Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Apr 27, 2011, 1:38 am
Yeah. I know. It’s not your fucking birthday. But I guarantee you that SOMEONE* had a birthday on April 18th. And that person must have been ecstatic. Because Purity Ring dropped Ungirthed 7″ . And if you haven’t heard it yet just hit play. IT WILL FEEL LIKE YOUR FUCKING BIRTHDAY. That heavy w...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Dec 13, 2010, 12:40 pm
Well there’s the whole: Elliot Smith, Kanye West, Rufus Wainwright, Keane, and Spoon to name a few thing. Then there is the matter of scores: Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I Heart Huckabees. There are more of course. Jon Brion produced the artists. He also wrot...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Dec 6, 2010, 10:35 pm
Formerly of the “Morning After Girls”, Aimee Nash and Scott Von Ryper make up the new shoegaze act The Black Ryder. On first glance, they look like they are too cool to hang out with you. More than likely, they are. They also look like they want to do nothing but fuck you up with
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Nov 22, 2010, 5:27 pm
The Offbeat is the best way to start your day. If want the start of your day to involve being blasted into orbit on a rocket ship to take a quick dip into outer space. Simple as pie. This GNG BNG remix is nothing but raw sex. Harsh. Sexy. Over too soon. FlyAmSam – “The
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Oct 27, 2010, 11:45 pm
Gold Panda (Ghostly) just dropped his new LP: Lucky Shiner. More than a solid follow up to the recent “You EP.” If my ears had taste buds* they’d probably describe the sound of Gold Panda’s latest effort, as stripper glitter in my mouth.* The only way I can dream about liking it more – is
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Sep 17, 2010, 8:49 am
Ellie Goulding is coming hard out of England right now, and we yanks should count ourselves jammy beggars that this bird ain’t no scrubber. The twenty-three year old is already a BFD in The Isles and starting to explode in The States, being picked up by some very savvy music supervisors for film a...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Sep 16, 2010, 8:56 am
Finally. An outdoor festival that didn’t suck. This past Saturday, FYF (Fuck Yeah Fest) took place downtown in the Los Angeles State Historic Park. It was 102 degrees. The lines were hours long. Beer Gardens were overflowing with more hipsters than alcohol. It was a perfect storm of elements to ma...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Sep 9, 2010, 8:59 am
Finally. An outdoor festival that didn’t suck. This past Saturday, FYF (Fuck Yeah Fest) took place downtown in the Los Angeles State Historic Park. It was 102 degrees. The lines were hours long. Beer Gardens were overflowing with more hipsters than alcohol. It was a perfect storm of elements to ma...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Sep 8, 2010, 11:59 am
Sooner or later I’m more than likely going to get gunned down in a drug deal gone sideways. Which means that eventually, one of my crew is going to have to avenge my death. And when they do avenge my death they better do it with Oil Money by Freddie Gibbs playing in the background
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Aug 8, 2010, 5:06 pm
Sequels are hard to get right. Just ask MGMT. The first one is easy. No one knows what to expect. The second one though? That’s tough. Preconceived notions are tough demons to dispel for anyone. Apparently not so much for Christian Cuff though. Chalkboard is his version of taking you on an adventu...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jul 30, 2010, 8:59 am
Whiskey pong was a bad choice. Sometimes, something sounds like a great idea at the time, like whiskey pong (especially after being already drunk from the flowing keg of cider), only to find out later* that it was in fact a BAD IDEA. But by the same token something may sound like an awful idea,
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jul 26, 2010, 5:30 am
Hypothetically speaking, say The Church of Scientology was, a Bank Robber who had taken hostages. And everyone who was a Scientologist was a hostage. With me so far? Okay, now let’s pretend we are the ‘negotiators’ on the outside. Like the movie with Kevin Spacey and Samuel L. Jackson. Called ...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jul 23, 2010, 12:39 pm
I’m constantly getting these songs mixed up. “Fortress” started in the car the other day and I thought it was “Don’t You Evah.” Spoon started playing in the coffee shop this morning and I thought it was Pinback. Am I crazy? You decide… Spoon – “Don’t You Evah” Pinback – “Fo...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jul 23, 2010, 8:59 am
I saw Inception yesterday. I hate when people hype a movie, because it inevitably falls short of your built up expectations and then you don’t like it as much as your friends, and you sit there looking at each other not knowing what the other was smoking, because they obviously didn’t see the sa...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jul 22, 2010, 8:59 am
My Unemployed Daily To Do List: 1. Get Coffee at Coffee Bean.* 2. Write Too Much Happiness Post. 3. Spend 15 minutes looking at job postings. 4. Spend 2 minutes drafting an application for a posting. 5. Trash draft email application. 6. 4 hours free time. 7. Afternoon workout. 8. 6 hours free time. ...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jul 21, 2010, 7:29 am
Fade In: INT. DARK ROOM Me: “…but then what? What next?” Him: “A sex scene!” Me: “But it’s a horror movie, don’t we want it to be scary?” Him: “It’ll be a scary sex scene!” Me: “A scary sex scene?” Him: “Yeah.” Me: “How will it be a scary sex scene?” Him: “Becau...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jul 20, 2010, 2:35 pm
And being locked up with the girl who robbed her house and probably getting lots o’ lesbo love from Sam Ronson lookalikes…
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jul 20, 2010, 8:01 am
Grin and bear it. I clenched my teeth reading, literally, five posts in a row from friends who were at this concert. The bird and the bee, The Swell Season and She & Him. It is perhaps the most perfect summer show on the Hollywood Bowl’s summer schedule this year. “Why didn’t you just buy
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jul 19, 2010, 7:30 am
Fuck you, Lady Antebellum. I now dread punching the radio knob in the dashboard of my Kia Sorento for fear of finding tunes from the likes of you, bathed in bathos, dragging me into your sentimental worlds, trying to make me feel sorry for myself. This goes for all country and 60% of everything else...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jul 17, 2010, 5:11 pm
We don’t do a lot of jazz here. Because really, who cares? Y’all want pop and dance and hip-hop and singer/songwriter and that’s totally fine. That’s not all we listen to, but that it about all we keep current on. I love jazz, myself. I grew up on Herbie Hancock and John Colt...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jul 15, 2010, 4:17 am
I fly around a lot. Flights coming into LAX are always loaded with hot chicks. So it’s quite often that I get to overhear some pretty fabulous conversations. Near the baggage claim I was stopped like a deer and headlights trying to coyly check this chick out from a distance we’ll call no...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jul 13, 2010, 11:39 pm
The best parts about working for a music website are obvious. Power. Money. Hot chicks. Obviously not necessarily in that order. The worst part is often overlooked though. Everyone wants you to review their music*. And I mean everyone. Here’s the thing, it’s easy to ignore the people you...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jul 13, 2010, 12:04 am
Mel Gibson really fucked up my day. Normally I start listening to music pretty early. But I spent most of my day laughing at this line he said to that Russian chick he left his wife of like a billion years for: “I am going to come and burn the fucking house down… but you
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jul 10, 2010, 2:00 pm
Editors note: The tracks should be playable now. Ghostly International is coming to Los Angeles for a show tonight and it’s going to be gangbusters. I don’t think there is another label out there that has such an evolved and cohesive aural / audio aesthetic as these guys. Everyone from G...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jul 10, 2010, 12:45 pm
I hate reading the news. It’s always so depressing and there is rarely anything I can do to fix anything they’re talking about. For instance I woke up this morning and saw this article under the headline “No one is interested in sex”. Wait what? No one? Click. Prostitution nu...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jul 6, 2010, 11:30 am
Times are changing so quickly. You want to experience an odd, unsettling feeling? Fire up The Matrix and marvel at how they escape trouble by going through payphones. Movie or not, I’ll wager that’s the first payphone you’ve seen in years. The Matrix came out in 1999, and in that s...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jun 20, 2010, 4:04 pm
Kottke.org is a lot like a slower-paced Boing Boing, run by one dude with good taste. Now, for the past month or so I’ve been working 55-hour weeks and my computer’s been in the shop. I know, I know, it’s been some real shit I’ve been going through. And this news is therefore...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Jun 1, 2010, 11:00 am
I’m so over Lil Jon. I’m sure a lot of you don’t care too much one way or another; maybe you’ve always been ‘over him,’ maybe you never listened to him at all. For me, though, until fairly recently I had the utmost respect for Lil Jon. I’m not kidding; in so...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - May 28, 2010, 12:49 am
Adam Stern will be playing at the Dakota on June 4th at 11pm. Of course everything I just told you is in the poster, but maybe you don’t read posters. The Dakota is a dope venue. We’re giving away two free tickets to the show. To enter all you have to do is write a
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - May 27, 2010, 5:06 am
If you follow Diplo on twitter it seems like all he does is hang out in Jamaica and score weed from fans after/before/during shows. This obviously makes him one of my favorite all time people already. But it also makes me wonder how he fits in time to make all of this brilliant shit. So
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - May 26, 2010, 10:52 pm
Every time I see the words ‘finale’ and ‘American Idol’ together I get super excited because I always think they mean that the show will never be back on. I’m always immediately disappointed when I see the word “season” in there instead of “show”...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - May 16, 2010, 3:32 pm
You probably know this – but a lot of people have remixed Jay-Z. I can not emphasize the word a lot enough. You may or may not know this but Jay-Z has a twitter account. He has posted to the site twitter.com 14 times. 14. One of those times he talks about the Jaydiohead remixes.
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - May 14, 2010, 9:24 pm
It’s been a minute since I’ve posted here. I know, that’s how it goes in this post-Internet world, I’m not about to lay a bunch of excuses on you, other than to say I’ve been going through a double-dipped bitch of an exam cycle and just completed a 600-mile move. Nothin...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - May 4, 2010, 2:40 am
I have few dreams in life. Besides eternal money, fame, fortune, and happiness. I have definitely never dreamt of being a CEO. Do you know how hard it is to get a tan in an office building? No thank you. You know how loves tan dudes? Kim Kardashian. If being a CEO is anything like
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - May 3, 2010, 1:43 am
Every time I listen to the Department of Eagles the only thing I can do is sit back and curse Grizzly Bear. By all accounts, Grizzly Bear is amazing. I mean, they did put on the greatest concert I’ve ever been to. Then I listen to a song like The Horse You Ride and all
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - May 2, 2010, 1:21 am
Adam Stern & Friends will be playing live at Hotel Cafe this Sunday at 7. They’ll be hitting tracks off his debut “The Dreamer Child” as well as some new ones. You probably want to get to this show as I’m not in LA right now. So it would be a good time to
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - May 1, 2010, 4:48 pm
The Derby’s today in case you’ve forgotten, which you might well have because horse racing isn’t very relevant anymore. Going to the tracks is serious fun, but it isn’t the 1960s anymore; it’s not the kind of thing you would ever think to do if you don’t live in a...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Apr 23, 2010, 10:56 pm
You would not believe how many hot chicks stop me and are like “hey can you send me music?” and I’m like yeah, like you’re so special. But then I do send them music. Because I want to get in their pants. I’m like that. White Hinterlands cover of my love is one of the f...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Apr 23, 2010, 9:40 pm
I love people who fight crime. And according to this groups myspace page Jesus and Judas is actually a crime fighting duo…that doesn’t play by the rules. To be clear – this is not the same Jesus and Judas from that fairy tale book written by that king. And no, I am not referring to
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Apr 23, 2010, 2:47 am
I’m a sucker for a number of things. Hot chicks, your mom, hot chicks that put out, naked hot chicks, drugs, watching videos of little kids getting hurt, entropy in any form… and of course pop culture references. This song is made of two things: Killer beats and heavy dose of pop culture...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Apr 20, 2010, 10:01 am
Think about all the time you wasted Thinking about and working on your BOMB SHELTER! The Halo Benders, “Bomb Shelter pt. 1″ I’ve been thinking about this for awhile. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I read Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’ a few months...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Apr 19, 2010, 5:08 am
If I get my hands on a whole lump of hash – the only thing I know how to do is make it disappear. Quickly. Next to making women sigh on command this skill might be the closest thing I have to a super power. Now take in mind that there is a possibility I
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Apr 9, 2010, 9:41 pm
Sweet Mary Moses and all the Buddha’s babies, I have been so busy these past few weeks. I’m talking crazy busy. I’m talking staying in and working until 2am on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday kind of busy. But, yesterday I finally crested the peak and caught a little flash of sunlig...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Apr 6, 2010, 1:52 am
Of every label that has ever existed.. Def Jux might have the highest percentage of dope shit. I have been searching for weeks through everyone in their catalog. I can’t find anything that I don’t love. I’m not done yet – but so far my mission to find some music I don’t...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Mar 24, 2010, 11:20 am
I feel like Gary Numan got a raw deal. Most of you know him as the ‘Cars‘ guy. If you’re a scenester kid or a big goth/industrial fan you’ve probably heard some of his other singles, like “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” and ‘M.E.,’ the latter hav...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Mar 19, 2010, 11:31 am
Thankfully, Wu Xing only has five elements. I’m not going to get into the different transitions and interactions between them and blah blah blah…no. Today we’re doing water and then we’re done. No more feng shui after that. This shit has been straight exhausting. You’re...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Mar 18, 2010, 11:31 am
Today on Indie Feng Shui, we’re talking about Metal. And if you think I’m going to use this opportunity to post a bunch of Metallica and Mastodon, guess what? You’ve just proven that you know very little about Wu Xing! You should have stopped by when we were doing Fire. No, metal i...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Mar 17, 2010, 11:07 am
This is a tricky one. To me, you think Earth, you think trees. Trees are made of wood. And we already did Wood two days ago. But this Chinese mysticism: the Wu Xing isn’t meant to be taken literally. There’s more to Earth than just trees and dirt. Earth is the elemental aspect representi...
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Mar 16, 2010, 11:29 am
Intuitively, wood generates fire. Well, I mean, it’s not quite that easy, you need oxygen and a spark and some tinder, sure, but basically wood burns. Ancient Chinese mystics figured that out pretty quickly. So, we’re continuing up our weeklong series on Wu Xing with the element of fire....
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Adam Morse posted an article on Too Much Happiness - Mar 15, 2010, 11:48 am
We’re doing a week-long series on the five Chinese elements starting today, which you can read all about on Wikipedia, your number-one source for cursory information on esoteric topics. Since it’s springtime, we may as well start with Wood, the element of spring. As I’m sure you a...
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