“Hopefully, I’ll get you on something—hit you with one song, and you’ll go [jaded-hipster affect], ‘Act-ually, I’ve gotta say, that song’s my jam! But I still think he’s a douchebag as a guy…”
—John Mayer Thinks With His Pick: Cover Stars: Details (via desnoise)
December 2009
November 2009
A master's thesis on the female experience of American Hardcore →
duo.uio.no
Reblogged for andrewtsks and to remind me to read it later. (via gillianmae)
“Those stupid executives may have given up on the music business but I haven’t. It’s bleak out there for musicians. We have to do something.” →
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
Excellent piece on the business of Mariah Carey….
She’s also starting a bunch of side companies so that she has diversified business interests—-clothing, perfume, cosmetics. (“The businesses are called things like Mirage and Maroon Entertainment. They’re based on silly names that I made up in high school.” Of course.) It’s like a gigantic cash-churning machine decorated with Lisa Frank puffy stickers.
How fascinating that she can make this work and Harvey Weinstein couldn’t! It certainly speaks not only to star power but also to projected vs. actual capabilities in diversification.
fek:
I am not alone in my generation in thinking of her as a sort of mother figure. In 2006, she had a public conversation with then Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch at Summer Stage in Central Park, and the crowd was filled with over a hundred people in their twenties and thirties, many gazing at her with adoration. She read from The Year of Magical Thinking and tears streamed down the faces of girls who clutched copies of her books.
Heh. And this:
“You should have offered her your boots,” one friend said. “She was cold.”
And this:
Joan Didion does not seem like she would make the most maternal of literary idols.
Except, not. Joan Didion shoppers = Anthropologie shoppers. Or maybe Shabby Chic? What about Urban? Bet you they could push a few crates of Diddy-on. Right next to all those Feist CDs. Related, for Carles: Is Joan Didion the nu alt-female bro?
I just hope that the “you should have offered her your boots” person wasn’t serious. She’s Joan Didion, not Juliana Hatfield playing an angel in the Christmas episode of My So-Called Life.
The Vulture
Labi Siffre
in the spirit of Sarah Palin’s new “backwards history” theory of time: “The Vulture,” Labi Siffre’s 1975 response to R. Kelly’s 2007 single “I’m a Flirt”
“Consider, when she was faced with the most important interview of her life, how much more thought Rihanna gave to who she was and what she was about, and what her responsibilities as a public figure were, than Sarah Palin did when she was faced with the most important interview of her life thirteen-and-a-half months ago.”
—Frank Kogan on Rihanna’s Diane Sawyer interview. (via cureforbedbugs)
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