January 2012
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FLAPPER WEARING CHEATERS
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Listenlowinterest: Never an inappropriate time for...
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"Where the fuck is Leo Fitzpatrick?" →
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So, What ARE People Buying Instead Of Music?
tomewing: Yesterday I asked the question, “what are people buying instead of music?”. If the free availability of music - legal or otherwise - has led to a relative decline in money spent on non-free music, where has that money gone? I got a bunch of really interesting responses, so here they are. I’m just going to include one of the answers for my version of a Fox News “Shame on...
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“Because of Edison’s patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially...”
– from The Pirate Bay’s press release regarding SOPA and PIPA The history lesson here is (more or less) true, but that doesn’t make this not a first-grade “they did it first!” argument. Sure, the entertainment industry may be hypocritical, but that doesn’t make latter-day...
Jan 24th
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Admit it, you want to read this, right?
jessnevins: Our Lady, a Parable for Moderns (1938). Mary, the mother of Jesus, travels to the modern world with the help of a demon and a sorceress. Priests find her and imprison her in a convent so that the real facts of her life and her first born son will never become known. Satire to that point, but then the the priests exorcise her, and the whole thing becomes Catholic horror. The author? ...
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“My husband left me and the phone stopped ringing. But…. The only person...”
– Polly Platt in Corman’s World. The significance of this quote requires some context, which is best provided by Rachel Abramowitz’s wonderful profile of Platt from the November 1993 issue of Premiere. Also worth noting: Platt co-executive produced Corman’s World; it was her last...
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imathers: And look, I love “You! Me! Dancing!,” I always will, and the crowd goes nuts for it… but at this point, after three nights in a row, I can genuinely tell you that I’d rather listen to them play “The Black Bird, the Dark Slope” or “Hello Sadness” or “Songs About Your Girlfriend” (or hell, “Romance Is Boring” or...
Jan 24th
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howsyrface: Aren’t Oscarbatory films like The Artist, Hugo, and Midnight in Paris the high brow equivalent of the Transformers, easing the viewer into the same warm nostalgia bath, just with the particulars adjusted to reflect a different audience’s adolescent fixations? Might they even be even more meretricious because they rely on the borrowed auras from the canonical works/figures they...
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Listicle Without Commentary: People I'd Rather See...
Marie Calloway Hugo Schwyzer Lana del Rey Ron Paul anyone
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“I’ve said it before: The meaning conveyed in lyrics sung or written by the likes...”
– Carol Cooper on the best non-English-language pop of 2011 in her Pazz & Jop postmortem. I’m such a sucker for this sort of proselytization.
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anoldladyonfire: Ask yourself which workers are invisible to you, and why. Ask yourself why, when I’ve transcribed on and off since the early 90s, I have never once stated my job title when the response wasn’t some form of, “So what IS that, exactly?” (Free hint: I always get asked that because it’s invisible work.) Or don’t, you know; just kick it Tumblr style, where you don’t look shit up...
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“I never did it [LSD] for fun. Too strong. I mean, a lot of my friends did, but,...”
– Jack Nicholson on his qualifications for writing The Trip (1967), in the 2011 documentary Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
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Listenstrippertweets: Sugah - “Expired” ...
Jan 23rd
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What I Kept Thinking While Reading "Pulphead,"...
isabelthespy: maura: Would a woman’s magazine in 2012 ever hire a writer who would write about such a wide breadth of topics, and with stylistic authority to boot? for a high school history project I put together a fake teen magazine from the 60s and my research consisted of browsing seventeen magazine, July-December 1968. completely blew my mind, it was like a different publication. in some...
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general strike called, banner drop quotes drake →
pussy-strut: DAMMIT, ANARCHISTS. SOMEONE TELL THE ANARCHISTS THAT DRAKE IS TERRIBLE. two observations: the second and more thought-out one is that people “looking” for the new protest music have been looking in the wrong places because people will fashion their own protest music out of whatever music but the first and overriding one is lmao lmao lmao lmao (it’s...
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“I got a great note from a friend of mine. “So Newt wanted an open marriage. BFD....”
– Rush Limbaugh (via paxamericana) BOOMERS RUINED THE WORLD (via superdiscochino) JOHN UPDIKE IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN THE GOP
Jan 22nd
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Jonathan Rosenbaum on ELAINE MAY:
durgapolashi: “Both comedies are striking in the way they set up an uneasy audience identification with a self-absorbed hero bent on ditching his unsuspecting newlywed wife, rubbing our noses in everything about her that he finds disgusting and abhorrent while creating a surprising amount of empathy and compassion for her as well. It’s a volatile emotional mixture, and if either movie had...
Jan 22nd
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