December 2011
35 posts
Watchyoungmanhattanite:
My Flag is on Fire: “White Bicycle”
Reno band My Flag is on Fire produced a video for their song “White Bicycle,” from their album Europa Song, in which indie folk meets an expansiveness. Much of the video is filmed in Lincoln Lounge, a Reno bar aggressively decorated with Abraham Lincoln memorabilia, where I saw my friend Louis play his last show before he moved to South...
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“Dude my blunt would have been ten times worse than my joint.”
“Miles assembles impossible blunt, ‘Laziest River’ plays.”
“He uses all twenty minutes to fail.”
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2011 Year End List
Things that Are Bullshit:
1. Drake, again. 2. The band Girls, again. 3. Bon Iver, again.
monodialogue:
I always thought watching a parent deal with Serious Health Problems would be dramatic—clasping hands around bedsides, professions of love and affection.
Instead, it’s trying not to cry or yell at the deli counter at Whole Foods whilst reading the names of 17 different kinds of prepared salad aloud.
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What is being billed as a fundamentally feminine and feminist document is primarily an expression of the absurdity of white heterosexual sex. The trend in internet feminism of telling personal stories as a way of arriving at political positions unconsciously feeds into the popular blogging model, in which amateur sociology is king and pageviews suggest we should celebrate the confessional ability...
Where it started
“I worry that I am self-absorbed.”
“Don’t worry, you are a critique of self-absorption.”
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2011 Year End List
Worst Tumblr in the World That a Lot of People Really Like: [redacted]
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I mean
Here is another unreadable thing that is sort of transitionally lost and trades in the idea that celebrities think and look and act in platitudes and binaries (bad and good, dead and not dead) and the idea that stream-of-consciousness will naturally accumulate drama and tension and emotional arrival, which it won’t because it is just about the laziest thing you can do with a story, the whole...
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swahilinoise:
(Brad Nelson)
B. Nelson was the first donor and with little/no time wasted. No sooner had we posted the campaign did we then receive an alert that he had donated. Mister Nelson is a gentleman and a fierce guy - equally ardent writer, human being, friend. He’s been a long time Swahili supporter and reporter (you can view his savvy, well-crafted mostly music-related repartee here)...
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