A House of Lies: Archive

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One Drawing for Every Page of Moby Dick- Matt Kish →

Sep 1st

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"The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s"- Staff-... →

Only one song per band? This is going to be crazy. I’m guessing the top fifteen will be something like: 15. Liz Phair- “Divorce Song” 14. DJ Shadow- “Building Steam with a Grain of Salt” 13. Bonnie “Prince” Billy- “I See a Darkness” 12. Beck- “Where It’s At” 11. Wu-Tang Clan- “Protect Ya Neck” 10. Nine Inch Nails-...

Aug 31st

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Aug 30th

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Aug 30th

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Gustav Mahler- “Symphony 1: i. Langsam, Schleppend - Wie ein Naturlaut” (Movement 1 of Symphony 1 for the non-pretentious) If music reviews have been slow lately, it’s because I’ve been listening to a lot of classical music. Of course, classical music can still be written about, but I’ve never felt confident enough in my knowledge of it to do so. Recently though, I...

Aug 29th

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"Joel Silver, a Megaproducer in a Changed... →

An interesting entry in the profile-as-trendpiece tradition. Also, Joel Silver apparently invented Ultimate Frisbee. You learn something every day.

Aug 29th

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Aug 28th

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Aug 27th

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Ghostface Killah feat. Jadakiss- “Run”...

Aug 26th

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Aug 26th

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Aug 26th

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Can People Stop Saying, "I Threw Up in My Mouth a...

Depending on whom you ask, the phrase “I just threw up in my mouth a little” originated from 2004’s Dodgeball, Jim Benton’s Happy Bunny keychains, or countless other comedic sources culled from hearsay and half-remembered dreams. It was funny (six years ago) for the same reasons anything is funny: incongruity and universality. Having the urge to throw up, then not throwing...

Aug 26th

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Aug 25th

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Aug 24th

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Aug 24th

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Aug 24th

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Aug 22nd

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Aug 21st

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Aug 20th

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Aug 20th

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Aug 19th

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Aug 19th

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Aug 18th

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Aug 18th

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Aug 17th

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Aug 17th

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Aug 16th

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Aug 15th

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Aug 15th

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“Americans have grown too accustomed to being comfortable. I find a different...”

– Tom Ford, quoted in a call to arms on Less.Gentle.Men (via putthison)

Aug 14th

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Aug 14th

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"Scott Pilgrim Versus the Unfortunate Tendency to... →

Aug 13th

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Aug 13th

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The Expendables of documentarians.

Aug 13th

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Aug 12th

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Aug 12th

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Aug 11th

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"Jennifer Egan on Goons, Muddiness, and the... →

I heard about the Powerpoint-presentation-as-chapter on NPR, so A Visit from the Goon Squad was already on my list, but this interview just shot it to the top.

Aug 11th

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"Tarantino's Angst"- Karina Longworth- LA Weekly →

I’ve seen Jackie Brown four times, but each of those four times was on a bootleg VHS that a high school friend got me on a trip to New York. It’s probably time to revisit that one. “A film built around ticking clocks, perhaps it’s fitting that Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown today plays as a time capsule — but of which time? Dialogue indicates it’s set in...

Aug 11th

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Vulture called this “an Arizona Jeans commercial.” I call it better than “Thriller.”

Aug 11th

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Queens of the Stone Age- “The Lost Art of...

Aug 11th

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