December 2008
nbc actually made this site →
maura:
i wonder if anyone made money
Tom DiCillo directed that episode!
…so probably nobody made money.
“‘[We] just take pictures for hours,’ Banks noted, sounding still...”
– Kotaku: G-Unit Spills On Blood On The Sand, Gaming Cred
Harry Caray (disambiguation) →
For the Japanese method of suicide known informally as hara-kiri, see seppuku
All That Self-Discovery Finally Paid Off →
A New York Christmas story by Meg. Merry Christmas.
one more for the holiday: Karin Ström:...
Have a good one, everybody.
perpetua:
There were other shops I frequented too — DCCD in Adams Morgan, Fantasmagoria in Dupont, this one punk-ish shop somewhere on the strip in Georgetown
You must mean Smash Records
for your 2009: The Harlem Shakes “Strictly...
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM NONSOCIETY! →
trainwrecks:
juliaallison:
Merry Christmas and Happy Hannauka, bunnies.
OK, so we sit at the Trainwrecks Athiest Desk, but is that an accepted spelling anywhere?
lol
P.S. It’s Hong Kong Phooey
“[Bon Iver], like too much other overpraised music this year, is by/for saddo...”
– the scintillating cultural observations you are missing out on by not iming maurajohnston right now. The thing is, though, aren’t those same “pristine harmonies” getting those dudes laid? I think you mean to say that all their saddo bro fans should get laid and listen to mudhoney...
Hyperbodega
ninety9:
I’ll take this opportunity to relate a Web 1.0 Story. I first saw Night of the Hunter when I got my first DVD player, which I got the same way I bought my first PlayStation: via Urban Fetch, stoned at 2AM on a weeknight. Because I really just wanted to see if they would send a guy out on a bike with a DVD player strapped to his back at 2AM.
I’m pretty sure that as long as there...
“pitchfork wear tevas with socks”
– my favorite response to the bizarre “honorable mention” album list, about which perhaps more later.
Governor Paterson unveils "fuck the single,...
barthel:
peterwknox:
cajunboy:
You see what happens when SNL makes fun of him and everybody blogs about it!
Gov. Paterson’s proposed $121 billion budget hits New Yorkers in their iPods - and nickels-and-dimes them in lots of other places, too.
Trying to close a $15.4 billion budget gap, Paterson called for 88 new fees and a host of other taxes, including an “iPod tax” that taxes the sale...
Hello? Hello? [laughs] Hellooo. This is...
"Major League Baseball has authorized the use of...
nytimes:
The first baseball coffin was reported sold, prepaid by a Mets fan. He told a sports writer at The Daily News that it was only appropriate because “they’re going to drive me to my grave.”
offnotesnotes:
Bob Dylan: “Idiot Wind”
Something to which every song about post-breakup anger must be compared. Also: “Buckets of Rain”, “Simple Twist of Fate”, etc. etc. etc.! The voice of our generation gives us “Why you got to be so Dr. Evil”, Tears for Fears nostalgia, and those drums from the Olympic opening ceremonies? We can do better than...
Lucille Bogan “Coffee Grindin’...
34 minutes later...
catbird:
the Stereogum readers’ list is posted… they have 5 of the 7 shoo-ins I just listed (sans Santogold and Lil’ Wayne)
Stereogum readers in not-listening-to-anything-that-can-remotely-be-described-as-hip-hop shocker
(above emphasis mine)
the changing media landscape is changing
abbyjean:
since the baltimore sun is one of the tribune’s holdings, does this means we’ll get another season of the wire to explore the changes wrought by bankrupcty? please?
The official word on a sixth season of The Wire is that the “topic” of the season would have been the massive influx of Latinos into Baltimore but that none of the creators have the foreknowledge (nor the...
Mini-paean
magicmolly:
I do not usually react to admirable critics by wishing they were related to me, but Dana Stevens would make a great cousin.
Stevens, the movie critic for Slate, has a sensibility that is likeable, trustworthy and frequently surprising. It is vaguely academic and vaguely feminist but with all of these things well-digested and appropriately deployed. She is funny without being...
“When the revolution comes, everyone will have an iPhone.”
– Edward Said (via)
A two-week-old writeup of Lebowski Fest repackaged... →
A syllogism.
ninety9:
That’s wrong, and the SAT’s were a long time ago. What is the ‘blank is to blank’ form called again (cue Charles Nelson Reilly foley)? Anyway, Can’t Stop the Bleeding is to Deadspin as Grocery Guy is to Eater. Granted, I’m just a sucker for any Sarah Vowell dig.
An analogy!
Questions I don't really want the answer to
Is there Nate Dogg/Warren G bandom?
JCVD
howsyrface:
I really, really hope that it was intentional that one of the villains in this film looked like a taller Slavoj Žižek.
I was ambivalent about this movie but now I think I definitely need to see it.
