February 2010
“So Derobe” by Joy Orbison
Originally...
January 2010
“Baby Can’t Stop” by Lindstrøm...
The Rules of the Game: A Fuller Thought on J.... →
Nitsuh’s essay is so on-point that there’s not a lot left to be said. I highly recommend it!
“NO COCAINE, JUST LIFE MY NIGGAS!!”
– Kanye West, in his latest blog post
<3
(You know how I feel about Kanye and his outbursts)
“Lovesick” by Lindstrøm and...
The New Yorker has posted all of J.D. Salinger's... →
I am still not a fan of The Catcher in the Rye (and I sort of tore it apart for my thesis), but Salinger’s short stories are some of my favorites. You should bookmark this link immediately!
“Pop Muzik” by M
“I was looking...
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On LOST:
I woke up this morning and thought the date was Wednesday, February 2, but I was depressingly wrong.
“Thunderbird” by White Hinterland
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“Music Sounds Better With You” by...
“Soulfulness is sorrowful feeling transformed into something beautiful, creative...”
– Zadie Smith
New Lali Puna!
“Remember” by Lali...
Sometimes this sort of thing bothers me. Sometimes...
I went to Sephora after work today which was a bad decision all-around. I hate Sephora and yet I’ve gone there more times in the past month than I have in the past five years. Every afternoon before I arrive, I tell myself that I will find a product that will make me feel happier when I know that makeup does not heal the sort of dull depression (the weight loss, the insomnia) that I’ve...
The New Yorker on The xx →
“The xx are, in the purest sense, a modern band: their music could not exist without the machines that make the noises and the machines that record them.”
(via kafka-on-the-shore)
“No Logic” by White Hinterland
Lead...
New High Places!
“On Giving Up” by...
“Y’all ain’t never done shit for Haiti!”
– My mother as Kanye West if he was invited to the Haiti Telethon
Just now:
Man outside of Borders: Excuse me. Excuse me, miss?
Me: Yes?
Man: You dropped something.
Me: Oh...
Man: My heart.
(long pause)
Me: *smiles* *shakes Man's hand for executing a funny line* *laughs*
“Bow & Arrow” by White Hinterland
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“For every tree that grows in Brooklyn, a band grows on the Internet;...”
– Himanshu Suri of Das Racist for The Village Voice
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Billboard reports that Vampire Weekend's album... →
Who didn’t see that one coming?
The White-Washing Of Young Adult Fiction Continues →
Although I’ve come to expect such information, reading these two articles at Jezebel makes me upset for reasons that I can’t articulate in writing in a manner that somehow equates to the grunts of frustration, eye rolls, and screams that I want to express.
The frustration stems from the fact that there is some truth to what the book publishers are claiming. As a double minority (Black and...
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Serious Question:
Besides the obvious artists she rips off (Uffie), has anyone else noticed the similarities in the chorus of Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” and Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance,” or am I just imagining things?
“Love Don’t Live Here Anymore”...
“You know that an American Apparel ad consists of a very young person teasing out...”
– William Pym in the essay ”Let’s Hear it for the Boys,” for Big Brother, an accompanying artist book for Alex Da Corte’s Activity #91
“Doing stuff. Doing stuff because it’s healthy to do stuff. Doing stuff...”
– William Pym in the essay ”Let’s Hear it for the Boys,” for Big Brother, an accompanying artist book for Alex Da Corte’s Activity #91
“(Not Just) Knee Deep” by Funkadelic
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“Yellow Wings” by Keepaway
This...
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26 04 10 →
The Golden Filter just linked to their site on their Twitter. Is that the release date for their LP? If you click on the date, it takes you to a Wiki page for a solar eclipse tomorrow! Will we be getting a new single soon? Like…tomorrow! Will it be called “Solar Eclipse?” One glimpse at their Tumblr suggests maybe/possibly/potentially/hopefully.
“Girls’ Night” by First Rate...
“I Don’t Love You Anymore” by...
On unnecessary obsessions:
Can I tell you that I am obsessed with delicacy, because I am? The idea runs through my mind constantly. Every day is a reminder of my delicacy, or lack of delicacy, and I feel consumed by the lack. Writing this now, first in longhand then typed, is a reminder of the shape of my hands, the fullness of my two palms, the length and width of fingers, the millions of creases and cracks along the...
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WatchThere are people who hate M.I.A., people who are merely casual fans, and then there are people like me and my friend Colleen, M.I.A. Stans. Maya posted this video on her twitter that includes a new song (?) called “Theres Space for Ol Dat I See.”
“Already Over” by Violens
How have I...