May 2010
18 posts
The Wipers - Romeo
“Sometimes it feels as if we’re literally in the back seat of the car, auditing a...”
– If the “W” in “wipers” were capitalized, I feel like this New York Times review of that new David Lipsky/David Foster Wallace interview transcript would make me drastically more inclined to actually purchase the book.
Today I was walking to get lunch and I realized...
Sam Cooke - Sad Mood
It’s strange, now, to...
Created in the service of a forthcoming and...
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Ty Segall - Imaginary Person
I’m almost...
“There were a bunch of idiots there. I didn’t consider myself an idiot, but maybe...”
– Kenneth Anger, to Arthur Magazine, on the October 1967 march on the Pentagon. He goes on to explain that he once snuck into the Pentagon and left parchment papers filled with occult imagery in 93 of the Pentagon’s men’s rooms.
A Redesign
I have redesigned my Tumblr. My friend told me the old layout was as if “I wanted people reading my blog to feel stressed out.” In retrospect, I kind of agree, but now I think it looks pretty good. There are still some issues, but they remain small-ish. If anyone reading this encounters any big-ish issues, they are encouraged to contact me.
I felt obligated to post about this for...
The Fall - Breaking Rules
As much as I wanted to...
Re: Haddaway
I wonder if Haddaway ever thinks about how he has more or less permanently destroyed the world’s ability to have an earnest conversation that begins with somebody asking “what is love?”
(Update: Apparently this was my 666th post. Well, all right.)
“Dean played a vintage Gibson; he had great shirts, and that Velvets-y delivery...”
– Simon Raymonde of the Cocteau Twins, on Dean Wareham of Galaxie 500. (Via this great oral history of the latter that went up on Pitchfork today.)