August 2011
“Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides...”
– Melville
B Michael Tumblr is a self-help quotations cum not particularly subtle selection bias blog.
“and I am trying to understand the house / from the nailgun’s...”
– from Heather Christle’s “A Handle On It”
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“Instead, its primary concern is simple aesthetic beauty, the way a small and...”
– I don’t want to be a hater on Mark Richardson’s review of Balam Acab because it’s pretty thoughtful. But as I read this sentence, I said to myself, ‘In other words, “music”’, and then the next two sentences said basically that. So yes, this music sounds a...
“below is a track-by-track commentary on kanye’s latest. i wrote it on my...”
– This kinda old post by Heems is super relevant to my hurricane music experience. #WhoWillSurviveInAmerica
Straight guilt in #menswear →
thesilentist:
Pretty sure my follower/traffic numbers would be much higher if I reblogged a bunch of photos of beautiful women, but I’d like to think that people visit this site and choose to follow it for the things I write — not because I’m great at finding boobs to stare at online.
(Link via HTTTGAP)
Yet another way that straight men have it so hard.
You guys! This hurricane is really serious. Like,...
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Jeff Mangum in Toronto August 13, 2011: The Real... →
The RSS is a beast the semi-hemi-professional blogger tries to kill daily. I manage to hack off about half a head every few days. Today I went through Stereogum, and I saw someone had posted some apparently high quality MP3s of a Jeff Mangum show. Of course I downloaded them and retagged them and listened to them a bunch. They’re pretty good. Looking at the setlist, though, I knew I...
I had a dream last night. You were there. We were both marionettes carved of sloughed off wood from the last world war. They ran tin cords through tiny holes in our hands and feet and made us dance the timorous way round the garden patch out back where we used to play as children when our parents would fight like waves crashing through the original place, the holy spot where one time I did show...
Maybe Nothing Is As Nice or As Mean As You Think...
With the talk lately about The Decemberists, I decided to Google around a bit, and I came across that few months old article about the Decemberists with the gang raping, and I was kind of struck by this question asked:
Can we imagine, for a moment, what this song would be like if Meloy hadn’t couched it in elaborate language and a pseudo-historical setting? Suppose “A Cautionary...
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Are White People Psyched All The Time?
Hah. I suppose, to be clear, I should say up front that I’m not white, but I’m not culturally very Korean, either. One of my friends came to stay this weekend, and he made some remark about us being white people, which didn’t seemed unapt. I did notice it, though. I think it had something to do with books.
There’s this sort of massively coded conception of literacy and...
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Once, Long Ago, 500,000 People Actually Bought A... →
In 1990, Kravitz co-wrote with Ingrid Chavez and produced the song “Justify My Love” for Madonna. The song, which appeared on her greatest hits album The Immaculate Collection and created controversy because of its explicit video, went to #1 for two consecutive weeks. When MTV banned the video, the video was quickly made available for sale at record stores, and immediately sold over...
What The Hell Is Going On At M. Wells? →
Something very strange afoot during the waning days of M. Wells’s occupancy at the corner of 21 St. and 49th Ave in Long Island City. According to QG’s Alan Richman:
What stands out is the heat and the long waits. During our meal, Obraitis [an M. Wells proprietor] came by to say that she and her husband had to leave to attend an event and were looking forward to seeing me in a few...
“What’s Margiela, that jacket?”
– Kanye West, circa three months before Graduation dropped.
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SPIN: 'Watch The Throne' Track-by-Track, Pt. 1 →
no-trivia:
In which I save Watch The Throne from lazy-ass ledes invoking the economy, one track at a time.
‘Is Pius pious cause God loves pious?’ Luckily, not everyone takes it as a rhetorical question.
“Pitchfork started small and snarky and funny. For most contributors, the initial...”
– Hey internet: clip and save. (via marathonpacks)
I was talking with some cool music blogger folks this weekend, and we were kind of agreeing how a label like ‘monoculture’ doesn’t obtain with a person like Kanye West. Kanye West! Have you heard of him? Of course you have. But my...
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An Excessive Attempt To Watch The Throne
Have you ever made a gold picture frame? The kind that costs a few hundred bucks an inch? I have. They look fucking rich, right? Those ornate, spandrels wrapped around your piece of art should seem ostentatious enough; adding a layer of gold, of course, nudges a rich piece into decadence. The interesting thing about making gold frames, though, is that, besides wood, they’re mostly made of...
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Tiger Beatdown: The TV show that had ALL the... →
redlightpolitics:
This week, at Tiger Beatdown, we seem to be having a pop culture inspired series.
Sady Doyle wrote LANDMARKS OF LADY-HATE Presents! American Psycho, or, Despite All My Rage I Am Still Just A Rat In A Vagina
Lindsay Miller wrote about Doctor Who
Emily Manuel wrote about Class War on True Blood
s.e. smith wrote about Strong Female Characters
And now, I chime in with the TV...
Some text and links, and then "TRYING TO RETURN...
I cribbed this poem from a post of Christie’s poems at the awl. I bought Christie’s book based on an old review I read on HTML Giant this afternoon, which compared her to Lil B. I don’t think she’s like Lil B. That’s a little insulting, but whatever. But the few lines in the review made me want her work, which I got from octopus books. And then I found Christie is on...
“Here is what I have learned about comedy from my two nights of experience. White...”
– Heather Christie, a poet who is also on Tumblr.
With all of you geeking out over it, you'd think...
“In the five years since Gulag Orkestar became a surprise success, the dialog...”
– Whatever, dude. Zach was literally making chillwave music way before he did any of that horn shit. Get off this temporal shit; time’s a fucking illusion.
I don’t disagree with the meat of the review (such that it is), but this “indie culture has drastically shifted away from...
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Based on their present levels of success, Jay-Z...
Just a little literal.
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“Young As Fuck Pt. II” Main...
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“Amy’s dialogue is reasonably well-written, and Karen Gillan’s performance is...”
– Lindsay Miller, at Tiger Beatdown, who I thought would strike a blow for the large-headed, instead says some stuff about how ladies have mostly poorly-written things to act on in their television shows. As a person with a big head—I wear a 7 7/8” hat—I’m a little disappointed by her...
A Defense of John Maus and Bratty Artists →
marathonpacks:
Yesterday, Pitchfork ran its “Guest List” feature with John Maus. Subsequently, I and a few other people took umbrage at Maus’s tone through the piece. Not so much an interview as a formulaic, often fun “tell me your favorites” piece, it rubbed Maus the wrong way after a bit […] But I soon regretted my little gimmick. Partially because it was immature and catty, partially...