The Love Language

Just read about The Love Language in SPIN, and decided to go ahead and buy their album on iTunes. I'm thoroughly enjoying my first listen.

The Lo-Fi style is reminiscent of The Arcade Fire, but the pop sensibilities and piano remind me of something more along the lines of old Phantom Planet.

Worth checking out. Not to mention that the first album is a one-man band (not unlike Josh Rouse, Coconut Records (which wasn't entirely Schwartzman, but mostly) and Illinois (I think that was all just Sufjan Stevens).

However, apparently The Love Language became a 7-piece band for touring, and the second album will be made with the whole band.

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I also really like their name and album artwork. You can never underestimate the power of good packaging.

I'm Twitterpated

I like Twitter, and I didn't think I would. When I first heard of it, it sounded like the most retardedly annoying feminine activity of all time. "Tweeting?" Are you fucking joking?

One of the features of Facebook that I mock the most is the Status, and Twitter is essentially an entire social network dedicated to the Status. But then I realized why I don't like the status, it isn't because of the status, but because of who is updating it. Who? You ask. A bunch of people I don't know and/or don't like, who are disguised as my "friends."

Facebook came out of nowhere and spread like the plague. Anyone who you met or used to know became your Facebook friend. And this was fine, or at least it was whatever. But then Facebook went from being a heightened white pages for messaging to a News Feed about a bunch of people whose lives you aren't really that interested in.

Twitter is Web 2.0 for me. When Facebook came out I didn't know what was happening, I got lost in the shit storm that was social networking. Now, I know what I want out of a social network, and more importantly, who I want it with.

I don't need a profile about my friends to know that my friends like The Roots and Office Space. I just want to keep up on what they're doing in life.

So, Twitter is to "Follow and Tweet" with my friends (the lingo still sucks), and Facebook will continue to annoy the shit out of me, but be too addictive and occasionally useful to get rid of.