RSS FeedThe Kid's In The Hills: White Hills vs Oneida
In 2009 we were, quite rightly, all over Oneida like a cheap suit. The Brooklyn-based psych rock outfit formed as a 70s glam-influenced rock group when everyone else in NYC was playing illbient and trip hop. Their rise to prominence hasn’t really been a celestial golden arc, so much as the up and down, forwards and backwards line traced by a drunk’s hand as he tries to get his key in the lock at midnight. They were key movers and shakers in the Williamsburg scene that would go on to spawn the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Les Savy Fav, Interpol and TV On The Radio, and even released a joint album with Liars, but despite this, as far as they were concerned, it seemed to be a case of always the bridesmaid never the bride.
To the bong-loaded future psych cognoscenti however they were Williamsburg’s worst kept best kept secret all along, but their profile has thankfully continued to grow as the last vestiges of their commercial sense has all but evaporated. Of course, here at the
Legal MBAyhem: Retrospective: Moving, My Favority Activity....EVER
When I was in college, I used to start packing up my dorm room by the middle of April. Moving stressed me out, and I tried to minimize that stress by starting early on the packing, which, to some degree, made me feel more in control of the situation. When I moved to Boston, I was able to do so piecemeal, since I still had an apartment in Providence for 2 months after my Boston lease started. This made the situation slightly less miserable, but it still wasn’t fun. Once I had moved everything to Boston, I vowed that I was never moving again until I was out of graduate school and could afford professional movers (I actually intentionally chose an apartment that was walking distance to Boston College, on a bus route to Boston University, and a short walk and then a bus ride to Harvard). The best laid plans…. When it became clear that I was going to move to Virginia, I almost instantly started freaking out about the move. I have a lot of stuff. I have heavy furniture. I hate moving. This was not going to be good. I also had no earthly idea how exactly I was going to get everything from Boston to Virginia (about 600 miles). Clearly, it was too far to make numerous trips as I'd done when I moved from Providence, and I had waaaaay too much stuff to cram into the family minivan as I'd done through college. So, I knew I was going to have to rent a moving truck. I also realized that there was no way in hell that my parents and I were going to be able to move all my furniture by ourselves without at least two hernias and probably a nervous breakdown or two or three. So, I was going to have to hire movers. I really think that most moving companies are a huge racket. To hire a full-service moving company would have cost me upwards of $4500 (still assuming that I did my own packing), which is simply ridiculous, and goodness only knows when and if my stuff would have shown up in Charlottesville. Renting a Penske truck (with a AAA discount and my mother driving,...
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