January 2010
2 tags
1 tag
Bin Laden is now also mad at us about climate... →
raptoravatar:
Some ironies:
1)He is (albeit superficially and for calculated effect) taking the collective survival of the human race more seriously than we are.
2)He has enough faith to be a warrior for an utterly unprovable god, yet he is siding with science.
3)We’ve still killed more innocent people in the War On Terror than Al-Qaeda has in its entire career. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Also,...
3 tags
3 tags
3 tags
1 tag
2 tags
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - ‘Yalla...
“Ultimately, “boogie” seems to come, via a circuitous route, from the...”
– The Straight Dope: What’s the origin of the word “boogie”?
Fascinating etymology (apart from the racism, and the religious and sexual persecution, of course), although everything before the last couple of lines is omitted in other definitions.
And apparently people use the phrase...
3 tags
The Rules of the Game/ on 'Bougie'
andrewtsks:
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,...
3 tags
HRO: Classic Alt Literature: What is the Lasting... →
andrewtsks:
“I recently read that popular pre-internet author J.D. Salinger passed away. He was apparently the author of the popular book Catcher in the Rye. The name sounded familiar, so I googled it to remember what the cover looked like. I usually remember books by their cover, because that is often a good way to judge if the content/brand will appeal to you. We must judge books by their...
3 tags
“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,...
2 tags
“Sidney thus justified colonization on the grounds of strategic necessity and...”
– Nicholas P. Canny - ‘The Ideology of English Colonization: From Ireland to America’, The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Oct., 1973), pp. 575-598.
1 tag
WatchTitus Andronicus on Pitchfork TV (a Ray Concepcion video)
funny how Irish this song sounds now, in a boys of the NYPD choir/Dropkick Murphys sort of way, not actually Irish (or actually Irish-American, if you want to put it that way), when on hearing it on the album first it was mostly an expletive leading into Los Campesinos-ish upbeat folkiness. plus the 70s metal riff in the middle, but hey,...
2 tags
New So Cow LP & US tour →
‘Meaningless Friendly’ due out next month on Tic Tac Totally (who released the s/t LP). Tour dates on the Myspace.
hopefully it will include this line/song: “Girl racer, travelling through the estates of my heart”. or does anyone outside of Ireland even get that?
1 tag
The Rules of the Game: A Fuller Thought on J....
agrammar:
Yesterday I posted a fairly peeved note concerning Jessica Hopper’s Chicago Reader article about Vampire Weekend. (She’s responded to that note, very graciously, on her blog, but that seems to have vanished.) My note led to a spike in traffic, which was unexpected: if I’d realized it’d catch much attention, I might have explained myself more carefully. The essay below is an attempt to...
1 tag
WatchThe Very Best: Warm Heart of Africa on Pitchfork TV.
Ezra Koenig + Esau Mwamwaya.
1 tag
Vampire Weekend - ‘The Kids Don’t...
@bingoparaphernalia “write someone”. I’m used to pretty much everything in American English (indeed, have adopted a lot of it) apart from that. it’s like the missing preposition is a part of my body ripped from me.
(mind you, it’s an archaic term for the much more commonly used, and acceptable “email someone”)
1 tag
salinger & vampire weekend
“i think its because in punk rock people have a problem hearing songs that sound like they were written by the great gatsby. i’m way older then most of your readers and i did not want to like vampire weekend at first, i saw them on tv, wearing their sweaters singing songs about where all the rich prep school (boarding school) kids hang out. it was almost like a salinger novel. now i love...
5 tags
Mclusky - ‘You Should Be Ashamed,...
1 tag
jessica hopper should be sort of ashamed of...
desnoise:
acrophobicbird:
agrammar:
Do you see what I mean about playing it fast and loose here? She — like everyone else — calls them white, then digs up a quote correcting this misstatement and brushes it aside as some kind of posturing: “bandying around” their ethnicity. If Jessica Hopper wants to call you white, no amount of not-being-white is going to change that. She will match lazy...
1 tag
Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo,... →
jhnbrssndn:
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling, his family said. He was 87.
I just learned about the founding of Boston today in the first seminar of my (MA-level) American...
1 tag
1 tag
Augustus Pablo - ‘Satta Dub’ from King...
1 tag
A.V. Club - Music - Gateway to Geekery: Dub →
oh boy oh boy… I already have the suggested gateway (King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown) and, perhaps more importantly, I already like dub (for a given value of ‘like’, and a given value of ‘dub’) so I’ll being trying out some of their further recommendations next month on eMusic.
can’t say I quite agree, though, with their ‘where not to start’...
2 tags
“Hipster (n.) wan Youth who does spend the Wages of PRIVILEGE ‘pon the Life...”
– twitter.com/DrSamuelJohnson
(via Karlusss)
lolth.
1 tag
1 tag
“A white American band dipping into traditionally black sounds from the Congo,...”
– Appropriation, Vacation - Music Feature - Chicago Reader
someone who may or may not have been the John Doe once disagreed with my characterization of Led Zeppelin as “raping the blues”. (I was being somewhat facetious, but I still don’t like ‘em, and neither do I know every...
3 tags
thisismyfavoritesong:
“Cradle Burns” by...
1 tag
Salinger, #2
agrammar:
One of the chief embarrassments of Salinger fans is that he’s best known via The Catcher in the Rye. Most of them would probably point readers elsewhere — say, Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters, or bits of Nine Stories like “The Laughing Man.” I provide those links for anyone who’s hearing a lot about Salinger today but hasn’t spent much time with him: “The Laughing Man” in...
2 tags
2 tags
If Joyce hadn’t been such a popular, acclaimed writer, he would never have written Finnegans Wake. He wouldn’t have had the freedom to. Looking at his earlier work: Dubliners is an easy read, Portrait of the Artist is easy, Ulysses is harder but features recurring characters from the other books and had the good fortune to cause a scandal. Each time he did something, Joyce got a little more...
5 tags
DCist: Secret History - Hoover's The Lurid... →
quite a detailed piece on a superb album, with interviews from Joe McRedmond and Fred Erskine:
“So after a couple times of [me, Erskine, and Farrall] practicing while [Dunham] was there, he’d listen and get jealous that he wasn’t in a band,” McRedmond told DCist. “He had his cabinet set up and he would start playing his guitar by himself really loud. And Chris said...
1 tag
erikcarter:
Titus Andronicus – “Titus Andronicus...
2 tags
Titus Andronicus - ‘No Future’ (Pt. 1)...
1 tag
2 tags
symphonyno2inem:
“I Just Threw Out The Love Of...
3 tags
Vampire Weekend - ‘Run’ from Contra...
1 tag
listening to Contra LP, it’s refreshingly quiet, volume-wise.
(I know this because the XX - ‘VCR’ was on the turntable before, and it’s hardly a loud song.)
#relevantmusicbro
executiveproducerdickwolf:
hardcorefornerds:
Hoover - ‘Electrolux’ from The Lurid Traversal of Route 7 (Dischord, 1994)
[…]
man, I love Hoover and any time they wind up on my dash it’s an autoreblog (incidentally, this is the first time that’s happened), but did you seriously quote your own blog entry in a blog entry?
yes, because I had a blog where I wrote some...
1 tag
“Altbros are generally dead. They either morphed into relevantmusicbros or...”
– Carles, Hipster Runoff: Whatever happened to popular nightlive electro DJ Steven Aoki?
Well thank fuck for that.
(via Those Geese Were Stupefied)
I think I’m developing pretty much into the former.
5 tags
Hoover - ‘Electrolux’ from The Lurid...
3 tags
The xx (or whatever) - ‘Infinity’ from...
2 tags
The New Yorker on The xx →
britticisms:
“The xx are, in the purest sense, a modern band: their music could not exist without the machines that make the noises and the machines that record them.”
(via kafka-on-the-shore)
The XX (I’m pretty sure it should be capitalised… reminds me of how the French would refer to that most modern of epochs, le XXe siècle) are one of my favourite bands right now, so...
4 tags
3 tags
5 tags
6 tags
