Episode of the year: MGMT's Time to Pretend.
See also MGMT's Time To Pretend video, Santogold's LES Artistes video, Empire Of The Sun and the Mighty Boosh's very reason for existing, Beck's Mutations, Marilyn Manson and the Beatles.
And for good reason, the biggest single to date, "Young Blood," is extremely catchy and picks up where MGMT's "Time to Pretend" left off.
The Ting Tings did it for me big time, but MGMT win out because their melodic majesty makes everything seem better.
It makes me miss a simpler time of MGMT and their ilk soundtracking my freshman year benders.
Regarding patients with short PFS times, the MGMT promoter methylation analysis had a greater predictive rate (100% (6/6) versus 37.5% (3/8)), while for those patients with longer PFS times, the APOPTO-CELL model was more accurate (40% (4/10) versus 100% (13/13)), indicating perhaps that when apoptosis can occur in a system, the APOPTO-CELL model is better able to predict overall outcome.
MGMT's rock star-spoofing Time to Pretend single turned them into rock stars, but the follow-up to unit-shifting debut Oracular Spectacular seems designed to reverse the process.
The one that believes worms to be better than drugs: Time To Pretend, MGMT 1970s glam rock, Rick James, the peasant-hippy ideology of Buffalo Springfield, all these influences and more bubble away under the surface of the apparently addled and impossibly young-looking MGMT.
1. Time to Pretend, MGMT 'This is our decision, to live fast and die young/We've got the vision, now let's have some fun,' sang Andrew VanWyngarden with dreamy insouciance on this satire on – or paean to? – rock's most shameful excesses.
These two studies both support the routine testing of MGMT promoter methylation at the time of diagnosis, especially if considering using monotherapy as opposed to concurrent chemoradiation.
