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(ED: We are allowing one post per month)

<a href="http://www.thisissomewhere.com/2010/06/03/dave-eggers-once-a-year-like-clockwork/">Dave Eggers</a> has been calling me recently. I wake up (rarely with my hair on fire by the way) and read the latest reference to the sell out. So depressing . . . 

<strong>Summary:</strong>
- "Paris" on that damn Kardashian show was lame because the Kardashian's are lame
- "Paris" on Leno was cool because the band rocked and also Ellen Page was on the same show and she was in "Juno" and Diablo Cody is cool because she also wrote "United States of Tara" and I'll be meeting Brie Larson next week but that's another story.
- On the other hand, "Paris" on Leno was lame because Leno is lame and I'm with Coco
- You're allowed to get dressed up for Leno because it's late night TV and you only get one shot
- "Paris" the video is lame because everyone is dressed up and that's not right is it?
- "Paris" the video is lame because it got released on Hulu first and everyone knows that Hulu used to be free and now they're going to make me pay to watch a bazillion hours of TV shows f*** them I'll go back to BitTorrent
- "Paris" the video is cool because it's all glammy and shit and the song is kind of sexy and tongue in cheek anyway
- "Paris" the video sucks because Grace looks at the camera all the time and sometimes she has a guitar and sometimes she doesn't and that damn "French" lyric is in there and where the hell are the crows? The song was better with the crows.

"Oh how gloriously comforting, to be able to write someone off."

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But then I watch the video up there of the band performing live at the XPN Festival and damn it but they all seem to be having a grand time playing that song. When I check out the crowd they all seem to be totally digging it and I think back to the 10 or 12 times I've seen them play this "shitty song" live and it seems to me that it was always pretty fucking incredible and I wonder why people think that one record or one song or one video is some sort of "defining moment" in a bands life?

My only real complaint about this video is that no matter how many text messages I sent to Scott/Benny for more "information" about the "extras" in the video I got no reply. I mean, I'm a reporter here right? This is just totally unacceptable.

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