February 2012
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Has anyone looked at this list and tried to figure... →
pgwp:
I’m gonna put my money on Bonnie Raitt and Alicia Keys.
The Civil Wars are likely appearing with Taylor Swift. Chris Brown seems to be in the “douchebag segment” (Chris Brown, Deadmau5, Foo Fighters, David Guetta, and Lil Wayne), which should but probably was not going to include Bon Iver.
Maybe they wanted Diana Krall to play something with him? Maybe it was Nicki and he...
girlboymusic asked: Have you ever ridden a horse? If yes, tell me about it. If no, imagine what it would be like if you did.
i guess as the grade i was proudest of in high school wasn’t any of the straight A’s but the A-minus i got in pre-calc (i know, i’m obnoxious): because it was honestly the first piece of writing i ever worked hard on. i mean, i had papers in high school in college that gave me trouble, but i only ever worked on them as hard as i needed in order to finish the first draft, and i only ever wrote them...
isabelthespy asked: what's the thing you've written that you're proudest of? (is it the friday thing) IF they're different, what are the things you've written you liked the most and worked hardest on? have you ever worked on anything that gave you huge trouble putting together? is it obvious that i'm projecting at this point?
Reblog if you'll answer anything in your ask right...
katherinestasaph:
isabelthespy:
allecto:
I’m incredibly bored, so why the hell not?
do iiiiit
(amazing: my iPhone thought that iiiiit was opioid)
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these.
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The Lana Bottle
I said flippantly the other day that I have fonder memories of the so-called “Paris Wars,” in which a few rock critic types defended the Paris Hilton 2006 album Paris as a pretty awesome dance- and club-pop album. This in turn revealed a lot of strange behavior from detractors — particularly detractors in conversation with the defenders — that has been explored in various...
Too much data
Another thing that I find disconcerting about Tumblr is the false sense of totality I get of the engagement from readers. On the blogspot platform, I had very little sense of who was reading or how. My sitemeter (which I installed probably in 2007 or 2008) is still a hotbed of incredibly fucked up search terms — so many that I honestly can’t even tell how many people read things and...
I think my blogging success ratio is somewhere around 10%, but the 10% hits pretty hard. And great convos can always develop in the other 90%; the worst post can spark the best conversation. This is an aspect of blogging I’m sad to see really dwindling, especially in the blogs I read regularly. I would love to see more comment threads the size of, say, the lefty blogosphere’s average thread, but...
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theremixbaby:
Of course, my current problem with Lana Del Rey is that I literally can no longer trust any [heterosexual??] man to give a reliable reading of the image she is portraying. (Sorry guys, maybe stick to explaining how “Born to Die” sounds like Lovage; that one seems good). …
She’s criticized for her artifice, that the persona was an idea adopted and funded by her daddy’s...
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reverenddollars:
My mans Tim Finney —
“middle class indie” isn’t a term I’d use myself but I intuitively read it as referring to music that is so ubiquitously held up as a celebrated alternative to the status quo that it becomes a sort of status quo itself.
I like the term “indiestry.” Not sure anyone has coined it already, but if not, #neologism.
all the small things: Taylor Swift Is a... →
salsalsally:
Dear Taylor Swift,
I’m sorry that the boy who is undoubtedly your eternal soul mate is dating Satan and not you. What does this boy see in a girl who wears high heels, short skirts, and is the cheer captain? Doesn’t he know that those are warning signs of a morally depraved…
Hey everyone, an actual slut-shaming song by Taylor Swift exists (it’s catchy!) so please stop...
Persephone’s Bees - Nice Day
TruCounterfax...
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New complaint
Re: Ashlee — seriously, who gives a fuck if a band quits in the middle of the second song on SNL, anyway? If you’re still watching SNL at the second song, whatever you are feeling is your own damn fault.
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minimoonstar replied to your post: theremixbaby replied to your post: Soooo… I think… I have nothing to add to this except that I q. liked Lovage at the time and have no shame about it.
“It’s so easy to Lovage.”
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theremixbaby replied to your post: Soooo… I think your Lovage-LDR comparison is one of the most apt I’ve seen. With all due respect, I really hate Born To Die, Lovage and 90s lounge music in pretty much equal measure.
Yeah, it’s corny as shit! But there was a different cultural moment when the weird middle-ground of post-alternative, pre-indiestry (neologism?)...
supergalaxy quest: forever defending →
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oldtobegin:
i can’t speak about lana del ray in particular, because i honestly have not heard her yet. but i can speak to the idea of the male gaze and i want to say that the answer to kasia’s question is “nothing.” everything a woman does in our society is subject to the male gaze, unless she fully secludes herself from men, which, as we know, is nearly impossible - and even other...
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Soooo...
I guess that in my own personal world of impeccable taste, New Girl is the new Lana Del Rey! “My checks have baby farm animals on them, bitch!”
Except the addition of Lizzy Caplan would be like Lana Del Rey actually recording with Lovage or something. Which should totes happen (Patton was the weak link anyway, Jennifer Charles and LDR can just try to out-pout one another, thus...
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o-song replied to your post: Rock-bottom explanations I reckon your answer is social psychology, which is naturally methodologically individualist - trying to find psychological reasons for social things.
Interesting — I think Watts draws on some social psychology in the book. One major argument, though, is that understanding an individual’s behavior, or even a group of...
The Tripping Point
“Gladwell’s law of the few is catnip to marketers and businessmen and community organizers and just about anyone else in the business of shaping or manipulating people. And it’s easy to see why. If you can just find these special people and influence them, their connections and energy and enthusiasm and personality would be put to work for you. It’s a plausible-sounding...
“Ultimately, in fact, it may simply not be possible to say why the Mona Lisa is...”
– More Watts. In the next chapter he goes in to exploring (and pretty much debunking) the theory that, if there are no special attributes or conditions of collective events, there must be special people — “influencers” — who significantly shape outcomes.
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Rock-bottom explanations
In social science, Thatcher’s philosophical position [that “There is no such thing as society; there are individual men and women, and there are families”] goes by the name of methodological individualism, which claims that until one has succeeded in explaining some social phenomenon—the popularity of the Mona Lisa or the relation between interest rates and economic...
“It is possible…to simply enjoy one thing more than another. Think of a person...”
– “On Preference, Briefly.”
A pretty commonsensical (though far from exhaustive) response to the existence of Charles Murray’s terrible new book which seems purposefully designed to invent and inflame taste-and-class-based cultural differences under the rubric of “snobbery.” I’ll be so glad that day...
“It is possible…to simply enjoy one thing more than another. Think of a person...”
– “On Preference, Briefly.”
A pretty commonsensical (though far from exhaustive) response to the existence of Charles Murray’s terrible new book which seems purposefully designed to invent and inflame taste-and-class-based cultural differences under the rubric of “snobbery.” I’ll be so glad that day...
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isabelthespy:
tomewing:
Elbow: The Mysterious Pattern Inside Everything and How It Will Change the Way We Think About the Economy, Health Care, and the Internet
What is an “Elbow”? As best-selling science journalist Jonathan Brainer explains, it’s a ubiquitous pattern that looks much like its namesake anatomy: a line moves in one direction and then– suddenly– in another. Brainer ingeniously...
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This emoticon appeared completely at random in the middle of one of my Turntable conversations.
It seems like the perfectly wry, throw your hands up, happy and sad at the same time sorta expression.
“If this discovery [of something monkeys water information something hmmm] proves...”
– Christopher Chabris, “Is the Brain Good at What It Does?”
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January 2012
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screwrocknroll replied to your post: So who’s going to be the first to put LDR on a rap guest spot? Smart money’s on Kanye, but if you want a risky bet, you can take the long odds on, in order, Wiz Khalifa, Tyler, Rick Ross, or, at 500:1, Waka Flocka Flame.
The obvious possibility is Drake/Lil Wayne. And I would also count Diddy in as a dark horse (above Waka, anyway, and maybe above...
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tomewing replied to your post: Let’s find the real-world counterparts to my ridiculous LDR Bingo quotes! I did the uncanny valley one!
I either subconsciously absorbed it (Rob Harvilla might have used it, too) or AHA! Another one down!
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Let's find the real-world counterparts to my...
Inspired by marathonpacks, I started constructing an LDR/Lidder Bingo Card.
“A veritable simulacrum of a simulacrum” [check!]
LDR as “performance ethnography”
“Uncanny Valley Girl” [check! Possibly stolen!]
“LDR is nothing more (or less) than a projection of her audiences’ desire for what they can’t have — truth in beauty”...
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jonathanbogart:
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Stop ruining all the mystique! Gawd, did you learn NOTHING from this whole LDR fiasco?
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thehotflash replied to your post: ALL LDR ALL THE TIME Wait…does this mean that LDR would’ve played at the Bronze on BTvS?
Yes, except she’d be Lizzie Grant and the MethodOnes or something
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It was Gorillaz, you guys.
DUH.
EDIT: Anyway, still on for a srs rap artist pop song sorta featured credit by Jan 1 2013.
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So who's going to be the first to put LDR on a rap...
Kanye? I think it’s gonna be Kanye. It’s probably gonna Kanye. I mean, it could be…well, no, but maybe…yeah, probably Kanye. AND THEN YOU ALL WILL SEEEEEEEE. I figured from “Video Games” she was gonna go all self-sabotage for art’s sake. Instead I will eat 1x hat if she does not sing something suggestive on an OK-going-on-good hip-hop track by January 1,...
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no problemo: ALL LDR ALL THE TIME →
cureforbedbugs:
YOU GUYS ACT LIKE YOU WERE NEVER TOTALLY WAY INTO 90’S LOUNGE A LITTLE TOO LATE FOR IT TO BE EVEN REMOTELY COOL. (Aka you were not born between 1983 and 1986.) This is the kind of album I would have been thrilled to have bought without knowing anything about it in like…
Thanks, tumblr, for helping me examine my meh-ness on theis particular topic. I never had patience for...
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minimoonstar replied to your post: ALL LDR ALL THE TIME I was absolutely into 90s lounge too late etc. but some of those albums were good, and some don’t stand up to my listening now! (Have not heard the LDR one.)
I find that it’s actually the “good ones” (Cibo Matto, Pizzicato 5) that don’t hold up for me, in that I never want to actually listen to them. Though...
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ALL LDR ALL THE TIME
YOU GUYS ACT LIKE YOU WERE NEVER TOTALLY WAY INTO 90’S LOUNGE A LITTLE TOO LATE FOR IT TO BE EVEN REMOTELY COOL. (Aka you were not born between 1983 and 1986.) This is the kind of album I would have been thrilled to have bought without knowing anything about it in like 2002.
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Oh shit
Lana Del Rey is a rapper, sort of? I figured that piece of J.Bogs was a stretch, but nope. Kinda like it!
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jonathanbogart:
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The fifth or sixth time through as much as the first, the album sounds less like a cohesive statement than like a smart, passionate teenage girl’s Tumblr, full of reblogs of things she likes, things that speak to her, and that she doesn’t quite realize, or if she does realize doesn’t care, aren’t the coolest or the most original things to be fond of. Studio...
