December 2009
77 posts
3 tags
haters and hecklers
agrammar:
Hands down, end of discussion, no contest, the single shittiest phrase of the ’00s—even over “webinar.” “Hater” emerged in the ’90s, but it seeped its way into pop music’s bloodstream during this decade and shows no signs of going away. It’s the ultimate cop-out, equally applicable, and specious, whether you’re a megastar or a wannabe. Don’t want to own up to your own bullshit? Call...
4 tags
“The second I stopped thinking about, “What does the label want? What does the...”
– ―Rachel Flotard, who is THE BEST.
If you read my interview with her (really, our interview with each other, or maybe more like our 7th grade slumber party chat with each other―I left out the part where we talk for like 20 minutes about both being named Rach(a)el and both having sisters named Sarah)...
3 tags
4 tags
2 tags
emrgency:
cat stevens the wind
i swam upon the...
4 tags
3 tags
3 tags
2 tags
4 tags
Listen Up: The Best Christmas Album Ever →
I AM FOR SERIOUS.
Comcast | Clueless Star Brittany Murphy Dies →
Dear Comcast, this headline only works if you italicize the name of the movie you’re referring to her as having starred in, and maybe not even then, because now everyone is probably just gonna think you mean Alicia Silverstone. Fail fail fail.
3 tags
4 tags
Just realized...
…that the creatures in my previous two posts—the macro’d out Joan Didion and the doguin—are basically making the same face.
Thanks, folks. I’ll be here all week.
2 tags
2 tags
extensive review of ben folds five reunion show →
brookehatfield:
sounds like the boys performed quite an encore. if i’d been able to get off work, i probably would’ve sold some tasty organs to score a ticket. my only qualm with the review:
And then came “Army.” I’d sound like a pretty huge asshole if I went on and on about my feelings about this song, so, to save us all from that, let me just say that I kind of hate it.
IT IS ON,...
5 tags
thebronzemedal:
Ben Folds Five, Twin Falls...
4 tags
tonight's oddest use of ben folds
brookehatfield:
was not as a judge for “sing off.” no, it was on “true life: my parents are embarrassing,” when “brick” played softly under a father tearing up as he described seeing “star wars” for the first time.
I thought Brooke was joking about Ben Folds as a Sing Off judge thing, but SHE WAS NOT. I just saw him on there, saw him with my own eyes. I am not exactly sure yet what I feel is...
“There are still new Tiger mistresses being revealed each day? Is this a news...”
– —The Bronze Medal
3 tags
Listen Up: Billy Joe Shaver, the Oldest Living... →
Confirmed: This made my dad cry.
4 tags
3 tags
2 tags
“Cash wrote [‘I Walk the Line’] for his first wife, Vivian Liberto,...”
– Dana Jennings in Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music (via Ashley)
1 tag
4 tags
3 tags
“Be warned, however, that if you would like to recline anywhere besides the...”
– —via Stephen Spana, an excerpt from an email once sent by him and another of my former interns to several other of my former interns, re: “BYOF (Bring Yr Own Furnitr) Party 7/25/08.”
Stuff like this always makes the intern-coordinator-half of my job totally, totally worth it. The...
1 tag
2 tags
3 tags
“It troubles me that people think that Southern food is simply food of uneducated...”
– —MY BOY KEV (via brookehatfield) (via Creative Loafing)
I’m bummed about last night’s Top Chef finale in a way that’s rather embarrassing to me, because I don’t like getting wrapped up in TV like this, but I’ve honestly never liked a reality TV contestant more than...
3 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags
WatchWomen Who Rock on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
When I got interviewed for this, I thought it was for a school project of some sort that would get turned in at the end of the semester and that I’d never hear about again. Turns out, it’s all up on the Internet! Among the segments, Maura talks about our “otherness,” Margaret Moser talks about being a groupie, and I talk about balls.
...
3 tags
AJC | Oglethorpe's accreditation reaffirmed →
Man, there’s just a very special thrill to finally learning—after two years of wondering whether or not your recent diploma was really nothing more than a very, very expensive piece of paper and/or cruel punchline to your high school self’s insistence on only applying to two colleges and only getting enough financial aid at one of them—that your alma mater isn’t a fake school...
4 tags
WSJ | “Monk” Finale Breaks Basic Cable Ratings... →
USA’s long-running detective show “Monk,” starring Tony Shaloub as an OCD-afflicted investigator, went out with a bang — literally. On last Friday’s series finale, Monk [SPOILER ALERT] discovered that judge Ethan Rickover (played by guest star Craig T. Nelson) had murdered his beloved wife Trudy (Melora Hardin) years ago, fearing that she would go public about their secret love child — who, of...
3 tags
natashavc:
“Look at Vogue. Oh my God. Vogue and Harper’s once were very well designed magazines. I mean they were exciting to look at. You could not give a shit about fashion and be excited by the whole look of the magazine. You look at Vogue now: it’s not even designed. What a difference. You pick up a Vogue back in the days of [Condé Nast’s Alexander] Lieberman and those guys, and you look at...