October 2008
Animal Collective is in our office, painting our walls. Yes, folks: we’ve gone from sub-contracted work to indentured servitude. Hello, nu media. This is what you have to do to get in a magazine these days. Also see: Ryan Adams fucking up my filing.
Rockville, CA
You bet your ass I’ll be watching. How can the guy responsible for this do any wrong?
Bologna, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo
If you know any writers in any of the above cities looking for a decent freelance gig, have them give me a shout at work: foster@bbook.com.
Kanye West vs. Radiohead - Reckoner Lockdown (DJ...
youngmanhattanite:
Yay! I am overjoyed at this. I knew all that time spent with Krucoff’s Caulk would pay off eventually.
HA.
Cunts Are Still Running The World →
One city - the same city that was Tony Kushner’s vision of heaven, which means it’s devoid of any straights or gentiles - is finally starting to get it right: call the oldest profession in the world what it is and make it legal. I’d make a taco truck joke here, but if you’ve ever been to Cisco, you know the food in the Mission District isn’t to be fucked with, though...
Flavorpill's CMJ Coverage Is The Shit →
Every publication and their mother/website that has anything to do with music has some kind of CMJ coverage.
The problem most typically arising from any CMJ coverage is (A) a lack of filtering the good from the bad and (B) a lack of comprehensiveness. Striking an even balance between these two things is, like navigating the waters of CMJ, tricky at best, nightmarish at worst.
And it goes without...
Watchitsthereal:
Hmm…it appears that the day-to-day calendar is def jammed.
Yeah, folks: take the HAVE YOU SEEN THIS BLOGGER? milk carton, put it back in the fridge. WE ARE YOUR FEK is still on indefinite hiatus (note the lack of a big, dumb, “I’ve Got A Name To Protect” exit/pronouncement as promoted by both friends and unnameably mediocre internet presences alike). Bottom line: I...
Devandra Bandhart covering Oasis.
Gawker Media to lay off 14 percent of editorial... →
caro:
This is very sad. No sarcasm there.
Oh, man. I’ve avoided this all day, but I can’t. This sucks. That’s it.
More Hollywood union action this week: SAG just recommended a strike vote, and Tyler Perry - who I always kind of knew was a piece of shit* - fired four of his writers for union action. One thing Hollywood should know by now: don’t fuck with the writers, or the unions. And - as anybody who’s been reading me for a while knows - I’m not exactly a pro-Hollywood union guy, since, you...
She be like, "You don't know 20 different ways to...
Via the Sex Machine: my favorite high school movie of all time is finally getting a collector’s edition release - Can’t Hardly Wait, 10th Anniversary Edition. One of the few movies I’ve watched the commentary on (and it has a great commentary), Can’t Hardly Wait is a film that (A) has a title based on a spectacular Replacements song, (B) has a spectacular script, and (C)...
Hey, look, I’m blogging. About Radiohead (shocker, I KNOW).
Radiohead made their fan-comissioned video for “Reckoner” (the best Radiohead song ever, or so says a case I’ve made for it) the “official” video for the single, which will probably see some kind of hard-release in the future on a DVD or whatnot. In the meantime: remember when James Lavelle, Richard...
Steve Lewis Interview w/Abel Ferrara: "I don't... →
You might know Abel as the guy who directed Bad Lieutenant or King of New York. He directed a new “documentary” (it’s a loosely used term here) about the Hotel Chelsea. My favorite part:
How was it working with Vincent Gallo, who was also a neighborhood guy? I don’t like Vincent Gallo.
A lot of people say that. No, but I know him. You know? ‘Cause I introduced him to [my...
This is one of the most innane, sloppily written items that’s ever been posted on Gawker. I have so many problems with the egregious self-righteousness involved here, I can’t even begin.
Maybe, one day, this person can work hard enough to get drunk in front of an audience, and represent her publication in one of the stupidist, most lurid ways possible. And then blog about how hard she...
youngmanhattanite:
Last summer, Young Manhattanite made the leaderboard in the Donors Choose Blogger Challenge, besting such heavyweights as the Curbed Empire. Today is the launch of a new challenge and I’ve started by funding this math literacy project for $500. If you have reasonable suggestions, I’m prepared to do a “wacky stunt” if the YM Giving Page reaches a certain amount of money. Please...
New York's Best Sea Urchin →
Old Gridskipper is the new-New Gridskipper. Also see: NYC’s Best Fish & Chips.
Can someone please explain how all these kids are...
doree:
‘Friday Night Lights’ - On DirecTV, Dillon, Tex., Returns for Another Football Season
I suspended my disbelief last season that Tyra, Riggins, Lyla, etc. were all still in high school, but if I’m reading this correctly, we’re supposed to think that they’re STILL at Dillon this year?? Weren’t they at least juniors the first season, if not seniors?
Also if anyone has DirecTV, I’m coming...
Gabriel Snyder Said To Take Over Gawker →
Radar throws a pretty substantial rumor out there. People will say that this matters to, like, five people, but that’s bullshit. This matters to about eight people.
Sorry, Haters.
I’ve been kept busy lately.
A Few Notes From the Overground:
1. This post got 22 reblogs, and somewhere along the way, Katie’s article got cut out in lieu of the song. Go read her post. It is the best on-the-ground view of this thing you’re going to get. Also, are emo songs being covered by a string quartet that good? (Answer: I guess so.)
2. My Great Aunt Rhoda got twelve...
It must be said
cajunboy:
I hate to say this because I really like Karp and Blakeley (though he was pictured but strangely not mentioned), but the guys featured in that tech boy piece in Details that’s being reblogged everywhere really came off as massive bags of douche in the article.