Line Out - Comments on The Ocean Is the New White Belt http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt On the way to Modest Mouse last night--Megan Seling, Jonathan Zwickel, Annie Wagner, and I went together--Zwickel said something about a British Columbian ski resort called Modest Moose. He said, "That's actually where they got their name." Wagner, taking it... Copyright 2008 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:08:47 -0800 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:53:12 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Eric Grandy Islands were way ahead of the pack on this one, then.

]]> Eric Grandy http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c678959 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c678959 Last Night Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:19:56 -0800 Comment by bailee. Islands were way ahead of the pack on this one, then.
Um, so were The Decemberists, then, with "Mariner's Revenge Song" and "A Cautionary Tale."

Megan is totally right. The other night my friend was telling me about the new MM video and how Isaac is dressed like Skipper from Gilligan's Island. I said, "Yeah, they're really pushing this whole nautical thing." (Obviously, Seling's much more clever than I am.)

]]> bailee. http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c678995 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c678995 Last Night Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:33:55 -0800 Comment by annie By the way, JZ was right.
Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall", from Monday or Tuesday: "I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest mouse–coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises."

]]> annie http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c679040 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c679040 Last Night Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:00:16 -0800 Comment by jz ho snap! the music editor knows what hes talking about! thats a first.

]]> jz http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c679043 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c679043 Last Night Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:02:44 -0800 Comment by Levislade Decemberists? Come on, now; have you forgotten the 90s? Rachel's, Shipping News, June of '44, and so on? For some reason indie rock and the ocean have been tied together for many years.

]]> Levislade http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c679050 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c679050 Last Night Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:10:20 -0800 Comment by kt ben affleck was in the voyage of the mimi.

]]> kt http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c679696 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c679696 Last Night Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:06:10 -0800 Comment by Fawkes "Sublime" by The Ocean Blue is a good song.

]]> Fawkes http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c679766 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c679766 Last Night Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:46:36 -0800 Comment by duh Um hello? Slint? "Good Morning, Captain"? 1991.

]]> duh http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c679856 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c679856 Last Night Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:11:59 -0800 Comment by MattyDread Uh, Beach Boys? "Sloop John B," 1966.

]]> MattyDread http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c680507 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c680507 Last Night Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:50:18 -0800 Comment by Erik R Hey geniuses, we live right next to the ocean. Chances are a lot of our bands are going to write shit about it.

]]> Erik R http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c682116 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/ocean_is_the_new_white_belt#c682116 Last Night Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:53:12 -0800