February 2011
47 posts
Selected YouTube Comments On "Flight" by A Certain...
wheelworker1
this is dull and gay…they are copy cats of 23 skidoo
October 26, 2010
spolier
wheelworker = ignorant git
November 14, 2010
abagail4me
The atmosphere,the rhythm,the funky spaciousness of it all -this track HAS to be rated as a an early 80’s classic.ACR were well ahead of the game back in the day.
December 06, 2010
seerymseery
this playlist is buzzing… sent me on...
January 2011
61 posts
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That people have been rubbing Coca-Cola, made in the U.S.A., on their faces to minimize the effects of tear gas, made in the U.S.A., is the perfect metaphor for this whole confusion of obligations and why “the wrong side of history” is a term we will never ever fully unpack.
“A new game has emerged of pointing out the prominent people who were left out of...”
– The Independent
“This is the story of how an otherwise ordinary pink suit and hat came to be...”
– JFK assassination: Jacqueline Kennedy’s pink hat is a missing piece of history - latimes.com (via clembastow)
Best Eighties Singles 79-70
79. Paul Parker, Right On Target
78. The Fall, Totally Wired
77. Hall & Oates, I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)
76. Carmen, Time To Move
75. The Smiths, Bigmouth Strikes Again
74. New Order, Fine Time
73. Frankie Knuckles, Baby Wants To Ride
72. Styloo, Pretty Face
71. Alan Parsons Project, I Wouldn’t Want To Be Like You
70. The Smiths, How Soon Is Now
Best Eighties Singles 69-60
69. Klaus Nomi, Simple Man
68. Michael Jackson, Wanna Be Starting Something
67. The Who, Eminence Front
66. Strafe, Set It Off (Jus Born 1984)
65. Talking Heads, And She Was
64. Advance, Take Me To The Top
63. Eleven Pond, Watching Trees
62. Randy Crawford, Don’t Wanna Be Normal
61. Yazoo, Situation
60. Janet Jackson, Young Love
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The King's Speech (II)
I got to thinking about the American equivalent to the bereft post of British monarch, who must be asked permission to form a government but really does nothing but write snail mail. Here this job, of course, would be that of the ex-president and if you really wanted to get into it, the most senior living ex-president—senior being least chronologically-recent, not the last sitting president.
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The King's Speech (I)
So like 8 Mile and so far I spot no parodies on the internet.
Unrelatedly, Geoffrey Rush is/was a bit of a magic Aussie, yes?
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An End To Breeches: Why The Literalist Casting of...
Last month’s issue of American Theatre reprinted prepared remarks by NYU’s Richard Schechner on the limits of progressive casting. As in, he is for eradicating them. He quotes theatre luminary Zelda Fichandler from 1988: “suppose that one assigned roles freely, without prediction from history or from one’s old habits of thought. What if one took nontraditional casting as far as one could?” Mostly...
“At Halle, in Volkmann’s clinic, he had watched German surgeons perform...”
– William Stewart Halsted discovers cocaine in Siddhartha Mukherjee’s “The Emperor Of All Maladies: A Biography Of Cancer”
“Ceremony is a mid-tempo uplifting rock song in the key of C major. The song...”
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The Twitter
@euphorianth
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Blue Songs, Gasp →
Arriving on time.
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quite political for a small child →
Jamie xx doesn’t care about lyrics, either. He is so my friend.
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The Disintegration Of Dawson Darling While Keeping...
That’s the name of a short story I wrote a few years ago and just rediscovered. How much Wallace do you think I’d been reading.
Another List: Best Eighties Singles 89-80
89. Zena Dejonay, I’ve Got To Find A Way
88. Afrika Bambaataa/SoulSonic Force, Planet Rock
87. George Michael, Father Figure
86. Soul II Soul, Keep On Movin’
85. Altered Images, Happy Birthday
84. Free Enterprise, Make It On My Own
83. Roy Ayers, Fast Money
82. Sugarhill Gang, The Lover In You
81. Lew Kirton, Here’s My Love
80. Madonna, Burning Up
“In its rather effective mix of economic analysis, aesthetic discrimination and...”
– Judt, Postwar
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4 out of 5 relationships begin IRL.
JANEBOOK: The Modern SF Love Story →
The person I thought probably wrote this probably didn’t write this.
janebook:
K: ANYWAYS, if I remember the older guy’s name I’ll be sure to tell you.
J: Thanks. I mean, not that I’d do anything aside from creep on his Facebook, but yeah.
K: Maybe you guys will get married.
J: “So I met him outside a gallery in the Tenderloin when I was drunk on 4loko, then we…
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Parks & Rec 220, "Summer Catalog", Otherwise...
The little bit of Mad Men parody at the top falls gloriously apart when you start to get that it’s just Tom as written, that he’s watched “The Wheel” 37 times and probably thinks Don Draper invented teeth. Never underestimate specificity as a special effect.
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Emphasis, Wrong
Diction trend alert—
On the red carpet last night Ryan Seacrest blurted “Spider-MAN”. Later Alec Baldwin said “I just downLOADED it”. I’ve also noticed this in recent v/o promos for things, like for Mad MEN and True BLOOD. What’s GOING on?
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Correction re: Paz de-la-h. →
The exact moment when ‘Google’ and ‘yourself’ have finally been seen together enough times. You become your own avi and TRANSCEND.
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We Livetweet Awards Shows In Order To Live
I can’t believe that in order to communally enjoy things like the Oscars or the Gol. G’s you used to have to welcome people into your fucking home. Remember In N Out? That was a funny-ass nineties movie, all those olds picking the categories.
Twitter vibrates outside its body on awards nights. I like how people not talking about the show sort of get shouted down, and agreeing not to...
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“Broadcast was the reason I moved back to New York. I wanted to be in a band that...”
– Keepaway’s Twitter. Broadcast isn’t terribly active anymore. But I listened to them a lot after David Foster Wallace died because a blurb for Oblivion said reading him is like listening to the best kind of rock band. It is, and they are, and Trish Keenan getting sick and dying unstarlike makes...
"If it was the fifties when we started IMing, it... →
The best thing on the internet about being on the internet.
Another List: Best Eighties Singles, With A...
I participated in a best-of poll for a publication. By no means is this supposed to be the ultimate synthesis; it’s more of a general gestalt. Placement of the songs themselves, for my part, was impressionistic, not literal. (At least until the top half.)
I stayed away from kitsch—nothing so italicized as Melt With You or True or Killing Moon. Those and others like them are great but...
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I am working on a retelling of the Jesus parable/cult classic The Prodigal, about Tom, Colin & Chet Hanks. They all die and Truman gets everything.
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“Which ever explanation holds, some advice follows: In the marriage market what...”
– OK Trends post on why it’s better to have polarizing looks. As it happens my girlfriend & I tend to fall into this category; it was by this means exactly that we found each other! Just kidding, we met at a party.
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“let us use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations…”
– Ahead of the right wing’s field day with it, I adore this line.
