Warm Cereal on WRGW and a promise I probably won’t keep
Dear Roommate,
As it turns out, our room is not a karaoke bar. Yes, I do like the Black Keys. No, I don’t like it when you sing their songs. Or anything by cee lo green, shitty rappers, or rage against the machine. At the very least, could you just stick to shitty music and stop ruining the Black Keys, the Strokes, and Devendra Banhart for me?
Also, you’re not the official DJ of the room. Everyone else wears fucking headphones, so could you please put your dad’s $300 bose pair to use?
Whats that cee lo green song called again? yeah
I was just in CVS and heard the piano riff from “Lord Knows Best” by Dirty Beaches in some soft-rock/mom-rock radio song. So I guess he “re appropriated” it just like Vanilla Ice “re appropriated” the riff from under pressure. Without crediting anyone (as far as I can tell).
The difference here is that “Lord Knows Best” is a good song. And the song that I think the piano riff was taken from was awful. When I say mom-rock I mean the shitty soft-rock radio station that your friends’ moms would play in the car in elementary school on the way to the latest soccer/basketball/football/boy scout event. That was my experience at least.
http://www.gwradio.com
On-air interview with Brooklyn’s Darwin Deez today at 2:45 on WRGW. Check it out.



