January 2011
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The Walkmen - The Rat
Never fails to make my toes...
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Watchmatt-t:
Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill
I don’t think it’s possible to be any fresher than Alexis.
This video looks how this song feels, basically.
One of the best songs of 2009 and again in 2010 gets a video in 2011.
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Watchifc:
Aubrey Plaza visits the feminist bookstore in Portland, OR.
Catch Portlandia on IFC Friday nights at 10:30pm.
I’m sorry, did you say “all of your hopes and dreams in one video”?
Because that’s what I heard.
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The Tale of the Secret Crunchie
groupme:
Michael Arrington giving a backrub to a gorilla.
Clickthrough recommended.
Yes, this is my job.
Watchpitchfork:
Listen to dance mavens Hercules and Love Affair’s new album, Blue Songs, in its entirety. The record is out January 31 in the UK via Moshi Moshi.
!!!
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Please see Hausu. Don’t read too much about it. Watch the trailer if you must. But know that it is 20000x better (& funnier & weirder & & & & &) than the trailer makes it out to be.
Jesus, what an experience.
Watchjordanmorris:
ifc:
Episode 1 of Portlandia. Get excited.
Yep. It’s as good as you hoped.
Better, even. Most LOLs / minute in a long time.
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Watchpitchfork:
R. Kelly sings “Happy Birthday” to himself while sitting in a leopard-print chair. He turned 44 on January 8. (Via @KellZodiac.)
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“Ke$ha’s addition to pop culture is that her studio recordings sound like...”
– The Awl - Oh My God, I Heard the New Britney Song on the Radio
I mean, yeah.
“I suppose that a lot of us who have been very young in New York have the same...”
– Joan Didion, “Goodbye to All That”
Is this, like, a horribly cliché thing to love?
Well, whatever. I’m on my yearly Didion kick. Sue me.
Announcement: →
joecoscarelli:
endasher:
I see no choice but to host a regular Skins ”reading” group, starting Monday, January 17, 10:00 PM. I’m accepting applications from anybody interested.
Prerequisites: At least Season 1 of U.K. Skins. Seasons 2–5 of Degrassi: The Next Generation (7–10 highly advised). At least four seasons total of Gossip Girl, The O.C., and/or Laguna Beach. One or both PBS documentary...
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Would you like...
Would you like to eat one of the best meals you can remember?
Would you like it to be at a Caribe-French restaurant?
Would you like it to be at a restaurant that is BYOB, and charges no corking fee, so you can pick up an $8 bottle of Cotes du Rhone [sic] at the Astor Warehouse and drink it at your speed?
Would you like to start your meal with some beautiful seeded bread and spicy olive oil,...
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carlatopchef:
Hootie Hoo yall.
Dearest GroupMe Groupies...
groupme:
2010 was an amazing year for us. It was just last May that Steve and I entered the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon and whipped up a little prototype called groop.ly on the fantastic Twilio platform. We knew from the moment we started using it that we were onto something special. After a week, the product had already changed the way we communicate with our friends, families, and...
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Just unfollowed fuckyeahowls, because that shit was getting a little too “fuck yeah”.
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Man vs. Phone
You know how in high school you learned all the different types of literary conflict? Man vs. Man, Man vs. Self, Man vs. Nature, etc.?
(Apparently kidsthesedays learn “Character vs.”, but whatever.)
Anyway, my days-long dispute with Verizon—the dispute being “you turned off my internet because I didn’t pay the bill because I have never received a bill, but I have the...
