May 2012
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"Riff Raff's Got a Record Deal: Making Sense of... →
“But I realized, after finally meeting him and sitting in his presence, that Riff Raff is a product of Gatsbyesque self-invention—a dude who decided that Riff Raff was who he wanted to be and became it, and feels some combination of disdain and shame about the circumstances in his life that he couldn’t control that led up to him becoming Riff Raff. He’s like a superhero. Almost...
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Killer Mike- “Reagan” from his album...
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"SNL Cast Timeline"- cabletv.com →
(I’m mostly including this exhaustive infographic—so exhaustive that it looked ugly when embedded—to come back and use it for my own research purposes. But enjoy.)
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"Refresh: The Lonely Futurism of TLC's Fanmail"-... →
“In 1999, I spent some time in front of a computer teaching myself HTML and Photoshop, and I would visit strangers’ personal websites to get ideas for new designs. These were the days when most websites had hit counters to measure their traffic, and I have a distinct memory from around this time of stumbling upon a site that promised to post the name of their 100,000th visitor. The...
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Watchpopculturebrain:
Trailer: Argo - Oct 12
(via /Film)
Y’all know that, going forward, Affleck is probably going to be one of our most essential storytellers, right? How many people are—with great skill—making serious, splashy movies like this for adults? I can count them on one hand, and most of them are much older than he is. Plus, he and Matty still owe Castle Rock two...
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Best of April 2012 Spotify Playlist Some of this...
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"With Friends Like These: A Friends Oral History"-... →
I can’t say I was ever a huge fan of Friends, but I loved this piece because it reveals that, even on one of the biggest shows in the history of TV, everything boils down to personal relationships. There’s a passage in which Littlefield, former president of NBC, recounts running into Jennifer Aniston at a gas station and, after a heartfelt discussion about her future, dedicating...
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“Lookin’ out at the world through my window pane,
Every day has many colors...”
– MCA, “B-Boy Bouillabaisse (A Year And A Day),” from Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique, 1989. Rest in power, Adam Yauch (1964 - 2012). (via rapquote)
April 2012
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Chief Keef and Riff Raff- “Cuz My...
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"Our 'White People Problems' Problem: Why It’s... →
“There’s an element of ‘comfortable white folks picking on other comfortable white folks’ to a lot of the Girls criticism (though not all, I hasten to add). As other critics have pointed out, the hue and cry over the whiteness of Girls may be covertly about something else, especially given that shows like Bored to Death and How I Met Your Mother haven’t been so intensely...
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"Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?"- Stephen Marche-... →
I hate alarmist titles like that, but the ideas within are more sophisticated than any other essay of this type. “And yet, despite its deleterious effect on health, loneliness is one of the first things ordinary Americans spend their money achieving. With money, you flee the cramped city to a house in the suburbs or, if you can afford it, a McMansion in the exurbs, inevitably spending more...
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Watchpitchfork: Pulp’s first TV appearance since 1996. This is one of the best songs of all time, and I’m only sort of exaggerating.
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"Film Crit Hulk-Smash: Hulk Vs. Fight Club (And... →
Is it a problem when the smartest film writing on the Internet is being done by a guy pretending to be The Incredible Hulk?
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Johnny Cash- “The Old Account Was Settled...
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March 2012
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Best of March 2012 Spotify Playlist →
Sorry there are so many tracks that you can’t play in Spotify yet. This method is kind of flawed, but I prefer it to sitting around waiting for a zip file. Action Bronson’s Blue Chips is my favorite album of the month and year, and it isn’t even really close. Most reviews of the album are just giddy quotes of the critic’s favorite lines, and my review wouldn’t be any...
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"How to Talk to Young Black Boys about Trayvon... →
[You Might Find Yourself]
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The Beatles- “Yesterday (DJ Holiday...
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"The Tumblr Trap: Is Internet Culture Turning... →
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"Robert De Niro: I'm Prone to Overanalysis"-... →
I wish it were longer, but this is a rare interview in which De Niro details his education and process.
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WatchNo joke: Darren Aronofsky directed this.
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"What Makes Mad Men Great?"- Matt Zoller Seitz-... →
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Best of February 2012 Spotify Playlist →
In, more or less, the order that I got around to listening to the music. Sorry there are so many songs that aren’t in the Spotify library yet. As far as full-length albums go, the new Islands and Perfume Genius were definitely my favorites.
February 2012
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gifparty:
I love The Voice for many reasons, one of which is the show’s insistence that coaches can make you better at a craft like singing; that is, it strays from the binary that we’re all either effortless prodigies or talentless hacks. It also develops the personalities of the singers and finds a lane for them, eschewing the notion that a good singer is one who can do anything...
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"We're About to Lose 1,000 Small Theaters That... →
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WatchTrois Couleurs: Bleu- Krzysztof Kieslowski (1993)
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Rihanna feat. Chris Brown- “Birthday Cake...
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"Embarrassment Rock"- Nitsuh Abebe- Why We Fight-... →
“One of the more subtle casualties of rockism is the ability to articulate what’s actually good about a piece of rock music. So when a few exciting new rock bands come around the corner, like they did 10 years ago, they’re immediately bathed in clichés: This is what rock’n’roll is all about! Now that’s real rock’n’roll attitude! Rock is back! These...