February 2012
14 posts
drumwire:
Modesty Blaise - Carol Mountain...
supergalaxy quest: forever defending →
judyxberman:
desnoise:
also, what wouldn’t be considered behaving in response to the male gaze? would she have to don turtlenecks, tattoos, unwashed hair? this isn’t meant to polarize, i really am sincerely asking.
I really like Kasia Galazka’s entire response to my Liz Phair-Lana Del Rey SPIN post from this morning, because there’s obviously a whole lot I don’t understand about Del Rey’s...
supergalaxy quest: forever defending →
oldtobegin:
but i think it’s worth pointing out that folks with power tell folks without power all of the time that it is preferential to “acknowledge” a large societal problem than to express complicated/uncomfortable emotions about that problem
always good to keep in mind, though it may or may not actually apply to the music we’ve been sort of talking around here
supergalaxy quest: forever defending →
oldtobegin:
i can’t speak about lana del ray in particular, because i honestly have not heard her yet. but i can speak to the idea of the male gaze and i want to say that the answer to kasia’s question is “nothing.” everything a woman does in our society is subject to the male gaze, unless she fully secludes herself from men, which, as we know, is nearly impossible - and even other women act...
supergalaxy quest: forever defending →
also, what wouldn’t be considered behaving in response to the male gaze? would she have to don turtlenecks, tattoos, unwashed hair? this isn’t meant to polarize, i really am sincerely asking.
I really like Kasia Galazka’s entire response to my Liz Phair-Lana Del Rey SPIN post from this morning, because there’s obviously a whole lot I don’t understand about Del Rey’s...
“Q: Obviously a tool is a tool and you can use it any way you want. It’s...”
– Tape Op Magazine > Articles > Steve Albini
So in the full print version of this, which I finally finished reading there are great anecdotes about the Pixies, Nirvana, all of that. But this quote above is definitely the “lede,” if you will.
des noise: WHY WOULD THAT MUPPET BE STARVING? →
I finally posted a year-end list. Here’s a brief, somewhat related Spotify mix of songs you may or may not have heard.
“Reynolds left the group in late 1972, and was replaced by keyboardist Alan...”
– Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Watch Bradford Cox Cover Leonard Cohen | News |... →
EVERY TIME
(whatever i guess vimeo won’t let me embed this on tumblr?)
“Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith can’t use his own name at his new job, due to...”
– New Media As Petty As Old Media | The Awl
Mark Your Calendar for Feb. 2: 'Book of Mormon'... →
why, yes. yes, i will.
January 2012
49 posts
“even accommodationist Booker T. Washington was beaten in New York in 1911 for...”
– White Women’s Rage: 5 Thoughts on Why Jan Brewer Should Keep Her Fingers to Herself | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
“As the Bard wrote: “I can change / I can change / I can change / I can change /...”
– I miss Rob Harvilla all the time. (via zachbaron)
You’ve all read this by now, I hope, but just reblogging because it’s worth reading again and again. The whole thing.
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Awesome Tapes: Cassette Doc Forthcoming Via... →
“Musicians generally crave both the validation of praise and the satisfaction of...”
– The Lifted Brow – Matt LeMay recommends his own band, Get Him Eat Him
“the album equivalent of a faked orgasm”
– Lana Del Rey: Born to Die | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
“Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a...”
– Adam Gopnik on ‘The Caging of America’ in The New Yorker
Pitchfork published my article yesterday on how when you think about indie labels and artists, the debate over anti-piracy laws like SOPA is anything but clear-cut. Above, Gopnik touches on just one subject that is way more worth...
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“For anybody who is blissfully unaware of what a hipster is, the recipe is...”
– Cityview | Central Iowa’s Independent Weekly
Des Moines’ quasi-alternative weekly (mostly just a nexus of blissful ignorance) has arrived in 2001!
Note: The editor’s letter in the front of the issue is basically a multi-paragraph extended quote from UrbanDictionary.com. And by...
1 tag
Discobelle.net » Korallreven – Onandonandon →
new Korallreven mix, leaning toward rave-y ’90s stuff
“Anyway, at the party last night, the conversation turned to planes, and the...”
– DAVOS DEBATE: Should You Buy A New $65 Million Plane… Or Pick Up A More Stylish Older One And Refurbish It?
like a G6
“most of the time I’d rather go for a smile (or groan) rather than try to...”
– Nick Zammuto Talks About Ending the Books, Starting His New Project | News | Pitchfork
“Was Lana Del Rey always supposed to be an empty signifier, or did she turn out...”
– Flavorwire » Just the Music: An Experimental Review of Lana Del Rey’s ‘Born to Die’ (Judy Berman)
as a heading on the side of the page says about “Shit That Liz Lemon Says”: “OK, one more”
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“His theme was the indispensability of collective action”
– Obama’s History Channel - Harold Meyerson - American Prospect
relevant!
“with lyrics by Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror”...”
– Hear the 2012 Oscar Nominees for Best Song (All Two of Them) | SPIN.com
this is the really interesting thing about the “Rio” song right?
she also sings on “i just can’t stop loving you”!
“It’s not the first time the president has serenaded his fans. During the 2008...”
– OBAMA BREAKS INTO SONG | More Intelligent Life
forgot about this!
“Chairlift’s sophomore LP exists in an alternate universe where Leslie Feist’s...”
– Chairlift: Something | Music | Music Review | The A.V. Club (Chris Martins)
“Their ears may work differently from mine, but they are not wrong.”
– Resonant Frequency: Permission to Avalanche | Features | Pitchfork
Sharon Van Etten's melancholy of influence |... →
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“Just heard (half of) the new Bruce song as I entered the parking lot—“we take...”
– My mother is (still) a better music critic than I am. (via zachbaron)
Closer to folk, in the old-fashioned Woody Guthrie populist sense, than country, to my ears. I totally hear the song as being about the same idea of freedom as in Fleet Foxes’ “Helplessness Blues,” as in...
“the cougar of urban regulatory devices”
– Zoning Laws Grow Up | By Julie V. Iovine - WSJ.com
“Since reviving the band with a fluctuating lineup, The Lemonheads have toured...”
– Cool Show: ’90s band The Lemonheads to do intimate show at Vaudeville Mews | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com
sorry I missed this album?
Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright... →
cureforbedbugs:
In dissent, Justices Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito said the legislation goes against the theory of copyright and “does not encourage anyone to produce a single new work.” Copyright, they noted, was part of the Constitution to promote the arts and sciences.
Unholy alliance begets sensible take on the purpose of copyright! Who knew?
“The head-spinning end result is an indie-rock world that feels like a place...”
– Confuse the Market: Post-Crossover, Indie Retreats
Scott Plagenhoef is ruthlessly on point in his Village Voice Pazz & Jop essay, particularly in this paragraph where he perfectly articulates something I’ve been trying to say since, like, 2005.
(via perpetua)
Scott’s overall point is...
“And so we grew up sort of outside the realm of all the protections that that...”
– Arundhati Roy talking to Howard Zinn (via Nehrujackets)
posted about Heems’ new mixtape
Rick Perry: Urinating on Corpses Is Just Something... →
heard a guy at a barbershop on Friday arguing exactly this
“I direct the reader to page 38, note 3, of Enron’s annual report of 2000,...”
– In the true spirit of Jennifer Szalai’s current Harper’s essay “The Banality of Avarice: Why the finance industry never had to lie,” ostensibly a review of James B. Stewart’s book Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie...
Watchplanetbert:
Kind of dig this.
“Darrel Hamburger & the Ketchup Boys”
– New year for D.M. music begins here | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com
“Poison Control Center will close out the late show, as the band does each...”
– New year for D.M. music begins here | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com
THE YEAR OF THE GUNT!!!
“blues-derived iterations of what it means to be human have plenty of life in...”
– Dad-Rock Makes a Stand - The Barnes & Noble Review
overlooked nugget from that year-end Robert Christgau essay
“Jeezy would never claim to “know” Pablo Escobar and Manuel Noriega, as Ross did,...”
– Rick Ross’ Rich Forever: The Teflon Don Isn’t Who He Says He Is - Slate Magazine
“Instead of the insistent dancefloor push of contemporary R&B, the Weeknd is...”
– The Weeknd album review; Echoes of Silence reviewed - Greg Kot - chicagotribune.com
“The thing that [Jennifer] Egan does that no other American writer I can think of...”
– Richard Rushfield makes a very good point about Jennifer Egan, who I agree is probably the finest literary novelist working today. This point is really crucial for most all writing — I think it’s very important for writing to engage with a wider audience rather than to self-consciously aim to please...