“The only thing this trailer made me want to do besides go outside is have a party. Because the worst of these guys says: “I can’t think of a party I can’t get into.” Well, you cannot get into my party. That’s one. And my parties are really, really good. Ask any of my non-awful friends.”
—Dave Holmes with a rallying cry that you, I, and everyone else out there should take on. Seriously, how much of bad culture of the last XX years would go away if more people just had this attitude?
September 2010
I still think it's "funny" that one of the comments on my Lilith Fair review tried to claim that misogyny was no longer a cultural concern.
I mean… right?
August 2010
chris milk and the arcade fire are both really good at what they do. →
thewildernessdowntown.com
Milk, you may recall, is also responsible for the Kanye Knievel video from a few years back. And the clip where Cee-Lo turns into a ripped-out heart for the purposes of illustrating a sad song.
“That lingering uncertainty has led to one change in lab practice. The classic bedbug strain that all newly caught bugs are compared against is a colony originally from Fort Dix, N.J., that a researcher kept alive for 30 years by letting it feed on him.”
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(via ericasavestheday)
JoJo - "In The Dark" →
ileaks.com
In keeping with the theme of the last link, here is the new single by JoJo. It does not sound like “Leave (Get Out)” at all. It’s actually probably the exact inverse of that shiny little song. It also made me look up Cassie’s Wikipedia entry to see what was going on with her long-delayed album, if that’s any indication of its overall feel.
"She said diners will arrive at the restaurant at the precise time they have reserved and wait in a lighted lounge where staff members will explain the restaurant's concept. Then they will enter the dark dining room in a conga line, hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them. They will be served a 'surprise' menu that takes stated preferences and allergies into account." →
nydailynews.com
What Tonic died for: A restaurant apparently themed after a cheesy wedding that takes place during a blackout.
Yay New York! WE DID IT!!!
(via)
Shades (Feat. Diddy, Justin Timberlake)
Dirty Money/Lil Wayne/Justin Timberlake
If you had told me that I would wake up Monday morning and be really really psyched about a Diddy song, I probably would have guffawed. Yet here we are.
New Single: Diddy - Shades (Feat. Lil Wayne, Justin Timberlake)
(via barthel / kingdrake1)
"I can hunch over my computer screen for half the day churning frenetically through e-mails without getting much of substance done, all the while telling myself what a loser I am, and leave at 6:00 p.m. feeling like I put in a full day. And given my level of mental fatigue, I did! I can spend my Saturday afternoon worrying about financial ruin to the point of exhaustion, and my inner critic is satisfied. But clear my mind with a 30-minute meditation, go for a 45-minute morning walk, or leave the office for an hour to decompress and get a healthy lunch — all of which would make me more productive for the day — and the voices inside my head start screaming, 'Infidel!'" →
stillastar.tumblr.com
Oh I am relating to this a little too much. And:
Worry isn’t work. Being stressed out isn’t work. Anxiety isn’t work. Entertaining a sense of impending doom isn’t work. Incessant internal verbal punishment isn’t work. Indulging the great unknown fear in your own mind isn’t work. Hating yourself isn’t work.
(via stillastar)
"The guys browse the contents of the tiny magazine rack, which seems to be mostly made up of porn. I see them poring over the cover of a magazine with a naked woman on it, and look away, instinctively feeling that this is not my scene. However, my curiosity gets the better of me, and I walk closer to see what’s going on. My suspicions are confirmed: There’s a naked woman on the cover. But it turns out that I’m wrong in assuming the guys are looking at porn, because the magazine is Rolling Stone." →
amyandronicus.tumblr.com
Please, please, please read this post by Amy Klein of Titus Andronicus. It perfectly encapsulates so many of my frustrations with the current moment.
The Gannett Blog's details from the USA Today reorg are sort of fascinating/scary. →
gannettblog.blogspot.com
• The meeting that announced the changes, which include 130 layoffs and a bunch of new VP appointments, was called a “transformation briefing.”
• Those layoffs will happen eventually, probably sometime in October. Nothing like inspiring your employees to do great work by telling them that they might be canned at some point in the near future!
• The new bizdev VP “came to his new job via the USAT subsidiary BNQT, a publisher of surfing, snowboarding and other action sports content based in Los Angeles. USAT bought BNQT in early 2008 in a bid to attract more young male readers, a demographic coveted by advertisers.” Wait, so did it work? Dude.
• Irritated commenter from inside the building: “The competition is no longer the NYT or the WSJ, it’s the National Enquirer.”
Etc., etc.
If only we knew what we were in for back in 2008. →
idolator.com
God, it seems like she’s been around (in her current “hey look I am edgy and also BOOBS” form, anyway) for so much longer than two years. Ugh!
