January 2011
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December 2010
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"Sofia Coppola: You Either Love Her or Hate Her.... →
I’m glad that White people are starting to turn on SoCo, just like everyone else did after Lost in Translation. The best part of Somewhere was all of the Cam’ron lines about Ferraris that I got to quote. And at least her movies used to look good; I thought Harris Savides was off his game too. Really? We’re going to have to watch this Mexican dude sing all of “Teddy...
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"Random Roles: Jon Lovitz"- Sean O'Neal- A.V. Club →
Random Roles is one of the most revealing things A.V. Club does, and this is the single best one ever: “So I go back to my mark on the set and I start crying—not like sobbing, but tears started coming out, and I almost lost it. Why? Because he said, ‘Guys like us.’ And he said it twice. I’m not saying that I’m him. He’s one of the greatest directors; I’m not saying that. I’m...
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"What Did Armond White Think of the Year's Most... →
On Toy Story 3: “None of these digital-cartoon characters reflect human experience; it’s essentially a bored game that only the brainwashed will buy into. Besides, Transformers 2 already explored the same plot to greater thrill and opulence.” Armond is a beast. If you’re not reading his column, you’re not really living.
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"Hollywood Moves Away from Middlebrow Movies"-... →
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The Top 25 Songs of 2010: 15-6
Part One 15. Best Coast- “Boyfriend”- Because of her playful interviews and hipper-than-thou tweeting, Bethany Cosentino can come off as jaded, but she can’t hide the innocence in her voice. This song could have been released this year or thirty-five years ago, but her deadpan naivete is what makes it seem modern. Particularly in the second verse, this track always teeters on the...
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The Top 25 Songs of 2010: 25-16
At the end, I’ll include a zip file to download all of these. The links are to YouTube videos for now. 25. Freddie Gibbs- “National Anthem (Fuck the World)”- Imagining your song as, paradoxically, something that could represent an entire country and a kiss-off to the entire world is certainly ambitious, but it’s perfect for Gibbs’ throaty but effortless flow. While he...
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"The 20 Worst Songs of 2010: #1- Train, 'Hey, Soul... →
“‘Hey Soul Sister’ is an orgy where bad ideas trade STDs, and the most syphilitic brain-fart stumbled in drunk from a Smash Mouth show. (For those of you who arrived late, Smash Mouth was a band from the late ’90s that was formed when a soul patch met cake frosting. Their wikki-wikki scratching and dorkpie hats did to music what blood-soaked clowns do to the dreams of...
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"So Many Focking Boner Jokes: Little Fockers Plot... →
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Billy Joel- “Movin’ Out...
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"The Principle of Not Stealing Birds' Eggs"- Nick... →
“I find myself unable to get ‘angry’ at this game, or frustrated. Common emotions of my Nintendo days. There are no tricks I have to learn, or quirks of game control, or hidden combos I need to find in GamePro. No cartridges to blow on, so to speak. Each puzzle’s logic is self-contained and self-manifest. Here are your birds, here’s your slingshot. Kill the pigs....
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"(Some of Our) All-Time Favorite Simpsons... →
I’m just getting around to SplitSider’s Classic Simpsons Week. This is the best piece, but a lot of them—particularly the one about Phil Hartman and the one that crunches numbers to define the different Simpsons eras—are worth reading
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"The Top 10 Rules for Making Top 10 Lists"- Will... →
I agree with most of these rules. It will be interesting to see what Leitch and Grierson do with this new outlet.
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Zadie Smith on The Social Network (the movie) and... →
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it’s a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears. It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated...
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"Party Down: Katy Perry on America's Glorious... →
“And while she’s dedicated to the topic of partying, she always makes it sound more like a pitched battle than a good time: On her records, partying is a Nietzschean test of will, something done in desperation, and facing dire consequences for failure. Even in the relatively cheery ‘TiK ToK,’ her first smash single, partying is a ‘fight’ to make it until dawn —...
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