April 2011
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“I have faith in the fact that, as I change, so will the things that I’m interested in, as long as I keep up my own change.” (via)
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“At one point during the preordained throwdown between the two colossi who stride through “Fast Five,” Dwayne Johnson rips off his bulletproof vest with the practiced economy of a 17th-century courtesan flinging off her corset. His character, a professional tough guy bluntly named Hobbs, has just found his fugitive bad twin, Dom, the gnomic guru of the “Fast and Furious” franchise, played by...
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Chano Domínguez, “Bemsha Swing”
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Exactly How You Want a Sentence About Your...
“Concerns about Quinn’s benign brain tumor and fear of future concussions pushed him down the board, but…”
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“Oh my God!”
“Yeah, I...
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Scott Lucas, “Cynic” (Live, Acoustic...
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Painkiller, “Parish of Tama [Ossuary...
“Late adolescents and college students love... →
“Now, after a computer analysis of three decades of hit songs, Dr. DeWall and other psychologists report finding what they were looking for…” Um.
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Local H, “Time” (Pink Floyd, duh)
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Local H, “Everyone Alive”/Meek’s...
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Local H, “California Songs”
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By the way, if anyone ever asks you how late is too late to be getting home from a show… 3:18am is too late to be getting home from a show. On a Wednesday night at least, yes it is.
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Local H, “Wolf Like Me” (TV on the...
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P J Harvey, “Big Exit”
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A recent discussion about Game of Thrones involved me referring to one of the characters as “Woman, Queen of Place” and most of the other characters as “Zach Galifianakis.”
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Amy Pond on Ferguson This Friday →
Life’s so much easier when all the people who have restraining orders against me are in the same room.
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Local H, “Smothered in Hugs” (Guided...
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“And if the message is right, they’ll give you a hall pass if the production values weren’t as high. And if we get criticized for the dialogue, most of it has been taken right out of the book. So, in a sense, they’re criticizing the literary nature of the work.” — producer Harmon Kaslow on Atlas Shrugged, Part I
So work doesn’t have to be “good” as long as...
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Orchestre Poly-Rythmo with Angélique Kidjo,...
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“It is only a small exaggeration to say that the six movies I’ve named constitute an epic of decline, a sprawling, Zolaesque series of narratives whose common theme — discernible only in retrospect — is the crisis of American civic liberalism, as witnessed in its 20th century capital, New York. In our own day, what survives of that worldview, which was always more of an ethos than a...
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So many good things happened on NBC between 9:30 and 10:30PM tonight. SO MANY.
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"...even a lot of the decent stuff basically... →
Zing-Boom-<sigh>. OTM. And this new Foo Fighters record is remarkably solid.
As policy, I fully support the employment under any condition of Pat Smear.
“O Lord, break the internet forever, that she may be spared the misspelled invective of her peers and the online marketing campaign for Rape Hostel 5…”
- from Tina Fey’s “The Mother’s Prayer for its Daughter” (read here, printed here, via)
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Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, “You Can...
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“Without ads, we’re just two dudes in a basement.” - Geoff Peterson
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