September 2011
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"Album of the Day: Nirvana- Nevermind"- Zach... →
“Music fans will tell you that there are objective, historical reasons for favoring one record over another. ‘Nevermind’ ushered alternative into the mainstream and influenced the sound of every rock record that followed. ‘Some Gave All,’ on the other hand, yielded a much-parodied novelty hit, ‘Achy Breaky Heart,’ the video for which spawned a deeply ...
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R.E.M.- “Strange Currencies” From...
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"When They Just Plain Believe: Are Indie Films... →
“Indies by definition exist outside the mainstream studio system and the strictures with which its bound, and while faith-based films are still a niche, Christianity itself isn’t, with around 75 percent of Americans identifying themselves as part of a Christian denomination. So one could argue that films like the ones listed above are critiques of the dominant culture—though not the...
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"Cool Dad Raising Daughter on Media That Will Put... →
“‘Jean-Luc Godard, Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder—you simply need to know who these men are if you want to call yourself culturally literate,’ Campbell said of the three iconic directors whose creations could not have less utility to his daughter as she searches for a way to achieve a sense of belonging among her fellow middle-schoolers. ‘Sure, she makes a face when I...
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"And Now a Word from the Director"- Manohla... →
“Mr. Polanski belongs to a long line of liars, adulterers, sadists and slaves, wife beaters, rapists, miscellaneous miscreants and even murderers who helped make Hollywood great. Charlie Chaplin liked young girls so much that three of his four wives were teenagers when they wed. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer may have had more stars than there are in heaven, as it proudly crowed, but in the 1930s...
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"20 Years On: Ice Cube's Death Certificate... →
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"Rick Ross's Simple Lessons for Bosses, Dons, and... →
“‘Chicks send me pictures,’ Ross said. ‘And I appreciate it! I love all of them. But I don’t do that shit. I’m the Boss.’ He shook his head, his expression hidden behind his candy-apple-red-framed aviator sunglasses. ‘Real niggas don’t send dick flicks.’
And in a way Rick Ross was right. Anthony Weiner wanted to live like a boss,...
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Real Estate- “Barely Legal” From the...
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Ghostface Killah- “Whip You with a...
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"This Post about Tired Filmmaker Cliches Is NOT... →
Big Daddy Drew dropping science. I haven’t bought his new book The Postmortal yet, but I’m sure it’s great.
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Pedro the Lion- “I Am Always the One Who...
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White Girls Rapping →
Nice self-edit, Selena! People pass along stuff like this to me all the time. “Oh my God, tiny White girl knows all the words to a rap song! Isn’t that weird? That’s not what you would expect, huh? Because she’s tiny and White and famous, right? And that’s, well, you know, a rap song!” At what point are we collectively going to agree that hip-hop is just a...