A House of Lies: Archive

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Apr 30th

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Apr 30th

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Apr 29th

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Apr 29th

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"A Rare Glimpse Inside the Empire of SNL's Lorne... →

Apr 29th

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"Flashback Friday: PT Anderson Talks with Lars Von... →

PTA: Absolutely. I heard that Clinton loved Boogie Nights, and that really made me excited. It made me like him very much. And then they actually requested a print of Magnolia. LVT: We sent Breaking the Waves, I think. PTA: To the White House? LVT: For Clinton, or his daughter, whatever. They just can’t go down to a video store; it’s just impossible—it’s too far from...

Apr 29th

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Apr 22nd

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Apr 22nd

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"Stay Low and Keep Firing"- Andrew Noz- Fader →

“And while Puff was a successful translator, Big’s peers were unable to synthesize those qualities. Jay-Z has swiped entire verses from the Biggie oeuvre to great success but never struck the same chords. Shyne and Guerilla Black had their brief moments in the limelight while directly mimicking his voice, but they never came close to synthesizing its emotional power. Biggie’s...

Apr 20th

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"Lester Bangs' Basement: What It Means to Have All... →

“A rarity might be less popular; it might be less interesting. But it’s no longer less available the way it once was. If you have a decent Internet connection and a slight cast of amorality in your character, there’s very little out there you might want that you can’t find. Does the end of rarity change in any fundamental way, our understanding of, attraction to, or ...

Apr 20th

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Apr 20th

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“I’d be lying if I said it was easy. The truth of the matter is, it’s...”

– Eminem

Apr 19th

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"List of Inventors Killed by Their Own... →

Apr 19th

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Apr 16th

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"Thank Wes Craven and Scream for Making Zombieland... →

Apr 16th

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"Female Trouble: Is Rap More Mature Than R&B"-... →

“A fun game is spotting the random African-American male crooner who gets tagged as a ‘rapper’ by any number of clueless newspapers or magazines. There’s an implicit value judgment made when, say, Ne-Yo receives the ‘rapper’ label: This stuff, with it’s futuristic synths and bold drums and sexually explicit lyrics, is not R&B (a.k.a., love songs for...

Apr 16th

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Apr 16th

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Apr 15th

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Purity Ring- “Ungirthed” From their...

Apr 14th

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Apr 13th

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"Culture Warrior: Taxi Driver at 35"- Landon... →

“When I see the Columbia Pictures logo now, I think Spider-Man and Adam Sandler movies. I think of movies that have been exhaustively pre-packaged for audience consumption. I think of products that have been changed by ad execs, merchandising firms, focus groups, test screenings, franchise potential, a star’s net worth, etc. I don’t, in short (spoilers for a 35 year-old movie coming...

Apr 13th

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Apr 12th

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"Steven Soderbergh's Daily Diet"- Mary Dooe-... →

Soderbergh kept track of everything he watched and read for a year. This is way more fascinating than I thought it would be. Raiders of the Lost Ark three times in one week? In black and white?

Apr 12th

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Ace Hood feat. Rick Ross and Lil’ Wayne-...

Apr 12th

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