I Took the Hit So You Don’t Have To

Yes I did watch all two hours of Amish in the City. And yes it was as bad as it sounded. It’s set up like an episode of the Real World. Quite tawdry and just plain inane. I’m sure if PBS had done this series, it would be a little more tastefully. I don’t know. It has some glimmers of brilliance. Anyhow, here’s this excerpt from LA Weekly:

The Mae Shi at the Echo. Last summer, these local noiseniks held their “First Annual Mixtape Swap”: You give them a homemade mixtape or mix CD to listen to in their tour van, they give you a copy of their To Hit Armor Class Zero EP. This Echo date, the kickoff to a month on the road, is the Swap’s second installment — but instead of a free copy of Terrorbird, the band’s new album on Kill Rock Stars imprint 5RC, participants will receive the Mae Shi 2004 Mix Tape, a furiously paced mash-up of highlights from the mixes they collected last time: Daft Punk, Jay-Z, Deerhoof, Whitesnake and, according to the band, nearly 2,000 more. Listening to it is fun if you love music, torture if you suffer from the need to identify two-second snippets of sound; listening to the legitimately manic Terrorbird requires little effort in comparison. (Mikael Wood)

I agree.