September 2011
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"So what else is in this Gothamist? Should I look... →
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But You Don't Have to Be Fun to Make Fun
In the second half of “This Is a Call,” the forthcoming biography of Dave Grohl written by the British journalist Paul Brannigan, the narrative shifts completely and some new motifs emerge. That shift comes after the violent end of Nirvana, in which Mr. Grohl played drums, loudly and elegantly; it’s when the book becomes the story of the Foo Fighters, the band Mr. Grohl started in 1994 and...
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Shiina Ringo's Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana
Still hear new things almost every time I put it on. Four-and-a-half years of listening; weeks at a time when I can’t bear to listen to anything else. I want to observe it at every point on Earth, at every time of the day, consider how the light plays off its infinite facets. I want this to be the last thing I ever hear. So deeply considered, so accessible, so personal, so expansive. ...
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"My own movables were rummaged." →
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Watch“O pain, piercer of all things, from you I have been wrested.”
The New York Philharmonic’s 9/11 performance of Mahler’s Second Symphony for victims’ families was, if not a revelatory performance, a triumphant one, surely as emotionally invested as any ever given. The choice would seem too on-the-nose — this is the “Resurrection” symphony —...
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"The insatiable clown at the end of the course." →
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Next week on Breaking Bad, Gus will let the phone ring eight times before picking it up.
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“You still need to have the business need to... →
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“Scott [Z. Burns] and I were about to go into meet with Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher to close the deal to make a movie about Leni Riefenstahl. They had the Stephen Bach book, which is very good. Scott and I had a really, really interesting take on this, like a very radical interesting take on how to do this, and we were supposed to meet to talk about the pitch, like ‘Here’s what we...
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