After a decade adrift, the Muffs have gotten their melodic pop groove back. Frontwoman Kim Shattuck has reunited with longtime backing members Ronnie Barnett (bass) and Roy McDonald (drums) for Whoop Dee Doo (Cherry Red/Burger). The Los Angeles-based trio will also be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand-new feature on the band.
Shattuck:
Superelasticbubbleplastic-looking granite countertops.
So busy looking, so idiotic. The only thing granite is good for is breaking your dishes. Oh, and putting boiling hot pots down without melting anything. But you could just buy a trivet. It’s a lot cheaper.
Recessed lighting every two inches.
Looks like Las Vegas. Feels like stage lighting. Garish and ugly. It’s supposed to be task lighting in operating rooms for surgeons to see what they’re doing. Not good for comfy home lighting.
Greek columns on tiny ranch houses
Giant Greek columns only belong in Washington, D.C. Or in Greece at a little place called the Parthenon. People who put those giant columns on tiny little houses are delusional. Can’t they see how odd it looks and oh so wrong?? Apparently not.
Fake hardwood floors glued down on top of real hardwood floors
OK, so you don’t want to strip and refinish the original oak floors from the 1920s? Lazy? Here’s an idea. Let’s glue plastic pieces of “wood” to the floor. It looks like wood because on the top of each plastic strip is a lifelike photo of wood. Yeah, a photograph. I know. I was literally pulled out of an open house by my arm after I asked the realtor the question “Who does that?”
