December 2011
28 posts
“Nicki spends 3:19 talking an American guy (she’s into those! lucky us!)...”
– I forgive Rob Sheffield for putting “Friday” on his songs of the year list because he wrote this blurb about “Super Bass” and also because he wrote two great things about EMA today.
“When it’s comes to royalties on a paper book, that rate (25 percent) is...”
– Michael Chabon, a fantastic author, demonstrating his (and many authors’) lack of understanding about how publishing works. Anyone who has ever worked in the industry will tell you that the price of paper, warehouses, etc. pales in comparison to the cost of paying everyone who works on the...
bmichael:
Azealia Banks “LIQUORICE”
New song....
Also, I wrote an EMA blurb, obviously
31. EMA Past Life Martyred Saints [Souterrain Transmissions] by JUDY BERMAN
Listen to enough albums in a lifetime and you’ll start to forget why music meant so much to you in the first place. The process of finding an artist’s place in your life becomes intellectual rather than emotional. That’s the paradox of criticism. Yet every once in a while, a musician breaks through the noise and forces...
“I would pay a number of cretins I mean writers (Danielle Steel) to not write...”
– Can’t decide whether this comment on my response to Farhad Manjoo’s indie bookstore attention-grab is satire or an expression of honest desperation from a frustrated writer.
I wrote something on what Slate's Farhad Manjoo... →
lolbev:
YES.
Local bookstores ARE like farmer’s markets! Buying a books at an event is like farm-to-table dining. We want to give our favorite stores a cut of the purchases we care about making, from the authors we love!
This lady works in publishing and takes awesome photos of her cat cuddling “Skippy Dies.” She knows.
I wrote something on what Slate's Farhad Manjoo... →
katherinestasaph:
isabelthespy:
“Compared with online retailers, bookstores present a frustrating consumer experience. A physical store—whether it’s your favorite indie or the humongous Barnes & Noble at the mall—offers a relatively paltry selection, no customer reviews, no reliable way to find what you’re looking for, and a dubious recommendations engine. Amazon suggests books based on...
Amy Rebecca Klein: RadioActivists Rock for Japan! →
amyrebeccaklein:
WHEN: Thursday December 22nd, 8pm to 12am
WHERE: Big Snow Buffalo Lodge - 89 Varet Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206
WHAT: Live music show, bake sale, video screening, speakers to address the current situation in Japan, calls for solidarity with women’s movement to protect children.
WHO: Permanent Wave
“Ultimately, the Rock Hall is about money, not history. That’s why Madonna and...”
– Smart, awesomely angry piece by Evelyn McDonnell on why women aren’t getting voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
“3. EMA, “California”
EMA dubbed her signature song a “rap...”
– Spin’s incomprehensible love letter to EMA. I love this song. I see they were trying to do something loose and cool here. But what do these two sentences actually MEAN?! “Time-lapse corner-boy soliloquy”?!
“‘I sort of gravitate to women writers, perhaps because a lot of them are...”
– Anna Holmes’ wonderful piece on why female TV critics are so great.
“His erotic energy is purely and pleasurably consensual. For some women his...”
– And this is how you do self-stereotyping homophobia and mansplaining at the same time. Thanks, NYT.
“I think I only like my record this year.”
– J Mascis wins Sub Pop’s list of their artists’ favorite 2011 albums
This is who you people voted into the Rock Hall of... →
“You’d think I’d hate this film, and I almost did—until I realized it’s the best...”
– John Waters on Tree of Life
“‘Pornography’ is not an image plucked out of context; pornography is an attitude...”
– Vladimir Nabokov