August 2009
Superseded Music →
Look! It’s my self-indulgent new project!
I’m following a few of our regular readers already, but I just wanted to make a more concrete announcement over here now that I have a few entries under my belt, so to speak.
xoxo c hotpoint, who seems to be writing a lot lately
Summer Anne's Best 125 Songs Of The 2000s: #124
summeranne:
# 124 : “The Start of Something” by Voxtrot
[First, an aside: this song doesn’t have a video? Is that really true?]
…Voxtrot encompasses all of those glistening teenage adjectives and does it so, so well. Do I expect my tattooed, heavy-drinking, metal club hopping male friends to make fun of Ramesh and the gang every time their name is mentioned? Yes. Was I...
increasingly irrelevant
When I was in film school, I dreaded watching Russian and Soviet films. It wasn’t that I didn’t care for them — because I often did. No, it was that the title sequences — in massive, chiseled Cyrillic script — made me feel like I’d received some kind of blow to the head and couldn’t read English anymore. The letters looked just familiar enough to to throw...
“How do you set a proper sleeve? How does a fabric perform? It’s the art of...”
– The Olsen Twins, Unlikely Designers, Are Finding Success - NYTimes.com
Quote from Joe Karban, production manager at The Row. These are the critical questions for any good design. The other is whether or not the concept and the fabric match. Sometimes they don’t.
Cindy and I are both...
Modern Love - Why Spoil Great Sex by Dating? →
via youmightfindyourself, nytimes
Is this really getting passed around again, a year after the fact? Ok, look. Call me kooky and old-fashioned, but someday you crazy kids are gonna regret all this casual hooking up business. From where I stand, to have great sex, you need an emotional attachment; you need trust. You are not having great sex with someone you randomly hooked up with after a...
WatchGiant Drag — Something To Live For (via Stereogum)
Oh! We’ve missed Giant Drag somethin’ terrible. But Annie Hardy’s back with “Something To Live For,” and the forthcoming Swan Song EP. She also has a very amusing Twitter feed and an amazing collection of Hannah Montana paraphenalia.
The video for this track is amazingly bizzare, the kind of thing that would...
Public Service Announcement: In NYC? Want A/W 08...
Go to the Loehmann’s on 7th Ave at 17th St. They have Maison Martin Margiela proper and MM6. Mostly knits, but then again, I don’t usually look at wovens. They also have a hefty amount of high-larious Gaultier and a ton of Philosophy by Alberta Ferretti. It’s all leftovers from last year, but you won’t hear me complaining. It’s also all affordable.
I wagged...
FAC73 (A.K.A. fuckyeahbluemonday!) →
A cautionary tale: two days ago, I almost wrote a scathing screed about how the last thing anyone needed was a Tumblr dedicated to “Blue Monday” — but it’s actually so over-the-top with lots of New Order love (which I so desperately needed after hearing the dreadful new Bad Lieutenant track the other day), that I’m now kind of greatful that this exists. (Plus, the...
kellydeal:
Laura Branigan - Gloria
You could...
BEAT ELECTRIC: Classic 80's House →
Just say no to plowing through Pitchfork’s top 500 songs of the ’00s; listen to these gems instead. I guarantee you’ll have more fun. (via Disco Workout)
xoxo c. hotpoint
“Lady Gaga is a poster-girl for Illuminati mind control, a puppet who embodies...”
– Lady Gaga, The Illuminati Puppet | The Vigilant Citizen
Conspiracy theorists are “SO CREWT.” (via Coilhouse)
<3 pvb
“The classic fag hags were theatrical, brassy, unconventional; they were the Liza...”
– Ladies: I’m not your gay boyfriend | Salon Life (via Jezebel)
Yet again, Jezebel provides a paraphrased summary of an article in lieu of an actual opinion, however, the source material should be read. Rogers punchline is that hopefully women will start calling themselves — and acting...
WatchAntony and the Johnsons — Crazy in Love
This is finally being released as a double-A side single! Finally!
xoxo c. hotpoint
“[Lady Gaga’s] devotion to gay culture is unparalleled by any other artist...”
– The Lady Is A Vamp by Joshua David Stein & Noah Michelson (Photos by Ellen Von Unwerth), Out Magazine.
I think someone finally put their finger on why Lady Gaga is such a devisive creature. It’s not just that she’s pretentious (which I find utterly charmant!), but that she’s...
This one's for Cintra Wilson and All the Overly...
People who know me can tell you (and totally roll their eyes over) how often I say “AND THAT IS WHAT’S WRONG WITH AMERICA TODAY!” about the latest internet kerfuffle, political scandal, fast fashion tragedy, hate directed at Lady Gaga, whatever. Anything is fair game for this criticism, usually invoked when I can do nothing but throw up my hands in disgust people’s petty,...
Gee, this castle looks familiar...
reconnoitre: Please help me to understand: Zooey Deschanel.
nudawn: I think its somehow related to the Pam Syndrome:
Guys Who Have Crushes on Pam from “The Office” I get it, fellas. She’s not intimidating, like one of those women who wears make-up and styles her hair, and has a good job that she enjoys, and confidence, and a..what do you call it…an adult woman’s sexuality. There’s nothing...
“…the median age of the jazz audience is now comparable to the ages for...”
– Can Jazz Be Saved? by Terry Teachout
It’s not that jazz is considered high art now by music consumers, or even that it’s terribly inaccessable — it’s, well, honestly, kind of dull. I sniff around the fringes of jazz pretty often in search of anything new that might pique my...
