January 2010
15 posts
gifparty:
“I’m a fan of Jessica Hopper’s music criticism, because she can bring to bear an...”
– Nitsuh Abebe’s piece yesterday taking Jessica Hopper to task for arbitrating whiteness begins with this crucial preamble. It’s a sentiment familiar to Hopper fans like me, although written out it sounds a bit too backhanded a compliment. That said, there’s a lot to unpack in both...
Some Thoughts About Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj's... →
brokedownpalace:
Nicki is a polarizing figure—maybe the single most divisive MC working right now. Her voice is Southside Queens-meets Valley of the Dolls, but her bug-eyed head bob and tendency to scrunch and lower her register and burr her punchlines (“Atteeeen-chun! About face!”) gives some people the creeps. It’s never bothered me—it’s basically the reason to listen...
gifparty:
The Year of Too Much Consensus →
maura:
tomewing:
(the number of critics voting has crashed in the last few years).
Actually this isn’t true if you look at Glenn McDonald’s vote counts from his number-crunching:
2009: 696 voters 2008: 577 2007: 784 (pnj/idolator combined) 2006: 799 (pnj/idolator combined) 2005: 791 2004: 793 2003: 726 2002: 692 2001: 617 2000: 581!
Back up after a definite crash last year — which was only...
It's the "What would Van Gogh have been like if...
barthel:
Inspired by this: what would Emily Dickinson have been like if the Internet existed when she was alive? Would she still have written all those poems? Or would she be obsessively posting LiveJournal updates about how she was having a panic attack because people were being “sooooo mean” to Pete Wentz? Or both? What if she had crowdsourced punctuation? Would she have made viral videos...
"unreconstructed" futures & gay comedy
I’ve had this post as a draft for a while now, because I was sort of hoping to go somewhere with it, only I’m not really sure where. So here’s what I’ve got.
agrammar:
Bubbling beneath the idea of big political or moral changes, though, are little things about attitudes. Leave aside a fixed issue like gay marriage and consider this: a really huge proportion of humor...
What do you MEAN the OiNK guy might have profited... →
maura:
“At the time this website was taken down, there were approximately 200,000 active members,” Mr Makepeace said. “Those users had access to about 200,000 audio files. This site had facilitated a staggering 21 million downloads.”
Police found donations from around the world in several of Mr Ellis’s Pay-Pal accounts. “It is clear that he received by way of donations personally almost...
oldtobegin:
my closest friends at the time would burn me cds constantly, play me things they thought i’d like. it was overwhelming - i collected probably 300 burns from the people i was closest to. there’s no way i listened to everything.
I almost never listened to records that were burned for me, and I would wager that a lot of the records I burned for others went unlistened as well. Most...
