July 2010
13 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25) →
Au Revoir Simone (31)
Björk (20)
Nite Jewel (13)
M.I.A. (8)
Nellie McKay (5)
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Coda.
There’s little in taking or giving, There’s little in water or wine; This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest’s for a clam in a shell, So I’m thinking of throwing the...
Bill Murray on LA vs NYC →
“No, no, no. Never. It just never took. It’s like the first day you check into a hotel in L.A. there’s a message under your door. The second day, there’s eleven messages under your door. The third day, there’s thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy messages. And I realized that they just want fresh blood. They. Just. Want. Fresh. Blood. You gotta get the hell out of there. And you really feel, if...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18) →
Frankie Rose and THE OUTS (27)
Au Revoir Simone (14)
Best Coast (13)
M.I.A. (12)
Neon Indian (12)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11) →
M.I.A. (54)
Dirty Projectors + Bjork (7)
Au Revoir Simone (4)
Panda Bear (2)
Arrested Development (1)
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“Compose compose beds. Wives of great men rest tranquil. Come go stay philip...”
– Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-4) →
Björk (9)
M.I.A. (7)
Joanna Newsom (5)
Sleigh Bells (5)
Matmos (4)
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June 2010
3 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-27) →
The Mantles (8)
Joanna Newsom (6)
Wavves (4)
White Denim (3)
Jacuzzi Boys (1)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-13) →
Mulatu Astatke and his Ethiopian Quintet (4)
cults (3)
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti (1)
Sven Libaek (1)
Mark Mothersbaugh (1)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-6) →
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (41)
M.I.A. (34)
Joanna Newsom (2)
The Flaming Lips (2)
Chicago Public Radio (1)
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May 2010
13 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-30) →
Amiina (38)
Space Ghost (24)
Björk (15)
Rodriguez (12)
Saul Williams (11)
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On Turning 25.
A warm band of sunlight against my back, along with the smell of freshly cut grass and the distant, husky guffaw of the source of its truncation worked together to inveigle me to consciousness on the morning of my 25th birthday. I rolled over, initiating the ritual of stretching and flexing from top to toe while gliding my hands along my naked skin to assess whether or not I’d injured...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-23) →
Björk (20)
Omar Souleyman (9)
Personal and the Pizzas (1)
The Rantouls (1)
Nobunny (1)
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On Revising History →
bettycam:
[Adapted from an email I sent my mom]:
What really bothers me is the utter irresponsibility of the people in charge, who see history as being so malleable that they can blatantly twist it to suit their own political ends. Sometimes I feel like Limbaugh/Beck/Palin are all in on the joke, that they’re just trying to make a quick buck (and doing very well at it), but clearly a lot of...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-16) →
Small Black (76)
Memory Tapes (18)
Indian Jewelry (14)
Jens Lekman (13)
Jacuzzi Boys (12)
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An excerpt from Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-2) →
Washed Out (164)
Mulatu Astatke (15)
Gang Gang Dance (12)
Toro y Moi (11)
Small Black (10)
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April 2010
27 posts
Locomotive Hootenanny: In Which I Really Stretch a... →
I’ve been thinking about those times in your life when you’re doing something important and your perspective kind of narrows to the point that you are the only thing in your vision. Then you get a glimpse of someone else carrying on with their day-to-day, wearing a placid expression and certainly…
I almost want to delete Christiane Amanpour, as...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-25) →
Wavves (296)
Washed Out (54)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (40)
Dum Dum Girls (33)
Joanna Newsom (32)
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M.I.A. — Born Free
Few things make me more...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-18) →
Joanna Newsom (52)
Final Fantasy (29)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (17)
Antony and the Johnsons (13)
Grizzly Bear (11)
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“Every time I ever hit “discard” it’s the right call.”
– Emily Gould.
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Sick-Boy Casserole.
I had a lively discussion with my co-worker V yesterday about the inherent lameness of casseroles after he got offended when I dismissed his lunch as “disgusting.” The brownish-yellow pasta-chicken-Velveeta confection (seemingly proliferating in culture in its Gladware container) looked like a strange combination of a forgotten freshmen biology experiment and the undersea palace in...
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Neon Indian — Sleep Paralysist
Can Jews camp?
missprotestalot:
“I think the best kind of camping for a Jew is glamping— glamorous camping, five star camping, a nice yert with room service.”
Fat young Jews are usually forced to attend $15,000 summer glamp during pre-adolescence. And if it actually does the trick, our mothers hound us for the rest of our lives about how we’re “so thin” and should “eat...