Team Spirit - Killing Time


Sometimes you wake up Monday morning with that damned Dido song playing on constant repeat in your head and even though you are not at all a violent person you nevertheless desperately want to fling that mug of cold tea at the wall or smash it against your own temple in a desperate plea for a few moments of cranial silence. Don't, obviously, in the grand scheme of things it's not so bad, it's not so ba-ad. 

[Audible groans from the peanut gallery] 

Ok, that was bad, i'll make it up to you with some first-class irony: Indie Rock from a major label. Here's Killing Time by Team Spirit. Vice and Warner Bros., a match made in "whaaaaa?" Regardless, saying "Disney owns Vice Media" is completely misleading. Sure, Disney is one minority shareholder at 16%, but A&E Networks own 20%. Disney's $400M investment is just that, Disney shoving $400M out of its control to prevent inflation inside its own economic bubble. They don't expect to make any profit from it, they just want it to count as an expense on their 1120 and only pay gains if there actually are any, rather than use it toward payroll or overhead or light it on fire. You'd have to read the actual contracts to know what Vice's responsibilities for that investment are. We've gotta start properly differentiating who owns what around here. Vice Media owns whatever Vice Media does, Disney owns 16% of Vice Media's working capital as part of its own investment portfolio. 

[Woof] 

But anywho, we were trying to figure out why we got out of bed at all when we are not really team spirit kind of people, by listening to Team Spirit. Unlike The Loom who were actually Hipster Folk, Team Spirit is in fact Indie Rock bordering on Power Pop Punk. If you've ever felt like you have a teenage heart and your country hates you, these guys can totally relate. 

[Woof woof] 

Do you hear that? No? Ok. Well look, if you don't like high-energy jangle rock songs about selling your soul to the devil for eternal youth, and feeling like you're just wasting your life away running in circles and getting drunk to forget the horrible things you did when you were drunk on New Year's Eve from former members/acquaintances of an actual cult called The People's Church of Animal Town, then i guess sit this one out. That cult, by the way, is not to be confused with other non-animal town people who have churches. They seem predominantly concerned with dancing, tambourines, and wacky bicycle designs, or at least that's what their tumblr page would have you believe... 

... lost my train of thought there. Something about ignoring something, or something. Guess it either worked or it wasn't important. 

[Woof, woof, aaooooooooohhhh!] 

Yeah, imaginary canine howls from off in the distance brings up a good point. Why DON'T i have an Ebow? I'm'n'a 'ave to do something about that....

Skinnier Puppy

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