November 2009
27 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29) →
Tune-Yards (56)
of Montreal (9)
Dirty Projectors (8)
SLEIGH BELLS (7)
Islands (7)
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tUnE-YaRdS - Sunlight
pretty, eh?
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22) →
SLEIGH BELLS (40)
Lady GaGa (27)
The xx (8)
Dirty Projectors (7)
Walter Meego (7)
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“She pissed me off the second she glided back onstage at the VMAs to reclaim the...”
– I sort of like Taylor Swift’s music, but Rich Juzwiak hits the problem of her celebrity on the head with his recap of the AMAs.
When every other pop blogger has died due to irrelevance, fourfour will be strong. Like a cockroach. A beautiful cockroach.
(link)
“So you’re saying the decade began with a self-indulgent half-true memoir by a...”
– Abe Sauer connects the Eggers-to-Palin dots.
This freaking decade, man.
(via maura)
Sleigh Bells - A/B Machines
If I could upload 3...
“[Let’s] call Friday Night Lights what it is: the Best Show (Almost) on...”
– PREACH, Vulture, PREACH. (spoilers)
“Though they still seem fairly bizarre to most Americans, homosexuals have never...”
– From this FUCKING AMAZING 10-page feature piece on the “newly visible homosexual.”
In Time. October 31, 1969.
(Teaser: it also asks “Is there a homosexual conspiracy afoot to dominate the arts and other fields? Sometimes it seems that way.”)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15) →
The Hood Internet (56)
SLEIGH BELLS (16)
Julian Casablancas (11)
Dirty Projectors (10)
Wale (7)
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Currently
via aarieofcourse:
(via pipesmokeflute)
EATING: air, desperately. READING: Amusing Ourselves to Death - Postman OBSESSING: Sleigh Bells LISTENING: Stillness is the Move - cover by Solange WEARING: red sox shirt for some reason, always ‘skinny’ jeans. TODAY: class, class (guest lecture: adrian leblanc), advising meeting (new job? with a cool author? new class? with a NYT editor?),...
maura:
perpetua:
Solange “Would’ve Been The...
Excuse Me, But I'll Be Handling The Gentleman's... →
The weekend is almost here.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8) →
Gordon Voidwell (16)
Deerhunter (13)
Beyoncé (12)
The Walkmen (8)
Julian Casablancas (7)
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“Noticed my Tumblarity was at zero. Thanks, assholes.”
– Dr. Peter Raffel, Class of 1994. (via ohmeohyou)
Today has a definite aesthetic.
Right now.
Shirt:
Pants:
Cologne:
Listening to:
Weather:
This is basically how I feel about this country,...
America - Claude McKay
Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I will confess I love this cultured hell that tests my youth! Her vigor flows like tides into my blood, Giving me strength erect against her hate. Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood. Yet as a rebel fronts a king in state, I stand within her walls...
I feel sad, jealous, and angsty when I see kids... →
hipsterrunoff:
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I was walking through Brooklyn on Halloween nite when I stumbled past these 3 authentic children, all dressed as relevant architectural landmarks. I had to do a…
This is my #1 feeling every time I see new york children. Sigh.
Over at Slate’s Culture Gabfest this week,...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1) →
Julian Casablancas (38)
Gordon Voidwell (34)
Neon Indian (21)
Florence + The Machine (9)
Discovery (8)
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WatchKanye West’s “Glow in the Dark” tour was probably my favorite concert ever.
I can’t think of any live event, even, that I have been to that was better.
That said - I would still never buy a book of it. This is dumb.