#greg roberts

[spilladabalia]

Big Audio Dynamite - C'mon Every Beatbox

[marian-1122]

Big Audio Dynamite , London , UK , 8th July , 1986 .

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[puckspoetry]

POV: you wake up from a mouse bite induced coma

[sinceileftyoublog]

Hamilton Leithauser Live Show Review: 3/1, Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago

Hamilton Leithauser

BY JORDAN MAINZER

On recent tour dates surrounding upcoming album This Side of the Island (Glassnote), Hamilton Leithauser has gotten the chance to expose his tendencies as a troubadour. He's the type of songwriter whose process isn't linear or chronological, who takes his time making records, storing past episodes and characters in his memory bank and notes app until they, for whatever reason, surface once again. 2020's The Loves of Your Life consisted of 11 songs each inspired by a specific individual. Conversely, based on the tracks released so far from This Side of the Island, it appears that there's less of a 1:1 relationship between subject and song. Rather, the folks that exist within the songs, whether real or fictional, feel familiar because they're at varying degrees of mid-life reflection and desperation, trying to survive in a country that's crumbling.

From left to right: Matt Oliver, Leithauser, Stephen Patterson, Greg Roberts

On Saturday at the Old Town School of Folk Music, Leithauser immediately revealed just how long This Side of the Island has been in the cards. Introducing album opener "Fist of Flowers", he said, "I recorded this piano when Obama was president...I was still optimistic." The statement carried more weight than a tossed-off quip. In Leithauser's songs, which he contextualized for the crowd, and in life these days, the political climate is always in the back of heads, informing how we interact with friends and strangers. You can picture the stoned lover from "Knockin' Heart" and the incorrigible woman on her 6th husband from "Off the Beach" bonding at a dive bar over their "live in the moment" attitude, less outwardly bothered by impending nuclear doom than are the meditative narrators of "This Side of the Island" or "What Do I Think?"

Oliver, Leithauser, & Patterson

Where does Leithauser land? It's a mix of these people. The teenage version of "Happy Lights", pulled over for drunk driving outside his father's house in D.C., gets off easy because the city had bigger problems. The 40-year-old counting his lucky stars, on "Ocean Roar", celebrating his birthday, is thinking about the late, great Richard Swift. Like The Loves of Your Life, This Side of the Island is somewhat of a family affair, co-produced with not just The National's Aaron Dessner but Leithauser's wife, Anna Stumpf, who previously contributed backing vocals to Loves. In his stage banter, Leithauser was honest about the location-based circumstances encompassing songs' histories and the warts-and-all looks inside him. What he was thinking and feeling, how wasted he was, it's all important. Because when he encounters the person having a rougher go of it than he is--even if his "rough go" is mere boredom or a few too many beers--his empathy shines. If it wasn't for the routine task of taking his daughters to the park in Long Island, Leithauser wouldn't have written "The Stars of Tomorrow", a Loves of Your Life standout about a Polish immigrant who approached him on a bench and spilled her guts. She claimed to be leaving her Mexican billionaire husband that night in a car whose make and model she misidentified. ("She kept saying, 'I'm taking this Ford;' I didn't have the heart to tell her, 'That's a Chevy," said Leithauser.) The woman kissed Leithauser and his daughters on both cheeks and, right then and there, gifted them a jar of pickled beets. He never saw the woman again. It's a story so maddening it has to be true.

Leithauser

The tricky situations Leithauser's characters find themselves in was perfect fodder for The Walkmen's ramshackle sound. On Saturday, he and his band (guitarist Matt Oliver, bassist Greg Roberts, drummer Stephen Patterson) returned to that aesthetic. Leithauser's wailing sneer and pedal-affected rhythm guitar and Oliver's fast picking showcased musicians giving max effort to squeeze every last bit of clanging echo from their instruments. Patterson's propulsive beat imbued "Knockin' Heart" with appropriate post-punk tenacity. Even the buttoned-up crooner jams of I Had a Dream That You Were Mine, Leithauser and multi-instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij's collaborative 2016 album, slightly came apart at the seams. In fact, it was that record's "The Bride's Dad" that seemed most at home alongside Leithauser's newest material, in a post-Manning Fireworks 2025. Another true story, the song stems from Leithauser's experience at a wedding, witnessing an inebriated man giving a toast that included verses from traditional Scottish/Irish folk tune "Wild Mountain Thyme", only to be escorted out once done. As it turns out, the man was, indeed, the father of the bride, uninvited, but to Leithauser, a lovable loser. Leithauser wrote the song from the father's point of view. When, performing it, he sang the words, "For years and year I disappeared / Tonight I'm here and I'm giving my best," it may have been a raw, show-stopping moment from one of indie rock's unmistakable belters. But the persona of the bride's dad endures in any of us who have ever felt regret, who have conquered the unflinching urge to let it go, despite our better judgement.

Leithauser, Patterson, & Roberts

[sinfulpepsi]

I knew House was a bottom

[housetzuyu]

this picture is cracking me up so bad house looks like a recently divorced dad who's spending the weekend with his son and decided to take him to the amusement park

[lowbcame]

Just another day in the office, nothing to look at here

[skraldehund]

rip house, you would’ve loved buzzfeed quizzes

[cannibalosergirl]

any hate on lisa cuddy is purely sexism, she wasn't annoying she just didn't want her doctors committing medical war crimes

[titojefie]

forgot 2 post this here

[heph]

Have you heard about the secret Beach Episode 🏖️

[autistic-greg-house]

Came across this ✨gem✨ by accident and thought some of y'all might get a kick out of it

[dreamduality]

House stealing Wilson's clothes (red sweater, grey hoodie, camouflage hat and tie, what's next his soul?)

[simonfairchildirl]

the conventional 1960s nuclear family: housewife mother, breadwinner father, heartbreaker daughter, quarterback son, dog

the woke 2025 family: medical malpractitioner father, oncologist step father, hot mom, transmasc son, transfem daughter, foreman

[househrt]

house in 2024

House installs 24/7 tracking apps on Wilson's phone. In return, Wilson books Ubers to take his phone and drive to various nefarious locations, sit there for half an hour, then come back home

Similarly, Wilson gets a smartwatch that monitors his heart rate. House gets updates sent to his phone and calls Wilson whenever his heart rate increases by more than 20 bpm to try and interrupt him jerking off

Kutner writes fanfic and replies to almost every comment he gets. His author's notes are full of things like "sorry this chapter is late, I accidentally gave myself a concussion trying to save a patient's life"

House posts on the Am I The Asshole subreddit but gets annoyed at everything thinking he's the asshole so he immediately deletes his account and pretends it never existed

Cuddy spends an hour of her day responding to the hospital's negative google reviews about "that rude doctor with the cane"

A young patient of Wilson's convinces him to be in a TikTok they're making, and he doesn't really know what that is but he agrees and ends up going semi-viral

Chase is secretly seething with jealousy over Wilson's accidental TikTok success, because Chase has been making thirst-trap videos in his scrubs for months with barely any views (it's because he's trying way too hard)

Thirteen gets really into Drag Race/the local drag scene and accidentally introduces House to gay slang, which he instantly adopts

[sinfulpepsi]

Peak tv