August 2011
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“You grew up in Canada, which seems quite far away from the world you work in...”
– PAPERMAG: WORD UP! - Faster Times: A Chit-Chat With Knitwear Designer Mark Fast
1) Mark Fast is from Winnipeg. Of course! It’s all so clear now. All of it.
2) Mark Fast, the only other person in the universe as obsessed with “Fashion Television” as I was/am.
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“We sit down and are instantly in deep, talking about the evolution of life, the...”
– V.F. Portrait: John Currin | Culture | Vanity Fair
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“The funny thing is that I like pop music, I like theater, and I like the great...”
– The Rise of Dress-up and the Fall of Pop at MTV’s Video Music Awards — Vulture (h/t marathonpacks)
Nitsuh, how do you do this?! Amazing.
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Download 3 Hour Mix from LCD Soundsystem’s James... →
Well, this improved my day significantly.
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I'll be skipping all the Zola Jesus-inflicted... →
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Also
While we’re at it, let’s just burn down all the online dating sites and stop boxing ourselves into little overly-sensitive coffins that are slowly killing our souls and make us hate it when anybody makes one wrong move.
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Ok, so about Will Sheff →
[In response to thread linked above, which has become a bit unwieldy to reblog as a whole.]
He’s just like that, you guys. Chalk another one up in the inexplicable “why does anyone expect musicians/artists/whatever to be paragons of perfection and virtue?!” column (see also).
Sheff is very good at saying things that sound very cruel indeed, but ultimately he means well. I mean,...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-28) →
The Decemberists (18)
The New Pornographers (16)
Billy Currington (13)
Taylor Swift (13)
OK Go (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oh, you guys. I have such a mondo crush on Billy Currington right now.
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unsustainable:
brianvan:
rendit:
Earthquakes happen in the greater Washington, DC metro area? Good for them!
AND IN NYC
Yep, just felt it.
I feel very barfy and vertigo-y now. Yay for flexible skyscrapers.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-21) →
Paul Lewis (82)
Laura Marling (30)
Saint Etienne (30)
Roxy Music (24)
Madonna (22)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“Pitchfork and indie rock are currently run by people who behave as though the...”
– (via anastasiafriscia)
This is both terribly reductive, but also terribly true, I’m afraid. But I don’t think the anyone who writes for n+1 is necessarily the best person to call out the Pitchfork Industrial Complex for its sins of curatorial consumption.
I’ll be interested to...
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LARRY LEVAN MIXING LIVE AT THE PARADISE GARAGE IN...
doomandgloomfromthetomb:
Via Dangerous Minds
THIS IS FIVE HOURS LONG. WHICH IS AMAZEBALLS. It’s part oral history about why this tape exists and why it’s important, and part dj set.
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dyfl:
oneweekoneband:
Originally, the plan was to write about the Pet Shop Boys next week, but the schedule got bumped around a little bit. Which is fortuitious, because it was on August 19, 1981 that Tennant and Lowe first met. That’s thirty years ago today! This is a big day, and we didn’t even plan it that way.
HOLY CRAP!!! That is a quality factoid. HAPPY THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY, PET SHOP...
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“I ask about a song from the new album, “Surgeon,” which takes its...”
– The Style Issue: St. Vincent | SPIN.com
Whomever had the brilliant idea to have Julie Klausner profile Annie Clark (maybe she pitched it, I dunno), was, well, an idiot. Reading this is like watching a scorpion take down a bear, or something. Klausner is hopelessly outclassed; it’s difficult...
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A deeply creepy comment thread on Amazon's Best... →
Funny or gross? Both? Eeesh. (Scroll down past the first few posts for Team Jackie’s trolling.)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-14) →
Kate Bush (76)
Roxy Music (40)
Neko Case (31)
The Jam (25)
Elliott Smith (25)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Watch(via doimoveyou, apdt)
Openly gay, experimental filmmaker Todd Haynes burst upon the scene two years after his graduation from Brown University with his now-infamous 43-minute cult treasure “Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story” (1987). Seizing upon the inspired gimmick of using Barbie and Ken dolls to sympathetically recount the story of the pop star’s death from anorexia, he spent months...
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“Pitchfork started small and snarky and funny. For most contributors, the initial...”
– Hey internet: clip and save. (via marathonpacks)
The idea of Pitchfork being 15 breaks my brain a little. I’m sure I can dig up some old LiveJournal posts ca. 1999/2000 about how I thought everyone there were total pretentious asshats and how the only good place to find out about new music...
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Watchnoir-rock:
The Kills, “DNA”
Ms. Mosshart sings about the stuff of film noir, the overlapping obsessions of love, fury and raw need.
-Jon Parales, New York Times, Aug. 9, 2011
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