#utopia parkway

[power-chords]

I had such a fun time talking about Fountains of Wayne with my friend Mike and I think I am going to wind up guesting for the whole series, but I should probably not be allowed on podcasts and I think it's hilarious he wants me there. Something in me goes Noel Gallagher Chaos Mode and I will just say stuff to see what happens. Not in an aggressive way, just like using words recreationally.

#apparently I said that utopia parkway's sense of humor was like tristate napoleon dynamite #and I preferred welcome interstate managers for being a little darker. 'more office space. more glengarry glenn ross.' #just pulling sentences out of my ass really

[4trackcassette]

everyone loves Stacy's mom but like tbh fountains of Wayne UNDERRATED

#I like almost all of welcome interstate managers i like s/t I like utopia parkway....

[amrv-5]

Pining away every hour in your room

Rolling with the motion, waiting ‘til it’s opportune

Sitting there watching time fly past you

Why do tomorrow what you could never do?

#genuinely believe Utopia Parkway may be one of the most underrated albums of the 1990s #Spotify

[valkyrieandstrangeridingaragorn]

What are your favourite moments of Steve Rogers in the MCU?

Oh, so many! I'm going to only mention a few because if I mention them all.... you'd get the longest ask in Tumblr history 😜

This is the moment he became my favourite Avenger:

I joined the MCU with AoU in 2015 so I watched the previous movies out of order. When I saw this scene I remember thinking "Yep, I'm sorry Thor but you're 2nd now, this guy is my #1 Avenger from now on!" 😂

In TFA, most people will point out the "I don't like bullies, I don't care where they're from" and don't get me wrong, I love that line. But I would choose the dialogue that happens right before that one:

Steve: "Where are you from?" Erskine: "Queens. 73rd Street and Utopia Parkway. Before that, Germany. This troubles you?" Steve: "No."

It's a small thing but I can't imagine many people being so accepting of German citizens at the time, and the fact that Steve didn't mind at all proved he was a smart man, way before he got that serum.

Another is in AoU:

Dunno, it's a kind of self-awareness that I really like about him.

Do deleted scenes count?

I love this one because he doesn't get mad even though he's the exact opposite of a fascist. He takes off the helmet and focuses on helping people who probably hate him or (what they think) he represents. He doesn't do it for himself nor does he try to get any recognition or anything, hell if he could have taken off his suit right then and there he would have done it. He just went to Sokovia to help, that's all that mattered to him. And if the people he was saving hated him... so what?

This glorious moment...

How can anyone not love this man? What is not to love?!! No, really.

I love this part in AoU because he knows he can lift it but he's pretending not to and that means 1) he's the sweetest thing alive, 2) he wants to prove himself to himself, he doesn't need other people's approval, 3) he doesn't want to rule Asgard just in case that whole thing was real and he got in a lot of trouble for lifting a freaking magic hammer.

(Also, I love him in that blue shirt. That blue shirt gives me life.)

These two brutes (affectionately for Thor, not so much for Stark) going at it like kids until Steve shows up and stops it. This is fresh-from-the-ice Steve who has found out recently that aliens are on Earth, but he's acting like a mature man who can manage to use his brain instead of turning to violence for no reason (and some people claim all he does is punch his way out of things... my my).

And yes, I left CW for last. You know why, I'm sure. But still, he's got great scenes in that one too:

God, I love that line.

This dialogue should have been longer but he's being a big bro to Wanda, he cares for his teammates and he's talking about how he sees his work. If only CW was a Cap movie...

And this. Not only do I like that he's reading the Accords, but this panel proves he's not against accountability.

Anyway, there are many more but this got long enough! Now I miss Steve even more. More blue shirt? Hell, yeah.

I love him.

#steve rogers #I miss him and I want him back #but not with the current writers #and yes... I didnt mention EG. I'm sure you know why too lol

[sylviii]

utopia parkway fucks so hard i wish fountains of wayne was real

[jedivoodoochile]

Citroen DS Speedster. Via Utopia Parkway.

#citroen

[rockmusicassoc]

In The Rock 4/6/1999: Fountains of Wayne release their second LP ‘Utopia Parkway’. Despite brilliant songwriting and the fantastic lead single, “Denise”, it doesn’t connect with record buyers, leading to the band breaking with their ambivalent label. #FountainsOfWayne #RockHonorRoll

[unieduvn]

How to Get to St. John's University and Nearby Accommodations

https://unie.edu.vn/?p=1377 Address St. John’s University is located at 8000 Utopia Parkway in Queens, NY. You can reach them...

[parkerbombshell]

Ice Cream Man Power Pop And More #519

Mondays 10am EST bombshellradio.com bombshellradio.com #IceCreamManPowerPopAndMore #PowerPop #Mod #NorthernSoul #Punk#60sClassics #Ska #60sGarage #Surf#Itunes#BombshellRadio #recordcollector #musiclover#powerpopgrunge #powerpopgirls #newmusic #rocknroll The Kaisers - Alligator Twist (Squarehead Stomp LP) Popular Creeps - Split Decision (All Of This Will End In Tears LP) The Haven Green - Glass Half Empty Man (Beyond The Shadow Of A Doubt LP) Junebug - Can’t Get You (First LP) Swansea Sound - Far Far Away (Twentieth Century LP) Los Ignorantes - Huele De Humedad (Single) Fountains Of Wayne - Go Hippie (Utopia Parkway LP) The Rhynes - When The Summer Comes (Everything The Wrong Way Round LP) The Well Wishers - Seashells (How I Won  The War LP) The Midnight Callers - Baby Let Me Be (Rattled Humming Heart LP) The Jessica Fletchers - Let’s Go (Whatever Happened To The? LP) Green Seagull - Lightning Girl (Single) Dropkick - Telephone (The Wireless Revolution LP) Ian Person - Spiders (Diamonds In The Rough LP) The Morning Line - Junebugs In April (Scene LP) Pile Of Love - Those Things (Pile Of Love LP) The Gants - (You Can’t Blow) Smoke Rings (Single) The Smoggers - In Your Lies (The Smoggers LP) The See No Evils - Feed Your Mind (Out Of The Shadows LP) The Mosquitos - Don’t Know Why (Single) The Yum Yums - Baby I’m So Lonely (Sweet As Candy LP) Read the full article

[prince-of-all-detectives]

favorite Fountains of Wayne songs?

Utopia Parkway & Go, Hippie

#questions

[suzannnemillerhistoryandresearch]

Undated letter to Mary Gordon by Suzanne Miller

This following document is being shared in the interest of scholarship and fair use. It refutes many of the myths, biographical misunderstandings and oft-repeated inaccuracies that persist about Joseph Cornell, and his brother Robert Cornell - notably, Robert's abilities at thriving in life while being differently-abled. It also gives excellent introduction to Suzanne Miller's close friendship with Joseph Cornell, the level to which they were close and Cornell's response to an unspeakable tragedy that befell his life and impacted his world view. It is shared here firstly in the hopes that scholars will not rest on easy resources and instead learn about the lives of the Cornells and Suzanne Miller, particularly in the documents to be found in Toledo and at the Smithsonian.

UNDATED LETTER TO MARY GORDON 1991 or later? Dear Mary Gordon:

I've just been reading your book of essays about a month after reading your novel FINAL PAYMENTS which I found in our small but always surprising library in Carmel. I admire your fine novel because among other attributes it helped me understand a special kind of devotion. I was happy to find in the essays again that special kind of devotion which carefully listens to its own responses to literature and painting. When I came to your essay on Warhol I understood how you could be "obsessed" by the implications of his art and his life, his pathological detatchment, which for me represents a capitulation of the imagination and Warhol is the death knell, or maybe he ushers in the AGE OF VULGARITY. I thought with your next sentence, how fitting of you to start up a comparison with Joseph Cornell to see if you could pull off Warhol's fright wig and finally shake him off.

Instead I found myself disturbed by your speculations about Cornell enough to warrant this letter in the hope that you continue to think about these things that do matter and that I know might help you. I knew Joseph from about 1956 to his death in 1972 on an almost daily basis. We made a film together called A FABLE FOR FOUNTAINS. He knew a lot of of people all the while he was called the hermit of Utopia Parkway. It was first that the media couldn't get at him so he was quite the antithesis of Warhol who wanted to be seen everywhere as much as possible. I know the story of the young girl who was killed from Joseph's own telling of it to me and I will share it with you. I lived through it with him and know how much it grieved him. She was one of a number of student who came to his basement studio to learn certain techniques of construction. She was under the thrall of a junkie boyfriend who coerced her into one day stealing two of Cornell's boxes. These boxes were all over the house and Joseph was never a suspicious person and she was naieve about the art world. One day she walked into a Madison Avenue gallery, she was probably about 16 years old, with two of them under her arms. The gallery owner knew they had to be stolen but couldn't reach Joseph so he had her arrested. When Joseph was finally contacted he refused to press charges when she was released her boyfriend was waiting for her and he stabbed her to death on the street. He probably was that young man on the cover of your book. Nothing so dark and evil had ever touched Joseph's life and never had any part in his imajination nor was he ever able to fit it in afterward. He felt in some inexplicable way responsible and it changed his final years.

Two other things I might mention: all his fingernails were unusually long simply because he used them as tools in the construction of his boxes, his hands were the most precise and sensitive of all his tools. Also his brother Robert was far from being retarded, he suffered from birth of cerebral palsy and Joseph, who was devoted to him, considered him the more intelligent and potentially greater artist. I have a drawing by Robert of a little mouse king fantasy which is charming.

I offer these corrections in the spirit of respect for your own insights into Joseph which lead you to understand that contrary to the dismal emptiness of Warhol and his gang, his older contemporary, Joseph Cornell, was a man to whom things mattered passionately and who remained totally outside the cynicism of his times. Moreover, had he known you, I'm sure he would have paid you homage in a collage or construction. I'm looking forward to your other novels

#joseph cornell #suzanne miller #art history #lost media #fine art #collage art #surrealism #history of surrealism #surrealist history #toledo history #toledo #the tonight show #robert cornell #disability in art #flushing queens #ibsen

[whatilistenedtoatwork]

From July 18th to July 22nd, 2022

18-07-22

AUTECHRE “Incunabula”; BELLOWHEAD “Matachin”; BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE “Bentley Rhythm Ace”; FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE “Utopia Parkway”; CIRCUS DEVILS “Sgt. Disco”; VARIOUS ARTISTS “Motown Chartbusters, Vol. 10”; IKE QUEBEC “Boss Nova Soul Samba”; ANGEL WITCH “Angel Witch”; THE CHIEFTAINS “The Chieftains 2”

19-07-22

ANAIS MITCHELL “The Song They Sang… When Rome Fell”; SCIENTIST “Best Dub Album In The World”; U-ROY “Right Time Rockers”; LINDISFARNE “Nicely Out Of Tune”; ROY & VAL BAILEY with LEON ROSSELSON “Oats & Beans & Kangaroos”; BLACK FLAG “Damaged”; THE WONDER STUFF “Live In Manchester”; ALI FARKA TOURE “Red”; THE POLICE “Regatta De Blanc”; VARIOUS ARTISTS “Tommy Boy Presents: Hip Hop Essentials, Vol. 4”; THE BLUETONES “Luxembourg”

20-07-22

CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE “101 Damnations”; BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS “Child Is Father To The Man”; JOY DIVISION “Closer”; BLACK SABBATH “Black Sabbath”; VARIOUS ARTISTS “Motown Chartbusters, Vol. 3”; BRIAN ENO “Here Come The Warm Jets”; THE BEASTIE BOYS “Licensed To Ill”; APHEX TWIN “…I Care Because You Do”; ALI FARKA TOURE “Savane”; AEROSMITH “Rocks”; THE CURE “Seventeen Seconds”

21-07-22

DOLLY PARTON “My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy”; GIRLSCHOOL “Play Dirty”; DEPECHE MODE “Violator”; ELIZA CARTHY “Heat, Light & Sound”; MARY J BLIGE “My Life”; THE CARS “The Cars”; VARIOUS ARTISTS “Tommy Boy Presents: Hip Hop Essentials, Vol. 5-6”; THE PRODIGY “The Fat Of The Land”; SUEDE “Suede”; THE FALL “Hex Enduction Hour”

22-07-22

MONTY PYTHON “Hastily Cobbled Together For A Fast Buck”; DICK DALE & HIS DEL-TONES “Surfers’ Choice”; MEAT LOAF “Bat Out Of Hell”; PAUL McCARTNEY “Thrillington”; GUIDED BY VOICES “Sandbox”; DUBSTAR “Goodbye”; MIKE OLDFIELD “QE2”; COLDCUT “Some Like It Cold”; REM “Green”; JONATHAN COULTON “Smoking Monkey”; LABELLE “Nightbirds”

[slashdementia7734]

#joseph cornell #box artist #assemblage #diorama #please kill me #legs mcneil #utopia parkway #art

[bitchvirgo]

Fountains of Wayne- Utopia Parkway

#rip adam schlesinger #fountains of wayne #utopia parkway #1999 #audio #playlist #upload #music

[whatsthesound]

Apex Manor, “Utopia Parkway”

The wistful kick-off to the new benefit tribute to the late Adam Schlesigner, Saving for a Custom Van, on Father/Daughter Records. (Proceeds earmarked to MusiCares' COVID-19 Relief Fund)

#apex manor #Adam Schlesigner #fountains of wayne #utopia parkway #saving for a custom van

[batteredshoes]

With a wish for Adam’s recovery.

#fountains of wayne #utopia parkway