April 2008
youngmanhattanite: That wasn’t me, fek. And unless Steve Ignorant is writing for YM now, I call bullshit on someone’s claims of beyond-reproach street cred. You’re a designer, not the leader of the fucking Wobblies. YM now has their readers in the trap of not knowing when something is/isn’t 99. Actually, no, this can’t be a new thing. I’ll cop to not even wanting to take the...
youngmanhattanite: Since we’re all about keeping it realer than thou, I’d like to point out I’m the only person on this blog who hasn’t fucked, worked for or publicly claimed friendship of someone in the New York Media/Publishing industry. So hold your GG Allin dribbled chin high while you work hard to not alienate [redacted],[redacted] or [redacted]. I.F. Stone is mighty proud that of your...
Running From The Hills (or "Turn Down the Noise,...
Now that it has reached an extreme saturation point (either that, or this is the last death knell of Rolling Stone before they put Dominico on the cover and give David Fricke a coronary), one has to wonder: where do they go from here? The Hills hasn’t proved adept at inserting “new” “characters” into the show: the slimey frog that put on his best...
Give B-Rock a cig, for the love of god. →
“Eventually your muscles begin to freeze—first your lips and tongue, then the...”
– Adam Platt, detailing in no uncertain terms what would happen if his Fugu (blowfish) eating experience were to go wrong. Ah, if only all critics could die from, uh, blowing. For what it’s worth: a great piece.
“Seaver, Fisk, they were men first, and athletes second. I admired them as men,...”
– Pat Jordan, in his interview with Deadspin’s A. J. Daulerio, lamenting the death of the respectable pro-athlete.
Talib Kweli, Nas, and Mos Def on 106th & Park... →
Especially great is when Mos Def subtly calls out BET.
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From The Dept. Of Bad Dreams
I’m stuck in a desert, and there are only two roads: the I-15 North between Vegas and SLC, and the 95 to 93 South to Phoenix. Go all the way on one, and I’m stuck in college. Go all the way on the other, and I’m stuck in a previous relationship. Stay in the middle, and I’m stuck at home. I need to find someone but I don’t know which road they’re on, how to find...
@ The Movies: BABY MAMA*
One star for overall package and tone - could’ve been executed with a slightly more artful eye (30 Rock?) - but softpitched instead. Another for inspired casting - Steve Martin as a Whole Foods-esque guru (“You’ve now earned five minutes of eye contact.”), John Hodgeman as an in-vitro specialist, Greg Kinnear as the love interest. Third star because some of the jokes...
Is Keith Gessen an over-privileged Harvard grad?
youngmanhattanite: We get in on the single serving site meme.
Pitchfork has the G.G. Allin film online for one... →
Wow. If you don’t know who G.G. Allin is…you might actually be better off not seeing this. Spectacular, I say.
Fuck you, Tumblr, and your sense of entitlement,... →
blakeley: soupsoup: mascarah: This would be example #4523485024 of stuff we had days before Gawker tried to fill their pages when they don’t have enough smack about Julia to dig up. This is one of the first times that they cite it—although only giving credit to the flickr not to the fact that it was on Tumblr. Why won’t Gawker acknowledge that they take content from Tumblr users? Don’t we all...
3:24 PM.
Still: nothing else on it from anyone but them.
youngmanhattanite: It’s true. Incredibly enough (or not), out of the 50 people I’m following, YM was the first to come through with something, anything on Sean Bell. Just want to point out that some us went the more subtle route. Oh, my genitals, it’s (also) true: just sloppy on my part. They had to know they were scot-free when he was closing out with “F-Troop,” though. But...
youngmanhattanite: This is fucking bullshit. It’s true. Incredibly enough (or not), out of the 50 people I’m following, YM was the first to come through with something, anything on Sean Bell. Everyone else: keep linking to NYMag cover stories about Judd Apatow and last night’s episode of LOST, dickfaces - your life is tangentally important.
sean bell.
Accountibility has hit a new low, this morning. Between the federal backing of private sector, for-profit banks and now this, it feels like New York is now the place you can go to fuck the little guy and get away with it. This used to be a town of scrappy underdogs beating the odds; now, those guys are being killed in the street. Papoose - “50 Shots”
baugher is lame
if only because there are far better meta-tumblrs out there.
why doesn’t anybody reblog the “good” posts? fuck.
just because i support obama
doesn’t mean i support accusations of hillary’s “phoniness.” doesn’t mean i blindly support him (or anybody). doesn’t mean i won’t hold him accountable for fucking up, when he does (and he will). doesn’t mean i don’t think hillary would make a fine president: i do. doesn’t mean i’m a fucking inarticulate dope, which i’m...
Hardcore Fi-Core: The WGA Clusterfuck Continues...
Okay, so: You all know that the WGA went on strike for a long time and it eventually got resolved in what can mostly been seen as only a bittersweet victory that was in its best moments, strictly symbolic, and at its worst, downright destructive (it was definitely one of the reasons my overtime was taken from me, my holiday bonus was marginalized, and eventually: the first of two reasons I was...
Gossip Girl 1010: Jenny Has The Flag, I'm...
FEK: of course it's eric! who else would it be?
FEK: (besides nate, who should be a homo but isn't)
Sam: it can't be the other three guys
Sam: i was thinking maybe chuck, but that would take all the fun out of him
FEK: yeah, no, chuck has to be a hetero. he's the brilliant ryan phillipe-evil character from cruel intentions. which makes nate the preening, stupid side of the ryan phillipe character from cruel intentions. which makes dan the epitomal masculinity of all the male characters in cruel intentions, with median intelligence and only a half-willing to be cunning. jenny = selma blair, blair = sarah michelle gellar, serena = reese witherspoon, eric = joshua jackson.
FEK: it's so cruel intentions-esque predictable sometimes. like all shows, film, and tv about rich kids has to have your archetypes.
Sam: YES
Sam: as ryan puts it, "i just like rich white kids having sex"
FEK: oh, how right he is.
Sam: i was guffawing at jenny stealing last night. THEN i guffawed at how the bitch friends just "forget" about the dress the second she shows up with nate
Sam: meg and i were like, whaaaaaa?
FEK: oh, no, but it's so true
FEK: boom! she has the flag, and she brought it back to the base (Butter) by hook or by crook.
Sam: HAHAHAHHAHA
Sam: yes!
FEK: the point wasn't that they were forgiving for her for stealing the dress, the point was that she got nate, and she displayed her "kill" in such a way that renders her entire life before that a null and void point.
FEK: which is so true of evil people doing evil things.
FEK: a supreme victory trumps an exquisite failure, especially when a show is put on about it. josh schwartz and co know exactly what they're doing. it's so scary and brutal and machiavellian.
FEK: watching gossip girl with me is like sitting through a "destruction of western civ 1010" course. i'm grinning the entire time.
Sam: so, you need to write for the show
Julia Allison TV
If you didn’t know, now you know. And if you didn’t see this coming, you’re an idiot. The real winner here? Nick Denton and Jason Fox. I mean, shit, man: I know agents. With slight exceptions, Fox is a very, very different cut, especially for a WMA solider. He’s been Julia Allison’s agent for a while, though, and more importantly, he understood her gameplan. If this...
The future of Tumblr? If I didn’t know, now I know. This will seperate the bad from the worst.
Young People Fucking →
Via GF. Kicking and Screaming meets American Pie?
Jeremy Piven to do David Mamet's SPEED-THE-PLOW on... →
We went public with the annoucement today. This is going to be…a ride.
Dave and Rian, getting married. And so happy for...
Me: but really: congratulations. a stellar step. hopefully someone will have kids before you, thereby putting the heat on you the way you now have on EVERYBODY ELSE.
DeVotchKa - “Transliterator”...
Todd (ARMS) makes the big-time. →
Bill Callahan comparisons aside?
David Byrne and Brian Eno to tour together. →
That sound you hear are heads in lower Manhattan, northern Brooklyn exploding.
Watchitsthereal: Youuuuuuuu asked for it. [See, here’s proof! Soulja Boyz II Men, ahoy!] MP3LINK: zshare.net/audio/1050348713db053c/ Except I HAD to reblog this. Holy shit. It’s like Christmas.
Speaking of Ricky Williams...
Taking a break for a little while. Check back in…never. Yussir: thanks for watching.
Things that are annoying: I Feel It All (remixed...
Is Lupe Fiasco the Isaiah/J.R. Rider of the rap...
Just asking. Here, we find the following quote, a la Lupe: “I don’t want to say I’m 100 percent sure, like, ‘Yeah, this is it.’ But 85 percent. That 15 percent is the X factor. That could be bills. Like, ‘Lupe, you got to pay the bills.’” Would Lupe Fiasco really retire? Really? The only people worse at retiring besides athletes are rappers. Also, I...
Point/Counterpoint, DCFC Edition
FEK: so...
Nameless Music Editor: so
FEK: i know it's monday and you're finishing an issue right now...but i need your input
NME: sure
FEK: the new death cab song...what make of it, you...now, before you answer, know that i'm expecting an answer that is, at best, completely dismissive of everything ben gibbard has ever breathed. so surprise me!
NME: i make of it, great wankery
AGHAGHAGAHGAHAGHH! OMFG!!! NEW WOLF PARADE! Wolf...
Things I Didn't Know About The NBA Until Now, Pt....
Gilbert Arenas dropped 20 last night on the Sixers. Yeah: last night. Not two years ago, last night. Just “last night.” Speaking of The Wiz(ards), LeBron and DeShawn Stevenson have beef, even though that’s kind of like Jay-Z and R-Kelly having beef (pepper spray?!) or even better, Ray Ray “Benzino” Scott and anybody he ever talked shit on (dude: you were an...
The Chocolate War: Not as sweet as you'd think
doree: Anna at Jezebel let me do a “Fine Lines” column this week, and so I picked one of the most depressing YA books ever written. This is a stellar, stellar book (as are Cormier’s other solid books, I AM THE CHEESE and THE BUMBLEBEE FLIES ANYWAY). He actually made a sequel to this book. Unfortuantely, the same thing more or less happens. Moreover: this is what going to a Catholic high...
um, hate to admit it, but that new 8 minute death cab song is actually kind of good, for having, like, ten words in it. could be why.
Fucking Bullshit!
rockuboff: I went to upload a song just now and it said that my audio limit has been used for the day. What the F. The last song I posted was yesterday’s Panic entry on Tuneage. booooooo, what gives?? I believe that’s referred to as “quality control.” Your audio limit has been used for the fiscal quarter.
i’m kind of willing to buy that chuck berris was actually a CIA spy.
WatchTV comes back tonight. Here’s this from the end of last season’s 30 Rock. They ran out of time to write “anything good” so they just ended up going with this, which…is stellar.
“You do not live in America. No such place exists…your clay is the clay of some...”
– (via rach) Angels in America, love it. Meryl Streep kills it as the rabbi in the HBO/Mike Nichols version. Also, nice little Tony Kushner/NYMag article this week about writing Angels.
“Here, meanwhile, are Mark’s ultra-hot musings on sex: “He considered it in the...”
– Wow. From the NY Observer review of Keith Gessen’s ALL THE SAD YOUNG LITERARY MEN, via a Vulture post.