July 2010
Pitchfork Reviews Reviews: i am at a party at the... →
we go upstairs to check out the roof. this is a fashion industry party and i overhear a man and two women talking and the man goes “oh yeah, i ended up wearing all Philip Lim that night!” and a woman replies “i LOVE Phillip Lim!!!” (i don’t know anything about fashion but i know what Philip Lim is (from the Cam’Ron song Ooh Baby), which says something about how popular it is, and i suspect...
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“A guy walks up to me and asks ‘What’s Punk?’. So I kick over a garbage can and...”
– Billie Joe Armstrong, quoted in The tenets of dieselpunk culture (via cleolinda)
I was going to post this last night; now I must merely reblog it. Trendy!
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TicketWeb - Order Tickets for Van Dyke Parks plus... →
This is what happens when you decide to go to Matador 21. You will miss Van Dyke Parks at the Bell House.
Sounding Off: The Fiery Furnaces’ Matthew... →
I’ve been trying to pick something out of this interview to pullquote, but it’s all very stream of consciousness, and, really, it’s just better if you go read the whole thing.
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Target finally opens a Manhattan location... →
placesweusedtogo:
ohhleary:
Simply put, don’t go. Put this Target out of business and tell Target that if it wants to be in this city, they need to build a store for this city, not for the people who commute from the suburbs and clog our streets. If you want to go to a Target, vote with your wallet and go to the one above one of the busiest subway stations in New York City: the Target at...
“Well, I am someone who is in a specialized field in kind of objectifying and...”
– An Edited Interview: Vaughan Oliver, Album Designer
This is a very interesting interview with Vaughan Oliver, the house designer for 4AD, who designed classic, extremely distinct album covers for Pixies, Lush, Cocteau Twins, etc. in the ’80s and ’90s.
(via perpetua)
I have some problems with this...
How to Measure the Value of Editors →
barthel:
Because editors are often seen as unnecessary, we at IBM conducted a study to demonstrate their value for some of our marketing pages. We took a sample of unedited pages with high traffic from across our various business units and ran them through Dave Harlan, the editing lead for the group that creates a lot of our marketing content. We then ran an A/B test, where we served the...
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Watch(via Artist Kenneth Anger Films the Missoni Clan for the Label’s Fall Campaign — The Cut)
Oh!
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25) →
Queen (34)
Talking Heads (29)
Rufus Wainwright (27)
Ben Folds Five (26)
Hüsker Dü (22)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oh dear!! Can you tell I’m chained to my desk doing heavy, detail-oriented work or what? When I slide into a tech house or minimal techno sinkhole this week, you’ll be prepared for the results.
“Mr. Kennedy seemed particularly fond of the operators, and often showed off...”
– (via At the White House, Losing a Game of Phone Tag - NYTimes.com)
Once, in a previous life, I was a telephone operator at a fancy hotel. I’d often wondered if the role of the savant-y operator (seriously, you kind of have to be a genius psychic weirdo life coach to be a good operator) was...
“In 1949 Ginsberg wrote about his down-and-out pal Herbert Huncke. They lived...”
– Edmund White on Ginsberg (via The Beats: Pictures of a Legend | The New York Review of Books)
“In fact, the modern runway is a lie. It has allowed very average designers with...”
– Cathy Horyn in 2001 (!!!) (via A BLOG curated by » Does the runway lie? by Cathy Horyn)
She goes on to talk about fashion’s version of authenticity (yes, there is such a thing!) — the Balenciaga shows of yore with 200 looks, all presented at eye level, for instance — or Yves...
“And now comes the point where I will commit what some will see as the gravest of...”
– Losing My Religion: Revealing the Hollow Reality of Lo-Fi < PopMatters
First: Can I get an amen? Second: Read this. It needed a firmer editorial hand (what doesn’t, these days?), but I think Mr. Fisher is asking the right questions.
rachaelmaddux:
therichgirlsareweeping:
desnoise:
therichgirlsareweeping:
“Indie music and the indie aesthetic is mainstream now. Everyone, stop trying to deny this!”
I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: This argument only seems meaningful to me insofar as it makes both of us feel important. If indie music is mainstream, then gosh, when I spend hours and hours...
desnoise:
the rich girls are weeping take notes:
“Indie music and the indie aesthetic is mainstream now. Everyone, stop trying to deny this!”
I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: This argument only seems meaningful to me insofar as it makes both of us feel important. If indie music is mainstream, then gosh, when I spend hours and hours writing about the...
the blankest generation
agrammar:
See, in the past there were certain styles of guitar-pop that indie bands just played, in a pretty low-pressure way: if you liked that kind of thing, there it was, but it was probably not going to lead to many arguments about value and media exposure and whether it deserved a Best New Music or not. And right now, Wavves is a slight outlier in a crop of bands resurrecting some of those...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18) →
Siouxsie & The Banshees (48)
The Frames (29)
R.E.M. (28)
School of Seven Bells (25)
Girls Aloud (25)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
BANNER WEEK! I got a lot of work done, obvs!
Pitchfork Reviews Reviews: lit lounge →
also there was a guy who came in on my night a lot who was really tall and came by himself and didn’t talk to anybody, also he wore a huge set of prosthetic breasts and would slowly sway back and forth in the middle of the dancefloor, occasionally bumping people with his boobs if it was really crowded, and sometimes girls would dance with him. one night the owner was lurking over my shoulder and...
A small rant
This is for all my dear friends who are not into fashion: Is there any possible way that everyone out there could stop misusing the word couture?
“Designer” clothing is not “couture”. Couture (or, haute couture) is, in reality, a very tiny fraction of the global fashion industry supported by a couple hundred (if that many!) very, very wealthy women. (And that market is...
barthel:
Rachel: “Penis Envy” was the best Crass album because they let the girls sing. Mike: And after that the dudes were like, “we’re anarchists, we have important things to do.” Rachel: “Go back to your knitting and cooking, ladies.” Mike: Of course, in 2010, anarchism basically is knitting and cooking.
Er … yes? I seem to be an accidental...
70s Soul Train line dance roundup. « We Who Are... →
THIS IS WHAT THE INTERNET IS FOR, PEOPLE. It is here so I can spend my lunch watching Soul Train line dance segments.
I am dying of happiness right now. (I am also secretly glad to know someone else is watching those midnight showings of Soul Train on Centric!)
The Ultimate Chart: #83 Neon Trees -- "Animal" →
So far the best (?) thing about UltimateChart is that it delivered an answer to a question that’s been bugging me for days: Who was that adorable Screamo 2.0 band I saw on Fuse the other day? Answer: Neon Trees!