February 2011
January 2011
“I’m not a fan of Jesus at all, but I still go to Chick-fil-A maybe once a week,”...”
– TONY PARKER OF SAN ANTONIO: NOT A FAN OF JESUS (via franklinmillz)
tumblinerb:
diorpaint:
Lil B f/ OJ Da Juiceman...
Gabby Won't be Stopped
robertreich:
“Be careful of yourself,” I told Gabby last March, after the front glass door and a window at her Tucson congressional office were shattered. The attack came the same evening — Sunday, March 21 — she and other House Democrats voted for the health care law.
She laughed. “I’m tougher than nails. Nothing’s gonna stop me.”
This week House Republicans have scheduled a vote to repeal...
The Youngblog: Being the Belarus Free Theatre →
meghanagain:
Theater can take place so near to you that you can have your hand stamped by it on the way in. So close that you can sit in the front row squinting at the faces of the actors in front of you, wondering about the provenance of their scratches and scrapes. So close that you can see the strength of it backed immediately by the fragility of it.
I wrote about the unfathomable...
intransigent, inured, jasmine, outdrawn
xgausez:
intransigent
Robert Jr. Lockwood: Does 12 [Trix, 1977] Lovers of urban blues will cherish this record by Robert Johnson’s self-designated heir. It even boasts some adventurously progressive saxophone and twelve-string stylings that do no violence to a notoriously intransigent genre. But Lockwood is an undistinguished vocal interpreter, and only one of his originals—the imperturbable...
In my Popdust post I totally forgot to mention Craig Marks, who is running the show! Whoops. He’s a more of a print name than an internet name: founding editor of Blender, editor of Spin, Billboard, etc. You might also remember that great profile of Scott Stapp and Creed that he wrote for Details in October 2009.
For my money, though, the most exciting thing about Craig Marks is I Want My...
As sharp-eyed readers (thanks Chris!) have noticed, I filled in for a few days to help Popdust launch. I highly recommend adding the site to your RSS feeds. For one, it’s Maura’s new home. And Tyler Coates is writing “Live to Dance” recaps. Last week also saw posts from Chris Weingarten. So, you know, good writers! Protip: definitely tune in for American Idol coverage.
In...
Pitchfork: A few years ago, you told me in in an interview that the best indie-rock guitarist is not fit to carry strings for a B-list death metal dude.
John Darnielle: It remains true. Although I gotta say, Annie Clark from St. Vincent can shred. So can Kaki King. So there are people—only women, that I know of—who would be qualified to go work with death metal dudes at their level.
Kevin Driscoll (Moderator): “What’s a mixtape?” Himanshu Suri (Das Racist): “Well, we all liked the same girl, so we made a tape with all our favorite songs on it, and we gave it to her with a note that had Himanshu, Victor, and Ashok and three boxes and ‘who do you like?’ And she put in a fourth box and checked ‘Arcade Fire’.”
(gq, as reported by Ana Marie Cox from World’s Fair...
“I wish I still had the body I had when I was attached to that giant slug wearing...”
– Carrie Fisher on weight. (via frontofbook)
“The imperative behind most doom metal is one that’s useful for nearly all...”
– Ben Ratliff, you magnificent bastard. SCROFULOUS!
“The ability of Americans to ignore the patterns of violence in their history has...”
– Thank you, Glenn W. LaFantasie, for saying what I’ve been writing emails and chats about for the past few days. I have felt a little off-kilter since Sunday because my initial reaction to the Giffords shooting was Are you really that surprised? Social media people wrote things like “What is this...
fool me once...
alexbalk:
lindsayrobertson:
Maybe I am reading too many novels that take place in Manhattan in the late ’90s, but I keep getting NINE ELEVEN ROLLED by them.
[…]
[The Book]: “One day she woke to a late summer day so glorious she was compelled to take an early bike ride down to Chelsea…[and then stuff about sirens wailing]”
Me: “WAIT, THIS IS A 9/11 BOOK???” (In my head I sound...
Against geek austerity: A slight retort to Patton...
scatteredspeculations:
Long gone is the ”chilly thrill in moving with the herd while quietly being tuned in to something dark, complicated, and unknown just beneath the topsoil of popularity.”
I get it. Oswalt’s lament is something that die-hard fans of various subcultures feel when what they once viewed was theirs is shared by the masses, usually boiled down to LCD (Lowest Common Denominator)...
