March 2012
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A local band making good.
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February 2012
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“A classic example of vocal fry, best described as a raspy or croaking sound...”
– WHAT. IS. HAPPENING. Seriously, we’re doing linguistic studies on silly voices and vocal tics? Please don’t give teenage girls any more license to sound like idiots, we don’t need encouragement.
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“What else would explain the magnificence of Angelina Jolie, with her streaming...”
– Anthony Lane, The Oscars: Man or Muppet? (via kateoplis) This is pissing me off. My Oscar group immediately reacted to Angelina Jolie with a resounding “yuck. please eat something.” From the frail limbs to the thinning hair, we mostly talked about her obvious anorexia, not how sexy she...
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Things that happen when you're about to move to LA
1. You feel the sudden need to finish all open bottles of scotch. 2. You take stock and then you keep drinking scotch. 3. Lots of trash. 4. Sell or keep? 5. There’s still so much scotch. 6. Why did I buy all this scotch to begin with? Oh, this is why. 7. You give away your winter coat (huzzah!). 8. You stop lusting after bean boots (happy but also sad). 9. You have a long...
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“He did an Internet and now the computers like him and Wall Street is Google.”
– Jenna Maroney, some kind of genius. Also, later in the episode: “Oh my, looks like we have a slut-off on our hands.”
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Shut it down, folks
B: http://procatinator.com/
me: alright. it's official, the internet has done everything. maybe even jumped the shark
B: its replaced spotify ... and television. procatinator was my afternoon DJ. my noon, my midnight, my talk, my song. i thought the internet would last forever. i was wrong
me: no, i think this is it. it's all over
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“At a hearing in Manhattan federal court Friday, Shepard Fairey, 42 years old,...”
– Wow. Oh Shepard…you are not doing much to redeem the image of the scofflaw street artist.
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“In a sense, living alone represents the self let loose. In the absence of what...”
– So a couple of things about this. As the lone denizen of my domicile, I do probably enjoy more naked time and have closed my bathroom door a grand total of four times. However, I would not say that I am a breeding ground of eccentricity (my peanut butter is not eaten from the jar, thank you). ...
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“You know how you think you’re going to meet André and he’s going to be totally...”
– James Murphy talks to us about collaborating with Damon Albarn and André 3000. (via pitchfork)
In my mind James Murphy is perpetually drunk or hungover; Damon Albarn is a cartoon perpetually mixing songs; 3 Stacks is perpetually awesome and seducing women.
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WatchSo there’s this two-part special about Clinton on PBS. It’s good, you should watch it. The main themes are: Hillary’s really smart, Bill’s a cheater, they thrive on drama. But, you know, with examples.
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“One of the more subtle casualties of rockism is the ability to articulate...”
– It’s an interesting phenomenon that a genre which literally did not exist 60 years ago somehow became the defacto standard against which all other music will be measured. Authenticity, musicianship, originality, dynamism, vitality…how is it that rock is the only champion of these...
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“…when excavating the basement of one of his new restaurants, currently...”
– That collection is so bizarre…where the hell did it come from? Guns, jewels and…new wave master tapes?
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On Martha Stewart and funny people
R: the dog IS kind of amazing. but she is a psycho pants
me: totes. she's a nevernude for crazy pants
R: haha. what is that from again?
me: adam's life
R: did he make that up?
me: yeah. we're friends with funny people
R: yeah. that's the kind of thing that makes you proud
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Watchbraiker:
This guy. So good.
thestrutny:
Jack White’s first solo track Love Interruption now has a video. In the video Jack jams with musicians Ruby Amanfu, Emily Bowland and Brooke Waggoner. Click through to watch:
(via Video: Jack White – Love Interruption)
Is it weird that Jack White is starting to remind me of Eddie Vedder? Either way, he’s still like the coolest man...
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giftpony asked: i hear reports you are relocating to the west coast. do you feel that this will affect the style of your blog at all?
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“Because her career happened almost entirely in the soft-rock era, Whitney never...”
– On divas and Whitney Houston’s talent being greater than her catalog.
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WatchKudos to Zooey Deschanel for being self-aware. Also, there is literally nothing on this earth that makes me happier than when Kristen Wiig does Bjork. Everyone wins.
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“This could be the moment when the culture-war tide finally turns and the social...”
– Andrew Sullivan, once again, getting out ahead of the story. There is something happening in politics right now, Republicans are getting the band back together and breaking out the old hits—contraception, abortion, gay marriage. But the question is whether it will work this time. Sullivan...
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