June 2012
“Bad Art is not antimatter. As any personal trainer will tell you, you can...”
– Tim Rogers, genius of thinking about things in a palatable way.
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Bass is The Place: Top 20 albums of the half year →
sonraw:
‘Cause fuck it, I need something to do while I drink these beers.
This list is perfect. If you’re into music that’s not “made with real instruments” (oldpersonspeak), then you will love all this music.
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Record Review
It was [YEAR], and these were the things that were popular. The artist was born that year, and she couldn’t have taken in any of those things, yet they infuse her music. A certain pungent stench of historicism pervades her latest album, [ALBUM].
Here are some thoughts on the historicity of pop/indie/rap music. I want to quote Pavement and say, “You can never quarantine the...
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Five New Types Of Ghost
With this fucking housing crisis continuing into, what, year four or five I was thinking that the word “poltergeist” has less and less to do with the way we live. So here are some new types of ghost that have more to do with being alive, as it were, in 2012.
Jahrtausendglutgeist - Heatwave ghost. You usually feel this fella when it’s a hundred fucking degrees outside (eg...
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“So look. I was in this band called The Dismemberment Plan, that was a large-club...”
– The Huffington Post was made for shit like this. Very super read by Travis Morrison.
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shorterexcerpts replied to your photo: I read the four Aliens (“Quadrilogy”) scripts this… I’ve wondered for a while if William Gibson’s Alien 3 script was any good.
It is available online, as far as I know. The Alien 3 script that I read (the shooting script) was by far the worst of the four. I haven’t seen the movie in years and years, and I had no idea what was happening...
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“She looks around a little reflectively. “I hated myself for most of my life,”...”
– I don’t have anything to say, really, about Cat Marnell. But I don’t see how getting fired from the one thing that made her not hate herself is supposed to be cool or good. It’s not even me and it makes me sad.
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Oddisee “Ready To Rock”
This is one...
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Words For Tomorrow Today: 2pacryphal
Noun.
A made up explanation or description concerning a matter only the dead could arbitrate.
“Well I think he and Linda hooked up, but since they both died in the freak ski chalet collapse, any conjecture to that effect would be kind of 2pocryphal.”
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justin tells me about occupy detroit, being a...
citizenkerry:
This is a series in which I get to learn about America from you.
Justin is a 21 year-old Libertarian living in the Detroit suburbs. When he’s not working as a substitute teacher, he participates in the Occupy Detroit movement and grows medicinal marijuana. I was thrilled to hear from him, and his interview shattered my assumptions in many ways. (I don’t want to spoil anything,...
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“…Gwyneth Paltrow, who a lonely old farmer made out of corn silk one fall...”
– Gwyneth Paltrow Getting Tweet Heat - Entertainment - The Atlantic Wire (via bobbyfinger)
Sometimes you don’t have to look at the source to know a sentence was written by Richard Lawson.
(via stryker)
This is a funny line! But the rest of this paragraph, I don’t think I agree? I mean, I...
“Galahad Clark never intended to get into the shoe business, let alone the...”
– OK ok, this “You Walk Wrong” piece by Adam Sternbergh (via Dan Kois on Nieman J Lab) is really something else. But this bit above - shoe scion loves Wu-Tang and gets to buddy-buddy with them via designing custom Wallabies (you can peep them here) is a ridiculous bit of...
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a few thoughts about this whole nicki minaj fiasco →
There are lots of interesting sorts of things going on with this imbroglio (which, not ‘being on the net’ for a week I totally missed (yet sort of didn’t miss, too)) not the least of which are Flex’s 100% assholery. I think it’s easy to gloss over the fact that a product has to please. There are always super users who think the product needs to please them because of...
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