Did you see this? ZZ Top covering DJ DMD ft. Lil Keke and Fat Pat’s “25 Lighters.” Obviously, Rick Rubin was involved. This was more just an excuse for me to write about ZZ Top who are one of my favorites bands of all time.
This is awesome. I also love ZZ Top, and this is a good look for them.
OKAY CUPID - kitty pryde
produced directed filmed everything by bryan mckay and shannen ortale
song produced by beautiful lou
STARRING britney m and annie t
i should have washed my hair first
maybe got my makeup done. w/e
To paraphrase a television personality, you really have to love when everything comes together.
I was walking around in the rain last night listening to Pavement by NYU and I was so bored, so I did what I usually do when I’m bored walking around listening to music: I put on Kitty Pryde’s “Justin Bieber” and “okay cupid” on repeat. And then the director of the video for “okay cupid” (above), Bryan McKay drops me a note about how it’s going to premier tomorrow, which is today, and it did!
I feel as if I’m starting to understand the limitations of Clams Casino v1.2 as it’s practiced by Young L, Beautiful Lou (who produced “okay cupid”), and Green Ova Main Attrakionz (whose managers have scooped up Kitty Pryde). But this is still great. I love a little softness to cancel out the Lex Lugar Plenitude of rap beats. Plus, I wish I didn’t even think of the phrase “another white girl rapping” when I first came across KP because she’s not like Kreayshawn (who doesn’t really seem that bad to me) but more like an HTML Giant sincerity artist, which is completely different. Am I mad that VICE wrote about her? Unfortunately, sort of. But the thing is, I’m glad it’s coming together. And as the theme of the day requires: you can pay an artist.
“Moving to New York was also a radical change in our landscape; it’s very different to make something in the town where Beyoncé and Joan Rivers live than to make something in the town where Sleater-Kinney live.”
Progress Report: The Blow (via zachbaron)
I love The Blow, and I’m so excited for a new project.
(via zachbaron)
I have listened to a song called “Justin Bieber” versus songs by Justin Bieber in a 10:1 ratio. Never has there been such an ode to underage boys since The Symposium.
Boys are like milk, and they expire if you wait on them.
I can’t tell if it’s subversive or merely versive, but I do think it’s great. I’ve listened to it about three times a day on average for the last three weeks. It’s my #musicdiaryproject gift to you because it’s simultaneously music, diary, and project.
You can toss a few ducats to this weird, teenage girl rapper if you want to, and check out her other songs. I recommend “okay cupid”.
“Why, in the long run, would being amateurish be a bad thing for feminist blogs? Why couldn’t it be a choice – even an implicitly political choice – and not a weakness? If Judy Chicago’s installation artwork “The Dinner Party” is any indication, feminists have no problem with craftiness. We have celebrated amateurism in music – what else was the riot grrrl punk rock movement? – and in publishing. The zines of Third Wave feminism were self-published; so were the mimeographed newsletters of the Second Wave. The ungroomed, the untrained and the unprofessional are celebrated in feminist writing. As they should be: A movement can hardly encourage women to reach their untapped potential if it doesn’t recognize and value potential that has been, you know, untapped.”
So, hey! I have gotten really kind feedback for this piece on the aesthetics of feminist blogging. Which is nice. The piece sort of sets out to vindicate the bits of the genre that other people (including myself!) have taken issue with; the lack of grooming in the prose, the aggressiveness and earnestness, our tendency to sit down and process and/or argue with each other rather than cultivating archness or detachment. I hope I made a convincing argument for it? If not, I am sure you will let me know! (via sadybusiness)
“Lack of grooming” among feminist (prose)? Unheard of! Hah! But this is really good. Well-groomed, I think. Definitely well-argued.
