June 2012
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WatchWatch
judyxberman: itscomplicatedproject: The Kickstarter for “It’s Complicated” is live! And we made you a high school crush zine-style video for it, shot by Sean Ruch and featuring the eternally relevant “What’s Yr Take on Cassavetes” (used with the generous permission of Le Tigre’s Johanna Fateman). This is the only way to preorder the first two issues of the zine, and judging by the essays we...
Jun 2nd
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Jun 2nd
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Confidential to A.V. Club HQ
Psst… Rabin… gimmie that nutt.
Jun 2nd
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A Pocket Guide to Hashtag Titling
There’s gotta be more I’m missing. Omar Offendum ft. Ayah, The Narcicyst, Freeway & Amir Sulaiman, “#Jan25” 2/2011 Max Burgundy, #Waiting (3/2011) Curren$y, “#JetsGo” (5/2011) (hat tip to calummarsh) Wallpaper., #STUPiDFACEDD EP (7/2011) Smoke Bulga, #Hashtags #SmokeSignals Vol. 1 (1/2012) [mixtape] My Chemical Romance, “#SINGItForJapan”...
Jun 2nd
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100 HUNDRED THOUSAND MILLION: Boy The Earth Used... →
100hundredthousandmillion: There might be a lot more value— more entertainment value, but also more actual enriching-the-critical discourse value— to a multipart series in which Nathan Rabin forces himself to strap up and listen to all the lauded post-’90s rap records he can’t get into, explores what exactly it is that makes it hard for him to get into them, traces the splintering of the...
Jun 1st
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100 HUNDRED THOUSAND MILLION: Boy The Earth Used... →
natepatrin: iamdavidbrothers: 100hundredthousandmillion: Hold on a minute— a white guy in his 30s is going to talk at length about how he prefers rap music from the ’90s to the rap music of today? GIVE ME A MINUTE TO CLEAR MY SCHEDULE IN PREPARATION FOR THIS MOST COMETLIKE OF RARE OCCURRENCES. I say this as someone who cried during… Pappademas spitting ether. Speaking as another white...
Jun 1st
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Jun 1st
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Someone uploaded the Peanuts tarot set! →
Link in title!
Jun 1st
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dansolomon.com: Feel free to skip the reluctantly... →
dansolomon: I know Chaos In Tejas brings a lot of cool bands to town and all of that, but every time I see anyone — especially in Austin media — talking about the festival, all I can think about is that it’s run by a dude who is still acting like he’s a victim because people called attention to the fact that… Obligatory link to Michael Croland’s fascinating piece on Jews, punk, and...
Jun 1st
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May 2012
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Rolling Stone's updated 500 Greatest Albums →
It’s not terrible. For realsies. Brenda Lee contributed.
May 31st
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May 31st
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“Marcus said the football-themed footage was shot on a single night, including...”
– Paul Pringle and Rong-Gong Lin II (Los Angeles Times), Porn video shot on Coliseum grounds Ah, the vagaries of vision. EDIT - Special George Costanza Award for Excellence in the Field of Subtle Deflation of Expectations: “He told The Times he remembered the movie was shot on a cool night...
May 31st
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if I`m being quiet
I’m either working or reading trans blogs. Not a rule, but a recently-drafted advisory.
May 31st
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May 31st
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They Reminisce Over YouTube
So apparently, yes, it has come to this.
May 31st
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May 31st
Dust & Grooves - Jonathan Toubin →
I think the responses have been run through a translator, but there’s a lot here. After profiling their first female record collector, D&G bring in their first wax nut with “a disgusting pit with unlabeled boxes of 45s stacked on top of each other and 12”s filed on a shelf with zero unifying organization idea along with random pieces of clothing”. I’d never heard...
May 30th
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nickminichino asked: bro you have got to stop hate-reading or i'm gonna have to unfollow you because of all the horrible things you keep tempting me to read
May 30th
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“Even in his personal relationships, White seems to be more enlightened than the...”
– Lauren O’Neal, How Can They Call Jack White Sexist? I think you kinda just did judge though? Also, they would never make a wizard king. That’s just too much power.
May 30th
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Paste Magazine's 60 Best Albums of the '60s →
Although the inimitable Holly Gleason contributed - she’s the soul of my Facebook feed, don’tcha know - you won’t find much else here to get your pulse racing. I should have put my money where my mouth is and put together my guesses in advance. But I didn’t know the ’60s were so hot on the heels of the ’70s. So I’ve done the next best thing to prediction....
May 30th
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“There’s two kinds of men. There are men who are fucking misogynist pigs, and...”
– Adam Levine. “Adam Levine: The New King of Pop”, Details. Flawless logic right there. (via occupythedisco) “I’m not [X], I just really love [Y]” is the official red flag of Wankistan.
May 30th
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May 30th
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IUMA HAS IT: Intro →
iumahasit: a.k.a. Katherine’s Esoteric Jaunt Of The Summer 45,000 artists. 680,000 tracks. This is a lot of music. It’s daunting to even begin to listen to, even without considering the music critics’ adage that the hardest thing to persuade someone to hear is the unknown. And when the IUMA was lost, a lot of the context for the music was lost as well. This is my piecemeal attempt to rectify...
May 30th
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May 29th
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Another day, another terrible-looking dance-music... →
“The EP will also feature ‘#mysunrise,’ the track Audrey produced for Heineken’s ‘Sunrise Belongs To Moderate Drinkers’ international campaign.” That’s today’s best sentence.
May 29th
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“Dear Mr.Cohen Many things occurred to me on reading your review of the new...”
– More bands should respond to their reviews. More singers should be like Andy Falkous.  (via jakec) Agreed, if only because this kind of torturous “just-tweakin’/no for real” dance of passive aggression and returned pain seems like a Really Good Lesson for the band-loving kids.
May 29th
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“The White Stripes: Elephant (V2 ‘03) Everybody else’s favorite White Stripes...”
– Robert Christgau, Expert Witness (MSN Music) Notch another one for Glitter!
May 25th
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n+1 personals: the anti-bullshit, anti-cynic... →
npluspersonals: 28-year-old female, petite and pretty with inviting lips. Has inexplicably poor French grammar. Detests bullshit, including but not limited to: n+1 personal ads; men with fixies; glib, guilt-driven pseudo-Leftism; foodie culture; moralism tout court; people who take themselves too seriously…. “Has inexplicably poor French grammar.” I want to do that...
May 25th
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blog/tag acronym thing
I haven’t exploited the comedic value of tags here (plus my name contains 5 digits), so I’ll just do the sideTumblr. castigated and ridiculed our souls are immutable masculine authoritative power mockery of manners and refinement every major climate change blog and newspaper nyc police commissioner raymond kelly this article seems way too opinionated intimidate white voters ...
May 25th
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another thing I've got to banish
Talk of overrating and underrating. At least until the metrics are perfected. (Acclaimed Music rank? Google Trends graph? Phone survey? Simon Reynolds namecheck?)
May 25th
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May 24th
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re: gross
katherinestasaph said: I am very concerned about the college newspapers you are reading. I guess if there were a ‘heart’ button for comments this would be Facebook. Too bad.
May 24th
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