Good Advices

We have an intervention for An Angle, talk baseball and Moz with Joe Pernice, and learn some rock rules by which to live

Comments (0) By Jordan Harper and Andrew Miller and Annie Zaleski Wednesday, Aug 3 2005

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Politics

If someone says Bruce Springsteen is a poet of the working class, that person is not working-class.

An Angle: one tequila, two tequila...

The Pernice Brothers: There is a light, and it never goes out.

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Politics never make music better. Never. But they can make music much, much worse.

People who talk about "real country" usually have no place talking about rural America. Especially clueless are those who only count left-wingers as authentic country, when most country fans are conservative. However, Toby Keith does suck.

(The above is a corollary to the famous adage, "People who say they like all music except country don't really like music at all.")

Matters of the heart (and loins)

If she's into the Doors, check her ID.

The first mixtape -- or, today, burned CD -- he makes you will teach you more about him than the first six months of conversation.

Makeout music warning signs (by age group): Joy Division, Nine Inch Nails, Dashboard Confessional. At breakup time, don't say we didn't warn you.

Choosing Marvin Gaye shows a lack of imagination.

Furthermore, a straight man who chooses female-fronted make-out tunes will be a less attentive lover than a man who chooses male-fronted tunes. Interestingly, the opposite is not true of women -- and both Björk and Nina Simone tunes are exempt from this rule.

After getting dumped, getting really into Exile in Guyville is a sign that you are on the road to recovery.

Recreation

Never drink with someone with no guilty pleasures. Do you want to have boozy singalongs to Wire?

Jimmy Buffett fans aren't wrong, they are just drunker than you.

The more Phish bootlegs they own, the more pot you should buy from them.

If you're going to puke, you might as well do it to the Velvet Underground's first album. It's like spewing in a movie. -- Jordan Harper