A House of Lies 

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"Ballet Stars Now Tweet as Well as Flutter"- Gia... →

Ballet has always been a medium that makes its participants into art objects, but through twitter they’ve found a way to humanize themselves like never before. While we’re on the subject of ballet, this entire month PBS is running “NY Export: Jazz Opus” as part of their Great Performances series. It’s a contemporary adaptation of the Prince/Robbins ballet from 1953,...

Mar 31st

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“No, because unanimus would be closer to 431-0, they used a gay voting system...”

– A student’s response to the following vocabulary question: “The recent Health Care Reform Bill passed with a vote of 219-212. Was this vote unanimous? Why or why not? 1. “Unanimous” is way too easy a vocabulary word for a high school student. 2. This student used a comma...

Mar 31st

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"Vote for the Hottest Girl in the History of... →

I don’t agree with this guy’s taste (if we’re including Madonnas, that one he has isn’t in my top ten), but this is an amazing idea.

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Joker- “Tron” Believing that Joker is...

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"Disney Wants Women with Natural Breasts for New... →

Why is no one else talking about this? This none-too-veiled sexual harassment should be the Hollywood story of the year. And I say that as a fake breast apologist.

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"Celebrities Shouldn't Need to Apologize for... →

A nice companion piece to the hundreds of articles written about the John Mayer Playboy interview.

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“Edward Norton is a good actor and a busy man—a citizen who concerns himself with...”

– David Denby, nailing the Edward Norton Problem. “Leaves of Grass,” “City Island,” and “Bounty Hunter,” review : The New Yorker (via seanfennessey) Yeah, pretty much. Look at the first half of Norton’s career—nothing but heat rocks as they say. Then look at the second half....

Mar 29th

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Otis Redding- “I’ve Been Loving You...

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"The Skulls"- Patrick Cassels- Ten-Year-Old Movies →

This dude doesn’t post often and doesn’t proofread much, but he usually has some funny and interesting things to say. He takes movies—completely forgettable, average ones—that are celebrating their tenth anniversaries and looks back on them in context. What site like that would be complete without an analysis of The Skulls?

Mar 28th

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Making a video for, like, ten dollars and only making it available on twitter: advanced. Also, Kells has a line here about “round ten”? I don’t care who you or your partner are. Round ten does not exist.

Mar 27th

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New Order- “Bizarre Love Triangle”...

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Blink 182- “Josie” From the album Dude...

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eight notes on "boyfriend" clothing ...

agrammar: … stemming, as is probably obvious, from this Decibel bit on Urban Outfitter’s “Classic Rock Boyfriend Tee.” Just so I don’t sound nuts, let me say that I do understand what the marketing category of “boyfriend” clothes is trying to conjure: some kind of insouciant grace where you’re just so fabulous that you can throw on other people’s too-large clothing and look all casual and...

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Keepaway- “Yellow Wings” From the Baby...

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Elliott Smith- “Bottle Up and Explode”...

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“I’mma be in A-list flicks doing one-handed flips…”

– Fergie Unless the A-list flick in question is The Keri Strugg Story, I don’t see how these two things are related. Can we expect to see Fergie-Ferg in a Merchant-Ivory costume drama, suddenly bounding across a dining room doing one-handed flips? Is this a Hollywood casting secret I don’t...

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Rivers Cuomo and The Cathy Santonies- “In...

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"Why We Fight #1: Indie Will Eat Itself"- Nitsuh... →

Lately he’s been dropping knowledge on his tumblr a grammar, but today Abebe started a column on Pitchfork. The first entry is on how surprisingly similar (and different) the reception of Joanna Newsom and Lady Gaga have been and what that means for indie culture. Right in my wheelhouse.

Mar 17th

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I wish I liked Ted Leo’s original work as much as I like his covers.

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Fat Joe feat. Young Jeezy- “Ha Ha (Slow...

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"Texas Hearing Considers Deeper Conservative... →

I’m not the type of person to bemoan things like this on my blog but… “There have also been efforts among conservatives on the board to tweak the history of the civil rights movement. One amendment states that the movement created ‘unrealistic expectations of equal outcomes’ among minorities. Another proposed change removes any reference to race, sex or religion in...

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Young Dro- “Take Off (Michna Remix)”...

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