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What I’m reading: November 25
November 25th, 2008 • links
Tags: del.icio.us, link, reading list
What I’m reading: November 25:
- Is it OK to be liberal again, instead of progressive? | Salon -
- Annals of Culture: Late Bloomers: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker -
- How do different religions define death? - By Nina Shen Rastogi - Slate Magazine - Part of my continuing death/ death ritual obsession. Seems like with all the talk of when life begins, there would be more talk about when life ends, but I guess that only happens when there's a relevant court case.
- Every Man a Derrida: A nation on the verge of self-deconstructing - Reason Magazine -
- Where did all the female rappers go? - By Jonah Weiner - Slate Magazine -
What I’m reading: November 19
November 19th, 2008 • links, what i'm reading
Tags: del.icio.us, link, reading list
What I’m reading: November 19:
- Silent Party #5 | Pitchfork - Eric Harvey sort of breathlessly goes through Kanye West, iTunes’ Genius feature, privacy, and the British Journal of Psychiatry
- New York Times headlines that read like Zen koans. - By Jessica Winter - Slate Magazine -
- Move Over, My Pretty, Ugly Is Here - NYTimes.com - “I think there was a brief ugly moment,” Ms. Esch said. “But it may have been a passing fancy.”
- Election by sound bite | Salon - Joan Didion
- Ableton - Hot Chip - Trying to restart learning Ableton, hoping for some inspiration from Hot Chip.
What I’m reading: July 9
July 9th, 2008 • links, what i'm reading
Tags: alien, band, class, critic, criticism, del.icio.us, education, link, mcsweeneys, medicine, metal, newyorker, planet, reading list, universityofphoenix
What I’m reading: July 9:
- Why we need movie critics. - Slate Magazine - Will someone make a similar argument for music critics? I don’t think they can, just for the simple economics of what’s being critiqued. Now, when new movies ‘leak,’ when it becomes just as easy to sample before buying as music does, I think movie crit will be just as over as music criticism. This article, btw, mostly defends ‘film’ criticism, not the consumer reports of movie critics, the Rotten Tomatoes quick quotes guys from local papers.
- Reason Magazine - Education for Profit - An article about University Of Phoenix, where I’ll be going if this music thing doesn’t pan out.
- The New Yorker: Annals of Medicine: The Itch - This woman scratched her head down to her brain. That’s all I’ve taken from this—kinda hard to read with that image of her greenish nerve fluid dripping onto her pillow still in my mind.
- The Smart Set: Nobody’s a Critic - June 26, 2008 - “Trying to maintain critical distance today is thus a practice in self-alienation…So we need another metaphor. If criticism isn’t about distance anymore, maybe it can be about closeness.”
- Basics - Discovery of More Planets Gives Alien Life-Seekers Heart - This means it’s time to reactivate my SETI @ Home account.
- How Do America’s Super-Rich Get Away With Acting Like ‘Just Folks’? - Grazes too many points without hitting them, but, reminds me a little of Paul Fussell’s Class, though his book’s too old to account for this ‘just folks’ crap.
- McSweeney’s Presents: All Known Metal Bands. - Just the Q’s here.
What I’m reading: June 26
June 26th, 2008 • links, what i'm reading
Tags: amy winehouse, book review, del.icio.us, eley kishimoto, fashion, feminism, flickr, hercules and love affair, keith olbermann, linda hirshman, link, media, MSNBC, nerd, ny times, nytimes, reading list, rolling stone, steampunk
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 self-described nerd.
- Hercules and Love Affair - Party Titans, Updating the Sound of Disco - NYTimes.com
- The FADER - Eley Kishimoto’s Oversized World - Eley Kishimoto put out this fall collection (2004? 2003?) of puffy sleeves and skirts and oversized prints that all looked like cake toppings. I loved it. Nice to see what they’re doing now.
- Flickr: The Steampunk Fashion Pool - Also obsessed with steampunk fashion (adult goths? Larpers? what?)
- The Political Scene: One Angry Man: The New Yorker - Part of my continuing obsession with MSNBC. Average countdown viewer is 59, though, so it’s also part of my continuing rapid aging.
- I Choose My Choice!
What I’m reading: June 23
June 23rd, 2008 • albums and songs, links, what i'm reading
Tags: blender, breihan, del.icio.us, fashion, funeral, lilwayne, link, reading, reading list, robertchristgau, saintlaurent, sarkozy, speech, thenewrepublic, YSL
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 (largely) been discredited.
- The Saint Laurent Funeral - The New York Times - President Sarkozy went to Saint Laurent’s funeral. His wife was a model, but still–imagine heads of state going to a designer’s funeral here.
- village voice > blogs > Status Ain’t Hood > Ranking the “A Milli” Freestyles - I had no idea, and had to run to YouTube / Hype M because most of Breihan’s links were already down.
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