March 2010
To dance the Bamba...
I am quite excited by the fact that Popular will soon be CROSSING OVER with Jonathan Bogart’s Bilbo’s Laptop blog.
Loot
Forty pounds to spend at Amazon for my birthday. It’s like when I was 10 and got a book token! If I’d got a forty pound book token at age 10 I would have bought every Target Dr Who novelisation in the world. Have I got any higher brow? Let’s see!
And Then There’s This - Bill Wasik: This isn’t part of the forty quid, it’s something I’m going to claim back...
one reason I wouldn't want to be a film critic ...
agrammar:
… is that they’re working in an area where it’s a legitimate part of the job to describe and comment on people’s appearances, and how we might feel about looking at them.
Is it not a legitimate part of a pop critic’s job? (Saying pop cos it’s wider than just “music”: rock would work fine too) It’s a very thorny and difficult part of the job, as you say...
“Roll over, Woodstock. We won.”
– Iggy Pop, in his Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech. (via Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inducts New Members - NYTimes.com)
Oh, Jim. Some days, in the current music climate, I’m not so sure about that.
xoxo, michaela
(via chainofknives)
Nobody likes hippies anymore. Nobody. I’m pretty sure...
“i want a click, a click to your heart
a hyperlink into you.
a sexual browser...”
– Lyrics to “Hyperlink”, Eiffel 65 (1999)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-14) →
David Bowie (34)
The Beatles (15)
Siouxsie and the Banshees (13)
The Beach Boys (12)
The Rolling Stones (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“The gadgets of the information age have had nothing like the transformative...”
– The Boring Age: 10 Ideas for the Next 10 Years (via jonathan-deamer)
Good quote. The idea that we live in a time of constant, accelerating change is one of the lazy modern memes that can get quite frustrating. Change on some level is a constant: but so is continuity. Change happens to different...
“People are dramatically more productive as founders or early employees of...”
– Paul Graham
This post - or more accurately the Neil Perkin one that linked to it - sparked a minor personal revelation. I’ve occasionally beaten myself up over spending my professional career in large companies, a small cog in a bigger wheel, and hence feeling that I’ve achieved very...
"Pending renewal or deletion"
It looks like Pitas.com - the Tumblr of its day, a mainstay of the pre-blogger blogging scene - is down because domain names weren’t renewed. Mark Sinker, whose Radio Free Narnia blog is one of several he maintained on Pitas, tweeted glumly to this effect this morning. (I’ve also seem a lot of Tweets panicking about Diaryland though I can still get that.)
Even big sites forget to...
“and so streamlined and well-designed is pitchfork that frat dudes can get into...”
– Pitchfork Reviews Reviews: pitchfork reviews reviews rationale
(via joecoscarelli)
Dear Pitchfork Reviews Reviews,
I know I cannot sway you from your course but can I just ask that you please be better at this than Ripfork? Please?
“their intersection on “Telephone” is less about any underlying similarity than...”
– - aceterrier
Thankyou - this is EXACTLY what it felt like, not a guest-star appearance, but a crossover!
(As demanded I am going to do a Gaga post, but I might see if my Guardian editor fancies it as next week’s column: if not it’ll appear here, if so a jumble of other stuff will)
I'm not promising it will be a GOOD one
Do you want to read a post by me about L*dy G*g*? Or shall I not bother?
Walking on the moon →
One in 20 of the 1,000 pupils polled thought Star Wars character Luke Skywalker or Richard Branson had been the first to set foot on the Moon.
No, one in 20 of the 1,000 pupils polled decided to tick the boxes for Luke Skywalker and Richard Branson as first to set foot on the moon.
I got nothing.: Lady Gaga vs. Beyonce →
barthel:
(via bonesarecoralmade)
Is the Internet trying to piss me off today, while I have work to do? Gaga is better than Beyonce? No. Here is what the Beyonce greatest hits album would look like:
Bills, Bills, Bills
Jumpin’, Jumpin’
Say My Name
Bootylicious
Survivor
Independent Woman Pt. 1
Check On It
Lose My Breath
Crazy In Love
Baby Boy
Irreplacable
Upgrade U
Ring the Alarm
...
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Deeper Magic From Before The Dawn Of Time →
Fascinating (er FSVO of) conversation on long-gone board “Chatterbox” about indie rock zines, interesting partly cos it’s a snapshot of the indie zine world in 2000, when Pitchfork was the biggest player in the pond but still pretty much IN the pond, maybe flapping onto the shore of respectability lungfish style (the thread devolves into an entertaining all-comers fight between...
Why We Fight #1 →
Nitsuh has a column! I have been excited about this since getting the “column deadlines” email a few weeks ago and seeing him on it. He gets a pull-quote too, the lucky devil: I must remember to ask for one.
This is very good, anyway - a comparison of Joanna Newsom and Lady Gaga which is enviably pitched to start fights and get comments among Pitchfork readers. Nitsuh concentrates on...
