February 2012
28 posts
“The New Pornographers are probably technically better than Arcade Fire. But what...”
– Playboy Interview: Paul Krugman : Playboy.com
“It always cheers me up when movieland’s closet hatred of the audience...”
– Tom Carson | A Taste for Mediocrity | American Prospect
“They say that President Obama is a Muslim, but if he isn’t, he’s a secularist...”
– On the president as alien - E.J. Dionne - The Washington Post
“Unbeknownst to Nate, Don was also legendary. A jazz artist who grew up in...”
– Don Mumford, Maximum Ames, and the Ames music scene | Ethos magazine
“If Herr Elliott would strangle his sick wife, buggar the brain specialist and...”
– Ernest Hemingway, presumably referring to T.S. Eliot, in a letter to Ezra Pound (The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: 1907-1922, via Harper’s)
“Could big chains and small delis produce something to her liking, and do it...”
– Aida Batlle, Coffee Producer and Connoisseur from El Salvador : The New Yorker
I’ve been meaning to post this Kelefa Sanneh article since reading it last November. It’s not about music, exactly, but it’s my favorite piece of writing about taste from the entire year. He goes...
“It is the sort of rural wisdom that Mark Twain — a local hero who lived briefly...”
– Xi Jinping of China Makes a Return Trip to Iowa - NYTimes.com
“Your boss’ personal prejudices, not science or medical expertise, would...”
– The GOP Plan to Give Your Boss “Moral” Control Over Your Health Insurance | Mother Jones
sounds about right
“And no! According to Nexis, no one else has ever used the word “ca-CHINGed” in...”
– the daily howler: Hypocrisy watch: The other side gets to drop H-bombs!
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“There were a lot of ‘oh, by the way’s,’” Goldsmith said, describing the lead up...”
– Iowa creators of Interlude dance excited to bust a move with first lady | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com
Let the record show that Michelle Obama led 12,000 kids (and my wife) in a dance to a song by Attack Attack! yesterday.
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.