad, I pretty much agree with you from this listen. Still not sure if should bite on the amazonmp3 $5 release day thing going on right now...

should i go kill zooey deschanel? she is coming to my drown

not very nice :-(

not a single pun about zooey and 500 Days of Summer here. Times are changing

just watched the In The Sun video. UNBEARABLE (hott).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ3cTwI9bIw

too bad about the music

i like the idea of m. ward (who is a pretty amazing guitarist) in a west-coast 70s-style pop act.

not sure this particular group is the best showcase for him in that role, but whatevs.

my crush on her died after seeing 500 Days of Summer

now that you mention it, she didn't seem hot at all from what i recall of that movie.

katy perry is like her with tits?

always annoyed by how her parents went out of their way to give her a literary reference name then mispronounced it.

always annoyed by how her parents went out of their way to give her a literary reference name then mispronounced it.

― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow)

Never heard a note of hers, but I assume she was named after the JD Salinger book, "Frannie and Zooey"

always hear her called Zoe (s'pose this might not be her fault, but as a public figure she can dictate how her name is pronounced) when it should be Zoo-ey

gotcha

i have never heard her name pronounced as Zoe

lucky you.

pretty sure I've only heard her name pronounced as zoe

then again, I don't talk about zooey deschanel so much

I saw something in Mojo (or somesuch) where she lists her favourite music.

"Odessey and Oracle", and such like.

She has very similar tastes, it seems, as our Alice.

Her name was made famous by author J.D. Salinger, who wrote the classic Catcher in the Rye and the best-selling Franny and Zooey. But frisky young actress Zooey Deschanel is refreshingly defiant about how it’s pronounced. I told her I always thought it was Zooey as in “zoo.” Yet she pronounces the “oo” sound as in “oh.” Maybe we should ask Salinger, I suggested. Zooey wasn’t having any of that! “I don’t really care what Salinger says about my name,” she said. “It’s my name.”

Going to see this chick 2nite.

Also, Slate suggests that Salinger's Zooey was meant to be pronounced like Zoe:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/tags/zooey/default.aspx

ok i looked up some talk show appearances on youtube and the hosts all said it like 'zoe' so i guess it was just people IRL saying it like 'zoo-ey' after all. go fig.

to think we could have had her drowned back in 2008

feeling pretty shame-faced if Salinger meant it to be pronounced Zoe!

i apologise, zooey deschanel!

It's a shame that Ms. Deshanel can't sing on key to save her life.

Saw She & Him in Cleveland last night. Good show, Zooey and M. Ward have lots of onstage chemistry and the audience obvs loves her. They've got a crack band with them too (Dan Horne, Louie Stephens, Aaron Sperske, who have been in bands like the Lilys and Beachwood Sparks). Don't know where this "can't sing on key" stuff comes from -- she came out and did a couple songs with openers Chapin Sisters, who also backed up her set, and she was fine. They did some fairly sophisticated 3-part harmony stuff and I never heard anything that made me cringe.

Going to see this chick 2nite.

Didn't do this.

Apparently the crowd was ridic.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1277/4681477771_b095eae983.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVz6TCT5Bjs

GOD THE SHIT I WOULD PUT IN HER ASS

― cankles

ahh .. that picture that jaymc posted ..

happy days.

3 weeks of chi-town life, living opposite that park during free concert season.

i didn't stay for she & him due to the crowd excess - was truly insane ..

We've still got

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSq1cez_flQ

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jshchingchongchoocho 1 month ago

notice how his feet are pointing in her direction...

Is that just some pick-up artist "look for the signs of attraction" talk?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOS3yG95_5k

It looks like every promo picture they use she just saw a UFO or something.