May 2012
Re: Big Bang on World Star Hip Hop →
maddieloveskpop:
A few years ago I went to see Shonen Knife in Montreal and during their set my friend Laura said, “They don’t get it.” My immediate reaction was to get defensive, because I thought she was saying they didn’t get the kind of music they were playing, that they didn’t understand what they were doing. It wasn’t until the next day, when I was talking about the show with some other...
The “Classic Albums” documentary series is just about as pointless as you’d imagine (the rule-proving exception is the episode on Steely Dan’s Aja). That said, the Nevermind episode is sort of worth watching just to hear Butch Vig talk about the album’s production. The overdubbing on the album is as minimal as it is crucial, and at the same time, Vig has no desire to...
April 2012
markrichardson:
Some v. interesting thoughts on Grimes here.
laurasnapes:
It felt very exciting to open the plastic-wrapped bits of the Guardian today to find a pink-haired Grimes on the cover of one supplement, and Nicki Minaj sporting an aquatic ‘do on the front of the other.
One quote from Grimes’ interview in the Guardian Guide really stuck out:
“Branding” is a word Claire mentions...
“I’ve taken from Sturges and Lubitsch a way of creating a heightened...”
– Baz Luhrman, quoted in “Ants in His Pants,” Sight and Sound, May 2000. I’m not sure I agree with the full implication of this quote—little of classical Hollywood acting is what would today be called “naturalistic”—but it’s certainly true (and an insightful...
“Janet Jackson is cool in spite of her family. She’s the Maria Shriver of...”
– Jonathan Van Meter’s Rhythm Nation 1814 review in the November 1989 issue of Spin.
Collateral Damage – The New Inquiry →
SUSAN SALTER REYNOLDS was a book critic at the Los Angeles Times for 23 years. In 2009, along with many other staff writers at the Times, she was laid off and then immediately rehired as a freelancer. Producing just as many reviews as before, she received one third the pay as a freelancer and lost all her benefits. In July 2011, she was fired from the paper entirely. Willie Osterweil is a...
Best part of Ray Liotta's Wikipedia Entry.
howsyrface:
“As part of his contract for starring in In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale as Gallian, Liotta had permission to keep all wizard robes donned for the film.”
baddominicana:
did you guys know puerto ricans and mexicans and other central americans have been in hawaii since the plantation days? and they called them “paniolos”? they were cowboys of sorts. which is partially how hawaiian slack key guitar and ukelele came to be? via latin@ and portuguese influences?
I did not know this!
Religion
blackamazon:
One thing I took from my 6 days was
I personally need religion/ritual
There is a fervor in raw food discussions that is kind of religious.And I at once got it and it repelled me
I have mentioned tangentially about wanting to be a nun . But not about the peace I found in things like mass, and quiet and the idea of being sequestered.
About the sacred time of preparation for the...
“[Reading] David Lee Roth’s autobiography CRAZY FROM THE HEAT back in 1999CE...”
– Julian Cope presents Head Heritage | Unsung | Album of the Month | Van Halen - Atomic Punks
Such a great essay. Would “Pasadena Partyslammers” (download) be a better name for a fantasy baseball team, or a bar out by the airport where “things” happen?
(via dayan)
“You don’t have to dabble for very long to begin to realize that the world of...”
– Details Magazine: Scents and Sensibility, Brian Eno, July 1992
Read the whole thing. It was impossible to carve out a quote. Just … goreadthewholething.
(via cadastral)
“Since you already feel you are the equal of the top executives of the company,...”
– Nothing Slate posts ever delights me as much as Dear Prudie’s seething rage for the working class. The person who wrote the question dared to be a little impudent to a higher-ranking employee, and Prudie’s response is literally angrier than previous responses to (wealthy) questioners who have failed...
The Awesome Album Milla Jovovich Made When She Was... →
katherinestasaph:
barthel:
Partially at the request of lastbutnotleast, my new vanity albums column is about Milla Jovovich’s The Divine Comedy. Did you know Milla Jovovich was the Britney of the mid-90s? She kinda was!
This album’s actually really good! (It’s kind of funny; it’s one of those albums where there’s a huge disjoint between public perception and the perception of people I follow...
List ALL the Disco Songs featuring the Syndrum... →
the20000:
Spoiler alert: they just might! God bless the Discomusic.com forums.
“And when David Lowery gets up in front of a conference of leading professionals...”
– The good old bad old days | Bleader (via desnoise)
maura:
“Emmis Communications (EMMS) today announced a long-term Local Programming and Marketing Agreement (LMA) with ESPN Radio to provide programming and sell advertising on New York’s 98.7FM.”
What’s that? You want to honor the end of KISS 98.7 by listening to ninety minutes of a May 1988 broadcast?
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U.S. Relaxes Drone Rules: Obama Gives CIA,... →
darling80m:
“You don’t necessarily need to know the guy’s name. You don’t have to have a 10-sheet dossier on him. But you have to know the activities this person has been engaged in.”
How can you be a high level threat, if they don’t even know your name? This article is chock full of quotes from officials that know nothing about Yemen or the nature of fighting this sort of resistance.
andyhutchins:
blackbeans:
Fatboy Rhymer -...
katherinestasaph:
andyhutchins:
What should we call a generation’s inability to precisely describe moments in life without snippets of pop culture used as punch lines? Because this is what the What Should We Call Me fiefdom makes me wonder.
I’m not entirely sure quoting a book passage in response to this isn’t the exact same thing in a different medium, but here’s Leslie Savan:
People,...
Dear Mona Eltahawy: You do not represent "Us"
sharquaouia:
It all started this morning when Kawlture suggested we feature the Foreign Policy issue cover on our blog, the Mainstream Media and the Orient. I was on my phone and could not see the cover clearly. At first, I thought it was blackface, but upon zooming in and reading the the featured article title by Mona Eltahawy, my eyes weren’t fooling me. It really was a woman covered in a...
“[tw: ableist abuse] Teachers hurled insults like “bastard,” ”tard,” ”damn dumb”...”
– The Associated Press: Parents wire kids to prove teachers’ verbal abuse (via sexartandpolitics)
The onus of “proof” is always on the victim, and then the people who demanded the proof go find some other reason to excuse it. It’s rare that the proof is accepted without question, no matter how overt...
“For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in...”
– President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)
Detroit high school students walk out to protest... →
marshmallowmegamama:
this is a picture of the protest—southwestern students walked out because their school is the one being closed, western walked out to show solidarity with southwestern.
please stay tuned for details and SUPPORT SUPPORT SUPPORT as you can through reblogs or however the students ask for support (right now they’re mostly asking for support at the protest—as the media starts...
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DJ Quik Tells All: The Stories Behind His Classic... →
somanyshrimp:
I interviewed DJ Quik for over two hours.
I’m the fourth person on my dashboard to reblog this.
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jsmooth995:
For years in my neighborhood whenever you looked for wifi there’s always been an unencrypted network named “pabloyjordana.” This week that network has disappeared, and there’s a new encrypted network just named “jordana.” PABLO, WHAT DID YOU DO?
Ying Ting update
the20000:
I talked about finding a partial translation for Plearn Promdan’s “Ying Ting”. Now that I’m putting together a greatest-songs list, I wanted to know when the song was recorded. It’s a tricky thing, as you’ll see.
There were four (now three) songs that had no release/recording year info in my list. The first was “Can You Handle It,” a scorching soul/funk track from a Chicago group...
racialicious:
“I loved MTV’s Daria growing up, which really isn’t that big of a surprise because who didn’t love Daria, right? At the time, the show was exactly what I needed to cope with middle school (and life in general). Daria was sarcastic, monotone, and aware of being too smart and self-aware to deal with everyone around her–a familiar scenario I empathized with deeply. As I’ve been...
baddominicana:
chauvinistsushi:
U.S. Judges Admit to Jailing Children for Money
alexandraerin:
jonathan-cunningham:
Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan of the Court of Common Pleas in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, plead guilty in open court that they sentenced children to juvenile detention because they were paid off to do it by the PA Childcare and a sister company, Western PA...
Sansa haters better stay away from me today
oldtobegin:
warmandpunchy:
oldtobegin:
doyourwardance:
curiousgeorgiana:
If you watched that scene last night and thought that she “had it coming and should suffer more than her siblings”, that it would teach her not to “betray her family” in the future, or that it was penance for her “many sins”, you are a horrible, horrible person.
But my favorite comment of the morning:
“Look, I...
eve vrs lil kim
marshmallowmegamama:
i always see the comparisons between nicki and lil kim—but i’m really interested in somebody talking about the differences/similarities between eve and lil kim. cuz i’m a big old band wagon mainstream hip/hop consumer. which means i know next to nothing, except the commentary that i read. fortunately, i tend to focus on hip/hop smart folks, but every once in a while,...
i guess i'm saying that right now i am getting...
isabelthespy:
if there’s nothing in a book i hate the book isn’t going to lead me to anything i hate because books don’t have fucking links
Because when something gives me anxiety I google...
liquornspice:
I just searched: “racial bias in treatment for anxiety disorders,” but ended up looking at another article about how white health care professionals don’t think Black people need pain management. The article is actually pretty hilarious in how sunshiny-liberal it tries to be:
College students and nurses went to greater lengths to ease the pain of members of their own race in a...
