January 2012
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Francis Urquhart Doesn't Want To Be Your Friend
House Of Cards was a British television show in the nineties, starring Ian Richardson as a totalitarian Tory. House Of Cards will this year be an American television show, on Netflix, starring Kevin Spacey as his old self, hopefully. House Of Cards is also a pretty good Radiohead song.
The British version was toddied up in that way the redcoats do, w/ not much visible budget but lots of...
Betty Draper, Nurse Ratched, Marlin Perkins, and... →
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Instagram Love →
The terrifying beauty of getting ahead of ourselves.
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Hello, Raylan.
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I Find You Inconsolable
2011 was the year of no feelings. NYMag exposed the raw nerves of pornalia with the full Ridgemont High treatment. Frank Ocean wrote an r&b black comedy and called it Novacane. Abel Tesfaye and a circle of Ativan’d party sluts had it all in an empire of dirt. Joe Buck had a fun night. Ryan Gosling drove. Men who were not Drake got suddenly madly vocal about the true extent of their...
Mad Men Is An Aries This Time
The day before my birthday 2012 is when the buzziest show since Downton Abbey will return. Much later than that, Matthew Weiner has identified the ending of the entire series as being on some arcane Malick shit, for better or worse.
But I’ve spent the winter preoccupied with a Sterling Cooper Draper Price timeline that would include the megamergers of the eighties, the popularization of...
Frank Gehry
what an asshole.
I heard you like the bad girls, honey. Is that true?
—Lana Del Rey, bad cop
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Facebook/Off
Number of Likes for SF party power couple’s engagement update, male DJ/graphic designer half: 183
Number of Likes for SF party power couple’s engagement update, female hairstylist half: 159
Total number of likes: 342
I am suffering from obscene sinus pressure and feeling the deep need to not hang out with anyone, ever.
“I can’t stand Audrey Hepburn.”
– Chloe Sevigny in W. OMG ME TOO.
“I could be misquoting, and I’m not the kind of person who ever actually...”
– Rob Pruitt in W. OMG ME TOO
You Brought Me Home To This Happy House
More re: Ryan Murphy. Previously I talked about him here and here: I consider him to be the Errol Flynn of modern tv who also happens to suffer from creative ADD which, we should all be so fucking lucky.
He has an Irving Penn portrait of Faye Dunaway in his bathroom, his favorite movie is Rosemary’s Baby, and what else do you need to know, really.
I planned to blog extensively about...
Wipe Your Feet: People Who Hate Ryan Murphy →
tesslynch:
I’m always in awe of people who create characters and stories that are so engaging that people send them death threats and scathing hate mail when they tinker with their creations. Of course, this is in many ways the highest form of flattery — your fiction lights people on fire with rage! — but…
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The Collected Boardwalk Empire
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Ourselves Alone
A Dangerous Maid
What Does The Bee Do?
Gimcrack and Bunkum
The Age Of Reason
Peg Of Old
Two Boats and a Lifeguard
Battle of the Century
Georgia Peaches
Under God’s Power She Flourishes
To the Lost
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Pissgate, starring one of San Francisco’s most polarizing personalities, is at 105 comments, every one of them worth it.
Rushfield Babylon: The Second Time Around →
richardrushfield:
Been lucky enough to have the time to see a lot of the seriousy year-end movies multiple times this year and it has been interesting what has improved on repeated viewings, and what hasn’t.
I saw Melancholia twice. I loved it the first time and was completely bowled over by it the second. But…
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personal bests
Because I am my own best hypeball, here are the best things written in this space last year, some of them merely longish or long by Tumblr standards:
In more or less chronological order:
The Awful Grace (on the death of a nemesis)
An End To Breeches; Why The Literalist Casting Of Skins Is The Right Kind Of Extremism (on Skins US)
The Apple Of Rock (on Radiohead)
Lou Gehrig’s Disease:...
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Top 10 Longreads 2011
INPO:
Frank Ocean: Cruise Control by Matthew Schnipper (FADER)
Unspoken Truths by Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair)
The Typing Cure (Or: Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens) by Molly Lambert (This Recording)
He’s Just Not That Into Anyone by Davy Rothbart (New York)
Hard Core by Natasha Vargas-Cooper (The Atlantic)
The Man Who Makes Money Publishing Your Nude Pics by Danny...
I forgot
Diablo Cody’s directorial debut is about a plane crash!
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