December 2010
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The 2010 Review: Endtroducing →
“It’ll be fun, I swear!” “Sure it will.” “Look, you’ll at least force yourself to finish that mix of Nicki verses you’ve been tinkering with since August.” “I guess.”
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(no homo its a restaraunt) →
You know what it is.
“(This) is very much a pseudo-ironic love song to lyricism and striving that...”
– All I ever needed to write about “Syllables.”
One reason I’ve been hesitant to call myself a... →
This admission, deep in Jonathan Bogart’s fantastic recap of the year in pop (now in one post for convenience’s sake!), is one of omission, not commission; it’s not that he didn’t try, he notes earlier in the paragraph, it’s that it didn’t stick.
But wouldn’t it be way, way worse if people with ears as keen and pens/typing fingers (man, do we need new...
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Man Vs. Beer
C’mon, you would watch, or at least you know people who would watch. I mean, that’s a bulletproof idea, isn’t it?
(The scene in the clip above features Devendra... →
You may be trolling for it, Jonathan, but that’s Parenthetical Aside of the Day-worthy.
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Maroon 5 'Would Have Liked' More Success with... →
Human beings “would like” more “money.”
“Yeah, but that’s all going to change once I grow a goatee.”
– I may be dead.
I blame all of you for not urging me to watch Sports Night sooner. (NBR: If using Demonoid things to acquire things brings them to me mere days later without me possibly being chased down and killed by copyright dogs, I should do that more often.)
Racism's Hidden Toll - The Health Cost of... →
amyandronicus:
What does it mean for a society to be sick? What if an imbalance of power in the body of the state caused imbalances in the bodies of its citizens?
It was listening to the voices of teen moms in Trenton, New Jersey, that first inspired Arline Geronimus to study why women would make the choice to have a child earlier, rather than later in life.
What she found was shocking: Infant...
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“We don’t even know who he is. We know Ryan Tedder, but that’s it.”
– Late candidate for quote of 2010!
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Between teenlines and this, I’ve been thinking a lot about really good sentences lately. I dunno if either actually is, but now I want to try to write one that sticks per day. That said:
I should have asked for hugs last night.
New, Terrible Pop-Up Gripe
You know how some rollover ads have both an X and something like “Close” on them? Shouldn’t both of them CLOSE THE GODDAMN AD?
Watchtumblinerb:
Killer Mike - “Untitled Snippet” (Adult Swim, 2011) I don’t usually post snippets but this one seemed important. If Killer Kill is truly the (unheralded) Ice Cube of our time then his forthcoming Adult Swim curated, El-P produced full length could roughly be his AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted. Sonically at least, with a so-called “regional” rapper reaching out to a wall of sound New Yorker...
LEX IS MORE: Yeah, the other thing about the... →
alexmacpherson:
Yeah, the other thing about the Kanye/Diddy comparison is that with the latter, you get snotty “pass. thanks for offering, though” replies that dismiss Last Train To Paris unheard. Because it’s so obvious that Diddy’s a joke…
It’s got a lot to do with Kanye having Great Man rep for what he can do and Diddy having it for what he can hear. This is the peril of...
Show and Prove and Tell →
In case you weren’t on Twitter today, I wrote something on gay athletes and what an openly gay (and, specifically, male; I know about Martina) athlete coming out during a career might mean. You might like it. I do.
Still Not Getting It
The Keith Olbermann Story.
I just want someone different to show up in my dreams.
Notes On a Year: Pop Music →
seanfennessey:
Honored to be quoted in Ann Powers’ sharp take on the year in moral obliviousness, button-pushing, and the limits of control. One of the best Y-E pieces I’ve read.
It really is very good.
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
bmichael:
This was some of the best music writing of the year. All about Kanye.
“Dark Fantasy” / “Gorgeous” / “Power” / “All Of The Lights” / “Monster” and “So Appalled” / “Devil In A New Dress” / “Runaway”/ “Hell Of A Life” / “Blame Game” / “Lost In The World” and “Who Will Survive In America”
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"I just had se-ay-ee-ex..." →
No small part of me hopes that people who hear “I Just Had Sex” get the very strong “sex isn’t sex unless it’s consensual” message of it. (I mean, one of the lyrics is “A woman let me put my penis inside of her,” which is great on multiple levels!)
It’s not exactly a huge blow for feminism, and it’s not like the Lonely Island guys have...
Thor To Be Boycotted For Hiring Black Actor To... →
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aurevoirjocasta | brittadictarnold:
It seems that Marvel Studios believes that white people should have nothing that is unique to themselves. An upcoming movie, based on the comic bookThor, will give Norse mythology an insulting multi-cultural make-over. One of the Gods will be played by Hip Hop DJ Idris Elba.
Idris Elba is fine as hell too.
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Watchthirtydollarproject:
My good friend (and yoga instructor!) Marko shared this video and I wanted to pass it along.
Sadly, you might notice that when the camera pans to the audience… it’s mostly women. It would be great if more men got to hear it as well.
Boys do cry. And should. And if men were a little more like women, the world would probably be a better place.
Things That Stop Me From Hating Billboard.com
I was going to write something on this Ciara article (hint: “Like a Boy” was not anything-topping), but something or other bit or otherwise irritated my hand, which led to me itching it with my stubble, which led to me wishing I had just set it on fire, which led to me spraying it with Benadryl, which led to me thinking it was genuinely on fire, and the Ciara thing just sort of fell by...
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Fast Food Reviews
Wendy’s Spicy Chicken Nuggets. Okay. Not spicy as one would expect, though there is definitely a kick. Akin to McNuggets texturally. Nice that they’re the same price as the plain Chicken Nuggets, though I don’t get to feel like I’m saving money by opting for the more boring kind.
Wendy’s Natural-Cut Sea Salt Fries. It really can’t be long before everything that...
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So I just took a trip to the post office. (Spoiler alert: I had a Zappos box to return. That was it. There is nothing inherently interesting about that part.) But there was a line.
And I was between the two most interesting people in line, and talking to the third.
“What’s his name?” the woman in the track suit with the snow-white hair asked. “Javier,” the...
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But this? THIS is funny. →
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Coldplay Reteams with Brian Eno for Concept Album →
“It’s from the point of view of two people who are a bit lost,” says Colplay frontman Chris Martin of the band’s in-the-works fifth album.
Look, you already know where this is from if you are a frequent visitor of this humble Tumblr blog, but the idea that that statement should come from Chris Martin saying Coldplay’s working with Brian Eno again (he later says...
Vacation Is...
…taking 15 minutes to redo your Tumblr footer HTML because a) you are an idiot and b) you have the time.
I guess people like these Xtranormal things where... →
maura:
But they all ring sorta false to me, although maybe the cartoon setting invites fabulism.
The best ones are all jokes, and deeply sarcastic ones. The So You Want To Be A Lawyer? one plays up how doe-eyed law school students want to be John Grisham characters and jaded NYC lawyers want to kill them; the one about Florida offensive coordinator Steve Addazio revolves around Addazio calling...
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Gawker Got Hacked?
Good thing I got banned from the entire Gawker system like 20 months ago!
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Tumblin' Erb: 21 Questions →
tumblinerb:
de la and 40 water together? id imagine it might revitalise them. apparantly pos is a fan I once thought that peanut brittle was going to revitalize my bubble gum but that didn’t work out well.
There are few recurring Internet things I love more than this.
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NO TRIVIA: Kanye West Week: "Devil In A New Dress" →
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no-trivia:
Notice how much of this song seethes with casual, snarky contempt. The kind of shit you say to someone you liked so much that you know exactly what to say to really fuck them up. There are all kinds of bitter one-liners thrown in there, that toss insults hurled his way right back (“I thought I was the asshole/I guess it’s rubbing off”) and mock the girl’s lack of...
