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Matt Ealer (rendit) has got his finger on the... →
Which, as expected, he tears out of the body and extends toward you. So you may see the last red throbs.
(It’s a long piece about Liars. It has paragraphs similar to the following. It could very well remake you, but that depends on how far inside you let it travel.)
Liars went into those woods and goddamn dug up the bones of little girls drowned before sweet sixteen for consorting with...
Somehow I have inadvertently gotten myself into writing a bigger piece about Vic Chesnutt. I know I have nothing particularly special to say about him unless we consider all personal, microscopic experiences “special,” and I am unwilling to do that, even in this new world that prizes the tiny incidents. I know I will be joining the sea. I know the sea is vast, and I know my place in...
ok, so as it turns out i was missing a lot. here...
caitygee:
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'You’re cruel and you are constant'
foreignaffair:
I’m not saying Vic Chesnutt would be alive today if universal health care existed in the United States. But I am saying he could have died with a bit more dignity.
Sure, some scribes, like Chris Riemenschneider of the Minneapolis Star-Triune, captured Vic after his passing as many of us saw him when he wrote:
“… Those first few times, I have to admit it: Vic scared me. I was too...
“It’s got something to do with love. With having the discipline to talk out of...”
– Dfw on Good Writing via zadie smith. Discipline indeed. (via meaghano
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Oh my G_d. It’s catching.
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Not that I don’t think class commentary is hell of necessary to everything digestable in the world, including music. It’s necessary and good, especially since culture and class use music as markers of distinction. Personally, I’ve found tackling it with the Dirty Projectors’ Rise Above made for an internal, diametric leng t’che—every cut to the...
Nitsuh Abebe undoes the world and shows us its... →
The corners of the internet I look toward to read about music or art or politics tend to be full of educated people, a lot of whom are middle-class and a lot of whom are white. These people share a certain manner and a certain mode of discourse. (I do, too, obviously.) And the internet has allowed all those in this class who care about certain topics — say, music and film and popular culture —...
13527.) I think bisexuality is a lie people tell...
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asparagus:
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This is stupid.
biphobia/panphobia (not sure if that one is a real word but it’s definitely a real thing) is ignorant and tacky. and i’ve gotten it just as much from the lgbtq community as i have from straight people. y’all need to fucking stop it.
hopping on the “this is a bunch of bullshit” train. Yo, somebody’s...
What I just told Matthew Perpetua on Twitter about...
His initial comment:
Feel dumb for never really listening to this DJ Quik and Kurupt album over the past several months.
My multi-part nonsensical reply:
Yeah man that album is the spaceship controlled by evil robotic AI and we are its reluctant, soon-dead crew. Note: We are reluctant to die, but we nod our heads like there is some larger point made by our deaths, one that we agree with....
“I had high hopes for this book. I used to be thin, too. I thought I might live...”
– The Price of This Book - Leonard Cohen (Death of a Lady’s Man) (via neonheresy)
andrewtsks:
You’re trying to say that this is terrible, right Brad? Because right now, after one listen, that’s what I’m getting. It’s bizarre non sequiturs in search of meaning that it doesn’t actually contain. It’s really just a shaggy dog joke disguised as a cathartic expression of emotion. The whole thing is a setup for the last verse, which reads...
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MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA:
“I CAN FEEL A HOT ONE”
I can’t explain myself here. If I do I’ll start comparing myself to the landscape.
The second side of Manchester Orchestra’s Mean Everything to Nothing is an alien approximation of emotion, except the aliens do it better. They are not so self-conscious. They know we need unguarded bombast—how can this record wound the...
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RIDE:
“VAPOUR TRAIL”
nuggetsofthefuture:
In the end, the lyric that contains the title sums up his feelings: “You are a vapour trail in a deep blue sky.” This is a song about never being certain of your own status in the eyes of a beloved. This has been an ongoing problem for me throughout my years of attempting to make relationships work. In spite of myself, I often become...
“unpopular opinions” does not ipso facto mean “bad writing.”
– Schmusic (via desnoise)
"99. Nevada governor Jim Gibbons imitating the Hip...
rendit:
Eh, maybe we should break this up into *sections,* yes, for Maximum Page Views. Page Views! That was something from the 2000s, right? (And also from the 1990s, which look so much better from the rear-view of the 2000s.)
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My state. Yes, yes, y’all.
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John Darnielle on the song “Enoch 18:14” and its chorus’ origins in the video game Odin Sphere:
You find out a thing happens that you can’t bury references anymore in the age of the internet. People will just take the phrase that sounds weird and plug it into Google and find out what it is in seconds. I am hoping to one day run across a text so obscure that it’s...
Chugging PBR, listening to 90s emo.
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These are the acts of the true apostles.
Mountain Goats Live at Webster Hall on 2009-12-01 →
Photo by Dave Lichterman
You can hear the congregation drinking and reciting each word with an increasing and disconcerting dedication. This is similar to the Mountain Goats show I got lifted at last month in its naked recognition of the void and in its naked rejoicing because fuck the void, what has it ever done for you but remind you of your limits. It is false. You are limitless. You are...
Here's Tiny Mix Tapes top 50 albums of 2009 list →
dontcookbilly:
it’s pretty obvious. Tiny Mix Tapes=New Pitchfork.
Tiny Mix Tapes = coexisting Pitchforkian force with an awesome section called Eureka in which the grunts of the old earth are given loudspeakers and weapons.
There are problems with this thing, yes, and those problems concentrate themselves in the top two and in the astounding dearth of hip-hop. But are you going to find a...
Miles Davis album commended by US politicians -...
rendit:
hman:
“A landmark album by jazz musician Miles Davis has been commended by the US House of Representatives, 50 years after its original release.
Politicians voted unanimously to honour Kind of Blue’s commercial success and artistic contribution, and reaffirmed jazz music as a national treasure…”
(BBC)
Whoa. First Pitchfork, now this! It’s good to see those kids finally get a bit of...
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There is a fucking tent. In the space where those electric-guitar-playin’ astronauts normally only fill space. Shadows move within the tent, supposedly calculating whatever sound this is that gallops from the speakers directly into your guts. It sounds like the earth’s long-held-in exhalations. It is bigger than you. These shadows seem to extend and bow, as though they are all kowtowing to the...
I wish
maura:
that people would just talk about liking music because it makes them feel good in a visceral way, instead of talking about liking music because it makes them feel good as a result of its vitamin-better-than-whatever-you-like properties.