November 2011
1 post
my mortifying month
agrammar:
Here’s the question I’d like to put forth: Shouldn’t it be more possible — maybe even more common — for essays about music to be able to neutrally describe what “sources say,” or sources do, or sources listen to, without out trying to read behind that into what the author’s own tastes are?
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Yeah but the problem with your article is that there were no sources other than...
May 2011
1 post
March 2011
1 post
Translator for a Day →
mcnallyjackson:
Translator Susan Bernofsky is running a one-night workshop on translation at McNally J on 4/26. Click through for details.
Susan is a friend; you should go
February 2011
2 posts
So this afternoon I had a music class and I knew Jack had a music class next door so after my class finished I waited for his class to finish and then we went over to his house so he could help me with my CS homework. (It turns out x^2 in Java isn’t the same as x squared.) He fixed my wireless (it hadn’t been working) and ate the bread Nick had baked and he and Doug did math and I read...
January 2011
2 posts
Something I wanted to talk about in my last post but then forgot was the idea of “inside/outside,” which I know Derrida supposedly destroyed decades ago, but one thing I’ve been thinking about recently is how binaries are still useful even when they aren’t necessarily tenable. I think this is basically Frank Kogan’s take on deconstruction, which I’ve been trying...
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OK I’m having trouble figuring out how to structure this post but I did a lot of thinking today and decided to get back in the Tumblr game. Not thinking as in prevaricating about whether or not to start up the Tumblr but thinking as in stuff to put on the Tumblr (and then thinking about that decision).
It’s been two years since Alex B@lk nearly scared me off Tumblr, and though I still...
July 2010
5 posts
seanfennessey:
Patrick Stickles: “Rap”
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Pitchfork Reviews Reviews: Optimo morning roundup →
1. here’s the line in what is inexplicably today’s Lead Review of Optimo’s Fabric mix after which 98% of the audience X’d out of the tab: “Fabric 52 moves from the warped proto-techno “pop” perversions of Fad Gadget to some bracingly crude early acid house, from the 1990’s days of German high…
You are totally wrong about this. Name-dropping obscurantism is bad writing.
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
5 posts
Chain of Knives: Six Things Not To Write If You... →
1. There was only one Lester Bangs. You are not him. You will not be him. Find your own voice/and style.
Don’t write: “And I was tweeking the buzz and felt that sound come over me like a giant meatball squish squishing through a mud track to nirvana or is it Nirvana?”
On my dashboard, this comes directly after the complaint “there is little to no Bangs in pitchfork…”
April 2010
2 posts
Pitchfork Reviews Reviews: me and tom breihan and... →
before he moved to chicago and started writing for pitchfork almost exclusively tom breihan wrote a rap column (that occasionally touched on american idol and metal and whatever but even the title tells you that those were not the focus of the column) for the village voice called Status Ain’t…
Status Ain’t Hood was how I kept up with music throughout high school. Breihan...
Record Store Day 2010 Haul
With thanks to SDC on Angell Street:
Aerosmith: Rocks
Alice Cooper: Love It to Death and Killer
Jeff Beck Group: Beck-Ola Cosa Nostra
Cheap Trick: In Color and Heaven Tonight
Rick Derringer: All American Boy
David Essex: Rock On
Tommy James and the Shondells: 26 Great Hits
Little Feat: Dixie Chicken
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Street Survivors
Paul McCartney: McCartney II
John Cougar Mellencamp:...
March 2010
3 posts
los amiguitos: all in the golden afternoon →
expert film excavator annie showed me this amazing and incredible thing, which i now pass along to the blogosphere in honor of tim burton’s alice and wonderland opening this weekend. think his rendition looks like a little much, but maybe that’s just because helena…
You should check out this one, which I watched w/ Jordan: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095715/
August 2009
1 post
Ambushed by hostile tribesmen
magicmolly:
There’s a stretch on Broome, starting at Allen and moving West two or three blocks, that always smells terrible. Not terrible like summer garbage or a fish market, but inventively terrible.
It’s always something you can’t name. Spoiled pork? Mildewed bean sprouts? Shrimp casings melted in the sun? Can’t say. None of these. In dramatic moods, it smells like the smell of death.
My...
May 2009
3 posts
PAPERMAG: WORD UP!: At Long Last, Kids, The... →
Welcome to my summer.
Urbs antiqua ruit
An ancient city fell, which ruled for years. Are strewn the stricken corpses through the streets, and through the holy thresholds of the gods. Not only Trojans pay the price with blood; valor still returns to vanquished hearts and now it is the victors’ time to die. Ev’rywhere cruel sorrow and alarm; ev’rywhere the ghost of death itself.
Aeneid translation never graded by my 12th grade Latin...
April 2009
1 post
Diary of a Library: Poetry Writing w. Bowery... →
From my mom’s blog.
March 2009
8 posts
So this woman was about to become Kenley Penley? →
It's a hipster runoff world
tomewing:
I have just read a completely straight-faced and serious business blog post entitled “In an age of personal branding, are we losing our authenticity?”
"Johnny Thunders who shagged the hole [sic]... →
Some guy on Pitchfork can't keep from flirting... →
nuptse:
Pitchfork: Do you remember any particularly intense recent dreams?
SV: I had a dream about vampires last night. I think Robert Pattinson from Twilight was there, though I haven’t actually seen that movie. I don’t even know anything about it. [laughs] Maybe I’d Netflix it or watch it on a plane, but…
Pitchfork: So Twilight is pretty much your favorite movie ever.
SV: That’s actually...
When the governors were in town, the Obamas... →
My roommate just joined a funk band, and didn’t stop playing “Boogie Wonderland” for a week.
nuptse:
“The menu includes Tuner Tuna Salad on Croissant and Tchaikovsky Chicken Salad on a Baguette.”
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New Stonybrook sandwich shop caters to music lovers | The Courier-Journal
Dude
Frank Kogan and Mark Sinker on the difference... →
Alternate 1985: Is ignorance bliss? →
This Plato parody, written by my high school English teacher, should cause any college freshman to laugh out loud.
First article in the Indy →
Now I must be a hipster.
February 2009
9 posts
Just bought two pairs of skinny jeans. Am I a hipster yet?
I was going to read this article to prepare for...
Please forgive me for wishing Kid Cudi was a new collaboration between Kid Creole and Coati Mundi.
Live at Prince’s mansion: Everything but the... →
I don’t know what to say.
January 2009
20 posts
Provocative Parallels
piscinum et summa genus haesit ulmo
(Trans: Every race of fishes hung from the highest elm)
—Horace, Ode I.2, 23 B.C.E.
I’m probably in the sky, flying with the fishes
—Lil’ Wayne, “Sky’s the Limit,” 2007 C.E.
Hope I die ‘fore I hear another joke about Pete Townsend’s age.
What is authentic for a guy like me? →
Vampire Weekend dude’s pre-fame blog
Obama's Secret Record Collection : Rolling Stone →
More props to Paul Nelson!
Rock & Roll & by Robert Christgau: Bohemias Lost &... →
I’m really looking forward to reading this, but I mainly posted it for the picture.