January 2011
20 posts
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The fact that Arcade Fire, Kanye West and LCD...
is either indicative of an increasingly homogenous music press, or a sign that music is just getting worse.
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A haiku
It’s like we’re looking
down on Wayne’s basement, only
that’s not Wayne’s basement.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
Small Black (7)
Panda Bear (6)
Washed Out (6)
Animal Collective (4)
Broadcast (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
Broadcast (31)
Marnie Stern (15)
The Dismemberment Plan (13)
Mogwai (10)
Tame Impala (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Artist draws self-portraits while under the... →
This is great. Drugs or no, this guy is just obviously good.
“Altered Zones is invariably called Pitchfork’s “sister site,” but the missing...”
– Here is a key passage from Simon Reynold’s excellent essay Leave Chillwave Alone. It resonates with me in a big way because yes, I am indeed a person who writes for Pitchfork who is definitely attached to a lot of pre-internet ideas about consuming music. At the same time I’m one of the first mp3...
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My other tumblr is a tumblr
I had an idea, and it’s probably not a very good one, or even very original, but I’ve decided to pursue it for at least the next 20 or so minutes.
The idea is that people write short stories, or really any kind of text - I’m not imposing any kind of formal constraints - in which they thinly veil events from their lives, or their friends lives, or whatever. Anything. The idea...
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Follow @StephenWry on twitter to get the latest... →
Pitchfork Reviews Reviews: fuck tha world →
pitchforkreviewsreviews:
on valentine’s day, me and my ex-girlfriend emily went to dinner at this restaurant in williamsburg and then after dinner we took a cab home and as we’re going over the williamsburg bridge in the cab, she says she feels something and reaches into the crevice in between the back of the seat and…
This story is actually kind of heartbreaking. I didn’t follow...
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“…any claim I might make to originality in my fiction is really just the...”
– George Saunders on being a writer with an engineering degree. Such a humble genius.
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Pitchfork gives D-Plan reissue 10.0, (kind of)... →
I love this album, and have done since I was about 16 or something (circa 2001?), so I can sort of get on board with the moony-eyed praise and indie-canonisation of the Plan.
Still, if you look at previous 10.0 scores given out by Pitchfork, the list is kind of baffling, and culminates with the “say wuuuuut?” that was The Kanye Review. One might be inclined to argue that this somewhat...
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“George Lucas was a fan of [Eraserhead] and, after seeing it, wanted to hire...”
– are you fucking kidding?
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The Thing That Someone Just Said To Me On Facebook...
jings its the castel escapee lol no only joking yeah your good love you seem like a lovely chap how u doing? yer no with the (nice)ash are yeh? if so i’ll shut ma puss it’s awwwwri8ght!!!
When approaching the above text, you should be aware of several things:
The person who said it is not a particularly close friend of mine.
It was immediately preceded by the greeting...
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songsthataregood:
Mogwai - Mexican Grand Prix ...
Lazy Self-Indulgent Book Reviews: You're All... →
A polite, educated fellow with a beautiful Lower East Side apartment invited me to a perfunctory dinner right after his long-term girlfriend had left him. We quickly progressed to his bed, and things did not go well. He couldn’t stay aroused. Over the course of the tryst, I trotted out every…
Ok, Ulysses in a minute. God dammit this is a good article.
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Starting Ulysses today.
It is an Important Book. One that you are Supposed To Read. I hope it will Enrich and Improve me.