what?

i went to jen bekman's opening friday night and could not stop staring at this photograph. completely arresting.

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:18:01 -0500

i went to jen bekman's opening friday night and could not stop staring at this photograph. completely arresting.

"So you’re saying the decade began with a self-indulgent half-true memoir by a character with a..."

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:54:00 -0500

“So you’re saying the decade began with a self-indulgent half-true memoir by a character with a victim complex put upon by a society that doesn’t understand him while he self-consciously manipulates a cult following and that it ended with a self-indulgent half-true memoir by a character with a victim complex put upon by a society that doesn’t understand her while she self-consciously manipulates a cult following?”

- Abe Sauer connects the Eggers-to-Palin dots.

This freaking decade, man.

"When asked about the similarity, Mr. Young said the Postal Service was never a model yet he..."

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:45:42 -0500

“

When asked about the similarity, Mr. Young said the Postal Service was never a model yet he considered the comparisons an honor.

But he also wasn’t too shy to note that he has profited from the other band’s recent absence. “They released a record in 2003, and that was it,” he said. “There was really nothing to compare it to until some one else came along and wrote the next chapter. Maybe that’s this record. Maybe that’s this band.”

”

- Seriously, fuck this Owl City guy in the ear. “Wrote the next chapter”? More like “photocopied someone else’s notes for the exam.”

Kids today.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:29:00 -0500

As if having a “Fuck Yeah Advertising” Tumblr wasn’t depressing enough:

• It has a Tumblarity of > 10,000.

• I bet you can guess how many of the “awesome” ads are 1,000% facepalm-worthy.

Justin Bieber: RUINER OF FRIENDSHIPS (and standards of spelling...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:43:38 -0500

Justin Bieber: RUINER OF FRIENDSHIPS (and standards of spelling and grammar)

i was robbed :(

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:34:00 -0500

i was robbed :(

if madonna calls (the mtv beach house in 1996), i’m not...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:19:20 -0500

if madonna calls (the mtv beach house in 1996), i’m not here

There's a "Tween Age Riot" joke to be made in here somewhere.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:44:00 -0500

There's a "Tween Age Riot" joke to be made in here somewhere.:

“Aggressive Roosevelt Field crowd cancels Bieber visit” is how Newsday decided to headline its story on the 3,000 frenzied fans of inexplicable teen sensation Justin Bieber who showed up at the Long Island mall to spend a moment in the presence of their hero and get their copy of his new album sprinkled with his autograph-shaped pixie dust. They got so collectively excited that they drove him away—the appearance was canceled, five people went to the hospital, and a senior vice president at Island Def Jam got arrested!!

He was in custody Friday night, pending charges that could include criminal nuisance, endangering the welfare of a minor and obstructing government administration, Smith said.

“We asked for his help in getting the crowd to go away by sending out a Twitter message,” Smith said. “By not cooperating with us we feel he put lives in danger and the public at risk.”

Arrested for failure to Tweet? Oh, 2009.

Bieber was planning on signing his album at “the tween clothing store Justice.” This even though there’s apparently an FYE still open at that shopping center! Poor music, part 1,459—especially when you think about how these days, a 3,000-copy sales boost isn’t something to sneeze at. I wonder how many people in attendance bought the album anyway?

Limore Tabid, 11, of Roslyn Heights, had arrived at the mall only to find out the event was canceled. “I am so mad,” Limore said. “He’s a heartbreaker. They should send us free tickets or something.”

At least the “give me stuff” industriousness of the Long Island preteen hasn’t been dampened by this terrible tragedy. Silver linings!

YouTube video of the craziness is here and here.

Now THIS is how you cook like a minimalist.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:49:24 -0500

Now THIS is how you cook like a minimalist.

touch me i’m siiiiiiick (via yvynyl)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:50:56 -0500

touch me i’m siiiiiiick

(via yvynyl)

Great moments in scenes between two terrible actors.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:03:56 -0500

Great moments in scenes between two terrible actors.

You know what the world needs? An Adam Lambert/Robbie Williams...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:33:52 -0500

You know what the world needs? An Adam Lambert/Robbie Williams collaboration.

(via ohrohin)

agrammar: The same thing held for print music magazines, which didn’t come with...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:37:19 -0500

agrammar:

The same thing held for print music magazines, which didn’t come with “back” buttons: stuck on a bus with a copy of one, you’d be a lot more likely to read about the genres and bands you didn’t like. Not just out of boredom, but to have a better idea of what surrounded the stuff you did like — what other people were listening to, or the ways they talked about it, or just what kinds of sub-trends and mediocrities and bad ideas were floating around your preferred genre, and what interesting conclusions might be drawn from them.

Not to mention that the way a reader’s eye travels around a page, and past pages that can be stopped at and browsed even if they weren’t the thing that the reader was turning pages to get to, results in an experience that’s very different than the point-and-click-a-headline method for selecting reading material online. That increased opportunity for serendipitous intake is crucial, especially since it allows people to find out about topics — whether they be cultural or political or both or something else entirely — that they wouldn’t necessarily make the effort to seek out on their own.

That mall in the old Limelight space is going to have a music store! (?)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:31:25 -0500

That mall in the old Limelight space is going to have a music store! (?):

My guess is that it won’t specialize in titles that were spun during the space’s glory days…

solid gold to take you into the night.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:31:00 -0500

solid gold to take you into the night.

Poor MapQuest.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:08:38 -0500

Poor MapQuest.

Twitter: Not so good at the whole “sports” thing.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:22:50 -0500

Twitter: Not so good at the whole “sports” thing.

First they came for the waffles...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:18:46 -0500

First they came for the waffles...:

(via ohrohin)

I wonder how many people will think that something is "off" when all these new albums show up on store shelves next Monday, instead of next Tuesday.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:28:17 -0500

dyfl:

The thing I find baffling about this: Why are the labels willing to throw these massive albums onto the Billboard chart with only one day of sales data in the week? Or am I wrong about how the chart weeks run?

But, um, yes, nobody in the wider world will notice or care, guaranteed.

Chart weeks run Monday to Sunday, so theoretically putting albums out on a Monday would make more sense. But hey, the music business makes its own rules, man!

I wonder how many people will think that something is "off" when all these new albums show up on store shelves next Monday, instead of next Tuesday.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:19:00 -0500

I wonder how many people will even think anything is different at all?

Or even notice in the first place?