February 2010
January 2010
My Vinyl Collection
vinylsunday:
(via guiltregret)
Holy shit. And I thought I owned a lot of records.
Cultural obligations | Music | AVQ&A | The A.V.... →
dowe:
Given this near-lifelong habit, I know I’m going to eventually join my A.V. Club comrades, bite the sparkly bullet, and read a Twilight novel, but I’m putting it off as long as possible, kind of like a literary root canal.
This reminds me that I’ve got to finish my multipart “2009 in review” on my blog, so I can start on “the year of bad books,” which...
So I made friends with this guy who's 35 on...
(via punkrockhepburn)
Ask him to go record-shopping with you. Seems like the ideal solution to me.
caitygee:
asideofstates:
Bomb the Music...
“And I think this is something that I actually ran up against when I started to...”
– Sady Doyle, from a discussion between herself and Amanda Hess of The Sexist, which was inspired by a Clay Shirky piece about women’s reluctance to promote themselves. Sady and Amanda use this piece, as well as an earlier Tiger Beatdown post by Sady, as a lead-in to a discussion of...
My screenwriting professor did a Zooey Deschanel...
caitygee:
suburbantragic:
He took of his glasses, pulled his eyes open really wide, and just kept saying “I love The Smiths” over and over. First good thing to happen all week.
that is ALWAYS going to be how i imagine people who thought her first movie was 500 Days of Summer see her. i, on the other hand, will always see her as that fucking adorable older sister from Almost Famous.
...
“It’s completely different — they’re manufactured people now… like ice cream....”
– Ozzy Osbourne, on the current state of the music industry (via apsies) (via suicideblonde)
AWESOME.
Christina Hendricks and Her Husband Defend Her...
fuckyeahchristinahendricks:
Following the heated debate over Christina Hendricks’ choice of a champagne ruffled gown by Project Runway alum Christian Siriano at the Golden Globes, the Mad Men star’s husband, Geoffrey Arend, is fighting back. At a SAG awards after party, Arend stopped to defend his wife to PEOPLE. “I was just upset about the whole Golden Globes dress thing. I thought she looked...
The Rules of the Game: A Fuller Thought on J....
agrammar:
Hopper’s sub-head even appropriates the word “bougie” — a word largely used by lower-middle-class black people to describe higher-class affectations in their peers — to describe the band, which is Game-playing extraordinaire.
This blows my mind a little bit, because I never knew the etymological origin of “bougie” before now. I first heard the term about a decade ago,...
“I recently read that popular pre-internet author J.D. Salinger passed away. He...”
– HRO: Classic Alt Literature: What is the Lasting Brand of Catcher in the Rye?
I’m not sure if this is part of the joke or not, but books don’t usually have a single particular cover, in the way that albums invariably do. I’ve never seen the cover of Catcher in the Rye above, presumably the US...
shanexcore:
The Swedish Rhapsody-The Conet...
Lemmy Talks About Sam Gopal, Speed, and Other...
hgmonster:
Rocking this record right now. If you don’t have it, get it.
imjasondiamond:
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One of my favorite albums, Lemmy’s pre-Hawkwind, pre-Motorhead band (he does some talking about those bands also), Sam Gopal, is discussed in this Vice interview
One band you played in before Hawkwind that I actually still listen to a lot is Sam Gopal. Oh yeah. You listen to that? I have it on my iPod....
Ruining Kids in Order to Save Them →
syntheticpubes:
In order to protect children from predators and child pornographers, the local district attorney is threatening to prosecute minors who pose for racy photos as if they were child pornographers.…The girls aren’t in trouble for distributing the photos, or even for taking them. They’ve been introduced to the criminal justice system merely for appearing in them.
Skumanick would...
abloodymess:
sherrypop:
rebjukebox:
Husker...
i'm not ramona flowers. i'm scott pilgrim. i'm not...
caitygee:
i want a really good fucking band. or novel. or movie. where the girl isn’t mysterious and fucked up. she isn’t some fucking heartless bitch or pretentious indie princess.
i want her to be fucking real. suggestions?
Hey caitygee, have you seen Walking And Talking? Written and directed by Nicole Holofcener, starring Catherine Keener. Highly recommended. I mean, it’s kinda...
“It is time for President Obama to imitate Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Roosevelt:...”
– Six strategies that could save Obama’s ambitious reform agenda. - By Eliot Spitzer - Slate Magazine (via indefensible)
When it’s spelled out that way, it seems incredibly obvious. And yet, and yet.
“And at the end of each year, we’ve read, processed, answered, thrown away, cried...”
– Writer’s Digest - Basics of a Solid 3-Paragraph Query (via tissie)
This right here. This is why I will never amount to anything.
Aziz Ansari - iTunes Celebrity Playlist →
velveteenrabbit:
azizisbored:
I made one of those playlists for Apple. I hope you like it.
girlboner created by excellent hilariousness augmented by delightfully great music taste.
I already liked Aziz Ansari, but he gets tons of extra points for putting the Seeds, the Zombies, and Wire on his playlist.
Watchbarthel:
I had mostly stopped watching The Daily Show, because watching Jon Stewart give advice about political strategy was like watching a puppy try to play a clarinet, but then last night it was 11, and I had nothing else to do, so I turned it on. And I saw Jon Stewart making exactly the same jokes Fox News does. “Teleprompters lol.” Stick to the media, Jon.
So you’re saying that...
“Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an...”
– Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky (via severnb) (via velveteenrabbit)
I will always identify this passage with the beginning of the first God Machine album, Scenes From The Second Storey. It’s one of the most intense albums I’ve ever heard, and it begins with feedback and the voice of an...
hardcorefornerds asked: Heartworm is their second album, I bought Submarine, their first (not as good). I kinda expected you to have the former, which I don't really think of as very obscure (#10 in the Irish Times top Irish albums of all time!), but obviously anywhere outside of Ireland...
'We Don't Need Nobody Else' is an interesting one, it caused quite a bit of controversy in its time from...
'We Don't Need Nobody Else' is an interesting one, it caused quite a bit of controversy in its time from...
Excerpts from two emails I wrote today
Excerpt #1. I sent this one.
Right now I’m working 10 hours a week at the bookstore and doing no other paid employment. I find myself spending a lot of time writing, but what I’m really drawn to write about is not fiction but music. That’s OK as far as it goes but I’m not sure what I feel about that in the longer term. I’ve been worrying a lot lately about the longer...
hardcorefornerds asked: more of a NofT question - Whipping Boy? probably not obscure enough (Heartworm, at least) but I just bought their first album - which I never heard before - at my favourite Irish independent record shop, and I was wondering what your opinions on them were.
pgwp:
dontforgetthecoffee:
missmeggiemac:
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