June 2008

What I’m reading: June 26

What I’m reading: June 26: Up All Night With Amy Winehouse : Rolling Stone – Still horrifying, fascinating, etc. Book Review – ‘American Nerd,’ by Benjamin Nugent – NYTimes.com – Not a good review, which sucks, I was looking forward to this. Also, no mention of Nugent’s girlfriend, who’s not a bad score for a [...]

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In the liner notes

A couple weeks ago I logged into 43Things, a goal-tracking website, for the first time in a year or so. I was happy to see I had achieved some of the goals I wrote down then, happy to see others (try the world’s hottest hot sauce? I’ve tried the 7th hottest, thanks Arizona), and surprised [...]

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No Age in Paper Magazine

My review of No Age’s Nouns is in Paper Magazine this month, and up on the site as well. I am realizing that deciding to only post MP3s labels/bands have said are okay to post is quite difficult when it’s not the song you want to talk about, and when it’s your personal blog and [...]

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What I’m reading: June 23

What I’m reading: June 23: The New Republic: Postcards from Nowhere David Foster Wallace – Commencement Speech at Kenyon University – Oddly sweet. The Great Lil Wayne Debate: Is Tha Carter III A Classic? – I think this done, completed thing that has been released can be willed into classic-status, though the phenomenon itself has [...]

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