February 2010
January 2010
Belated Favorites of 2009, Part 4: 10-1
10. Girls - Album Summer songs about girls, goofy in their heartfelt sincerity, sometimes wounded, sometimes triumphant. Despite all the hype, which turned out to be well-deserved, the record itself is free of ironic mustaches. It may fit in with some of the other surfy lo-fi this year, but with hazy odes to partying and sun-baked love songs infused with the spirit of Buddy Holly, the light...
Belated Favorites of 2009, Part 3: 25-11
Oops, I did it again… I made my list in mid-December, convinced I’d finish it before the year was out this time. I got most of the blurbs done, but then the holidays came, and then January came, and with it, any hope of such a resurgance of will. January has been insane, and so this list has just sat in draft form forever. But I managed to squeek out a blurb a day for the past week and...
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“I think the deeper reason people are so inflamed by this petty war is that Conan in his own way has come to represent the aggrieved, the injured, the wrongly terminated. I think there is a sense in this country that giant corporations are ruining everything, even late night talk shows. Something so insignificant takes on greater importance because I think on some level, “The...
Finished: Wild Nights! by Joyce Carol Oates
The subtitle pretty much says it all: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
Five wildly imaginative short stories plumb the lives and deaths and unfinished works of five major American authors to recreate their final days. Poe is stranded on a remote South American island to man a lighthouse, and after a while becomes one with the wildlife. Dickinson is a...
Movie Trailer: Terribly Happy →
The 2010 Tournament of Books →
COCK A DOODLE DO! Jason Kottke and Andrew W.K. are judges. The 16 books in the tournament have been announced, and you have about two months to read them all if you really want to be in on the ground floor when the TOB starts in March. Like some past years, I haven’t read a single one of these bitches. Maybe I’ll pick one just for MF’ing kicks. I like me some Lorrie Moore, maybe...
Conan O'Brien's statement
From the NYT Media Decoder blog:
People of Earth:
In the last few days, I’ve been getting a lot of sympathy calls, and I want to start by making it clear that no one should waste a second feeling sorry for me. For 17 years, I’ve been getting paid to do what I love most and, in a world with real problems, I’ve been absurdly lucky. That said, I’ve been suddenly put in a very public predicament...
The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse Today →
How To Appear Popular. →
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When you arrive somewhere crowded alone pretend that you’re waving to your friend across the room. Smile, wave, and shout something like, “Are you going to David’s later?” Then laugh and clap and shake your head like, “Oh, that guy.” Then get to the bar and start drinking.
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National Lampoon - Kung Fu...
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“Answering Machine”...
WatchVideogum: “Well played, 2009.”
