Jessica Suarez

How To Get Through A Big Pile Of New Music

25 August 2010

Right now I’m working through a playlist of several hundred tracks from different sources: Email attachments, CD rips, RSS feeds, Etc. A lot of this listening is a job. And like any job, I’ve thought about how to organize and streamline it. It would take a lot of time and screen shots to go through the applescripts and filters I’ve written for iTunes, but I thought I would share a few basic ideas/tips that I use for getting through the pile. This works best for getting through lots of unknown/new artists, tracks you’re curious about but not committed to reviewing or writing about or even keeping yet.
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Liz Phair – “Bollywood” – Stereogum

9 July 2010

in General

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The Pitchfork review compared Funstyle to Bob Dylan’s Self Portrait, but I think the best comparison is Weezer’s Raditude. Rivers Cuomo had an early, beloved pair of albums, then a break, then albums people didn’t like, then even less liked, funnier, songs.

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Rich FourFour Cell Phone Drama Video Still

Curating and editing is a skill (or an art, or both)

6 May 2010

in General

I just read something very bothersome, although it’s probably more bothersome to Rich, my editor at VH1 (who also runs FourFour (I may be the only person who knows those things in that particular order)), than it is to me. Quickly: Rich edited together this supercut of moments in horror films where the characters’ cell phones die. On Youtube it has over 300,000 views:

Op-Ed By Fucked Up’s Pink Eyes (Damian Abraham): Bands Should Play In Arizona Now More Than Ever | Stereogum

30 April 2010

in Music

Before I go any further, I want to say that this is in no way meant as an attack on the bands that have chosen to boycott Arizona as a reaction to this bill. I think they have their reasons for choosing this tactic to try a force the repealing of this law. That said, I think this strategy is severely flawed. First, I think it makes assumptions about the people that like your band. It presupposes not only that the people like your band are incapable of coming to the reasonable idea about this bill, but that they are in favor of this bill. The fact is, this was a ugly divisive issue across the state and that there are a huge number of people in Arizona that were bitterly opposed to the legislation and are now disgusted that it has been made law.

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Love Fucked Up, love this guy. I have a few more thoughts to add on this:

You know what goes very well with matte nail polish?

30 April 2010

in General,Personal

My ladies’ size 0 carpal tunnel wrist guard. I wish they had gone all out and made a wrist guard that looks like a Beyonce / Metropolis robot hand. Also, I’d like a robot hand when my wrist finally breaks off.