a gentle suggestion
instead of ‘the new niceness’ or ‘say something nice day’ how about we all just try to celebrate ‘the old trying to not be an asshole’ on a regular basis
March 2012
February 2012
"blog success" means not having to check if the guy you're writing the obituary about actually sang the songs in the youtubes you're posting
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my six favorite davy-fronted monkees songs →
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fyi, i still hate writing obituaries.
a member of the eagles vs. a musician affiliated with odd future
This is really one of those “I choose me” dilemmas, isn’t it?
kind of worried that my piece on the cosmic opera makes me sound old →
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then again, *i* wasn’t the one impressed by the red hot chili peppers being thrown into the mix. so there’s that.
i wish i could remember the 200-word chunk of my column that i wrote in my half-lucid dreamstate at 6 a.m.
grr
“According to the report for 2011, produced by the World Newsmedia Network in the US and the University of Central Lancashire in the UK, more than 50 per cent of respondents (56.6 per cent) placed social media top of the list for where their companies will be investing over the next five years.”
—Because why spend money on reporting and content creation when you can just set that same money on fire use that cash to flog more meager offerings all over the Internet?
Ok, so she’s not a role model. But do antics like this *attract* fans? Or just repel them?
This is a good question. Certainly it keeps her public profile up (I don’t follow Ri’s Twitter account (because she is super annoying) but I saw people discussing this incident last night) and it solidifies her stance as someone who “doesn’t care what people think” (even though taking the bait is the DEFINITION of caring, but you know the logical leaps about “haters” that even the most mildly famous people take these days). But new fans? I doubt it.
she's a 'rebel'
after getting wind of this weekend’s incident in which rihanna opened the floodgates for her 14 million-plus twitter followers to go after someone who criticized her decision to work with chris brown—namely by calling her interrogator fat and ugly and subsequently letting her followers know that she was being ‘cyberbullied’ by said unattractive person—i became pretty comfortable in calling her current public persona that of ‘cartman on maury’ taken to the ugliest extreme. yeah, calling out someone via @-reply is probably not the smartest move, but surely a pop star has better things to worry about.
these latest antics are probably an extension of her ‘i don’t want to be a role model’ act, so can the world at large please stop expecting her to be one now so that she cuts this shit out? thanks.
(also the way that pop fans mobilize around hatred on the internet is so depressing. it’s music! it’s supposed to be fun! i know it’s the way of the game but ugh, it’s just the worst.)
"This is smart; no one really wants to listen to a Poison record. We’d rather just tease our hair and think about listening to a Poison record." →
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What’s the bigger scourge in entertainment writing: First-person plural, or sweeping generalizations that assume every person reading is exactly like the author?
continuing today's #rememberthe90s theme, here are the origins of that new song that has paris hilton on vocals. →
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if you don’t know the latour song, BE SURE TO LISTEN.
"These days, one can hardly watch three commercials without hearing some obscure nugget taken out of context, but that was certainly not the case in 1993. Pete & Pete was among the first longform shows, cable or otherwise, to incorporate indie-rock and underground bands into its very fabric." →
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In honor of tomorrow night’s Pete & Pete retrospective shows at Bowery (tickets still available, I just checked!), indiepop guru Mike Appelstein counted down six of the show’s best musical moments. Michael Stipe, Luscious Jackson, and Fat Tulips ahoy!
