June 2011
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andrewtsks:
hardcorefornerds:
Maybe this is the fault of the Times, but why are there so many damn commas in this?
“Unlike the Hüsker Dü bassist, Greg Norton, now thriving as a restaurateur in Minnesota, or the band’s drummer and co-leader, Grant Hart, still scuffling in the Twin Cities, however valiantly Earles praises his negligible solo music, Mould, at 50, remains a modestly prominent...
Note for further development.
If you haven’t read the fascinating and excellent discussion in the comments to the new Selena Gomez song at the the Jukebox, you should. I haven’t weighed in because I’m working my way through some related thoughts on other pop songs, and because this is one of those times it’s best for a guy to shut up and listen.
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therichgirlsareweeping replied to your post: minimoonstar replied to your post: So after…
I think this has a lot to do with the fact that teenage girls know nothing about how actual men have sex, you know? I feel RPS would be improved if Dennis Cooper was required reading for My Chem fans.
Haha, unfortunately I was not reading the men-having-sex ones. (Does it date me to say that the Spice...
minimoonstar replied to your post: So after several days of nagging at myself to try…
Give me an hour and I’ll find you some fanfiction about real pop stars fucking (or, yanno, not fucking) that is pop criticism from start to finish.
girlboymusic replied to your post: So after several days of nagging at myself to try…
You’ve never read real-person fiction, then?
Only the fucking...
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teenageart replied to your post: So after several days of nagging at myself to try…
Isn’t that a bit of an unfair characterization? Fanfic is mostly boring because it is dream-like. Fanfic’s goal is to nurture the privacy of a fantasy. Good criticisms are like Freud: telling public stories about why fantasies are doing actual work.
I’m not sure who I’m being unfair to!...
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So after several days of nagging at myself to try to explain just why it is I find fanfiction so distasteful, I realize that pop criticism is basically fanfiction, insofar as it’s an attempt to graft a personality and lived experience onto a blank of a character that was deliberately created so as to appeal to as many people as possible, and that all arguments about pop music are essentially...
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Paging Jonathan Bogart
cureforbedbugs:
I don’t have time so you’re going to have to write 10,000 words on the new Pitbull album.
Okay if I split them between it and last year’s Armando, which nobody noticed because it was mostly in Spanish? En serio, son prácticamente los dos discos de un album doble, aunque realizado a ocho meses en diferencia.
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"Anal sex is exactly like The Lord of the Rings." →
Did you know Eddie Campbell has a daughter just as witty and wise as he is? You should know that.
“We are suspicious of enjoying anything anyone else has told us about.”
– Pitchfork: Columns: Why We Fight #15
This possible tendency, which Nitsuh describes as “problematic” in his latest insightful-as-usual column, would seem to fit in with this recently unearthed comment from David Foster Wallace, wouldn’t it?
The problem is that people are right to be suspicious of...
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George: Say goodnight, Gracie.
Gracie: Goodnight, Gracie.
Not that I wouldn’t find myself becoming depressed regardless. It’s one of my core competencies.
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Does anyone else find themselves becoming depressed that an entire generation is going to grow up believing that initial apostrophes were always a different typographical symbol than internal or final apostrophes?
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You know you’re at a healthy place in your life when your boss checks the news for recent suicides because you were late getting into work.
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It is completely ridiculous that this even exists,... →
I’ve reached the point where I’m seeing phantom shapes flit before my eyes. I haul up my corneas and force them to focus on the spot a half-second later, and they’re gone. I imagine it’s the aftereffects of caffeine sluicing through my neural network, the only thing keeping me upright and (barely) sentient.
petenovez asked: Any thoughts on The-Dream?
I investigated his work a little after I realized he'd penned more than a few hits I loved for other people and was pleasantly suprised.
But then again I'm a sucker for anything with finger snaps.
I investigated his work a little after I realized he'd penned more than a few hits I loved for other people and was pleasantly suprised.
But then again I'm a sucker for anything with finger snaps.
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girlboymusic asked: What is your problem with Cheez Whiz, anyway?
bwall05 asked: What's the best thing nobody is talking about right now?
katherinestasaph asked: OK, fine. Mediocre Five. Go.
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katherinestasaph asked: Your list is missing Lady Gaga! (Although perhaps I'm just noticing that because I'm passing the bloody 1200-word mark when I wanted to stay below 800.)
andyhutchins asked: Construct top and bottom fives for 2011 in either music or another category of culture.
ajohnny asked: I don't know if it's okay to like The Strokes.
I need validation.
I need validation.
michelledean asked: Will you be seeing "Crazy Stupid Love" this summer?
(This was the best I could come up with on short notice.)
(This was the best I could come up with on short notice.)
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Please? →
“The ironic thing is that for Adams’ worldview to be truth he would have...”
– The guy who does Dilbert is a dick, and this is news for some reason.
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Watchkylekinane:
Here’s me from the television last night.
Speaking of depression!
I probably listen to comedy more when I’m depressed than I do to music — music intensifies the solitude, comedy eases it a little.
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CAN POP MUSIC SURVIVE? →
tomewing:
Thanks to the Guardian online subs for giving my column such an exciting title this week! Anyway this is about the niche-ification of pop.
And very good too! (As always.) More and more I’m thinking that it’s the people who have a rigorous definition of whatever it is they like who will always be doomed to disappointment and frustration, whether they’re rockists,...
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The word is "ditty," not "diddy."
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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I mean, yes, totally, fuck Sublime in every possible way, they’re the Dave Matthews Band for bros who no matter what they’re actually wearing always have a spiritual shell necklace on, think they’re badasses because they buy pot from a dealer instead of a clinic, and refer to Hispanic women as Latinas only because that’s how they’re categorized on porntube sites.
But...
Quick thoughts on songs now in regular rotation on...
Chris Brown is one sleazy little fucker, isn’t he? “She Ain’t You” borrows the proto-new jack shuffle from “Human Nature,” giving it a glorious lift for anyone of a certain age (ahem), but then you have to deal with the poisonous lyrics (“if I could just trade her in I would”) and the fact that he’s hired a Rihanna sound-alike to presumably...
As you may have seen elsewhere on your dashboard,... →
And it’s got a Tumblr version now too for easier reblogging!
But what I’m really excited about is our crop of new writers! Michaela! Isabel! Britt! Matthew! B. Michael! Sally! Michelle!
Exclamation points!
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