August 2011
“MCR’s set also made me sad that the New York area didn’t have a place for them...”
– I am really, really, really glad Maura likes My Chemical Romance. (via jakec)
The question of “why didn’t rock critics go harder for MCR?” (and Fall Out Boy) is a really intriguing one to me. These bands:
were white
were male
were guitar-led
emphasised lyrics
built a massive...
new-aesthetic:
Skyscraper Fire in Beijing, China. Circulated for hours on Twitter as Edmonton / #londonriots.
Did ppl seriously believe that was in London??
There May Be Rioting In The Streets And A Crisis... →
via Mike Daddino.
Your Opportunity To Ridicule My Economic...
OK, when people talk about “$2 trillion” being wiped out in a stock market crash, or however much it is, what actual meaning does that “$2 trillion” have? viz:
The value of a share = what you could buy it for. Hence also what its holder could sell it for. And the stock market is based on a basket of shares from which one… derives? the total value of shares in a...
Road* Trip!
*erm plane trip
I will almost certainly be in AMERICA in the last week of October - specifically in San Francisco (v briefly), then Miami (a bit longer), then Chicago (a weekend and a day or so). I have never been to San Francisco or Miami so I’m particularly excited about those, even though I’ll mostly be conferencing. And my one Chicago visit didn’t give me much time to...
Anonymous asked: Tindersticks
Smithless
hardlyart replied to your post: Girls
you’ve never heard elliott smith??
It’s true! One of the things I’ve enjoyed about doing this is finding out who I’ve never heard. The usual caveats apply, obviously - it is very possible I’ve heard him without knowing who he was. When I was researching and writing about depression in Poptimist a couple of months ago SO MANY people...
“Our ever more sophisticated arsenal of stars and thumbs will eventually serve to...”
– Chris Colin, “Rate this article: What’s wrong with the culture of critique” (via anythingcouldhappen)
How did our hypothetical 13 year old discover the Velvet Underground? Did a stork deliver the record to them?
This might seem like snark but it’s not - let me go into JOHN MAUS MODE here....
Anonymous asked: Girls
“Folks point to the issue of people using pseudonyms to obscure their identity...”
– danah boyd
Passion contd.
To be honest I can think of half a dozen people who write passionately about pop in ways which don’t feel hand-me-down, and what they have in common is:
- I read them here on Tumblr (heart u tumblr) so the idea of dialogue/chatter is as implicit in the writing as the idea of the pulpit is in the stand-alone piece.
- They don’t just write about pop music, they don’t self-define...
Clear Lines
jonathanbogart replied to your quote: “Pitchfork writing is serious about pop music and…
Love the idea of a clear-lined tone, a rhetorical ligne claire. So who’s Herge?
Thanks! I played with the idea a bit more here - though did not identify the Herge of pop crit.
“Pitchfork writing is serious about pop music and Jim DeRogatis is passionate...”
– This is the short-reads crux of the argument in the latest Pitchfork Reviews Reviews post, which is a very good piece: PRR himself never comes across as passionate, but he is always “voicey”.
Like most binaries, the claim here mixes the recognisable with the unfair in tantalising ways....
A spurious theory of story geometry
minimoonstar:
charmian:
My thoughts actually have nothing to do with Captain America, and the reblog looked all messed up so I’m posting this as a text rather than a reblog, but yeah, for similar reasons I also don’t like open-ended serial narrative, which is why I never got into superhero comics. I like long stories, but I like long stories that end. Maybe it’s related to how I feel you...
Summer Reading List
Christopher Kelty - Two Bits
Alan Kirby - Digimodernism
Jane McGonigal - Reality Is Broken
Bill Wasik - And Then There’s This (started this but need to pick it up again)
Clay Shirky - Cognitive Surplus (ditto)
Henry Jenkins - Convergence Culture
A book’s appearance on this list is not meant to imply my approval or likely approval of its contents.
That said, if you’ve read...
Ya know...
anythingcouldhappen:
I really like John Maus’ music, but these are the kinds of answers I’d expect from a particularly tedious college sophomore. Hey John, it’s ok to break character if it prevents you from sounding like a condescending asshole!
“I’m sorry, I don’t mean to sound like a douchebag making an obvious point.” AND YET
timocratic youth: & yr grandmother on asst. prc. →
timocraticyouth:
Because a couple years ago, narked at being asked by the same three people who always ask on the same two days in the second week in December what my top ten records of the year were (who cares! I don’t, even) I resolved to start a blog: it would have been called something catchy like ‘my top…
An excellent post on The Fall.
July 2011
Anonymous asked: Animal Collective
