“If you say Seth Cohen didn’t represent you then you weren’t represented by him.” -donnytilla, a genius (just kidding, I know what you mean).

I guess you can’t count Unplugged because it’s a live album, but still, that album is so good.

I love CyHi’s verse on “So Appalled,” but I guess that is the only thing I’ve heard from him, so maybe he is not always that good. Woo constructive comment.

Fuckin’ finally. The songs on those new 7″ records are great, so I’m looking forward to this! Also, not to be that guy, but Pinback were on Touch and Go (which also had to shut down, sad) before they signed to Temporary Residence.

No kidding, great song to go along with all that action. Most fun I’ve had watching a music video in a long time.

I can’t really speak to the ‘moment’ either, but having read about it in books like Rob Sheffield’s Love Is a Mixtape, it seems like that would definitely lend itself to people thinking it is their best record. But as someone who never listened to Pavement until 2007, my favorite album of theirs (aka the one I think is ‘the best’) is probably Brighten the Corners.

The concept of ‘the moment’ is very interesting especially since I can’t think of something like that that’s happened in music since, like, 2001, maybe?

Always keeping the white man down.

Hope this doesn’t sound too whatever (obviously you are the one writing for Stereogum and I am the one commenting on Stereogum), but I liked this column much more this week than I did in the last two weeks. It seemed like there was a common thread throughout the piece (the influence of ghosts and religious imagery on School of Seven Bells), and the writing was less ‘let’s make every sentence sound like part of a press release’ and was much more readable as a result. Most of all, it got me interested in listening to the new School of Seven Bells record. Thanks for writing it.

I would also like to know what happened exactly. The death’s obviously sad no matter what, but if he died of natural causes, I will probably plunge into a fun spiral of “I HAVE TWO YEARS LEFT TO LIVE! WHAT HAVE I ACCOMPLISHED?!” for a few days.

I want to see Maya Rudolph dance with her awesome dancing faces while Sleigh Bells plays.

As a cyborg, Gucci Mane is great!

Really? I don’t think most people who protest new Walmarts are doing it from an elitist standpoint. I think they’re worried that local businesses will close as a result of Walmart moving in, and also about how bad Walmart’s wages are for workers (probably worse than the wages given by local businesses). I’m also going to go out on a limb and say that Walmart execs aren’t putting a Walmart in downtown Athens because they want to help those in poverty.

The Athens area (I am not from there but know people who are/were) already has two Walmarts a little outside city limits. This one is a bigger deal because it will be located downtown, very close to loved local businesses that might shut down as a result of Walmart’s cheaper prices (though I guess accessible to people downtown who don’t have a car). Two seems enough for me. I remember going to school in a poorer part of the country and taking the bus to Walmart to buy school supplies – there was a bus system in the area, and one of the bus lines went right to Walmart’s front door. There are probably similar buses in Athens to get to the other two Walmarts. Walmart has its place, but the oversaturation is unnecessary and bad for everyone, I think.

I guess I’m assuming some things here, but I think there are a lot of factors involved and it’s hard to make a blanket statement like you made without thinking about it a little more.