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Miles R.
milesraymer: When people ask my advice it's like I'm the Angel of Poor Impulse Control on their shoulder. RT @Flosstradamus: http://twitpic.com/17ynr0
milesraymer: RT @whet: "not because they had been given a bad review, but rather because they had been reviewed badly" http://bit.ly/9VMDsm
milesraymer: Booze, bros, gold-medal hockey, and heavy, heavy music in this week's Sharp Darts: http://bit.ly/c0b9yQ
milesraymer: "Third prize is you get held back a year."
milesraymer: The Field's new slogan is "Always be discovering?" I just imagine Alec Baldwin haranguing a bunch of kids for being insufficiently curious.
milesraymer: RT @VICEMAG: If you're a fan of Lynda Barry or This American Life, prepare to have your morning's mind blown. http://ow.ly/1h4QN
milesraymer: Day three of wearing my favorite new t-shirt: http://tweetphoto.com/13941991
milesraymer: I just spelled "anthropological" so stunningly wrong that it made me laugh. I'm almost impressed with myself.
milesraymer: Can't think of the word I'm trying to think of. Maybe banging my head against the desk a few more times might help.
milesraymer: "Simon says get the fuck up."
milesraymer: James Murphy trying to be John Lennon is something I can totally get into. http://bit.ly/bGqLnj
milesraymer: I fry up some decent tempeh but it's never come out as good as the old "controlled grease fire" method at Blake's Diner.
milesraymer: RT @mannequinmen: Our new split with Jack Oblivian is available at the iTunes store for just two bucks. Check it out: http://bit.ly/bU1rOj
milesraymer: 13th anniversary of the murder of The Notorious B.I.G. shot and killed in L.A. March 9, 1997. One love, big pops. /via @jrhardcore68
milesraymer: Got some Sherlock Holmes-level fog going on outside.
milesraymer: Mic Terror's next mixtape shows a heavy Kirk Van Houten influence: http://bit.ly/98VrkV
milesraymer: Numero Group gets bootlegged, falls in love with said bootleg, decides to bootleg the bootleg. It's all very meta. http://bit.ly/cdNquZ
milesraymer: I'm always happily surprised when "garlic lovers" anything actually turns out worthy of the title.
milesraymer: RT @soundofthecity: The Amusing Mid-Performance Faces Of Joanna Newsom: A Gallery http://bit.ly/bk0Kxq
milesraymer: Man I didn't even remeber how good Going Berserk is.
milesraymer: @hangoverbird Negative Feelings practice this week?
milesraymer: This is how genius works. http://bit.ly/cUPEGP
milesraymer: Too true. RT @sfj: You didn't think Owl City was the peak of post-Gibbard pop. And then you got the mail.
milesraymer: Just finishing up the playlist for my next podcast. If you have anything I should consider including send it my way.
milesraymer: A little too real: http://yfrog.com/5jbszyj
milesraymer: The new Roky Erickson record goes a little too heavy on the post Rubin-Cash Sad Old Dude vibe but dude still slays.
milesraymer: RT @chunklet: Pssst. The new round of Hozac slop is for sale. Get in on that shit! @HoZacRecords
milesraymer: http://yfrog.com/5el4gnj
milesraymer: On stands now: new Sharp Darts profiling rare record reissuer Robert Manis and his new label Moniker. http://bit.ly/cUZ8II
milesraymer: On stands now: new Sharp Darts profiling rare record reissuer Robert Manis and his new label Moniker. http://bit.ly/cUZ8II
milesraymer: @maura A good record to think intently about. Also good to listen to dozens of times in the span of a few days. @abeaujon Yes indeed.
milesraymer: @JoeGermuska Next Stop . . . Soweto, Vol. 2: Soul, Funk & Organ Grooves from the Townships 1969-1976. Out 5/8 on Strut. Total bangers.
milesraymer: Best things I've gotten this week: Tenori-On, new @numerogroup gospel funk comp, another comp of vintage SA township funk & soul. Jamz.
milesraymer: Five minutes with the Tenori-On and I already never want to send it back.
milesraymer: Five minutes with the Tenori-On and I already never want to send it back.
milesraymer: My guitar-playing calluses seem to have gotten thick enough to mess with the touchscreen on my iPhone.
milesraymer: My guitar-playing calluses seem to have gotten thick enough to mess with the touchscreen on my iPhone.
milesraymer: I generally don't flip over limited edition sneaks but daaamn. RT @RubyHornet: Nike Air Max 1 x Parra x Patta Info... http://bit.ly/cfEpKV
milesraymer: I generally don't flip over limited edition sneaks but daaamn. RT @RubyHornet: Nike Air Max 1 x Parra x Patta Info... http://bit.ly/cfEpKV
milesraymer: WUT. RT @questlove: @fatbellybella sits in and covers the entire dark side of the moon album on @latenightjimmy
milesraymer: Please do not tell Big Cheese that the bacon meme is over: http://bit.ly/FDBER
milesraymer: RT @chunklet: Prepare to download every essential hardcore record in one place: http://cantstandthe80s.blogspot.com/
milesraymer: Guys we need to get one of these right now: http://bit.ly/9LOyt4
milesraymer: @dansinker They sent it to me for the express purpose of having people mess around with it. Come over and try it out.
milesraymer: They sent it to me for the express purpose of having people mess around with it. Come over and try it out.
milesraymer: Got my Tenori-On test model in the mail today. Expect some insanity.
milesraymer: RT @hoodinternet: SPOILER: tonight on #LOST the smoke monster postpones lil wayne's sentencing
milesraymer: YESSSSSS. RT @jesshopp: Fletch sndtrk: http://bit.ly/bHN8On, in case anyone is looking for that heinous-mazing song fr. the chase scene.
milesraymer: YESSSSSS. RT @jesshopp: Fletch sndtrk: http://bit.ly/bHN8On, in case anyone is looking for that heinous-mazing song fr. the chase scene.
milesraymer: RT @pmontoro: I.D. & Baobinga will help with the shame you feel whenever you find yourself saying "UK funky." http://bit.ly/b9OnqT
milesraymer: RT @pmontoro: I.D. & Baobinga will help with the shame you feel whenever you find yourself saying "UK funky." http://bit.ly/b9OnqT
milesraymer: Can somebody do me a favor and extract the audio from a YouTube video?
milesraymer: Can somebody do me a favor and extract the audio from a YouTube video?
milesraymer: RT @vultureblog: Watch the Juggalo-themed Law & Order episode that Juggalos are none too pleased about. http://bit.ly/aLqf5i
milesraymer: RT @vultureblog: Watch the Juggalo-themed Law & Order episode that Juggalos are none too pleased about. http://bit.ly/aLqf5i
milesraymer: Bucktown Soup Cafe's mushroom & brie is drastically improving my world right now.
milesraymer: "This is not a barrier that concerns us, because as you may have noticed, we have fucked this barrier in the face." http://bit.ly/dv1W0d
milesraymer: RT @sfj: UPDATE: Guru Surgery Successful; Full Recovery Expected: DJ Premier http://shar.es/mXIsW /
milesraymer: Digging my new camera app: http://yfrog.com/4ir69bvj
milesraymer: RT @mannequinmen: Our plan to record demos got delayed. Playing Skate 2 in the meantime.
milesraymer: They're playing Uffie on B96?
milesraymer: Finland ya burnt!
milesraymer: What kind of Honesty Box questions is "Are you secretly gay?" Sounds more like the Weirdly Inappropriate and Maybe Homophobic Box to me.
milesraymer: Utah, land of bold moves, criminalizes miscarriages: http://bit.ly/c5l5jT
milesraymer: Haha. Nice try, spambots.
milesraymer: Gypsy cold care.
milesraymer: There will be BBQ and tunes at Darkroom tonight to raise funds for the Scotland Yard Gospel Choir's medical bills: http://bit.ly/a9zAEJ
milesraymer: If you get the super-obscure reference Tracy Morgan namechecking Burt Sugarman on the Daily Show is kinda hilarious: http://bit.ly/cQXIIC
milesraymer: Hit It Or Quit It's takeover of the Reader continues as @jesshopp and @jrhardcore68 debut their new column GOSSIPWOLF. http://bit.ly/dtE6S2
milesraymer: There is some crazy nasty stuff happening in my sinuses right now.
milesraymer: If Badu can't get Macca to sign off she better leak that shit. Super hoping the sample's from either "Ram" or "McCartney II."
milesraymer: Erykah Badu, whose new jam I review in this week's Reader, is currently trying to find P. McCartney via Twitter so he can clear a sample.
milesraymer: It's looking a little snowpocalypse-y outside.
milesraymer: @Juan_Vigoda I miss her too.
milesraymer: My tattoo spree is getting out of control: http://tweetphoto.com/12393359
milesraymer: DIY Ugandan skatepark: http://bit.ly/cYSP6X
milesraymer: Hell yeah. Eat it, Canada.
milesraymer: Maybe falafel?
milesraymer: "Thank God we're not rock critics." - Johnathan Lethem, Chronic City
milesraymer: There is this: http://bit.ly/cLzrBx And then there is also this: http://bit.ly/b8q6EL
milesraymer: I like the CTA's new slogan: "Youre Probably Better Off Walking." it really gets to the point.
milesraymer: The WSJ must be right about there being no more band names because we just found another group called the Hardy Mums. http://bit.ly/aiNgw9
milesraymer: My column on killer cigar box guitars, with exclusive music from @MissAlexWhite: http://bit.ly/bxp3hl
milesraymer: @Flosstradamus Those are seriously some nice socks. I've got a bunch of pairs.
milesraymer: Happy Dre Day to all you motherfuckers. http://bit.ly/Y1Sh
milesraymer: New podcast! Sharp Darts Radio no. 3! Red Pens, Golden Earring, exclusive cuts, and Alex White on a cigar box guitar! http://bit.ly/dBM9U6
milesraymer: GarageBand you are some dogshit.
milesraymer: You think you know how bad Guns 'n' Roses is now and then they go and surprise you by being even worse: http://bit.ly/ciRaBx
milesraymer: "You know, some enterprising promoter, should take advantage of this hype, and book a DOOM/David Cassidy tour."
milesraymer: RT @pmontoro: The David Cassidy comments just keep coming, and they're getting really good: http://bit.ly/cWp7xi
milesraymer: I would join Tautology Club. I love Tautologies. http://bit.ly/9WGror
milesraymer: About to go on WLUW. 88.7, if you're interested.
milesraymer: Listening through some songs for my WLUW set to make sure they don't have swears.
milesraymer: Hey y'all I'm going to be on WLUW from 10-12 tonight talking about ACTA and spinning tunes. Join us. 88.7 FM.
milesraymer: @wayneandwax It's a semantic thing, but yeah I think despite Gaga's deep weird she's categorically a pop artist. So were Prince & Madonna.
milesraymer: John Mayer denied absolution by Oprah. Mea culpa FAIL: http://bit.ly/cCSPGr
milesraymer: What does the rumored Gaga booking say about Lollapalooza's alleged "alternative" cred? http://bit.ly/9rDqi3
milesraymer: RT @jesshopp: RT @mpshows: Cap'n Jazz 07/17/10 @ Bottom Lounge tickets at mpshows.com
milesraymer: Paczki coma. As in I think this paczki binge is literally going to put me in the hospital.
milesraymer: YESSS. RT @jesshopp: Confirmed: Cap'n Jazz official reunion begins with July 17 date at Bottom Lounge, dates and deluxe reissues to follow.
milesraymer: Hot damn it's paczki day and I got myself a whole bag of paczkis to myself. http://bit.ly/9NMafr
milesraymer: David Cassidy's apparently not above stopping his embarrassing, drunk-ass concert to get some ladies' (plural) digits. http://bit.ly/9G9y4h
milesraymer: Did Doom do Chicago dirty? http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/02/15/did-doom-do-chicago-dirty
milesraymer: RT @MikeSula: La Pasadita expandeth. 6th and 7th outposts in the works: http://tinyurl.com/y8z3mf2
milesraymer: RT @pmontoro: Free "Sabor Tropical" mix from Pit Er Pat drummer Butchy Fuego: http://bit.ly/amJdtx
milesraymer: @rodanchicago isn't serving soup but they're showing Tampopo, which opens with basically soup porn. Sadist.
milesraymer: Back from an excellent Milwaukee caper. At @rodanchicago for soup and wild Asian cinema.
milesraymer: Rick Rubin beats will never stop blowing my mind.
milesraymer: @NaledgeKIDZ Yeah dude. Let's set something up.
milesraymer: Eating pizza and reading David Simon. Killer combo.
milesraymer: @Kyle_Ryan Congrats. I'm working on getting one of those too.
milesraymer: Guaranteed berserkitude. RT @HoZacRecords: Tutu & the Pirates '78 era LP in the works, too!
milesraymer: I honor of watching the new Erykah Badu video a dozen times I just picked out my fro.
milesraymer: FULL FLEX.
milesraymer: I just saw Chuck Inglish's lesbian doppelgänger on the train.
milesraymer: RT @pmontoro: Can you handle the funky Brian Eno? DJ Food's hour-long mix ought to give you a pretty good idea. http://tinyurl.com/yjqjms6
milesraymer: Two tweets from friends in the span of a few minutes using the phrase "big ups." Are we bringing that back?
milesraymer: RT @chunklet: Big ups to Myelin Sheaths for sending me digital versions of their singles so I don't hafta get up to flip the rekkid over.
milesraymer: My favoritest birthday present: http://yfrog.com/3iqd2bj
milesraymer: Love my friends: http://yfrog.com/1dvmtoj
milesraymer: So the plan is we meet at Rainbo after 10. Cool?
milesraymer: Looks like someone is getting his hood pass revoked: http://dlisted.com/node/36021
milesraymer: Dude I got an earthquake for my birthday? Kickass!
milesraymer: Happy birthday to me.
milesraymer: @pmarg I actually thought it was out of print, but I didn't actually check up on it.
milesraymer: If you need a little more psycho genius in your iTunes library you should download this Kevin Ayers record: http://bit.ly/dtM9dC
milesraymer: I've been offered a prison-style tattoo for my birthday. What should I get? Best idea so far: the Young Jeezy snowman.
milesraymer: The new iTunes update seems to have made iTunes slightly less infuriating.
milesraymer: The kerning on Free Energy's logo bothers me. One of the only things they have in common with Nirvana.
milesraymer: RT @vultureblog: Bikini Kill fans: Bikini Kill wants to hear your favorite Bikini Kill memories. (Bikini Kill!) http://bit.ly/btuCMB
milesraymer: My current obsession: Golden Earring's garage rock days. http://tinyurl.com/yk2q4d7
milesraymer: Holy cow someone put the guy from Are We There Yet? in a rap video: http://bit.ly/cuI1GE
milesraymer: Hardy Mums practice tonight will make it the fourth band I've worked on in three days. My fingers are killing me. It's great.
milesraymer: Thank you, Internet, for reminding me that it's Dilla's birthday.
milesraymer: Located the capo. Under the kitchen table? That must have been a fun night.
milesraymer: For my birthday I want someone to get me a time machine so I can go back to the 1970s and marry Madeline Kahn.
milesraymer: Hipsters versus juggalos! FIGHT! http://bit.ly/bSBXY2
milesraymer: I didn't catch that Swizz Beats put a Justice sample in "On to the Next One," despite listening to it about 200 times. http://bit.ly/cZ1hf4
milesraymer: @jesshopp and I work the odds and try to guess who'll be playing Pitchfork in 2010: http://tinyurl.com/ykebbgw
milesraymer: I'm hungry but not hungry enough to eat something called "Hot Garbage Mix." http://yfrog.com/3ioh1j
milesraymer: RT @pmontoro: Mountain Dew's Green Label Sound is giving away vinyl, including music by Flosstradamus and the Cool Kids: http://tinyurl. ...
milesraymer: Hot and fresh out the kitchen: new jams from our side project thee Hardy Mums: http://bit.ly/aIMtUu
milesraymer: Listening to the Hardy Mums demos from last night. Kinda surprisingly hot.
milesraymer: @catchdini Next time I come to NYC we're spinning an obscure 90s set together. Truth.
milesraymer: @leisureclass Zumpano's better.
milesraymer: Does anyone else like/remember Zumpano? The party rages on...
milesraymer: No getting psyched on no culture icons.
milesraymer: All I want to listen to is Jawbreaker and Tegan and Sara but I don't think the crowd I'm spinning for would appreciate that. #beingsoemo
milesraymer: Tickets and first round of lineup announcements for Pitchfork Music Festival 2010 are happening on Friday. http://bit.ly/isJyi
milesraymer: @1000TimesYes compares Lil Wayne to Dylan, Billy Bob Thornton, and Ugly Kid Joe: http://bit.ly/bdl4BO
milesraymer: Psych rock from the Reader's Flickr music pool: http://bit.ly/bIaQag
milesraymer: RT @vultureblog: Jay Reatard's cause of death deemed "cocaine toxicity." http://bit.ly/bsEYM0
milesraymer: YES. RT @trevordebrauw Can we get you to do the vocals? RT @milesraymer @trevordebrauw Where is my @pelicansong "You All Everybody" cover?
milesraymer: RT @trevordebrauw: Can we get you to do the vocals? RT @milesraymer @trevordebrauw Where is my @pelicansong "You All Everybody" cover?
milesraymer: Change of plans: at Bagel on Damen. About to murder some Stumptown coffee.
milesraymer: Heading up to the Chicago Bagel Authority, then to the Northern Illinois Sandwich Council and the Chicago Board of Cookies.
milesraymer: RT @sfj: If "Lost" is going to be a Kung Fu movie, it needs more jumping around, more boobs and a ceiling on the number of bad guys.
milesraymer: RT @harvilla: last night's lost premiere feels like it was written by the wu-tang clan
milesraymer: @trevordebrauw Where is my Pelican "You All Everybody" cover?
milesraymer: RIP Def Jux. http://www.definitivejux.net/news/jux-crew/1628
milesraymer: Not to be a spoiler alert but pirate hippies? Pirate hippies! #lost #piratehippies
milesraymer: I feel bad for BRMC getting their gear stolen but seriously who tours with a 1954 Fender Esquire? Those things are worth a gajillion bucks.
milesraymer: Who wants to help put together my birthday party?
milesraymer: Avatar pretty much has the Oscar for Best Space Boobs on lock.
milesraymer: Hemp granola, organic blueberries, organic yogurt. I have this urge to kick my own ass for being such a hippie.
milesraymer: Had to break plans to go to the Chicago Bagel Authority in order to follow a story. Super bummer. I could demolish a bagel sandwich.
milesraymer: Who's going to let me watch Lost at their place?
milesraymer: Bought some black-on-black Vans, a photo book, and a half-asses seitan Reuben. Go capitalism!
milesraymer: Apparently I wasn't the only person looking forward to the new bagel spot on Damen to open. Place is elbow to elbow. No thanks.
milesraymer: Erykah Badu, Lil Wayne, and Bilal. The competition for Song of the Year is officially on. http://bit.ly/bkJJKq @fatbellybella
milesraymer: Making devious plans with dirty_sturdy. I will be shocked if he and I don't end up millionaires, in prison, or both.
milesraymer: The Michigan Ave Borders is SWARMING with crazy motherfuckers. It kinda rules.
milesraymer: I do some of my best writing in the shower.
milesraymer: @flosstradamus was right. Too much DJ Nate before bed will make you footwork in your sleep.
milesraymer: You can never have too many skulls or roses.
milesraymer: If it's over four hours long does it still qualify as a "nap"? Probably not, huh?
milesraymer: @eyepopping SHARE.
milesraymer: RT @TheOnion: BREAKING: Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger http://onion.com/aMxPaR
milesraymer: @Caturtle I haven't held one but the iPad looks tougher than a lot of gear I see out all the time. And $600 isn't much for gear.
milesraymer: @karlehseigfried I'm already booked but thanks.
milesraymer: A couple of thoughts on what the iPad could offer musicians: http://bit.ly/bHn4SZ
milesraymer: Multitasking out of control.
milesraymer: RIP JD Salinger: He's portraying the interior lives of upper-middle-class angels now.
milesraymer: RT @hodgman: I prefer to think JD Salinger has just decided to become extra reclusive.
milesraymer: RT @1000TimesYes: Can't tell if this is a zing or a compliment: @perpetua R.I.P., the My Bloody Valentine of novelists.
milesraymer: :( Challenger Day, everybody.
milesraymer: @ksouth I have this kind. They come with x-small attachments that might fit your tiny ears. http://bit.ly/cMbsM1
milesraymer: If you like glam rock you might want to check out my glam rock DJ night this Saturday: http://tweetphoto.com/9733448
milesraymer: RT @whet: once the iPad saves journalism, maybe i could afford one
milesraymer: "You can't come in here unless you say 'swordfish.'"
milesraymer: Anyone who calls out a critic from the stage severely misjudged the levels of shamelessness and vanity that define our species.
milesraymer: Missed Behemoth tonight. What a lame.
milesraymer: I don't know who's worse: the religious nutjobs behind the Creation Museum, or smug dick A.A. Gill: http://bit.ly/8oiUM5
milesraymer: This is what you call well-executed: http://ksouth.tumblr.com/post/354739443/via-visual-aids
milesraymer: The new Freeway/Jake One CD: best packaging ever? http://bit.ly/a0w1np
milesraymer: Bill O'Reilly: The South Side of Chicago is "like Haiti." http://bit.ly/9ZTJ2t
milesraymer: Walked out of my house and into a fairly entertaining crime scene. Western Ave's got it poppin this afternoon.
milesraymer: A conversation with someone about how they don't want to be referred to as "crust punk" has turned into a lunchtime Amebix sesh.
milesraymer: Orpheus and Eurydice go proto-grunge, costarring Fake Klaus Nomi: http://is.gd/72le6
milesraymer: Cold burrito still a good burrito.
milesraymer: @hoodinternet Thanks bro.
milesraymer: Hive mind: Where can I find free vector art old-timey curlicues/decorative elements?
milesraymer: RT @hoodinternet: major merger day. @soundcloud teams up with @hypem (nice), ticketmaster teams up with livenation (ruh roh).
milesraymer: Help Kickstart Christopher Weingarten's @1000TimesYes box set: http://bit.ly/7fzlBc
milesraymer: I would give anything to travel back in time to be in this band: http://bit.ly/7H23FZ
milesraymer: @danameyerson It's a hair metal themed burger bar. For real. Originally it was supposed to be called "Assault & Burgery." Again, for real.
milesraymer: How do you get Teen Hearts to go from worst to somehow even worst? Have them drop n-bombs. http://bit.ly/5dMnS1
milesraymer: RT @jesshopp: RT @imLeor: The Cap'n Jazz reunion set update: bootleg of show http://tinyurl.com/ybujcqr
milesraymer: More footage of "Local Cover Band" from Kurt: http://bit.ly/7eLmh1
milesraymer: I didn't take pics of Cap'n Jazz last night. Too busy rocking the f out. @jesshopp got some footage though: http://bit.ly/8PPzOa
milesraymer: RT @Kyle_Ryan: Reminder, old-school emo dudes: CAP'N JAZZ is reuniting for a mini set tonight @theemptybottle. http://bit.ly/5ocz3a
milesraymer: Run DMT's "Bong Voyage" mixtape: http://bit.ly/6HqSCo Taking drugs to make punny mixtapes to take drugs to.
milesraymer: RT @joshhonn: I saw Cap'n Jazz at Off the Alley in high school. They sucked. Although, I'm pretty sure I also sucked back then too.
milesraymer: My recurring knee injury has recurred. I didn't miss it.
milesraymer: RT @toddlevin: I wonder if everyone realizes our last Tonight Show is going to be 1 hour of Conan and Neil Young talking about model trains.
milesraymer: I am ready 2 fight the elegant war.
milesraymer: You'd figure someone with the mind powers to make such rad music could come up with a better pseudonym. Joy Orbison? For real? BZZZZZZTTT.
milesraymer: Don't you hate having a co-worker who's a total space invader? http://tweetphoto.com/9292382
milesraymer: RT @gapersblock: Coming to our party tonight @MetroChicago? 4 bands, $0 if you bring our flyer before 9pm http://bit.ly/7zbNza
milesraymer: Who else is thinking about a trip to Columbus? http://bit.ly/10bfU
milesraymer: People with cars please stop almost hitting me. Don't start actually hitting me though. Just, like, cut it out.
milesraymer: @pmontoro His blazer/shorts/flip-flops/7 string guitar combo is testing my ability to tolerate horribleness.
milesraymer: This Devin Townsend promo pic is ruff: blazer/shorts/flipflops combo, 7-string guitar, look of utter self-satisfaction. Murder.
milesraymer: I really like the Cold Cave record. It makes me want to do this: http://j.mp/8Ms24C
milesraymer: @Darenzia With you the sex offender comparison is implied by default.
milesraymer: Thinking about investing my money in loop/delay pedals but feeling like the bubble might burst soon. #noyourenotanimalcollective #cutitout
milesraymer: RT @jesshopp: Killer early, unchronicled Chicago dance/disco comp out this week on BBE. http://bit.ly/4vGiEZ
milesraymer: Feeling kinda gothy today, but a good kind of gothy. Posi-goth.
milesraymer: I love Fage with honey. I do not like when the honey forms a solid honey ball in the yogurt. Like mine just did.
milesraymer: Going back to old, non-aggravating Flaming Lips records feels like the right move. How good is Clouds Taste Metallic? (So good.)
milesraymer: I gotta say Ian Rankin's nonstop pop music references are part of why I'm growing to love his books. "Alice Jardine?" Very good.
milesraymer: Cooking only for yourself means that every time you buy a baguette it means a game of "can you eat the whole baguette before it goes stale?"
milesraymer: I have a vague feeling that I gave away those 80s Dior eyeglass frames I got off eBay. If I did that was a dumb move.
milesraymer: More publications should have @Dasracist writing for them: http://bit.ly/5riuju
milesraymer: I've seen the Budd Dwyer video I don't know how many times but I'm still too scared to watch this Martha Stewart pole dancing clip. Shudder.
milesraymer: The best hip-hop show in Chicago this month is also a fundraiser for clean water in Haiti: http://bit.ly/915Vud
milesraymer: Hard to pinpoint my musical mood today. Nothing I've played so far has really hit the spot.
milesraymer: Woke up with Hank Jr.'s "Family Tradition" wedged in my head. Not complaining.
milesraymer: @viveroos It was at the Korean/Japanese place upstairs from St. Mark's Books and apparently I forgot to tell you we were out there last week
milesraymer: I would basically kill somebody to get more of that silken tofu stew I had in NYC.
milesraymer: @dansinker I'm a big fan of extreme accessories. "How about a really tall hat" kinda fits in with my aesthetic.
milesraymer: I'm usually not much of a fan of Vivienne Westwood or aestheticizing poverty but I am feeling this look: http://bit.ly/80CrZO
milesraymer: http://tweetphoto.com/9096286
milesraymer: The bus-riding cat died? BOOO. http://bit.ly/8xChmc
milesraymer: Is that really the Coachella lineup? Bummer.
milesraymer: Timbaland + Katy Perry = a really half-assed-sounding Aqua.
milesraymer: Primitive screwheads.
milesraymer: I was planning on going to Danny's but then this creme brûlée coma hit and now I'm not so sure.
milesraymer: @jazzbeezy I was thinking the same thing earlier. Good God.
milesraymer: @robthreezy I better be on that exclusive list.
milesraymer: I had the cheese plate and gnuddi. Good stuff. I wrote a haiku about the cheese plate if anyone's interested.
milesraymer: @joshhonn Sounds like a good regimen. You should throw David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas into the mix.
milesraymer: At Longman and Eagle. Pretty shmancy but they've got three buck bourbon. I'm digging it.
milesraymer: Snacktime: http://tweetphoto.com/9033134
milesraymer: @trevordebrauw Sadly you're probably not. I bet there are whole message boards for sickos like you.
milesraymer: Wu-Tang rapping over Beatles samples. No complaints here. http://bit.ly/4PslTb
milesraymer: @jesshopp That is a factor.
milesraymer: RT @tommiesunshine: Tommie Sunshine's pre-'89 Chicago Acid House DJ mix http://tinyurl.com/ye2nfpu #musicmonday #mm [please RT]
milesraymer: @jesshopp Nah. I took care of the "hungry" part with some enchiladas. The negative feelings remain, and have a specific source.
milesraymer: I'm currently feeling an interesting blend of bummed out, pissed off, and hungry.
milesraymer: On MLK day it should be legal to egg your local FBI offices.
milesraymer: Shitty Sunday seems to be a theme. Let's not have any more Shitty Sundays.
milesraymer: @MandyMorbid Stay tough.
milesraymer: @corpvampire Third reference to eternal return I've read today. Weird. Meaningful?
milesraymer: The Goldeneye pinball at Club Foot: never have I met a machine that gives up multiball so easily which I hate so much.
milesraymer: Anyone want to go hit up some soup and movies at @rodanchicago with me around 6?
milesraymer: Desperate at 3 AM at a tollway oasis I bought some McDonald's fries because someone told me they were veg now. My internal organs disagree.
milesraymer: If you're in Milwaukee come see us tonight at Club Garibaldi. If you're in Chicago go see Hollows at the CHIRP launch party at the Bottle.
milesraymer: Levi's seems to want us to dress like old timey gold miners. Not feeling it.
milesraymer: I have pretty much nothing to do until we go to Milwaukee. PS We're playing Milwaukee tonight.
milesraymer: Back in the Chi. Tired as balls.
milesraymer: RT @mannequinmen: Pizzafied and heading to JFK.
milesraymer: Last night was a total blast. I think everyone survived but we haven't done a head count yet.
milesraymer: Heading to Bruar Falls for soundcheck.
milesraymer: @sfj A fine idea.
milesraymer: @jesshopp Asking for pics by the third post. Impressive.
milesraymer: RT @jesshopp: @milesraymer C'mon dude, I'm defs getting it worse than you: http://bit.ly/5q5gVr
milesraymer: Somebody is apparently saying bad things about me on the Internet. Bad form, Internet. Bad form.
milesraymer: RT @fakeshoredrive: Malik Yusef's '808s & Heartbreak' platinum plaque at Harold's Chicken http://tinyurl.com/ygrmrdc
milesraymer: One of Jay Reatard's final recordings, a Nirvana cover, posted in memoriam on his site: http://bit.ly/6GACCe /via @jesshopp
milesraymer: Good morning, House Party 2.
milesraymer: Spinning at the Knitting Factory bar and hanging with Jack Oblivian and the Vice homies.
milesraymer: Sadly the popular reaction to hearing that Jay Reatard died is total anti-shock.
milesraymer: @pmontoro @kevinwarwick Memphis Commercial-Appeal confirms Jay Reatard RIP http://is.gd/6ddLk /via @Chicago_Reader
milesraymer: Unsurprisingly we're at San Loco.
milesraymer: Power napz. Now on to San Loco.
milesraymer: http://yfrog.com/3noj2ej
milesraymer: RT @mannequinmen: Ghost Hunter love! RT @amybruni Met a fancy band at the Chicago airport. They gave me a cd & it's quite good. Follow t ...
milesraymer: RT @mannequinmen: Getting set up at the studio and gossiping about garage bands.
milesraymer: @Dan_Jim Yes. Love the taco truck.
milesraymer: RT @jesshopp: No kidding. RT @HarMarSuperstar: I think we should re-start Hit It or Quit It, but this time it should be like an indie T ...
milesraymer: Hello Brooklyn. How you doing?
milesraymer: "Doubles just a dollar more / When you're living in an airport bar."
milesraymer: @ChrissyMBot Brooklyn. Recording a single and playing a show.
milesraymer: En route to O'Hare. Pumped to be getting out of town.
milesraymer: Oh man the custom t-shirt I got made yesterday rules. I'm going to wear it every day.
milesraymer: What the fuck, Hawks? You're harshing our vibe.
milesraymer: Eating ridiculously tasty chili and watching the Hawks tear the Wild into tiny pieces. It kinda rules
milesraymer: RT @catchdini: Trader joes can't call their cheerios AND their spaghetti-os "joe os" it just aint right
milesraymer: No John Mayer but staying away from the Internet all day was kinda nice.
milesraymer: @buddyhead "I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too."
milesraymer: RT @buddyhead: I miss Mitch Hedberg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPu8453j1m8
milesraymer: Change of plans. For my birthday we are now doing this: http://bit.ly/4C8tbS
milesraymer: Can anyone recommend a good podcast-making alternative to Garageband?
milesraymer: Biosphere 2 is open to visitors. Road trip?
milesraymer: Some really impressive oversleeping on my part today.
milesraymer: RT @jesshopp: Kathleen Hanna donates archives to NYU Library riot girl collection. http://bit.ly/4oNtvj
milesraymer: RT @jawnita: 3000 words is really just like, 296 tweets. Haha! Ehhh. :(
milesraymer: My new book proposal: I spend an entire year not giving a shit about "I spent a year doing some stupid thing or another" memoirs.
milesraymer: Got so cabin fevered that I'm out running errands in a blizzard.
milesraymer: Larry Fishburne movies > Laurence Fishburne movies
milesraymer: RT @vultureblog: If you like dubstep, here's dozens (!) of free, hand-selected MP3s to put in your dubstep basket. http://bit.ly/8CCnp6
milesraymer: RT @chunklet: Y'all know Moby was in a hardcore band in the 80's called Vatican Commandos? Buy their 7" now: http://tinyurl.com/yayzcxg
milesraymer: King of New York deserves to be in the New Jack gangster canon. Larry Fishburne, Wesley Snipes, and dookie chains. Crucial.
milesraymer: How did you monsters get so good at Bejeweled Blitz? Is it witchcraft? Drugs? (I hope it was drugs or witchcraft.)
milesraymer: Hey @danameyerson I heard you love Vampire Weekend and you want all of them to be your boyfriends.
milesraymer: The cat seems to think that if she VERY SLOWLY climbs onto my laptop to take a nap on it that I won't notice. Not happening, cat.
milesraymer: RT @vultureblog: Meet the forgotten victim of digital music piracy: Scorpio, the old-school bootleg pirate. http://bit.ly/6SEo2G
milesraymer: Deeper into the Chris Thompson tape trove: early-90s D.C. punk supergroup Getaway Car. http://tinyurl.com/y8ahxj3
milesraymer: @trevordebrauw You don't know the thumbs guy joke? Unbelievable.
milesraymer: What's got two thumbs and just got a new bass in the mail? This guy. (You have to imagine me doing the thumbs thing.)
milesraymer: Within an hour of saying the phrase "sleazy club kids" I have Fbook requests from J Love and J Valentino. Real Candyman-level shit there.
milesraymer: RT @Schubas: You can now buy tix for The Ex & Shellac (3.20) AT @lincolnhall & @Schubas (12-7pm) with no service fee. http://tinyurl.com ...
milesraymer: RT @MikeSula: I could use that too RT @louisachu Can anyone please recommend an iPhone call recorder app that doesn't charge you by reco ...
milesraymer: I have post-post office stress disorder.
milesraymer: Going to take a magical trip to the land of Post Office.
milesraymer: I'm seriously thinking about deleting every Facebook friend who scores above me in Bejeweled Blitz.
milesraymer: I don't think it's a coincidence that when I get dual-obsessed with Springsteen's "Nebraska" and Ray Carver it's usually January or so.
milesraymer: Eating a mess of beans and franks. (No hobo.)
milesraymer: Listening to Warpaint makes walking around in the cold much more bearable.
milesraymer: RT @douggpound: In 1968, 2001 was released. In 1984, 2010 came out. In 2009, 2012 wowed audiences. Look for a film called 2008 in 2013.
milesraymer: RT @jrhardcore68: Congrats @MannyFlores on his new job with the ICC. 1st of my Alderman to move to the state house instead of the big house?
milesraymer: RT @FreddieGibbs: I think my neighbor is the feds =(
milesraymer: RT @mannequinmen: @MAGNETmagazine made a list of Hidden Treasures of 2009 and we're on it: http://bit.ly/4DSlJq
milesraymer: RT @videogum: Q: Is 87-year-old British actor Christopher Lee recording a metal concept album? A: Of course he is. http://bit.ly/4tqoYr
milesraymer: RT @jawnita: me and @shockleysmith trying to unravel why people think Neytiri from Avatar is hot @suite903: http://tinyurl.com/yb3geb2
milesraymer: RT @pourmecoffee: Feist song will be sold separately from expected new Apple tablet PC.
milesraymer: @claytonhauck How's that micro four thirds treating you?
milesraymer: RT @pmontoro: Is Jay-Z a Freemason? Is it wrong to hope so? http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/01/04/the-roc-illuminati
milesraymer: The song-by-song guide to the new Vampire Weekend record suggests that they have some serious delusions vis a vis how funky they are.
milesraymer: RT @ebertchicago: http://twitpic.com/wo1r0 - I had a few drinks and designed the damn thing.
milesraymer: RT @jesshopp: LOL: Vamp Wknd bio where band carefully cites their use of Auto-Tune was inspired by NON-western pop, NOT TPAIN.
milesraymer: RT @KRSStaff: Elliott Smith's Angel in the Snow featured in the movie Up in the Air: http://www.theupintheairmovie.com/
milesraymer: More people need to name their cats after characters from Alien/Aliens: http://bit.ly/5CqPY6
milesraymer: The Chi needs either a thaw or some fresh snow because this landscape of dog pissicles and frozen barf is a major bummer.
milesraymer: I just got a bunch of money in the mail. I'm going to go spend some of it on sandwiches.
milesraymer: Ripping it up in Elgin tonight. If anyone goes to jail this time it is not my problem. http://bit.ly/5Jotro
milesraymer: RT @mannequinmen: More year-end love from the Finest Kiss (http://bit.ly/6LisfS) and Love of Everything (http://bit.ly/6dZIkD).
milesraymer: Pizza, beer, Resident Evil, laziness.
milesraymer: RT @wayneandwax: it's got a ring to it RT @caitshe So excited for the Tweens. #letscallthenext3yearsthetweens
milesraymer: RT @wayneandwax: it's got a ring to it RT @caitshe So excited for the Tweens. #letscallthenext3yearsthetweens
milesraymer: RT @fakeshoredrive: #10yearsago I was still copping CD singles
milesraymer: So far 2010 is the year of reading crime novels in bed with my cat.
milesraymer: Goddamn do I love some brie.
milesraymer: Did I mention that Ethan and I are spinning records at Cobra Lounge tonight? Because we totally are.
milesraymer: RT @gabedelahaye: Gabe and Max's 100 Seconds New Year's Eve Special! It's a New Year's Eve Miracle! http://bit.ly/7u8dTq
milesraymer: RT @fennrock: 'The Muppet Movie' was added to the Library of Congress' National Registry. http://bit.ly/5ISdR3 #justice
milesraymer: @pmarg Are both of us spinning two nights in a row?
milesraymer: Pretty bummed that these Coal gloves are starting to unravel after a month. I thought they were going to be my all winter longs.
milesraymer: Whenever I load up a new iPod my picks tend to follow a theme. The new Nano is all krautrock and druggy beats.
milesraymer: Taking this party downtown. Literally.
milesraymer: RT @VICEMAG: NYC - Scion Garage Show - Free - RSVP! - 1/14 - Jack Oblivian & The Tennessee Tearjerkers, Mannequin Men - http://ow.ly/OIUn
milesraymer: For your To Do list tonight: get totally buck at Bar Deville: http://tweetphoto.com/7521158
milesraymer: It is awesome and more than a little bizarre that David Scheid is in the New York Times: http://bit.ly/5Br2kr
milesraymer: Just found out how close I recently was to being exploded into tiny pieces. Freaky.
milesraymer: Loading up iTunes with new jams from @flosstradamus and @hozacrecords. Pumped.
milesraymer: @chunklet You don't happen to have the KRS Singles Club version of the Rock*A*Teens "Could've Just Died" digitized do you?
milesraymer: RT @pmontoro: @milesraymer couldn't force himself to finish the new Led Zep bio, but Rick Moody made it through: http://tinyurl.com/yfksz9f
milesraymer: So pumped for the "Eerie" collection I bought yeserday. http://tweetphoto.com/7449174
milesraymer: I can't wait to a) not be in a car anymore and b) not not having a glass of whiskey in my hand.
milesraymer: RT @chunklet: So NPR wants to interview me about the tape collex that @milesraymer wrote a story about. No foolies. http://tinyurl.com/y ...
milesraymer: Back in motion courtesy of Jakob Cart.
milesraymer: @stringbot We switched out the fuse already. Looks like something got fried under the hood.
milesraymer: Headlights went out. Stuck at a rest stop outside of Michigan City waiting for a ride.
milesraymer: I-94 between Ann Arbor and Chicago doesn't get any more entertaining after the first couple hundred drives down it.
milesraymer: Delicious fancy pour-over drip coffee.
milesraymer: Feeling brutalized. On a mission for fried foods.
milesraymer: Just ate Jerusalem Gardens falafel. Now drinking PBR and watching a Japanese Planet of the Apes knockoff. Best Boxing Day ever.
milesraymer: Last Xmas present bought. Got myself a lil' something too. Not the vintage Neil Young "Trans" tour shirt I covet, unfortunately.
milesraymer: My profile on @chunklet and his tape-hoarding ways is up now: http://bit.ly/8P4Bth
milesraymer: Heading into Ann Arbor for some last minute shopping and then posting up at Espresso Royale to do a little work. I should also eat.
milesraymer: Drive's almost over. Hello, Grass Lake. Hello, woods.
milesraymer: Linkin Park: "I'm rapping about feelings!" "I'm yelling about feelings!" "TOGETHER!"
milesraymer: Getting ready to get in the car and go back to Michigan.
milesraymer: However many years later Mary Timony is better at writing Liz Phair songs than Liz Phair is: http://bit.ly/6lKvQB
milesraymer: @jawnita I like them. I like them even more with the Sossaman connection.
milesraymer: An argument for replacing Satan with Joe Lieberman as the inhuman overlord of metal: http://bit.ly/55xwkB
milesraymer: @danameyerson Nachos.
milesraymer: RT @Chicago_Reader: 'What the fuck is "video and photos posted on the Internet"?' http://tinyurl.com/yzbgudh
milesraymer: @hangoverbird I'm loving your list so far.
milesraymer: RT @tommiesunshine: 2010: The year the world remembers that House Music came from Chicago.
milesraymer: Favorite misspelling of the week: "Baptizms." I'm going to have to come up with a band concept worthy of the name.
milesraymer: RT @jawnita: FORGOT TO PUT "MIGRAINE SKANK" ON MY PAZZ & JOP LIST. I DL 70-something songs a week, i can't remember a whole year of this!
milesraymer: RT @harper: Threadless got robbed again - but there are pictures! $1000 to anyone who can identify these two jagoffs: http://bit.ly/7C8XHn
milesraymer: Lil Wayne's "Rebirth" is already on track to win the 2010 Grammy for Most Confusing Album.
milesraymer: Interesting... RT @whet: @milesraymer menu doesn't seem to be online, but that's what my wife was told when she called.
milesraymer: What? Show me menu. RT @whet: ooh, farm dinner at lula tonight is veggie
milesraymer: RT @tedleo: Great, RATM makes a few more million $$$. Put CRASS "Reality Asylum" on top of the Xmas charts if U really wanna f*** s*** up!
milesraymer: Someone left a Mannequin Men record at my apartment after the show on Friday, along with about 6000 beer bottles.
milesraymer: On a junk food diet today. wasabi cracker mix, MexiCoke, and TastyKakes.
milesraymer: Feeling a wee bit shattered.
milesraymer: Just ordered a new bass.
milesraymer: Just took care of 95% of my remaining Xmas shopping. Also listening to old Usher. So good.
milesraymer: RT @wigu: You know you're a grownup when you gotta buy a crowbar for a legitmate purpose.
milesraymer: The hair metal-themed bar opening across the street has 4.8 flat screen TVs per sq ft of wall and looks like a strip club sans strippers.
milesraymer: RT @SSION: i think quitting stuff can be kind of sexy
milesraymer: Death of a Punk House: http://bit.ly/8IIXgs
milesraymer: Not feeling particularly motivated to do any of the dozen or so things I need to be doing.
milesraymer: I've moved on to metal. Just did an amazing blend from Motorhead's "White Line Fever" into Tragedy's "Deaf and Disbelieving." Danzig next.
milesraymer: Currently spinning a set of feelings punk. Jawbreaker, Against Me!, Dillinger Four, Thermals, Tegan and Sara, etc.
milesraymer: RT @pmontoro: Reader Q&A with Marduk guitarist Morgan Steinmeyer Hakansson: http://bit.ly/8MUSHL
milesraymer: Don't forget about the Mannequin Men DJs at Cobra Lounge tonight. No cover. Tons of jamz.
milesraymer: Indigo Girls jokes in 2009. Bold moves, Maxim. I'm sure the 14 year olds buying your magazine to beat off to are going to love that shit.
milesraymer: Free Ron Hardy set tapes Free Lungfish live show. The Internet is good today: http://bit.ly/5csKnH
milesraymer: One major difference between Ke$ha and Uffie: it took me hearing Uffie a couple hundred times before I wanted her to go away.
milesraymer: One of my favorite music things of the year was Tegan and Sara spending 3.5 minutes pretending to be the Hot Snakes: http://bit.ly/2CFcB2
milesraymer: Woke up with a pretty sweet bedhead devil lock: http://tweetphoto.com/6535453
milesraymer: Trying out a trio of cigar box guitars I got on loan today. http://yfrog.com/4io5pj
milesraymer: Like I need any help smelling like whiskey: http://bit.ly/7frfGU
milesraymer: Got up early, showered, and got right to work. I'm on some real normal-people-style scheduling today.
milesraymer: RT @videogum: The Best Viral Videos Of 2009: A Retrospective http://bit.ly/69k1WO Retweet!
milesraymer: RT @maura: Abba makes the Rock Hall! RT @ditzkoff: http://bit.ly/5jlE0X
milesraymer: RT @jesshopp: "It feels good to talk shit on the internet/doesn't it?!" -- Cold Lake, RAD teen punk-metal http://bit.ly/4FedKu
milesraymer: Got out of Target relatively unscathed. I now have so many socks and snacks. And a bottle of Jim Beam.
milesraymer: Going to make a quick swing by Target. I have a feeling that I'll be returning with at least 6 different kinds of snack foods.
milesraymer: RT @1000TimesYes: Rap blogger caught charging $35 for reviews (http://bit.ly/5suexV) and then JUSTIFIES it (http://bit.ly/6fsK8r).
milesraymer: Finally started digging into the new Tegan & Sara. So many people get them so wrong. So, so good.
milesraymer: The one thing wrong with this band is that they embody everything I hate about shitty indie rock bands.
milesraymer: Oh I get it. You're wearing ugly Christmas sweaters because of IRONY. What a brilliant, groundbreaking idea.
milesraymer: Just wrote one of the corniest songs I've ever come up with.
milesraymer: @jazzbeezy Dude that's enough time to come into the city.
milesraymer: Giving some serious thought to spending my Saturday night writing country songs.
milesraymer: I'm treating this hangover with PBR and crunchy grunge-pop. It's kinda working.
milesraymer: Caught a bad case of BD last night. Luckily I'm still at a level of mental competence where I can make a sandwich.
milesraymer: I kind of miss when iTunes wasn't huge and bloated and full of fail.
milesraymer: RT @Kyle_Ryan: Hey, free plasma TV in the burbs...but there are gay-porn strings attached: http://bit.ly/8M25Wo
milesraymer: RT @fakeshoredrive: Video: GLC + Bun B - @RubyHornet closed session http://fakeshoredrive.com/2009/12/video-glc-bun-b-rh-closed-session.html
milesraymer: RT @KFUCKINGP: The fucking year's almost over but you pricks should be happy. 2010 is my comeback year on @HBO, bitch.
milesraymer: Slept terribly. So much to do today. Must. Power. Through.
milesraymer: Hanging out with Bun B and Freddie Gibbs. Pretty nice way to spend an evening.
milesraymer: At the Cool Kids/Bun B show. Showed up on time for our interview, which is three hours early in rapper time.
milesraymer: RT @k6m6d6: kellz is writing a memoir.kellz is writing a memoir.kellz is writing a memoir.kellz is writing a memoir.kellz is writing a m ...
milesraymer: RT @gabedelahaye: I wrote a fan fiction about the cast of Jersey Shore celebrating their first Hanukkah. It's weird. http://bit.ly/87BwHi
milesraymer: I love Lifter Puller so much. Here are my reasons why: http://tinyurl.com/ygednn8
milesraymer: Me talking about the super excellent ATL RMX comp from Adult Swim: http://bit.ly/4QhUp2
milesraymer: RT @mannequinmen: Jim DeRogatis says we put out the 57th best album of the year, just below the Black Eyed Peas. http://bit.ly/8ZQ259
milesraymer: A few years back if you'd suggested that I'd enjoy hearing Alan Thicke's son sing a song called "Sex Therapy" I would've smacked you.
milesraymer: This is beautiful: http://www.life.com/image/ugc1012492/in-gallery/35332/ethiopias-vanishing-tribes
milesraymer: RT @hoodinternet: RT @weedsteeler: @hoodinternet that was fucking horrible. I hope you only do that cause people still pay you. 2003 mashups
milesraymer: This slush rain is some ugly, ugly stuff.
milesraymer: RT @ebertchicago: http://twitpic.com/sq465 - Shocking photo of Sasha Grey
milesraymer: RT @jesshopp: RT @soundofthecity: Free Gucci, Fuck Diplo, and the History of "Free _____" http://bit.ly/8K3y2u
milesraymer: Google Chrome for Mac is out and it RIPS. http://bit.ly/11xrLp
milesraymer: RT @hangoverbird: how is this 14 seconds still funnier than everything on TV put together times 8? http://bit.ly/5LISHh
milesraymer: The kitty condo has been claimed.
milesraymer: You want a very lightly used two-level kitty condo? Pick it up from may place and it's yours. http://tweetphoto.com/6071563
milesraymer: RT @mannequinmen: Live in-studio "Massage" + more for Luxury Wafers. See if you can tell where my bass comes unplugged: http://bit.ly/8uq7jw
milesraymer: RT @pourmecoffee: Tom Waits to star in del Toro's "The Hobbit?" http://bit.ly/8rMkhj
milesraymer: The hygeine schedule that results from 14 hour work days is terrible for your complexion. #kiehls
milesraymer: I can't really listen to music while I write. So the busier I get the less time I have available. Today I've heard like two songs.
milesraymer: 90s trend that deserves reviving: bands that sound like Jawbreaker.
milesraymer: Heads up, veggies: Santullo's has seitan chicken, sausage, and pepperoni. Just had a BBQ faux chicken slice. Tasty.
milesraymer: RT @johnedugan: Tell me this is a joke, then tell Deakin he's a huge idiot. http://bit.ly/8Rjxvf
milesraymer: RT @mirandalange: A heartwarming ebay auction to benefit Jason Noble (Shipping News, Rodan, Rachel's) and his fight against cancer: http ...
milesraymer: Uh...no. RT @hangoverbird: is there a better video than this? doubt it. http://bit.ly/b4UTb
milesraymer: Hello, snow.
milesraymer: I know it's for a good cause but the giant morning motorcycle parade that passes my apartment every year makes me want to murder.
milesraymer: RT @lauriespos: That must be the first time a customer took their entire trade in "Yo! MTV Raps" cards.
milesraymer: Filichia's just got even better: now they're stocking Tastykakes. Brilliant!
milesraymer: RT @gabedelahaye: Videogum in the New York Times? Videogum in the New York Times! http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/arts/television/06du ...
milesraymer: RT @dansinker: Best correction ever. By far. http://bit.ly/8q4r6Z (via @Marcusist @duntronic @dcsportsbog)
milesraymer: I'm taking submissions for upcoming podcasts. If you've got something send it my way: sharpdarts AT chicagoreader.com
milesraymer: RT @jazzbeezy: Two years ago today, we lost one of the best. #RIPPimpC
milesraymer: RT @jkottke: When *emptying* the trash on OS X, why does it sound like you're crumpling paper to throw *into* the trash?
milesraymer: Mail run, plus probably some Trader Joe's.
milesraymer: Carles "retiring" from @hipsterrunoff is the "Who Shot J.R.?" of our generation.
milesraymer: @dansinker Come to the Empty Bottle almost any Thursday around 6.
milesraymer: The GZA, @hoodinternet, and @dandeacon together and it feels so good: http://tinyurl.com/ycmop95
milesraymer: @Flosstradamus *cough*sizetenjordans*cough*
milesraymer: Drinking tasty bourbon while watching skate videos with Mark Gonzales in them is about one of the best things ever.
milesraymer: RT @billsalas: Is tired of seeing Elvis Costello's mug everywhere, it's 2010, I don't give a shit
milesraymer: @trevordebrauw No prob.
milesraymer: My defense of Pelican after a recent Village Voice takedown piece: http://bit.ly/6Nvulu
milesraymer: @Darenzia That's how I feel pretty much every time I fly in an unsedated state. Recurring Shatner-itis.
milesraymer: RT @tommiesunshine: More war? No worries. No rights for gays? No worries. Let's all worry about where Tiger Woods puts his dick.
milesraymer: The amount of mediocre music writing out there is depressing, but the really seriously terrible stuff offers a lot of entertainment value.
milesraymer: RT @PermanentRex: Adult Swim party this Saturday 12/5 @ P-Rex. Free PBR and 'toons 7-9pm. We'll have goodie bags to give away. RAD!
milesraymer: Anyone with a car want to go out to Rosemont on Saturday with me to see Yo Gabba Gabba Live?
milesraymer: The new rock arrivals section at K.Starke is hot fire. Carcass live LP, Anthrax picture disc, vintage copy of Kick Out the Jams.
milesraymer: Do you need two hours of Freddie Gibbs raps? Probably. http://bit.ly/8DecIt
milesraymer: How much would it rule to be a Viking poet named Hallfred the Troublesome Poet? I'm guessing tons of ruling. http://bit.ly/4CVavP
milesraymer: My podcast is finally happening: http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2009/11/30/sharp-darts-radio-starts-now
milesraymer: @Tsteph Weekly or biweekly.
milesraymer: I'm having dinner one table away from the people that Stuff White People Like is based on.
milesraymer: RT @fennrock: "I hate conscious rap." -Malice.
milesraymer: I've heard good stuff about Jam but obviously from people who aren't vegetarian or offended by $11 panini. That place can eat a dick.
milesraymer: The Gilroy pizza from Chi-Pie takes you pretty much to the limit of how much garlic you can eat and still be fit to go out in public. A+++
milesraymer: RT @sfj: “I Learned, He Learned, We All Learned, Whatever.”: Henry Owings of Chunklet has posted a unique piece... http://bit.ly/4KOh1h
milesraymer: Woke up with one of our new songs stuck in my head, as I suspected I would.
milesraymer: Practice space demo time. http://yfrog.com/3l95955365j
milesraymer: Here's my J..J. Abrams impression: "Yeah this looks pretty good but we're going to need about 30 times as much lens flare."
milesraymer: @hangoverbird Yes we do. I think we should involve bourbon in these talks.
milesraymer: My hair grow-out's hit a stage where I've got a pompadour-and-mullet combo you normally only see on drag kings and middle-aged Australians.
milesraymer: Just finished The Magus. I want to pitch a TV show based on it. "Think Lost with Mad Men retrosexuality!"
milesraymer: RT @baldintheusa: The Jesus Lizard IS playing tonight. David Yow bruised some ribs last night but he's David Yow so that ain't shit.
milesraymer: Heading to Wicker Park in search of food and new underwear.
milesraymer: Hey now that Mininova has gone legit/lame, what torrent tracker should I use?
milesraymer: RIP Mat Arluck, guitarist for Sweet Cobra: http://bit.ly/7cYMWO
milesraymer: Okay if @questlove is really playing Trenchmouth for Fred Armisen's Jimmy Fallon appearance tonight I will have to tune in.
milesraymer: Operation Get a Croissant and Eat It was highly successful.
milesraymer: Man for a second there I didn't have a huge dumb project to work on. Fixed.
milesraymer: I suddenly have a super serious hankering for some croissants. What is the best place to get croissants in the Ukrainian Village area?
milesraymer: Finishing off the job of melting our brains using some video mixtapes.
milesraymer: 1986: The Golden Childs opens. Soon after, America starts giving a shit about Tibet. COINCIDENCE? PROBABLY BUT WHO KNOWS?
milesraymer: Golden Child making a surprise appearance in the Thanksgiving Movie Marathon mix. Probably my fortieth time seeing it.
milesraymer: We've moved on to zombies.
milesraymer: I'm currently being thankful for one-hitters and Black Dynamite.
milesraymer: Did I mention that the turkey-headed-killer movie has a strong evagelical Christian theme?
milesraymer: Today I'm thankful that I'm not a 17th century Indian because man I hate when people infect me with smallpox on purpose.
milesraymer: Tight Phantomz slayed it so hard last night that I'm still feeling it.
milesraymer: Waiting for a cab to take me to see @KidSisterMelisa and @Flosstradamus.
milesraymer: Trash produced in the making and transportation of my lunch: two plastic gloves, two plastic bags, two plastic cups. #enviroguilt
milesraymer: @k6m6d6 Those are your next two tattoos.
milesraymer: Looks like Dr. Teeth has upgraded to a Nord. An Electro would fit the character better, but that might be a Lead. http://bit.ly/8I95pX
milesraymer: My cat's breath smells like cat food. That's not a joke. It's the truth and it's horrible.
milesraymer: Just got the Lifter Puller book by @jesshopp in the mail. They used one of my photos. Nice! I guess I'm a published photographer now.
milesraymer: Just had a really fun and educational interview with Ian Schneller of Shrimp Boat/Specimen Products.
milesraymer: @pmontoro Big Star. It's decent enough but I just don't love it.
milesraymer: I can't believe someone made a bar in my neighborhood dedicated to bourbon and country music and I'm not madly in love with it.
milesraymer: Got a crossword answer starting with "pun." Want to fill in "puneta" but it's too short and a Spanish profanity unrelated to the clue.
milesraymer: Perversely enough for about half the time I was working on that book I had this song stuck in my head: http://bit.ly/4UXjKN
milesraymer: Ate a sandwich, listened to some tunes, and turned in 14,500 words of Paul McCartney book today. Feeling good, feeling great.
milesraymer: @CASSINCASSIN I just rewatched the second season.
milesraymer: RT @wearelasers: Ahem...mixtape is called...Enemy Of The State: A Love Story
milesraymer: DO WANT. RT @chunklet: Oh wow! Just stumbled upon a board tape I made of Lungfish in Baltimore '91!
milesraymer: I am basically beating Monday's ass with a hammer.
milesraymer: RT @VICEMAG: Acrassicauda (Heavy Metal Baghdad) putting out their first album since escaping to America, FREE MP3 http://ow.ly/EWDd
milesraymer: RT @SSION: i love touring... real life sucks.
milesraymer: I never realized that Jimmy Page did these Death Wish soundtracks. Nutty.
milesraymer: The soundtrack to Death Wish 3 is funky as hell.
milesraymer: Where were when you heard it was the 46th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination? I was at brunch.
milesraymer: RT @ebertchicago: "New Moon" ripped off online free less than 12 hours after it opens. By Kara Spak, Chicago Sun-Times. http://j.mp/8c47Ni
milesraymer: Watching the Blackhawks at Shambles. The crowd is an interesting mix of drunk post-sorority chicks and Sebastien Tellier wannabes.
milesraymer: This crush on Annie from Community is unexpected, but I'm kinda digging it so whatever.
milesraymer: I am fascinated by this thing you call a "vacation." I would like to experience one sometime.
milesraymer: Doing an encore of b-sides is a bold move.
milesraymer: They just encores with the "Surf" version of "Wave of Mutilation." Holy shit.
milesraymer: Wow. This is kinda the best thing I've seen in forever.
milesraymer: Pixies just got on stage. Kinda pumped.
milesraymer: Google "pinball dorks" and click on the first result. Ha.
milesraymer: I desperately need a food break. I don't know when that can realistically happen.
milesraymer: @mygoldmask Thanks. I appreciate it.
milesraymer: Thee Hardy Mums shall be slaying it at Rodan tonight. No cover. Buy Insight gear at Una Mae's and you drink for free from 6-9.
milesraymer: RT @DAVID_LYNCH: http://twitpic.com/q50zh - GQ names Album of the Year (That Never Came Out)
milesraymer: RT @1000TimesYes: 2009 in music writing: Creed is good! Radiohead is bad! Up is down! Also please click through this photo gallery!
milesraymer: I forgot that the original Transformers animated movie has a fight scene set to Weird Al's "Dare to be Stupid." Which is incredible.
milesraymer: "Knocking your opponent off the ballot on a technicality is a cherished election-season pastime in Chicago." Love my city, love my paper.
milesraymer: What a killer book cover. Goat head! Decent typography! http://yfrog.com/4e22405140j
milesraymer: RT @tommiesunshine: I agree with @TinyDaniela who is calling it now that Miley Cyrus is using cocaine.
milesraymer: RT @pitchforkmedia: Jay Reatard's former rhythm section joins Wavves http://bit.ly/4yUu0Y
milesraymer: There is a really good Steve Albini burn buried in this blog post about men's winter hats: http://bit.ly/4yAPUL
milesraymer: This Justin Bieber creature is creeping me the hell out. Somebody stop it.
milesraymer: RT @jawnita: wondering if, when people Hate on kid sister, it is because she is bubbly and a girl and not trying to slut it out
milesraymer: Buraka Som Sistema's Fabriclive mix: maybe the most obnoxiously fun thing to ever be pressed to CD?
milesraymer: Just downloaded the Lifter Puller reiussues. Let's get incredible.
milesraymer: I don't know why I still fuck around with coffee when yerba mate is so much better all around.
milesraymer: RT @KidSisterMelisa: MY ALBUM ULTRAVIOLET IS OUUUUUT TODAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!! Halleluuuujah!
milesraymer: @hangoverbird Never.
milesraymer: Man I am off my Twitter game today. Maybe because I'm getting actual work done?
milesraymer: I discovered another stereo receiver in my closet. I'm sure it's somewhat broken, but is it more broken than the broken one I'm using now?
milesraymer: I had a brief Internet outage this morning. Scary, scary stuff.
milesraymer: @xokasia The obvious answer is "My friends told me you guys had a keg."
milesraymer: RT @toddbarry: It seems like a good time to have another look at Jon Benjamin's "The T-Shirt of Terror." http://bit.ly/Kfbjb
milesraymer: Checking out a new (for me at least) spot for Mexican brunch. Enchiladas for breakfast is something that should've happened ages ago.
milesraymer: Shrinebuilder is the Alien: Resurrection of metal: a lineup that sets up expectations way too high for it to meet.
milesraymer: @k6m6d6 That's terrifying.
milesraymer: Just went a little nuts on crust and blackened punk records at Reckless. Bought the Sadville record I special ordered LAST YEAR. Whoops.
milesraymer: Neil Young Heretics ruled. Thanks everyone who came out. Next project to be announced soon...
milesraymer: So far Neil Young Heretics is amazing. I predict things will continue in a similar fashion.
milesraymer: Neil Young Heretics is going down tonight at Shambles. 2050 W Division. Come out and get Neiled.
milesraymer: RT @pmontoro: Locrian release show at Enemy tonight with Harpoon, Chord, Ratatosk: http://tinyurl.com/yepp66v
milesraymer: Just a reminder: This is happening tonight http://pic.gd/d8fcf5
milesraymer: I can't believe Wordle doesn't recognize "suplex." Come on.
milesraymer: Everybody read more Thomas M. Disch . Prisoner references are about to get fashionable and The Genocides is an incredible book.
milesraymer: Reading sci fi while listening to Burial: highly recommended.
milesraymer: RT @jrhardcore68: Hide your crack dealers!!! RT @theemptybottle: Pentagram / Gates of Slumber @ The Empty Bottle http://bit.ly/2zhb43
milesraymer: For some reason Facebook for the iPhone says our Neil Young party's going down Saturday. It's actually happening Friday. That app sucks it.
milesraymer: Misread a headline on the cover of the New Yorker. Briefly thought I was getting a story on "Pakistan's nuclear burrito."
milesraymer: The only 50 Cent joints I can really get down with are "How to Rob" and his Vitamin Water flavor.
milesraymer: The only good thing about chuggers is that you can take your bad mood out on them and not feel bad about it.
milesraymer: RT @danameyerson: FIERCE FIERCE FIERCE @kidsister video for Right Hand Hi. http://tinyurl.com/yf837e4
milesraymer: RT @anildash: @maura Has anybody made a "Jam & Lewis in 2012" bumper sticker yet? They have my vote.
milesraymer: If you like Neil Young and/or tequila you should come out to this thing me and Sturdy are doing on Friday: http://pic.gd/7fc5dd
milesraymer: Lifter Puller reissues. Now you have no excuse for not being obsessed with them. http://bit.ly/2VJ9m7
milesraymer: Good thing I've been giving up closet space to this first-gen iBook box and spool of coaxial cable. Because of how important they are.
milesraymer: Sometimes I wish "selling out" was a thing that still happened because man I could really use some of that selling out money.
milesraymer: Terrifyingest press release headline of the day: Rare Cancer: More Common Than You Think.
milesraymer: RT @ghettodivision: Free DJ Lessons start today @ Books in the city 545 S. State St. 6-8 pm Strictly Vinyl! http://bit.ly/kS3vC
milesraymer: The place opening up across the street was going to be called Assault & Burgery. Now it's a hair metal bar. Dunno which idea I dislike more.
milesraymer: RT @pmontoro: Rush's "Working Man" turns into an awesome stoner-rock tune when you play the recording too slow: http://tinyurl.com/yzkkbom
milesraymer: I just discovered that the new Italian deli down the block has delicious, super-cheap calzones and Mexican Coke. These are good things.
milesraymer: @jesshopp That is an extremely challenging dare.
milesraymer: If you need a little reminder, I'm spinning at Bar DeVille tonight: http://pic.gd/f74809
milesraymer: RT @Kyle_Ryan: So, guess I don't have a reason to read @idolator now that @maura's gone. http://bit.ly/WV0l6
milesraymer: Oh cool. RT @pmontoro: Somebody got to play with ferrofluid for the new video to Isis's "20 Minutes/40 Years." http://bit.ly/g3SiA
milesraymer: RT @fennrock: Just so you music nerds know, not one single album released this year is better than the 'Muppets Take Manhattan' soundtrack.
milesraymer: Just got a mess of HoZac tunes. Excellent.
milesraymer: RT @jesshopp: Chicago ppl plz RT: writer/musician CT Ballentine is missing: http://bit.ly/37Wcsb
milesraymer: RT @jesshopp: Spooky 60's garage girl group Hollows plays free record release at the Bottle tonight. http://bit.ly/17DKOb
milesraymer: Ah, Ben Chappell worked on it. There's the link. Still random and awesome. Here's the link: http://bit.ly/vn65u
milesraymer: 1:58 into the "hardcore" version of the new Girls video they cut briefly to our video for "Cream Rises." Random.
milesraymer: We've got a good crew going on out back of Happy Village for the last night for hanging out behind a bar.
milesraymer: I really need to get some non-totally-busted shoes.
milesraymer: Just broke 130 million on Sopranos pinball. I am the king of the Rainbo.
milesraymer: RT @pmontoro: Ron Artest has recorded a slow jam for the abused women of Afghanistan. No, really: http://tinyurl.com/yf4nxub
milesraymer: I profiled My Gold Mask in this week's Reader (http://bit.ly/2z8MNr) and also wrote about Gucci Mane mixtapes (http://bit.ly/3OyVHj).
milesraymer: RT @pitchforkmedia: Peter Murphy of Bauhaus to appear in next Twilight movie http://bit.ly/1szYG7
milesraymer: I wish I had a goat tree outside of the window by my desk so I could look out at it all day long while I work. http://bit.ly/2ZXDjl
milesraymer: @kumar303 It rules. But it's already started an arms race with those sites. Yesterday Mediafire totally denied me and I had to DL normally.
milesraymer: @CASSINCASSIN It's the hallway at the downtown Marriott in Portland.
milesraymer: The best flier I've ever made, with help from Clayton from the Box Elders. Thanks for getting drunk, dude! http://pic.gd/b2ef20
milesraymer: http://tinyurl.com/yckx5kq, Wherein I get semi-pedantic on the difference between Auto-Tune and things that aren't Auto-Tune.
milesraymer: RT @ephian: Haven't checked but wtf does the union sq whole foods have to tweet? "White people are using our restroom"?
milesraymer: @videogum "Ah boy, I'm just so tired of all these star wars." http://bit.ly/2a0Axe
milesraymer: @jesshopp My mom is going to be at your Ann Arbor reading. She is so pumped.
milesraymer: Everybody stop what you're doing and watch this now. RT @gabedelahaye: Wow, what a bunch of great movie quotes! http://bit.ly/2ylDrr
milesraymer: RT @sfj: Things were more efficient when Prince just wrote everybody's songs. http://u.nu/3a6s3
milesraymer: Woke up in a good mood for the first time in forever.
milesraymer: Starting tonight there will be Mannequin Men spinning at Cobra Lounge every Wednesday. First up me and Kev. http://pic.gd/59fb2a
milesraymer: Music writers: if you don't know the difference between Auto-Tune and a vocoder you should take a minute to figure it out. Google that shit.
milesraymer: RT @chicagorock: Tell Lollapalooza who should be in the 2010 lineup: http://tinyurl.com/yazt4j3 Don't forget to name your fave Chicago bands
milesraymer: Joker's upcoming tour skips Chicago but hits Asheville, NC. What's up with that?
milesraymer: RT @ephian: My fat jim morrison facial hair has gotten too david crosby on the top lip. Its like I'm eating through reverse baleen.
milesraymer: So many troublemakers in from out of town right now. Too many, in fact.
milesraymer: If I were really honest my FB profile would have "drinking whiskey and playing sad country songs on the guitar" at the top of my Interests.
milesraymer: It's 9:17. Time for coffee.
milesraymer: Tony Millionaire doing an Achewood guest strip is almost too perfect for me to handle: http://bit.ly/2KWoGH
milesraymer: Not even 4 o'clock and it's almost sundown. Seasonal affective disorder, start your engines!
milesraymer: Awake surprisingly early for the day after Halloween. Trying to come up with a brunch idea with some novelty.
milesraymer: Whoever downstairs decided 8 AM is a good time to do hammer-related repair work is gonna get murdered.
milesraymer: Sort of regretting not making any actual non-falling-through Halloween plans.
milesraymer: RT @1000TimesYes: Underground music is so insufferable now that there's more people "covering" rock shows than enjoying them.
milesraymer: The live set on the Bleach reissue is FIRE.
milesraymer: RT @sfj: Amazing photo of Karin Dreijer Andersson by @nikolatamindzic (plus digimagic by French person) http://bit.ly/42jObE
milesraymer: I admit that I didn't follow my own advice about retweeting dead celeb rumors but I still think @chunklet is a trustworthy news source.
milesraymer: RT @MetroChicago: A handful of tix were just released 4 both Jesus LIzard shows at Metro 11/27 & 11/28 - goooo get em: http://bit.ly/zgBLA
milesraymer: @karlehseigfried I like Jucifer in theory but I'm not so much into their actual music.
milesraymer: Surprise! Cat puke!
milesraymer: Whoa. RT @chunklet: Chuck Biscuits (DOA, Black Flag drummer) RIP: http://bit.ly/3h6r9s
milesraymer: I wish the surprising number of drivers who've almost run over me today would either learn how to drive or get better aim.
milesraymer: Not even Lil Wayne can make me like "I Gotta Feeling." What a terrible, terrible song.
milesraymer: It only takes a couple of words to ruin your day. "Groove metal" being two of them.
milesraymer: I like the little "best animated GIF" contest I inadvertently started yesterday. Luv U, GIF Party. http://gifparty.tumblr.com/post/215457459
milesraymer: This is clearly the best animated GIF of the day: http://gifparty.tumblr.com/post/224738865
milesraymer: Hooray for pizza. Hooray for goat cheese.
milesraymer: RT @jrhardcore68: I just sold Saul Williams a copy of the Confessions of St. Augustine of Hippo. That felt pretty cool. #bookstorecelebrity
milesraymer: Hurry up, pizza. I'm dying over here.
milesraymer: I have 20,357 unread emails in my inbox. Disturbing.
milesraymer: Lord Mantis just brutalized the fuck out of me. Nicely done.
milesraymer: Speechless. RT @videogum YOU CRAZY FOR THIS ONE, BANGS! http://bit.ly/4yEB8V
milesraymer: @harper Saw you on Gawker. Weird.
milesraymer: Perfect timing, Check That I Just Got in the Mail. I think we are going to be best friends.
milesraymer: I'm hungry but all the food I have in my house is unappealing to me right now.
milesraymer: @jazzbeezy Nice work on that.
milesraymer: Co-sign. RT @dizzyjosh: i wanna get zizek a comedy t.v. show http://tinyurl.com/yhpo6ed
milesraymer: So Jawbox won't do a reunion show but they'll play Fallon. Ha.
milesraymer: RT @jesshopp: Finally, a band refuses to desecrate legacy RT @BlurtMagazine: J. Robbins says Jawbox will not play reunion shows.
milesraymer: RT @jawnita: Man brendan fowler makes me feel so good about life and/or inspires me to make art. Everyone needs to be his friend if u can.
milesraymer: So real. RT @maura Hicksville keeps it real http://yfrog.com/b9nq8j
milesraymer: I'm going to go buy myself a burrito.
milesraymer: RT @ballsandmyword: wiki tells me phil collins's honorary bone moniker is Chrome Bone. question: can i be blurry phil collins for halloween?
milesraymer: This place very much has a My First Loft Party vibe going on.
milesraymer: I'm being followed by a party trolley.
milesraymer: Area Man Desperate to Prove He's Not Like That Guy in the Onion
milesraymer: Mike Rhoades comes through: The Naked Fun. #onelineoffmovies
milesraymer: I'm guessing it's already been done but: Jews #oneletterdifferentmovies
milesraymer: Allen. #oneletteroffmovies
milesraymer: Pet Cemetary #oneletteroffmovies
milesraymer: Hollows and Dirty Diamonds tonight at 11 PM, 1539 N. Damen. Do it!
milesraymer: Who wants to go to a rock show tonight?
milesraymer: The little grocery store down the street has a really good deal on the gayest tortilla chips of all time: http://pic.gd/454635
milesraymer: I've been seized by a terrible hunger for d'n'b-inflected late-90s hip-hop and R&B. Basically a lotta Tim Mosley and a little Roots.
milesraymer: Good look. RT @sfj: Weekend Reading: For anybody who thought this week's column on rap was just coconuts: http://bit.ly/ET5aS
milesraymer: Goddamn do I love Da Brat's verse on Missy's "Sock it 2 Me." Must put Supa Dupa Fly back into rotation.
milesraymer: How come every promo I've heard today has vocals by Fake Paul Banks? Fake Paul Banks is busy these days. Give that guy a vacation. Please.
milesraymer: The first four Neil Young records in a box set on 180-gram vinyl? Yes, please.
milesraymer: I love Peanut Butter Puffins. I do not love what they do to the roof of my mouth. The old Cap'n Crunch Dilemma.
milesraymer: Ow. My back seized up. Ow ow ow ow.
milesraymer: My profile of Hollows, who make an addictive blend of girl-group pop and garage rock, is here: http://bit.ly/23nyiN
milesraymer: There is actually someone out there who's a bigger geek for Fringe than I am and his name is Trent Reznor: http://bit.ly/3ZOG3E
milesraymer: RT @pmontoro: With CoCoComa! RT: @Chicago_Reader: French garage band the Sonic Chicken 4 plays at the Bottle tonight. http://is.gd/4uLJs
milesraymer: Sam McPheeters' long-awaited review of Steve Martin's banjo record: http://bit.ly/v7otL
milesraymer: RT @pmontoro: @MetroChicago WHAT DO YOU MEAN JELLO BIAFRA IS NOT MADE OF JELLO
milesraymer: RT @DAVID_LYNCH: Here is a picture of my fish: http://twitpic.com/mdlqp
milesraymer: Antony singing Puccini is pretty much destroying my afternoon: http://bit.ly/2pVzbN
milesraymer: RT @zizekspeaks: When there's nothing left to burn you have to set yourself on fire.
milesraymer: Good day for promos: Hall & Oates box set, Nirvana Live at Reading, and new Slayer.
milesraymer: RT @fakeshoredrive: Kanye Secretly Working In Chicago? http://bit.ly/3RqA9
milesraymer: RT @pmontoro: Passing along the Chicago History Museum's call for Lounge Ax ephemera: http://tinyurl.com/yk2kfka
milesraymer: Photos from the fest in Portland this past weekend, guest starring Davila 666, Box Elders, and @TheCoathangers: http://bit.ly/3oIvWF
milesraymer: I just remembered that I had a dream last night where I was going out with Amerie.
milesraymer: Corey Rusk's got some sick shit on eBay: http://bit.ly/16rwqA Big Black test pressings! Via @chunklet
milesraymer: Back from PDX. On the Blue Line from ORD.
milesraymer: Oh the brutality.
milesraymer: The Marriott's looking like a convention of professional degenerates. Which it mostly is.
milesraymer: Chilling in the room soaking up some cable. Sons of Anarchy is such a joke. Bad enough to make me switch to CSI: Miami.
milesraymer: RT @thelizupdate: @xenijardin yo mamma so fat, China uses her to block the internet. (via @xenijardin)
milesraymer: I had an umbrella in my bag right up until the point where I left for Portland.
milesraymer: Showed up at PDX to find Davila and a limo waiting for us. Nice. (via @mannequinmen)
milesraymer: At ORD trying to choke down something claiming to be pizza. Shoulda ate before I left.
milesraymer: RT @whet: blogs & twitter - technology designed so that you can find out what's happening on cable news without actually having to watch it
milesraymer: RT @fakeshoredrive: Peep the Balloon Kid's rap video with his brothers (no really) http://bit.ly/T6SId
milesraymer: RT @harper: the real question about all this stuff is where can i buy some weather balooons?
milesraymer: Damn. I go AFK for just long enough to buy a bag of chips and by the time I get back Twitter's on its second round of Balloon Kid jokes.
milesraymer: My profile of local soundtrackers of nonexistent horror movies Gatekeeper is now on the Internet: http://bit.ly/2zcTsa
milesraymer: Apparently it's Girly Garage Rock Week around here. Brilliant Colors crushing it: http://bit.ly/OWElB
milesraymer: Laundry done, work scheduled out, feel pretty practiced up. I guess I'm ready for Portland.
milesraymer: @SarahKSilverman The guv'ment doesn't want you to know that. Sheeple.
milesraymer: RT @bobpowers1: RIP Captain Lou. He was our John Lennon.
milesraymer: It is amazing thing how cats can act so proud while having their buttholes on display to the whole world.
milesraymer: Brian McKinney of Chocolate Lab on the iTunes LP dustup, which looks to have blown over. http://tinyurl.com/yzn89gt (via @pmontoro)
milesraymer: @pmontoro "Syrupy bilge," yes, but it's syrupy bilge that gives you the awakeness of ten men.
milesraymer: @chicodegallo I was just there a little bit ago.
milesraymer: @chicodegallo Nice guilt trip.
milesraymer: House of Blues Security on the Rampage: http://bit.ly/3BjAMM
milesraymer: I like this very much: http://bit.ly/NMrRp And now I'm craving bao.
milesraymer: @1000TimesYes The best is when writers actually get tricked into calling them "rockabilly" or whatever. Hilarity.
milesraymer: "Rapper's Delight" is 30 years old now? Bonkers.
milesraymer: "Posse on Broadway" on Google Maps: http://bit.ly/cRUMA
milesraymer: RT @fakeshoredrive: Video: R. Kelly Loves Harold's http://bit.ly/377fmw
milesraymer: For a minute there I had completely forgotten that Eminem put out a record this year. And not so much "a minute" as "a couple of weeks."
milesraymer: Well done. RT @1000TimesYes: Very proud to do this: The Jams That Time Forgot: Def Jam’s Eight Most Slept-On Records http://bit.ly/rmqPF
milesraymer: Reminder: I will be playing rock 'n' roll musics tonight at Bar Deville, a classy place to get all messed up on liquor.
milesraymer: @dansinker What the fuck is Friendster?
milesraymer: I've never wanted to punch a YouTube video so hard: http://bit.ly/vD96v
milesraymer: RT @MarcoMorales: @milesraymer New 83 mix. This is the final version, old one was a ROUGH: http://www.zshare.net/audio/66911402060f6cbd/
milesraymer: If you like tasty drinks and solid gold hot fire jams of the rock 'n' roll variety you should come see me spin at Bar Deville tonight.
milesraymer: My take on Sonic Youth's Gossip Girl appearance: http://bit.ly/tTsXq
milesraymer: I didn't realize that Arto Lindsay recorded with They Might Be Giants. http://bit.ly/e3KMX
milesraymer: The jams of 1983 mixed by Marco Morales: http://bit.ly/mcGlF
milesraymer: RT @jesshopp: Psalm One won the Chi-city theme song. Free concert/thinger next week. Detailses: http://bit.ly/fAcIQ
milesraymer: If you use sites like RapidShare or MegaUpload frequently, the SkipScreen plugin for Firefox will make you happy: http://bit.ly/t8Juu
milesraymer: RT @jesshopp: Bill the Cat heard my prayers. "Bloom County returns" is news I have been waiting a long time to hear: http://bit.ly/5P06T
milesraymer: RT @pmontoro: For the major labels, it's not 2012, it's 2013--a flood of artists suing for termination rights. http://tinyurl.com/yjxljln
milesraymer: I heard the Farmer's Almanac says it's supposed to be the worst winter in decades. I need a scheme to migrate somewhere warmer.
milesraymer: In celebration of Columbus Day I'm going to murder 95% of our continent's population. It's what he would've wanted.
milesraymer: A disturbing number of misspellings today. It's either brain damage or over-reliance on the iPhone. Probably brain damage though.
milesraymer: So true: http://bit.ly/OMZzf
milesraymer: Both are so good. RT @chris__thomson: "pictures from burning man", possible new band name, or should it be "burning man pics nsfw" ?
milesraymer: Dear Christmas, I want this: http://bit.ly/2jrad
milesraymer: Of course there's some super fun-looking skate demo or something going on at Clemente on a day that I absolutely have to get work done.
milesraymer: Feeling really motivated and as a result going out to pick up some Jimmy John's instead of having it delivered four blocks.
milesraymer: Enchiladas are now.
milesraymer: Enchiladas are now.
milesraymer: It's really weird to watch a TV show that I like and know that in real life one of them lives around the corner from me and is a bitch.
milesraymer: It's really weird to watch a TV show that I like and know that in real life one of them lives around the corner from me and is a bitch.
milesraymer: 12 minutes until enchiladas.
milesraymer: 12 minutes until enchiladas.
milesraymer: It took 41 years for someone to make a porno called Night of the Giving Head. People, we really shoulda been on that decades ago.
milesraymer: It took 41 years for someone to make a porno called Night of the Giving Head. People, we really shoulda been on that decades ago.
milesraymer: It took 41 years for someone to make a porno called Night of the Giving Head. People, we really shoulda been on that decades ago.
milesraymer: YES. RT @atrak: Remember my tweet about a wheelchair crowdsurf in Australia? Found it. Check 0:30 mark: http://bit.ly/2XcXZC
milesraymer: YES. RT @atrak: Remember my tweet about a wheelchair crowdsurf in Australia? Found it. Check 0:30 mark: http://bit.ly/2XcXZC
milesraymer: I wish I had more of that curry.
milesraymer: I wish I had more of that curry.
milesraymer: RT @fennrock: RT @PAPPADEMAS: Can't shake the feeling that the Nobel Comittee just gave Obama the Best New Artist Grammy.
milesraymer: RT @fennrock: RT @PAPPADEMAS: Can't shake the feeling that the Nobel Comittee just gave Obama the Best New Artist Grammy.
milesraymer: RT @fennrock: RT @PAPPADEMAS: Can't shake the feeling that the Nobel Comittee just gave Obama the Best New Artist Grammy.
milesraymer: I hope all these tweets about today's Twitter outage don't make it crash again. But wouldn't that just be meta as hell?
milesraymer: I hope all these tweets about today's Twitter outage don't make it crash again. But wouldn't that just be meta as hell?
milesraymer: I hope all these tweets about today's Twitter outage don't make it crash again. But wouldn't that just be meta as hell?
milesraymer: "N plus one is to thinking as a Renaissance Festival is to warfare." http://bit.ly/xtB31
milesraymer: "N plus one is to thinking as a Renaissance Festival is to warfare." http://bit.ly/xtB31
milesraymer: "N plus one is to thinking as a Renaissance Festival is to warfare." http://bit.ly/xtB31
milesraymer: Anyone here using doubleTwist? I don't have anyone to try out the sharing features with. I'm so Internet lonely.
milesraymer: Anyone here using doubleTwist? I don't have anyone to try out the sharing features with. I'm so Internet lonely.
milesraymer: Anyone here using doubleTwist? I don't have anyone to try out the sharing features with. I'm so Internet lonely.
milesraymer: RT @idolator: Apparently mashups are back! Miley Cyrus + Notorious B.I.G. = "Party And Bullshit In The USA": http://bit.ly/4iwkWn
milesraymer: RT @idolator: Apparently mashups are back! Miley Cyrus + Notorious B.I.G. = "Party And Bullshit In The USA": http://bit.ly/4iwkWn
milesraymer: RT @idolator: Apparently mashups are back! Miley Cyrus + Notorious B.I.G. = "Party And Bullshit In The USA": http://bit.ly/4iwkWn
milesraymer: Bin Laden Blowin' Up: Revolutionary party rap http://bit.ly/jnXio
milesraymer: Bin Laden Blowin' Up: Revolutionary party rap http://bit.ly/jnXio