Greetings from the Netherworld: A PLS Halloween Roundup

That’s right, everyone, it’s Halloween–the one day of the year when the ghosts of dead blogs rise from their graves to haunt the internets.

Those of you who read PLS regularly know how fond I am of the horror genre, and, as you might guess, that affection extends to the holiday of Halloween. I don’t have any new content to offer you today, but I thought I’d direct you to all of the spooky articles I’ve written in the past, both here and at my old blog, Super Tuesdays.

The Art of the Mixed CD

I know there are a lot of opinions out there about how to put together a Mixed CD. Luckily for you, I have carefully researched this volatile issue and come up with a top list of what I feel to be the most important factors to creating the perfect Mixed CD, whatever the occasion.

1. Know Your Audience.

The first thing to consider whenever making an MC is “who is going to be listening to this music?” What is the nature of the relationship between myself and the person for whom this CD is intended? When trying to impress a young lady, one wouldn’t start with three Christian Rock tracks. You don’t want to run the risk of coming off too strong on something as sensitive as religion with someone new. Likewise, a CD for your six year old cousin should probably avoid the Ying Yang Twins at all costs. The other way around might work except that even your six year old cousin knows that Christian Rock blows.

PLS Is a Barren, Desolate Wasteland

Kinda quiet around here, isn’t it? Yes, ever since autumn rolled around the blog seems to have fallen into a dark, stagnant malaise, a funk which is reflected not only in its content (he said, as though he was not himself partially responsible for the blog’s content) but also, somehow, in the search engine terms which lead readers to this site. Remember the good old days, when people found PLS by looking for all types of crazy, morally reprehensible things? These days our search engine terms just seem to show the same stuff, over and over.

Hatin’ on Awards Shows

I don’t need any topical reason to hate major awards shows; I’ve been doing it for a while now. Given this disposition of mine, the last two weeks have been like Christmas come early in terms of confirming my dislike. I guess that’s not really what Christmas is about. I’m tired.

Anyway, I say I hate award shows, but usually I don’t hate the shows themselves. Usually I just hate the absurd, unfair ways the winners and nominees are chosen; the shows can be fun to watch. As far as MTV awards shows go, though, I pretty much hate the whole package.

There Is a God

Courtesy: The Huffington Post

Leak Review: Flight of the Conchords’ I TOLD YOU I WAS FREAKY

You know you’ve really made it when people care about your work enough to steal it on the internet. Two weeks ago I wrote a post on Jay-Z’s new album, but I didn’t provide a full-fledged review because I was writing only days after the record had leaked and didn’t feel like I had enough time to fairly judge it as a whole. Now here I am with a full-fledged review of New Zealand acoustic digi-folk parody duo Flight of the Conchords’ second album, I Told You I Was Freaky, which leaked less than two weeks ago. Am I just a massive hypocrite? Click the jump to find out!