October 2010
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TGIF, etc.
Hooray, my OSHA medicine cabinet-provided Pain Zapper pills and my special (nasty-tasting) Emergen-C Immune Defense are kicking in simultaneously! My head no longer feels like it’s about to fall off. I may make it through this day after all.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-24) →
The New Pornographers (63)
The Extra Glenns (40)
The Twilight Singers (29)
The Extra Lens (29)
Dean & Britta (22)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Why Bryan Ferry's new album trumps Brian Eno's →
rocketsandrayguns:
Nifty Tom Ewing piece comparing/contrasting the new Ferry and Eno albums.
I haven’t heard the Eno yet, but the the Ferry is very good.
Titles such as Alphaville or Heartache By Numbers are pure Ferry, but while it’s as knowing as ever, this is a twilit record, its atmosphere one of ever-encroaching regret. Ferry’s voice is now weaker and more querulous and, set in the...
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I don’t, as a rule, watch reality television (or much TV at all really), but I have been known to watch an episode of “LA Ink” once a in a blue moon — or pause while channel surfing on one of the other niche reality shows that would seemingly be of interest to me (“Hollywood Treasures”, “Inked”, “Tattoo Highway”, “The Antonio...
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my dad and Beirut's Gulag Orkestar
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almost every time i visit my parents at home, what we do is watch a DVD of Everything Is Illuminated and he always laughs at the part when Jonathan Safran Foer says he doesn’t eat meat and one of the other characters asks “what is wrong with you?” i bet my dad has seen that movie more times than i have seen any movie
It’s hard to have a “favorite”...
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WatchViolens — “Violent Sensation Descends”
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Watchvan Seenus:Cole:Rodarte:No Age — Aanteni (Rodarte SS10 presentation)
I have such a love/hate with the Mulleavy sisters, I really do. Are they geniuses? One trick ponies? Totally bonkers? Overhyped? Who knows.
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MoMA | Weimar Cinema, 1919–1933: Daydreams and... →
November 17, 2010–March 7, 2011 (!!!)
Organized in association with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation in Wiesbaden and in cooperation with the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin, this exhibition—the most extensive ever mounted in the United States of German films made between the world wars—includes seventy-five feature-length films and six shorts, along with a gallery exhibition of Weimar-era...
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Tragical
There’s not one missed connection post on Craigslist from the Greg Dulli show Tuesday night. Not one!
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Well, you know that 5500 has impeccable taste in everything, and I am a Conan Doyle junkie 4 life, and Mystery! is about the only appointment television I keep — but I really, really didn’t expect to love Sherlock as much as I did.
Finally — Holmes and Watson played properly as an ambiguously gay duo! Rupert Graves looking kind of … sexy with a lightly working class...
The Forgotten City: Images of a Bygone Berlin -... →
Worth looking at the whole slideshow, I promise.
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Crochet Guevara →
That’s the best blog name ever!
“T Magazine: If a woman could wear only one product, which one should she...”
– The Bombshell Squad, A Q&A with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana on the subject of femmina.
Dear New York Times Style Section
What’s going on over there? These aren’t “platform mary janes” (they’re clearly weird and fancy oxford creepers) and this isn’t a “fair isle” sweater (it’s done in the setestal technique, which is Norwegian, not English). Geez.
luff,
michaela (and shannon, who spotted the sweater issue)
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“Who invented the typical girl?
Who’s bringing out the new improved model?
And...”
– The Slits, ‘Typical Girls’
Note to self: Please remember these lines when you’re cranky about … everything.
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...thank you for your support
I didn’t even know about wearing purple to stand up for queer youth today; by coincidence, my outfit is a riot of purple — purple tights and a purple sweater.
I am not, by nature, a joiner. I have some problems with the extremely well-intentioned but ultimately misguided “It Gets Better” campaign. But I definitely don’t mind that I’m accidentally calling...
CMJ Day One: Greg Dulli Seethes, Thrills, And... →
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I went to the Greg Dulli show last night. It was… it was so good.
Aw, man! Candy Cane Crawl AND Teenage Wristband in the encore? I wish I’d stayed just a little bit longer. Then again, I wouldn’t have had that Good Samaritan episode a few blocks from the Bowery, walking to the Canal Street stop — saw a dude wipe out on his skateboard at Kenmare and Mott and called an...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-17) →
Belle & Sebastian (86)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions (17)
Kraftwerk (13)
Badly Drawn Boy (9)
Blue Water White Death (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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The Extra Lens (nee The Extra Glenns) — How...
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WatchThe New Pornographers — Challengers
I never really thought much of this song until Carl introduced it at Matador 21 as being about how he met his wife (and not, he said, full of lyrical bullshit). [I’m paraphrasing, btw.]
Now I’m kind of obsessed with it. Love is such a weird, weird thing — and I think this song captures that pretty darn well. Which is to say, I wish I...