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Favorite Posts
- 5 February 2010: Gaga as gesamtkunstwerk & Fever Ray’s melting face: a short attention span essay on operatic gestures in contemporary pop music
- 15 January 2010: Wonky spiritual reggae: a short attention span essay about Zomby, fractal geometry, dubstep & some adherents and ancestors I can really get behind
- 14 December 2009: You’ve got indie rock in my hip-hop: stray thoughts about a Kid Cudi video & misreadings of the Great Gatsby
- 10 December 2009: Will Oldham and the Community Function
- 1 December 2009: Farewell to the casual music fan?: a short attention span essay on how & why culture is produced
- 2 November 2009: What happened to Robert Hilburn’s rock’n'roll heroes?
- 14 October 2009: Too much, too much, too much: A short attention span essay about Sufjan Stevens & Liberace
- 4 September 2009: Song of the Summer: Das Racist’s “Combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bell”
- 10 August 2009: Happily Ending Aftermath
- 15 July 2009: I like Girls & some words on music that moves like molasses
- 28 June 2009: MJ salute…in black or white.
- 28 May 2009: Celebrity Crisis: a short attention span essay about famous people.
Photos
- 25 August 2010: Tilt
- 5 July 2010: Since I’ve been gone…
- 17 May 2010: Coachella as seen by Hedi Slimane
- 24 March 2010: Up in the air
- 22 February 2010: “A curiously oppressive brand of love”
- 14 February 2010: Valentimes at All Tomorrow’s Parties
- 4 February 2010: Seven pictures from Los Angeles & a slur against the city’s good name
- 13 January 2010: Deep Thoughts About Security, Obscurity, Etc.
- 8 January 2010: Fun with problems
- 26 December 2009: Black Christmas?
- 5 November 2009: Foreign light, and other things you discover in hotel rooms while traveling.
- 21 October 2009: 500 Servlet Explosion
- 19 October 2009: Epic parties & the morning after
- 27 September 2009: Protected: Tamarichard
- 24 September 2009: Summer in Review: Berlin
- 14 September 2009: Flashback to ATP/NY 2008: My Bloody Valentine
- 9 September 2009: Summer in Review: Barcelona
- 10 August 2009: Happily Ending Aftermath
- 16 July 2009: Red skies & chiaroscuro lights
- 4 May 2009: Strong Animals vs. Smart Animals
- 12 March 2009: Double Mirror, Mirror Double
Videos
- 12 July 2010: That’s me on television aka Nuit Brooklyn @ Les Nuits de Fourvière 2010
- 28 May 2010: Vampire Weekend’s video march to victory
- 17 May 2010: Sam Lipsyte’s America. ALSO, how Woody Allen, Bob Dylan & LCD Soundsystem approach American decadence with a similar sense of humor.
- 12 April 2010: Scott Williams starring in “Nirvana on ice”: a worthy internet meme & some thoughts on web commentary
- 6 April 2010: Quick thoughts on the iPad (from other people)
- 21 January 2010: Aziz Ansari vs. Kanye West
- 4 January 2010: Todd Oldham and the Community Function
- 25 December 2009: The opposite is also true
- 14 December 2009: You’ve got indie rock in my hip-hop: stray thoughts about a Kid Cudi video & misreadings of the Great Gatsby
- 10 December 2009: Will Oldham and the Community Function
- 25 November 2009: Complexity works too
- 21 November 2009: Leonard Cohen: Poet, in a younger prime
- 5 November 2009: Julian Casablancas, before & after
- 25 September 2009: Blackberry Loves U2; U2 Loves Mayor Mike Bloomberg
- 10 September 2009: Gone to All Tomorrow’s Parties for the weekend
- 21 June 2009: Feeling green (for Iran)
- 12 June 2009: If you’re going to Evel Knievel it sometimes you’ll fall into the canyon, aka Living the glamorous life.
- 2 June 2009: Baby baby send me an email (w/ 2 internet poems)
Good Music
- 30 August 2010: Die Antwoord + Aphex Twin = Next Next Level Shit
- 22 August 2010: Sufjan Stevens’ All Delighted People
- 20 August 2010: Some Weekend “Relief” by R. Kelly, Sam Amidon & Cee Lo Green
- 26 July 2010: Isn’t this even more insane?
- 22 July 2010: Isn’t this insane?
- 3 May 2010: Givers from Louisiana
- 28 April 2010: Mountain Man & a thought on the depth & length of one’s connection to music
- 9 April 2010: A moment of quiet reflection in honor of Diane Cluck…
- 19 February 2010: Die Antwoord transcend & transgress (NSFW): A (particulary) short attention span essay on one strand of South African culture
- 15 January 2010: Wonky spiritual reggae: a short attention span essay about Zomby, fractal geometry, dubstep & some adherents and ancestors I can really get behind
- 1 January 2010: Nick Cave, Rowland S. Howard & other longing goodbyes
- 6 December 2009: Hip-hop & male anxiety
- 23 October 2009: Simple is Good
- 20 October 2009: Quoting Morton Feldman
- 28 September 2009: Late night television
- 18 September 2009: Bon Iver covering Sarah Siskind’s “Lovin’s for Fools”
- 8 September 2009: These Are Powers offer no easy answers
- 4 September 2009: Song of the Summer: Das Racist’s “Combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bell”
- 11 August 2009: Responsibility is my albatross
- 15 July 2009: I like Girls & some words on music that moves like molasses
- 3 July 2009: Every now and again something almost makes me want to like jazz
- 27 May 2009: Here is “Desi Girl,” the best song I discovered on my trip to India
Interview
- 17 August 2010: Crass & Mary Margaret O’Hara de-recluse themselves
- 2 August 2010: Kanye West on the underground, great pain & Renaissance painting
- 3 June 2010: “Art makes nothing happen” aka “It is difficult/ to get the news from poems/ yet men die miserably everyday/ for lack/ of what is found there”
- 26 April 2010: Joni Mitchell’s anxiety at being an influence: On Antony, Joanna Newsom, Cat Power, Rufus Wainwright
- 10 February 2010: Nanoculture aka “Douglas Coupland has no Facebook or MySpace page.” (But he does have a Twitter.)
- 22 January 2010: Brian Eno has beef with Steve Reich, enjoys musical seduction
- 11 March 2008: An Interview with Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie)
Essay
- 11 May 2010: Tigers & spiders & dreams, oh my! Some words about The National’s “High Violet”
- 30 April 2010: The energy of a Void: some lessons on hardcore, faith & what not
- 21 April 2010: Antimodernity, M.I.A.’s viral marketing effort, a Wall Street Journal book review & a Spider-Man t-shirt on a kid from Southeast Asia: a short attention span essay on Authenticity aka “I have the pussy, so I make the rules”
- 31 March 2010: Customer value & other virtues one might not expect in an avant-garde(ish) music festival: a particularly short attention span essay about Big Ears Festival & a trip down South I just took
- 16 February 2010: Some thoughts on Black Mountain College & the nature of communities
- 5 February 2010: Gaga as gesamtkunstwerk & Fever Ray’s melting face: a short attention span essay on operatic gestures in contemporary pop music
- 6 January 2010: Aaron Cometbus and the Community Function
- 1 December 2009: Farewell to the casual music fan?: a short attention span essay on how & why culture is produced
- 2 November 2009: What happened to Robert Hilburn’s rock’n'roll heroes?
- 14 October 2009: Too much, too much, too much: A short attention span essay about Sufjan Stevens & Liberace
- 28 June 2009: MJ salute…in black or white.
- 28 May 2009: Celebrity Crisis: a short attention span essay about famous people.
- 11 May 2009: Costume colors & a patterning that defiles the mind with loveliness (aka Bedazzle me now baby)