October 2009
29 posts
presumption
agrammar:
[David Foster] Wallace, the reader begins to sense, is probably the worst person to send on a journalistic assignment; he’s far too self-conscious to allow himself to be immersed in his subject. Rather, he opts to remain apart and strangely aloof, constantly imposing on himself this role of Observing Journalist. (It’s important to note that this role is self-imposed, an outgrowth of...
melk:
douglasmartini:
Nina Simone -...
txcrew:
One of the greatest lines in (Columbia)...
tumbledore:
Jay Electronica - “Exhibit C” (radio...
“No one has yet had the heart to tell him that hip-hop is dead.”
– New York Music - Gucci Mane Goes Abroad - page 1 (via desnoise)
one of the reasons i love his music right now is that it feels very vibrant and fresh, traditional only in the sense that hip-hop used to feel vibrant and fresh all the time. Certainly more so than the crit-approved straightlaced...
no obsolescence
keithgessen:
Sometimes writers worry that invoking any kind of technology in their work is like inserting a ticking time bomb of obsolescence. Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) opens with the adulterous bond trader Sherman McCoy accidentally dialing his wife from a pay phone when he meant to dial his mistress. Having given himself away, he hangs up in a panic.
Sherman stood by the...
tumbledore:
Tru - “I’m Bout It, Bout It”
The...
sugarxospice:
Angels- Dirty Money
They got...
britticisms:
“IRM” by Charlotte Gainsbourg
I...
Imperfect Angle
desnoise:
tomewing:
Listening to the new Mariah Carey album - nice, but a little monolithically introspective for me. I’ll cherrypick it rather than go back to it as a whole, certainly.
One thing I do really like though is how comfortable she is with quoting other records where they seem appropriate to what she’s singing about - on “Inseparable” for instance she breaks for a couple of bars...
Where your feelings gone
And the love it was...
Rappers on the show, Weakest Link →
screwrocknroll:
Q: Nate Dogg, what French word meaning “Things made of linen” refers to a woman’s undergarments?
A: Drawers?
Very disappointed in Nate Dogg for getting this one wrong.
via: douglasmartini:
jesuisperdu:
For the love of anything you believe, please watch this. It’s too funny not to.
Just started watching this. My early bet goes on DJ Quik.
this is fantastic
The best albums of the 2000s
So Pitchfork’s end-of-decade articles & lists have all been published. Obviously, a lot of that stuff isn’t music I’m particularly into. & I don’t mean that as a judgment of those who are; it’s just that over the past decade I’ve been drawn to other music. When being absolutely honest with myself about the kinds of music I enjoyed & (as importantly,...
britticisms:
My latest post for Tuneage is on...
“Don’t forget how much this music risked embarrassment.”
– Pitchfork: Staff Lists: The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 50-21 (via desnoise)
nituh’s streets blurb is amazing 