February 2012
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“Tavi: The Lolita fantasy is confusing to me, because teenagers are actually...”
– Tavi Gevinson interviews Sky Ferreira, from Rookie.
I started reading The Beauty Myth last night, and found this interview this afternoon (on recommendation from Brad—thanks Brad!). Noticing some definite parallels here.
“The first rap album I bought was Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde, and even in third...”
– Brandon Soderberg’s “No Trivia” blog is now on Spin.
(via marathonpacks)
I don’t mean to pour cold water on important formative memories, or whatever, but “major labels were at the mercy of hip-hop’s oddball creators” is factually incorrect. On the contrary, pretty much everyone in hip-hop was...
“the Court ruled, apparently with a straight face, that a prisoner who is already...”
– Charles P. Pierce, writing for Esquire about a recent Supreme Court decision that further erodes Miranda rights.
I don’t even know what to say about this kind of shit.
“it began to occur to me that the tech I was using was incredibly gendered. In...”
– Catherynne M. Valente, guest-blogging on Charles Stross’s website, from an essay about the uneven way technology is distributed in Japan, and what that has to do with perceptions of gender. I tried to grab the most important section but the whole thing is fascinating, and necessary if you want...
OK so I'm going to New York for the Pop...
Yeah, I don’t know the logistics AT ALL right now, and there are a lot of arrangements I gotta make before I really know for sure that it’s gonna come off. But as of right now I am declaring my intent and whatnot. See you there?
“Look, I get that Rihanna—long painted as a puppet of her label overlords—has...”
– Maura, helping me make sense of this whole thing. Maybe it’s just not something I’m ever gonna completely understand.
“It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white,...”
– comment left on the Racialious blog post “Sustainable Food & Priviledge: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class)” (via ouiominy)
“Jeremy Lin is anomalous in all sorts of ways. He’s a Harvard grad in the N.B.A.,...”
– You ever wonder whether David Brooks is just trolling? (via emergencyreports)
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(via isabelthespy)
Clearly this fucker doesn’t watch any professional sports EVER.
“Sony Music has come under fire after it increased the price of a Whitney Houston...”
– “Whitney Houston album price hike sparks controversy,” The Guardian
“And as more middle-class families like the Gulbransons land in the safety net in...”
– “Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend On It.” (via marathonpacks)
Reblogged as supporting evidence for this post. People really do seem to believe that if they’re not successful, they must have been bad, and must therefore deserve to be punished. This is the downside to all that...
Oh and by the way, it’s really ironic that I am concerned about dying young, considering how many years I spent being suicidal on a daily basis. When I was 25, if you’d told me I’d run a big risk of dropping dead when I was 40, I probably wouldn’t have said this out loud, but I think I’d have secretly been like, “Good.” I’m glad I don’t feel...
“Around 2 AM on October 19, a month to the day after the broadcast, O’Neal...”
– Jonah Weiner, from “Death Of A Stand-Up,” Rolling Stone Issue #1150 (link is subscription-only; I typed up the quote from my copy of the magazine)
The death of Patrice O’Neal at 41 made a lot of people sad, but my personal reaction to reading this article has been to freak the...
“We dropped the gold standard in the first place — along with every other country...”
– Eric Rauchway, from “Ron Paul’s False Gold Standard”
“I note what you say about your aspiration to edit a magazine. I am sending you...”
– H.L. Mencken, quoted here.
GPOY.
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Whitney Houston - “It’s Not Right...
“LDR: There’s backlash about everything I do. It’s nothing new. When...”
– From Austin Scaggs’ interview with Lana Del Rey in the new issue of Rolling Stone.
I read this about an hour after reading David Moore’s essay about Lana Del Rey, which he posted yesterday. When I read that post, I got to the point where he said “Paris Hilton’s album, in the...
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someotherchick replied to your post: mostroadsleadhome replied to…
I think ppl forget that…
Meanwhile, the thing that bugs me the most about arguments like this is that people will condemn the entire genre of rap/hip-hop...
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Of course, my current problem with Lana Del Rey is that I literally can no longer trust any [heterosexual??] man to give a reliable reading of the image she is portraying. (Sorry guys, maybe stick to explaining how “Born to Die” sounds like Lovage; that one seems good). …
She’s criticized for her artifice, that the persona was an idea adopted and funded by her...
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theremixbaby:
Of course, my current problem with Lana Del Rey is that I literally can no longer trust any [heterosexual??] man to give a reliable reading of the image she is portraying. (Sorry guys, maybe stick to explaining how “Born to Die” sounds like Lovage; that one seems good). Someone wrote the she doesn’t expect any men to like Lana, which… uh what? I mean, come on, that’s just not…...
Trying to turn off the whole self-deprecating...
YES. This is something I’ve had a lot of trouble with in my time.
“In a New York Review of Books article, Thomas R. Edwards describes [Raymond] Carver’s fictional world as a place where “people worry about whether their old cars will start, where unemployment or personal bankruptcy are present dangers, where a good time consists of smoking pot with the neighbors.”
[Poetry Foundation]
Haha is that world even fictional? I’m pretty sure I live in it.