Posts tagged with panda bear
always great to see worthy folks get attention — nyctaper has been all the rage this week with some hot animal collective boards. apparently he’s had so much business that his server can’t handle the volume. congrats!
AC is also a hot topic in the b+p rehearsal space, ranging from unawareness (sorry dave) to ambivalence (the pete) to quiet appreciation (me) to growing fandom (andrew.) i do think that even before the current swell of hype we were heard, at times, asking WWPBD (what would panda bear do), or at least that’s what i was asking, when i wasn’t asking WWGBD (grizzly bear) or WWJMD (jeff mangum) or occasionally WWFD (foreigner).
it has inspired us to come up with b+p pseudonyms as well –
Pete = gummy bear
Andrew = teddy bear
Keith = gynecologist
Dave = pink boyd
stream the animal collective album
and thanks to amplify this for covering us this week!
well, you may have noticed a hole in the place where the b+p upcoming shows list used to be. i had always taken pride in the fact that since our first show, this had never happened; we had never played a show without knowing when our next show would come. daunted by this tradition, i donned my booking hat in earnest last week, soothed by the reverby loops of panda bear’s ‘person pitch’ on repeat (musically, it was like being in a room full of mirrors) and started planning the b+p road adventures for the coming months …. so, keep an eye out, there’s lots of great shows on the horizon!
meanwhile, while waiting patiently for the b+p ‘uncalibrated’ video to come on the television (not actually expecting it come on the television, just hoping for a miraculous coincidence,) I caught the MGMT bug. and then i made an impulse buy on iTunes. the result: MGMT’s ‘time to pretend’ on endless repeat unseating that silly panda bear dude. that is one catchy-ass song…
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnRzEjpUmE]