October 2010
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"Super Mario Bros. Sound Clips"- The Mushroom... →
When I first got a computer of my own, I indulged myself by customizing it in every way I could. I changed the wallpaper and screen saver daily, I switched the default mouse settings to that irritating magician motif, and I replaced all sound effects with wav files of popular movies. Of course I had Jim Carrey yelling, “Hold on to your lugnuts!” when I started Windows—that was a...
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September 2010
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"hahahaha jk?" →
Das Racist- “hahahaha jk?” From their mixtape Sit Down, Man I’m late to the party on this one, but Sit Down, Man is one of my favorite records of the year, even though some of it sucks. I can’t stop listening to it, specifically this Boi-1da-produced chestnut, which sounds like Ghostface if he went to college and wore Jack Purcells instead of Wallys. Inspired by the...
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"Play It Back: RBI Baseball, When Vince Coleman... →
This is esoteric, but I laughed at least ten times reading it. I had both RBI Baseball and, inexplicably, Little League Baseball, which used the exact same game engine.
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WatchAdvancement- (n.) Bob Dylan appearing on The History Channel’s Pawn Stars.
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"How Kanye West's Online Triumphs Have Eclipsed... →
“As for my other foot dropping? It bums me out that even the most significant mountain-moving type pop artists like Kanye West have to be ‘good at Twitter’ in order to put a dent in the zeitgeist. That his music — very little music anymore, not even the best stuff — can’t do the kind of heavy lifting that movies and video games and television can without this...
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“I try not to get them to think about whether they like their characters, or if...”
– Philip Seymour Hoffman [source]
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"New Wave Pioneer Aids an Accused Downloader"-... →
“There is no such thing as intellectual property. Copyright really isn’t feasible. An author has no rights. I have no rights. I have only duties.”- Godard!
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"Getting Made the Scorsese Way"- GQ →
An oral history of GoodFellas with amazing anecdotes like this:
Martin Scorsese (director; co-writer): I’d seen Ray in Something Wild, Jonathan Demme’s film; I really liked him. And then I met him. I was walking across the lobby of the hotel on the Lido that houses the Venice Film Festival, and I was there with The Last Temptation of Christ. I had a lot of bodyguards around me....
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Sneaker Pimps- “6 Underground (Nelee Hooper...
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"The Offensive Movie Cliche That Won't Die"- Matt... →
Matt Zoller Seitz’s writing makes me feel bad about my own: “The word choice is deliberately anachronistic — ‘negro’ started to fall out of fashion about 40 years ago. But that’s why it’s so devastating. The word ‘negro’ was a transitional word that fell between the white-comforting ‘colored’ and the more militantly...
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WatchLil’ Wayne- “I’m Not a Human Being” Off his upcoming as-yet-untitled EP Wayne has been incredibly sharp on everything post-Rebirth. Can we submit this to the state of New York as an appeal?
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"Teaching Materials from the David Foster Wallace... →
I’ll be over here catching up on some Mary Higgins Clark. I didn’t even apply to Pomona!
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"Jay-Z Shuts Down Yankee Stadium"- Ryan Dombal-... →
Every once in a while, I’m reminded of why people live in New York.
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Nirvana- “In Bloom” From their album...
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Spacehog- “In the Meantime” From their...
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"Who Is the Greatest Diva of the Past 25 Years? We... →
This is the best thing I’ve read all week, and I’m teaching The Crucible and Beowulf this week.
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WatchEverything Chris Klein Says in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
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"On Pitchfork's Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s"- Nick... →
Sylvester damn near invented this type of arch non-criticism.
[Related Sylvester dickishness.]
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My Pitchfork Predictions: A Look Back
Earlier in the week, I predicted the top fifteen in Pitchfork’s Top 200 Songs of the ’90s. I went 7/15. Three of the other picks were represented somewhere in the top thirty-five. The rest were disregarded for other tracks by the same artist (all of the acts I mentioned showed up somewhere). In the introduction, the staff warned, “For the first time, the age of the writer being...
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"First Person: In Defense of 'Happy Days'' 'Jump... →
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