UNIVERSAL DONOR: MA VIE EN CROUTE

Universal Donor
We can ill afford
another Klendathu

feed it up! | UD email


You are just a number
to me! And that number
is:



PAGES UD MADE:

My Books Page

My Reviews Page

My Reference Page

My Music Page

My Pictures

My Store



UD-RELATED PAGES:

My LiveJournal

My MySpace music page

My Flickr page

My del.icio.us page

My Last.fm page

My Amazon Wishlist




HEAVY ROTATION

Dan Deacon:
Bromst
Animal Collective:
Merriweather Post Pavillion
Bon Iver:
For Emma, Forever Ago
Vampire Weekend:
Vampire Weekend
Fleet Foxes:
Fleet Foxes




BLOGS ETC

claude le monde
nuncstans
rock 'em stock 'em
tomato nation
postmodern drunkard
tuckova 22
ghastly mess
constintina
total virility
fuzzysquid
drunken bee
stacey nightmare
elyse from ANTM
stereolabrat
dark side points
jf_franklin
123 i love you READ NOW
brotherhood 2.0

NOT BLOGS ETC

qwantz (dinosaur comix)
go fug yourself
the burg
cat and girl
book of ratings
married to the sea
icanhascheezburger
fire joe morgan
fivethirtyeight.com
READ NOW
hospitality on parade

WEIRD LOVE

dead amusement pks
craters!


all content
© 2002-2010
Jeremy Broomfield



Powered by Blogger

Oh fuck yeah.

This is my Google PageRankā„¢ - SmE Rank free service Powered by Scriptme


Hosted by:
HostRocket.Com

Comments by:
YACCS

  SITE STATS



PRAISE & REVIEWS

"[UD] is a genius."
--Christian Oates

"[Claudia] is fucking awesome, and [UD] is a genius. And vice versa. You should all buy Fear Not."
--Tricia Howey



MOTTO

egeo huic vigorum

MY WRESTLING NAME

Titan Gently

MY PUNK NAME

Razor Ection



Look the fuck out! It's claude le monde!



WHO LINKS TO UD?

from Technorati
from Google
from Yahoo



and here's something
weird: my place
in Humor 3-space

Tuesday, May 20, 2003
 
Music stores are filled with equipment that makes you salivate, but they are also filled with people that make you want to vomit, shit, or seize. For reasons I don't really comprehend, I've been drawn back to the 48th Street gear geek district four times in the last two weeks -- always for stupid shit like for patch cords, some adapters, a boom microphone stand, monitor headphones, and a giant humming musical dildo that plays "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" at such a low frequency that it can be used as a non-chemical abortifacient. Who among you is not helpless before gear?
     Music Gear Geeks are not as snobby as Independent Video/Music Store Geeks, but they are sadder, because there's not a real intellectual armature on which to hang their geekdom, and anyway, you just know that the music they are going to make with their shiny new boxes is terrible, like really really awful, soul-crushingly dull, over-distorted and reverbed-to-hell, and rife with the bile-churningly predictable lyrical content that rhymes "fire" with "desire" and "in my brain" with "drivin' me insane." Oh god. The customers and the staff are almost indistinguishable, except that the staff have slightly higher status because of their instant access to all the gear the customers could ever want; for example, they could go down to the storeroom and rub their dicks on a giant mixing board if they felt like it, but the customers would have to pay for the pleasure. I often think about how many geek dicks have been rubbed on the merchandise I purchase -- don't you? It's scary.
     Anyway, I don't know what I'm getting at, except that somehow these greaseheaded bugs, wearing free promo Peavey or Zildjian t-shirts, still try to make me feel small for buying a cheap pile of nothing. Look, sparky, people need guitar picks. Don't sneer at me -- I don't need a knob-studded crate to make my music sound good. Because I am a genius. BUT WHO CARES? I don't need you to like, respect, or flatter me. I don't even need you to make eye contact. You have no power over me, retail fucktard. NONE! ZERO! Now ring up that three-dollar guitar strap. I'm in a hurry, biotch.

0 comments




OTHER REVIEWS:
Scrabble NEW!

LATEST BOOK REVIEWS:
The Game
Moneyball
One-Upsmanship
Siddhartha




You need the
Fear Not Guide to Life.
Buy it already. ($4)


Now available!
The Broomfield Variations CD
($10)

or go to The UD Store








MY IMAGINARY GIRLFRIENDS

Chan Marshall
Rotem of the IDF
Eleanor Friedberger
Amy Goodman
Bernardine Dohrn ('69)
Maya Rudolph
Joanna Newsom
Imogen Heap
Caroline Dhavernas

Shana Rae Ray

DISALLOWED FOREVER

"I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you!"
-
"from whence"
-
"...the exception that proves the rule"
-
any use of the question "spit or swallow?"
-
the phrase "drop trou"
-
fake-o reviewer verbs:
"penned" for wrote
"helmed" for directed
"lensed" for whatever
-
"expat"
-
the euphemism
"passed away"
-
pronouncing merci beaucoup as "mercy buckets!"
(see also: "grassy-ass!")



PET PEEVES

"confinscated"
-
trying children "as adults"
-
"drownded"
-
misuse of reflexive pronouns, as when someone says "Please talk to Bob or myself." Come on people now. "Myself" is not just a fancy version of "me"! LEARN IT.
-
tattoos in the Courier font
-
any use of Comic Sans