- 8:43 pm - Mon, Sep 6, 2010
Amanda made me dinner. It’s beans and rice, and shrimp marinated in a homemade hot sauce that she, being from the dirty south, has no trouble tolerating. We’ll see how I do.
- 6:41 am - Sun, Sep 5, 2010
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The The — August & September (Remastered Album Version)
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The The, “August & September”
- 11:39 am - Sat, Sep 4, 2010
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Blinker the Star — September Already
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Blinker the Star: “September Already”
- 7:35 pm - Thu, Sep 2, 2010
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Other incidents that prompted citizens to pick up and leave included the sight of garbage bags stacked 5 feet high on the sidewalk; the realization that being alone among millions of anonymous people is actually quite horrifying; a blaring siren that droned on and fucking on; muddy, refuse-filled puddles that have inexplicably not dried in three years; the thought of growing into a person whose meanness and cynicism is cloaked in a kind of holier-than-thou brand of sarcasm that the rest of the world finds nauseating; and all the goddamn people.
“8.4 Million New Yorkers Suddenly Realize New York City a Horrible Place to Live” (
The Onion)
- 10:37 pm - Mon, Aug 30, 2010
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‘If you don’t believe me, wait until they put your wife in a burka,’ Gentries continued in reference to the face-and-body-covering worn by a small minority of Muslim women and banned in the universities of Turkey, Tunisia, and Syria. ‘Or worse, a rape camp. That’s right: For reasons I am content being totally unable to articulate, I am choosing to associate Muslims with rape camps.’
“Man Already Knows Everything He Needs to Know About Muslims” (
The Onion)
- 4:42 pm
The ‘fake “Ed Sullivan”’ thing has been done before, and so had the ‘let’s mock the stuffy 1950s’ thing. But seeing Kurt Cobain embrace humor while the band embraced the idea they were a ‘new Beatles,’ given the tragic conclusion to the group and Cobain’s life just a few years later, adds a lot of weight to this clip [‘In Bloom’, 1992].
Scott Plagenhoef, “The Top 50 Music Videos of the 1990s” (
Pitchfork)
- 4:27 pm
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This sort of thing—gothic imagery, of-the-moment videography, supposedly shocking sexual imagery—should not age well. And yet … Where so many of the big alt-rock stars of the period have their sounds and looks frozen in the time capsule of the 90s, Trent Reznor at his best, such as on ‘Closer’, could have walked into any year since this was released and had the same seismic impact.
Scott Plagenhoef, “The Top 50 Music Videos of the 1990s” (Pitchfork)
Holy shit yes. Almost as astonishing as the fact that this elegant video still holds up is that when it emerged, I was a privileged 18-year-old goth wannabe who felt like The Downward Sprial “really spoke to me” and thought I was the first teenager in the world who read Wuthering Heights and dyed his hair black. And yet somehow both Trent and I ended up as normal, relatively happy dudes with short hair and life partners.
It really is a gorgeous video though. I’m not sure I’d ever seen the uncensored version till now.
- 3:54 pm
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Gondry’s inventive clip [‘Around the World’, 1997] would be entertaining enough just for the offbeat costumes, but once you realize that each of the five sets of characters corresponds to one of the five elements of this filter disco classic—bass (breakdancers), drums (skeletons), synth (the Esther Williams-looking bathing suit girls), guitar (skeletons), and vocals (astronaut/robot/deep-sea diver looking guys)—the video becomes a classic as well.
I’d never realized the dancer/instrument connection. Do yourself a favor and watch this on a big screen hooked up to big speakers.
Scott Plagenhoef, “The Top 50 Music Videos of the 1990s” (Pitchfork)
