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Check out Rachel Antonoff’s homage to the “Top That” scene in Teen Witch, featuring Antonoff and Alia Shawkat from Arrested Development. So much awesome going on in this clip.

Less a homage and more of a scene-by-scene recreation, only this time, with Rachel Antonoff’s clothes complimenting the scene.

(via gotagirlcrush//Teen Vogue)

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“Atlantis Chandelier” by Barlas Baylar for Hudson Furniture, Inc.

Things That Are Right and Good.

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Proximity Magazine #6 will be released this week. This issue’s theme is “(An)Other Art Worlds” and features pieces on under-represented art scenes, movers and shakers, art initiatives, groups, spaces, and theoretical constructs” that help us, “imagine and remake the worlds we want to live and work in.” More information is available here. I plan on picking up my copy from Martine and Marco at Golden Age.

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TOPS!: Albums of 2009

Favorite Album of 2009: Actor by St. Vincent
One thought:A cinematic synecdoche.
Key songs: “Actor Out of Work” and “Just the Same but Brand New”

Most Underrated Album of 2009: Here We Go Magic s/t
One thought: A triumph in loops
Key songs:“Tunnlevision” and “Fangela”

THE REST OF MY TOP TEN FAVORITES:

Post-Nothingby Japandroids
One thought: What it feels like to be seventeen.
Key songs: “I Quit Girls” and “Young Hearts Spark Fire”

Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors
One thought: The sharpest album of the year
Key songs: “Stillness is the Move” and “Useful Chamber”

Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
One thought: Elegance overwhelming
Key songs: “While You Wait for the Others” and “Fine for Now”

Immolate Yourselfby Telefon Tel Aviv
One thought: Beautiful melancholy
Key songs: “The Birds” and “Helen of Troy”

Jewelleryby Micachu and the Shapes
One thought: Eclecticism as art
Key songs: “Golden Phone,” “Calculator” and “Vulture”

Two Suns by Bat for Lashes
One thought: Kate Bush-like
Key songs: “Daniel,” “Two Planets” and “Pearl’s Dream”

The Xx s/t
One thought: Perfection in silence.
Key Songs: “Basic Space,” “Crystallised”

The Future Will Comeby The Juan MacLean
One thought: Disco phantasmagoria
Key songs: “Happy House” and “The Simple Life”

FAVORITE EPs:

March of the Zapotec/Realpeople Holland by Beirut

Check out: “The Concubine”

Life of Leisure by Washed Out

Check out: “Feel it All Around”

Ayrton Senna by Delorean

Check out: “Moonson”

OTHER GREAT ALBUMS:

Dear John by Loney Dear
Check out: “Under a Silent Sea”

Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix
Check out: “1901” and “Girlfriend”

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart s/t
Check out: “Young Adult Friction”

Wavvves by Wavves
Check out: “No Hope Kids”

Unmap by Volcano Choir
Check out: “Island IS”

Everything Goes Wrong by Vivian Girls
Check out: “When I’m Gone”

Yesterday and Today by The Field
Check out: “The More That I Do”

Dance Mother by Telepathe
Check out: “Can’t Stand It”

Manners by Passion Pit
Check out: “The Reeling”

Person to Person by Foreign Born
Check out: “It Grew On You”

Logos by Atlas Sound
Check out: “Sheila”

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What English Sounds Like To Foreigners

Even though I knew the context of the song, the first thing I thought was, “God! I hate listening to music through my laptop speakers. I can never understand what they’re saying.” And then I leaned in and tried to read his lips, even though I knew it was not English, simply because it sounded so much like English (well, a good early funk track written in English).

(via absurdlakefront)

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“In the Light of the Miracle” by Arthur Russell

Light, in the light…Living in the light.

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“The Old Graveyard” by Gigi (featuring Karl Blau)

Another great example of taking influences from earlier decades but not completely running away with them. This one in particular sounds like it is influenced by sweet late-60s pop. I’m enjoying the resurgence of clean and clear vocals. There’s nothing wrong, of course, with using melody to its greatest effects.

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“Wedding Dress” (1972) by Pentangle

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From the Men in the Cities series, by Robert Longo

Such familiar contortions…

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Sleigh Bells interviewed for The Moment, the blog for T Magazine in the New York Times. I love Sleigh Bells but when Derek Miller said, “We always joke about working with Jay-Z, having him do a verse on “Crown on the Ground.” Wouldn’t it be so amazing? That would be my goal, to one day make that happen,” it immediately reminded me of that song Jay-Z did with Linkin Park, which was…not the best thing ever. Luckily, Sleigh Bells is not Linkin Park.

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“ In my imagination, these women possess everything tangible and intangible that I lacked. Their material comfort gives them a kind of innocence; nothing interrupts their reveries…A certain type of man finds them irresistible, or so I imagine: bookish young men that also like fucking. The Cute Rich Girls’ promise of a carefree life, their casual curation of expensive, obscure media, and their appearances—winsome, pretty, cerebral and pristine—give them a powerful appeal.

Arianna, on the phenomenon known as “Cute Rich Girls” in her essay, “The Anthropology of Anthropologie”

(via mathewparkin)

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“Catamaran” by Candy Claws

Dreamy, blissed-out pop music. Completely hazy but more beautiful than anything else.

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Every book, 2009 by Aspen Mays

A series of sculptures and photographs documenting every book about Albert Einstein available through the Illinois Collegiate Inter-Library Loan service. These were then organized by Mays according to the color spectrum to create a series of individual “rainbows,” referencing Einstein’s theories about light and gravity.

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“Fired Up” by Desktop

I’m glad that there are more people out there obviously influenced by Prince. If we’re going to appropriate past aesthetics, let’s make sure we are choosing our talent wisely.

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