May 2010
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I try really hard not to be a conspiracy theorist,... →
April 2010
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whatwillsuffice:
Seriously you guys you should all quit your jobs and go outside I had forgotten days like this existed during my four-and-a-half years in an office tower
It’s even nice in Phoenix, which is weird.
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whatwillsuffice:
It’s an interesting sort of fact about whiteness that while the immigration debate is relegated to something that’s happening “over there” in that “conservative state” for some, the question of exactly how racist Harvard Law School students are inspires endless commentary.
Or maybe people on the East coast only pay attention to what each other are saying. Which is to say...
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“Among comics fans, Phonogram has been massively acclaimed as something quite...”
– Tom’s new Poptimist is on Phonogram, which I’d glanced at kind of quizzically in the comic shop and decided to get a second Internet opinion on, then forgot to until M. Perpetua said he hated it. But on the strength of this column I might just have to try it.
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And can I say how happy I am to be able to post random songs I hear on the radio again because I haven’t Used My Audio Upload For The Day on the music I liked when I was ten?
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Baby Bash ft. Marty J, “Fantasy Girl”
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very filled with dreams: isabel vehemently... →
today’s topic: the ending of huck finn! so, spoilers. though, you should really read that book, FYI. also: i really don’t know anything about literature, so what i refer to as the general consensus or at least majority opinion, i got that impression from my southern lit professors so… blame them…
Just a note to say that I (a perpetual and incorrigible mansplainer) think of myself as knowing...
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“As a director, Holofcener doesn’t have much visual flair, and as a writer, her...”
– The A.V. Club gives me the single-sentence breakdown on my own literary ambitions.
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LUIS MIGUEL, “FRÍA COMO EL VIENTO” →
I may just be balladed out. But it’s difficult for me to hear much in this song except a lot of grimacing emoting, which the video bears out. (Luis Miguel watch: it was clearly shot before the one for “La Incondicional,” as witness his uneven mop of hair, and I’m left wondering if was promoted first but took longer to get to the top, thanks to the vagaries of the airplay...
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“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together.”
– You know what? A good portion of that sadness is that they call each other and themselves boys and girls. If you’re old enough to be listening to the Hold Steady, you’re old enough to think of yourselves as men and women, with all the power to hurt and responsibility not to hurt that...
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putthison:
To be frank, if you’re a man older than 16 and you don’t know how to tie a necktie, you’re an embarrassment. Seriously: there’s no excuse.
Minnow in a big pond. →
I’m as excited as I’ve ever been about any Internet-related project to note that you can now read even more of my half-cocked assertions about music at The Singles Jukebox, whenever I can be bothered to participate. Thanks to Dave for the suggestion and Will for the invitation; I’ll try not to disgrace the hallowed halls of the venerable institution.
It’ll probably be very...
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God fucking dammit.
Now Google’s mp3 player has gone missing.
The Internet Gods do not want me to be posting Hot Latin #1s.
screwrocknroll:
This is kind of obvious, I think, for those who deal in the field I do, but America’s entire idea is wrapped up in recapturing for itself a state that never existed. This is a powerful evocation of that state, but it is the same evocation that has rung through American history for decades, centuries.
In short: the idealized America is that envisioned in the nebulous Declaration...
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Langston Hughes, "Let America Be America Again"
isabelthespy:
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O,...
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GLORIA ESTEFAN, “SI VOY A PERDERTE” →
Notable firsts watch: this is the first song we’ve encountered that simultaneously went to #1 on the Hot 100 (the main Billboard pop chart). Niggling caveats watch: “Si Voy A Perderte” isn’t quite the same song as “Don’t Wanna Lose You,” despite having the same backing melody, the same backing track, and even the same competent-but-bland performance from...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-25) →
Roxette (3)
Ruth Brown (3)
T’Pau (3)
Sonic Youth (2)
Archers of Loaf (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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bmichael asked: Who are you? Your writing is very good. Wow.
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The only good thing I can say about Arizona’s new immigration law is that Arpaio won’t have Brewer’s killing it as a talking point to run against her with in the fall. Brewer may be a Republican, but she’s not a fucking demagogue, and nothing scares me more — not Al Qaeda with nukes, not war with Iran, not even the South attempting to secede again — than the...
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“Investment bankers like to say that what they do makes the rest of the economy...”
– George Packer gettin’ rhetorical on our asses.
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How to be a cartoonist:
Sit down.
Pick up a pen.
Draw.
(steps 1 and 2 optional)
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Take 6, “David And Goliath”
I said:
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-18) →
Keith Green (45)
BRIAN ENO & HAROLD BUDD (20)
Miranda! (15)
Babasónicos (12)
Coral (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“We needed to feel free back then, and now we need to feel powerful.”
– M. Barthel on Sleigh Bells, the only “indie” (whatever that word even means anymore) band that has caught my ear over the last God year or so, even if I’ve only listened to one song of theirs, the obvious one.
Quoted for two reasons: first because I really love the kind of...
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BTW, Odeo is still on notice.
Not back by the end of the week = I’m spending the weekend copy-and-pasting that Google player on all the old posts.
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ANA GABRIEL, “SIMPLEMENTE AMIGOS” →
Well, this was unexpected. Not the fact of Ana Gabriel’s reappearance in this travelogue (I’d peeked ahead), or the fact that she was peddling another ballad — according to my theory, September is prime ballad territory — but the song’s subject matter.
Ooooooh what could it be? I guess you’ll have to CLICK TO FIND OUT.
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Amy Grant, “What About The Love”
I...
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justanotherlindsey:
Just listened to some Justin Bieber songs (Baby and Never Let You Go to be exact) for the first time, and all I can say is that I don’t get it.
Why is he such a big deal? It sounds like something ONLY suitable for Radio Disney!
A couple of reasons: first, he’s cute and a lot of people like the idea of a cute kid making music enough to disregard, or not care, what the...
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“Did anyone ever stop to think that maybe we are the aliens?”
– ke$ha, on SNL, during the bridge of “tik tok,” which she performed in a pleather bodysuit with an american flag cape, behind an american flag planted in the ground, with dancers in shiny silver bodysuits and space helmets behind her, which it took enaek pointing out to me to make me realize was...
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