Saturday night I went to the movies to see the new Coen brothers flick, Burn After Reading. Though I’d love to tell you all about this movie, and how it’s basically like the 2008 version of Pulp Fiction, which in my opinion is AWESOME, I wont. That’s not what this is about. Instead, I’d rather rant a bit,… Read More
By Jeremy Kotin
1. ALBUM Philip Glass “The Book of Longing”
I absolutely love Philip Glass. I also find his work can be redundant (rolling chords can only change so much over forty years). This recent collaboration with Leonard Cohen, however, captures some of the original fire. Cohen’s boom-y bass pops up for narration, four singers transform… Read More
By Matt Lambert
I would like to share something very special with you. A few years ago my girlfriend found a book at the library where she works and thought it looked like something I would enjoy. The book was one of those novelty phrase books meant to teach a person the intricacies of swearing in another language, in this… Read More
By Andy Marino
Apparent suicide. What an incredible bummer. His writing makes me feel like every single human being has the capacity for bottomless empathy and understanding. It also makes me laugh. I honestly feel like I lost a friend.
To DFW: You made a lot of people pretty upset this weekend, man. I’m sorry that you felt hopeless or sad… Read More
By Chris Baily
Jon Stewart with a brilliant look at hypocrisy in the conservative party….
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I have a lot to say about Palin. So much that I had to split this post into two parts. And that’s just to talk about the religion issues… so, after the jump, Part One of my look at… Read More
Technology is awesome. It allows us to take our outdated Christopher Walken fetishes and make procedural music out of them with little to no absolutely no effort.
Yes… the future (or at least a paper-thin slice of the present) is here.
My greatest and only accomplishment thus far
By Jeremy Kotin
1. MUSEUM “Polaroids: Mapplethorpe” at the Whitney, NYC
Nestled in the mezzanine of the Whitney, there is a single room filled with the most beautiful polaroids by Robert Mapplethorpe. Dating from the 70s, this work demonstrates the very early signs of what would soon become his shocking seminal works of the 80s. Never have… Read More
In late February SXSW announced hundreds of free-to-download songs from the upcoming festival. I downloaded somewhere in the neighborhood of two hundred.
Six months later, there’s only one song I still listen to. I listen to it incessantly. I can’t get it out of my head. I hum it all the time. I obsess over the delivery… Read More
After months of being away or busy, I finally carved out a few hours to beat GTA 4. I won’t go into the many ways this game disappointed me (it’s been downhill since Vice City, IMHO) and the few ways it thrilled me. Instead, I was driven to write because I had a realization, coming back to… Read More
By Jeremy Kotin
1. Bon Iver “For Emma, Forever Ago”
Every now and then there’s a new sound in music, a sound that makes you sit up and ask what the hell is that, and then you ask do I like even like it. At the core this music is standard folk guitar, but the addition of such an odd falsetto… Read More
Tomorrow marks 100 days since the BP oil spill in the gulf. I know they “successfully” capped it, but as long as that sucker is still leaking, I’m saying there is still an oil spill. But this disaster got me thinking a lot about the good old days of folk – when popular music regularly included anthems… Read More
Unless you have been living under a rock, you are quite familiar with the body (of work) of Isaiah Mustafa. Mustafa is a former wide-receiver in the NFL, and currently has a talent contract with NBC. He might be better known to you as The Old Spice Guy (heretofore known in this post as OSG). But just in… Read More
