Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Dec 14, 2009, 12:57 am
Click here to view the embedded video. I don’t have that many questions for you tonight. Mainly just: Why the fuck can’t more bands make music videos like this? And how does Michael Bay s...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Dec 9, 2009, 10:00 am
You may have noticed that we don’t have any ads here. Kinda conspicuous by their absence, I guess. Probably a couple of reasons why. Number one: they’re an eyesore. They’re all flash...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Dec 6, 2009, 7:03 pm
My posting has been intermittent lately; I’m being throttled by the Learned Hand of law school finals. They’re quite stressful: I find myself fantasizing about the catastrophic bout of dri...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Dec 1, 2009, 10:28 pm
Alright alright alright alright alright, listen to me for a second. Listen! I figured out a trick! You’re going to love this! Alright, so. You know YouTube, right? You’ve heard of YouTube?...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 29, 2009, 9:30 am
Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo. Okay. First of all, this is old. Like, it’s been in the tubes for two years now if Vimeo is to be believed. In fact, I saw this a full year ago, so it&#...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 27, 2009, 9:53 pm
We all love Thanksgiving. Kind of. We all like overeating, though your mileage may vary when it comes to traditional American-style Thanksgiving-themed foods. Many of us love seeing family, though aga...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 25, 2009, 10:00 am
Ahhh man. I can’t believe I missed the American Music Awards. I can’t believe it. How did this happen. My life is so horrible. I hope I didn’t miss anything really crazy. Like a sexu...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 25, 2009, 8:59 am
Sunday was my Thanksgiving. Since some of my near-and-dears and I will be apart this year, I decided to host “Little Thanksgiving” the Sunday before. On the menu was a sage butter turkey w...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 24, 2009, 10:00 am
Honestly I’m so in love with Leighton Meester I could throw up. She could put out an album that was just her reading dumb children books like “Where the Wild Things Are” or “Bl...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 21, 2009, 8:34 pm
Fact: If you added up all of the land in Sweden you’d come up with some number that was pretty close to like 173,745 square miles. 9.3 million people live there. 9.3. That’s it. Los Angele...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 21, 2009, 5:28 pm
We’re coming up on the end of a year, the end of a decade, and if Dan Brown and Roland Emmerich are right, on the end of human existence. And in case you haven’t picked up on this through ...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 20, 2009, 10:00 am
I don’t like to toot my own horn too much (this is a lie), but I know a thing or two about biking (this is also a lie). I biked across these United States several years ago, and I learned a valu...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 19, 2009, 2:30 pm
You’d think with a name like Diamond Watch Wrists it’d be a flashy-ass glam rap record. No sir, and I’ll thank you not to stereotype. This one totally slipped through my proverbial c...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 19, 2009, 5:59 am
Hark, the herald hipster cries, glory to the Brooklyn guys. …and that’s where I’ll stop with those references, at least until we’re deeper in December. On to the real point: ...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 18, 2009, 1:37 pm
Regrettably, Sarah Palin sort of has an autobiography out. I say ’sort of’ because the consensus is that it’s so full of errors that it borders on fiction and she certainly didn̵...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 18, 2009, 8:30 am
SPOILER ALERT: there’s a new Hood Internet mixtape out. What this spoils for you is hearing the original songs in their original state, pre-mashup. This is more important than you may realize, c...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 18, 2009, 12:45 am
Drinking water when it’s hot out, going all in when rocking the royal flush, only dating hot shallow models, not fighting bears bare handed, never getting burned to death, not dating people you ...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 17, 2009, 2:00 pm
Like a grey day in Montauk, on the cusp of fall, so late in the year you really shouldn’t have gone cause it’s too windy and cold. To the shoreside get-away spot your family owns but that ...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 17, 2009, 1:47 am
Edward Sharpe & The Magnificent Zeros headlined at the Black Cat tonight. Fools Gold opened up. Both bands are from LA. I don’t know if you got the memo – but Los Angeles happens to be the...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 17, 2009, 1:32 am
It was actually a chilly morning coming in today. My boss was wearing a long coat he refers to as his “New York” coat. Of course, nothing really lasts very long in LA… It’s alm...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 17, 2009, 1:19 am
In honor of the Leonid Meteor Shower that’s peaking for the next several hours for local left-coasters, which is sure to have some of the “2012″ fans shakin’ prematurely in the...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 13, 2009, 12:15 pm
Couple days ago I talked about 8-Bit the band and 8-bit the genre, and I feel I could have gone on for quite a damn while about the genre. I mean, there’s a lot to say about it, a lot to like. Y...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 13, 2009, 1:32 am
Dear Hollywood, To whom it may concern behind the much ballyhooed and bedeviled Janis Joplin biopic: You need stand up and take notice of a one, Miss Deanna Brown. A starlet and a star. She posses...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 12, 2009, 1:09 am
Rich people are so dumb*. They buy the dumbest things. I imagine they buy stuff they think is going to make their life more awesome. I get it. Fast cars are cool. I love them myself. Accelerating real...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 10, 2009, 9:52 pm
There’s a couple of angles I can go with here. I should probably start by saying I played a lot of video games as a child. Not bragging or anything. I can beat Mega Man 2 in an hour and a half. ...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 10, 2009, 1:00 am
You know how you know you’ve got a good friend? If you call them at 3am because you’re in jail…they come and bail you out. You know how you can tell you’ve got a great friend? ...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 8, 2009, 11:33 pm
Quick name Britney Spears’ best song. Do it in under two seconds. Okay I hope you brought a pen and paper and wrote that down. Look down at your paper and read out what you wrote. Obviously you ...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 7, 2009, 1:30 pm
I’ve seen Tom Waits perform live before. He came through Louisville during the Real Gone tour – he said he came through to pick up fireworks and because “somebody here still owes me ...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 7, 2009, 3:02 am
I’m not going to lie to anyone here. Mostly because the internet is a horrible place to lie about stuff – but also just because I’m super lazy. All right – I’m pretty fuc...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 6, 2009, 5:07 pm
The shows were a week ago. A secret show at Teddy’s on Thursday. A bigger and more sold-out engagement the next night at the Troubadour. Adam and I both chose to hit up the show that got us as c...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 6, 2009, 10:14 am
Tuesday was like christmas in ‘95 when I got: a banana seat bike, a brand new laser disc player, dos Klipsch speakers and three fucking wicked sweet fur coats. That is to say: It was the tops. I...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 3, 2009, 10:08 am
Maybe you guys have heard of Gentle Giant, and maybe you haven’t. If you’ve heard of them, though, you’re probably a huge fan; they’re that kind of band. And, if you haven̵...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 2, 2009, 10:52 pm
When I found out Little Dragon was playing on Halloween it was like telling me that I was going to get a happy ending from Ms.Refaeli after my steak dinner. I was flying 7/8 mast just thinking it. ...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Oct 30, 2009, 8:15 pm
Click here to view the embedded video. Watching clips from the Video Music Awards reminded me of two things. 1) I fucking love Kanye West. Seriously. People forget he gave away his own award to Out...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Oct 29, 2009, 10:02 pm
Dan and I are rolling to Hotel Roosevelt tonight to check Florence + the Machine for a private show. I might get to chat her up and ask her some questions. I need to loosen up so I’m going to pr...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Oct 27, 2009, 6:57 pm
Grizzly Bear and Beach House played a show at the Palladium last Wednesday. It was epic. In a related story: it was the best concert I have ever seen. I will now be purchasing Grizzly Bear tickets any...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Oct 26, 2009, 9:52 pm
Couple things. Number one: y’all know Gentle Giant? It’s okay if you don’t; they’re a prog rock outfit from the 70s who made some amazing, complex, and (frankly) inaccessible m...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Oct 26, 2009, 3:20 am
I shudder when I think about how many kids have never listened to Mac Dre. I heard a kid ask what “hyphy” was the other night and if I had been drinking milk at the time let’s just s...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Oct 25, 2009, 3:59 am
It’s 2am, there are cops yelling instructions to someone presumably about to get shot outside in my neighborhood somewhere, and helicopters have been circling overhead for a solid 45 minutes. I...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Oct 20, 2009, 6:50 pm
Free Chicken and Beer did a great piece on the funkiest jams of all time. Great article, and I don’t think I can dispute any of it, but I was struck that with the sole exception of Handsome Boy ...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Oct 8, 2009, 2:47 pm
Vampire Weekend posted a new song recently on their website for free download. It only serves to confirm the fact that Contra, the new album dropping January 12th, 2010 will be the best belated Christ...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Oct 5, 2009, 2:35 am
Sometimes (as previously stated) a soundtrack to a movie becomes a character, stands out on it’s own, or even overtakes the movie in importance. With Spike Jonze in the captain’s seat and ...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Oct 2, 2009, 2:31 am
Since I outted myself about Paramore a long time ago, admitting the title proclamation isn’t exactly a confession, but none-the-less, the reminder might make your nose crinkle. Yes, I actually...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Sep 22, 2009, 10:35 pm
The last family to live in my new-to-me apartment left a set of reasonably expensive speakers and a receiver, and a friend picked up a new turntable and gave me his old one. I’ve finally got a w...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Sep 17, 2009, 9:40 pm
I’ve been waiting to write about Jay Reatard for awhile now: waiting for him to put out a for-realises solo album; waiting for the album to cool off slightly so as not to appear bandwagon-y; wai...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Sep 2, 2009, 1:21 am
Summer (ragin’, full-on summer anyway) has come and gone, and it’s time to go through everything I’ve let slip through the cracks over the last few months. I’m literally* slapp...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Sep 2, 2009, 12:05 am
Click here to view the embedded video. It was only two weeks ago that my co-conspirator, Mr. Adam C. Morse, belatedly announced his discovery of Australian multimedia artist Pogo’s “Alice...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Aug 25, 2009, 2:42 am
I can’t wait. Under normal circumstances, I would delay this post until closer to September 22nd when Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros are playing at the El Rey. But I can’t wait, becaus...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Aug 24, 2009, 10:20 pm
I typically don’t pick up CDs based on how much I like the cover, but then again, most CD covers don’t feature mummies, lightning, bats, rocket skateboards, and a Jamaican commando with fu...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Aug 21, 2009, 2:00 pm
Several years ago at a party, I met Jim, a man with whom I shared a rare imperfection. Each of us were chosen by to carry the social stigma of a sunken xiphoid process. For those of you who are readin...
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