July 2009
Jay-Z, Kanye, Fact, And Fiction Collide At Webster... →
Also colliding, here: Jeff from ITR and Maura doing a joint collabo! In which they take me to task for being an irreponsible rumor-spreading yay-sayer (NOT a yeasayer). Obviously a must-read.
Video: Kanye West Performing With Clipse, Lykke Li... →
And with that, I’m going to bed, maybe under my desk in the office. I think I grinded a tooth down to nothing tonight. Things you’ll hear more about: Jeff getting dragged into the ?uestlove interview with me, and Passion Pit (A) sucking, sadly and (B) their drummer being a gigantic dick. That being said: awesome night.
Is Jay-Z playing an NYC secret show tonight with... →
mdfsmash:
rebeccalando:
meaghano:
fek:
Seriously: tickets are free. There’s no reason for you not to go to this, Hov or No Hov. My money’s on Hov.
This is like Foster’s moment of journalistic glory. BETTER BE TRUE.
WHERE ARE THESE SAID TICKETS??
UPDATE: I would have had to be at the Diesel store 45 min ago WITH Diesel jeans on. Fail.
They’re going to be letting a LOT of people...
um for this you're missing Obliterati????
peterfeld:
fek:
Yeah: looks like I was right about Jay-Z. Ha. See you guys tomorrow night.
Sorry Peter. “Best Rapper Alive” + Passion Pit + The Roots + Lykki Li + Cobra Starship + Drake > Obliterati by a slight edge.
Yeah: looks like I was right about Jay-Z. Ha. See you guys tomorrow night.
Is Jay-Z playing an NYC secret show tomorrow night... →
Seriously: tickets are free. There’s no reason for you not to go to this, Hov or No Hov. My money’s on Hov.
Ok, this is amazing.
Mmm.... Mormon Burger (In Homer Simpson Voice)
negevrockcity:
Hiring culinary anthropologist John T. Edge as a contributor was the best move the New York Times dining section made in a long time. His article on Salt Lake City-style pastrami burgers is amazing - and hunger inducing. Seriously, just read it.
Writing about the SLC Burger scene and not mentioning B & D (dollar burger Tuesdays, what’s up?) or Hires Big H (where all the...
Listen
Brand New - I Will Play My Game Beneath The...
Dan Kois gets wonderful on the wedding dance video.
Watchyoungmanhattanite:
Please remind me, which circle of hell is this? Seriously, though, I want a fucking strawberry.
Eagle-eyed Manhattan Media Hunters: I’m pretty sure that’s Neel Shah in the Dodgers hat at the bottom of the frame at 00:29.
Lindsay Robertson, at the House of Jez this week.
*Lindsay actually doesn’t need any introduction. She has been blogging before there were blogs, and, as such, she knows more about its culture than almost anyone else I know. (As former Gawker/current NY Mag editor Jessica Coen puts it, “She knows more about the depths of this inane online culture than anyone one human being should,...
And, big shocker: Bakes killed it again.
The Best Of Racial Profiling, Pop Culture Edition →
Do me a favor and read this. I wouldn’t normally beg, but, yeah: I’m pretty happy with this.
Conversations on race taking place in this country again are important, and I’m beginning to side with the people who see the value of the White House getting involved: why not try to change the conversation? And just talking about it isn’t enough, either: talking about the way...
katiebakes:
justsayjolie:
The Wallflowers,...
Thom Yorke's Twilight Songs →
hortenseg:
Please come play Thom Yorke Twilight with me, as I know you guys can do better than I did.
Ha. I mistook something someone else did at Jezebel earlier today for something Hortense did. I just assume all the best stuff to be her. This, especially, is fun/awesome.
Second marriages.
katiebakes:
This week’s Altarcations was cruelly denied by Gawker after a series of technical mishaps rendered me unable to email in the finished product on time. So I did the next best thing which means you can find it on Young Manhattanite’s archaic “left bar”.
Here’s the link. An hors d’oeuvre:
Speaking of winter recreation, I’m trying to figure out which Utah ski resort Anita Kawatra was...
"Dark Star": You consider any Dead song that...
ninety9:
katiebakes:
No word on Ripple. Or Ramble on Rose.
The flip side of this is a rash of hip-hop/punk cred slinging from the rest of the YM crew. The first Dead song I heard was that Grey song (what was it? Shades of Grey or something?). I know I’ve heard ‘Truckin’ and there’s some captain song or something (or is it California?) that everyone cites. That is the entirely of my...
JAY-Z TO REPLACE BEASTIE BOYS AS ALL POINTS WEST...
baxterp:
fek:
….and it looks like I’ll be taking a Saturday off this summer.
SQQQUEEEEEEEE!!!!!
But it’s on Friday…
Exactly.
“When I first received word yesterday that the tape was being shopped around, Sir...”
– AJ and Denton discussing the LeBron dunk tape.
Queen Chris nails Jon Goesselin’s gaming of the gossip business.
“For the last five years I’ve been a father, and I increasingly see the world...”
– The best take on Dash Snow’s death I have yet to read. Even if you don’t give a fuck about Dash Snow - and I don’t - this is what the Coolest of the Cool are doing in New York. The pinnacle of hipsterism is a low, low place.
Okay, the best thing I’m probably going to read on the internet all week is the Jezebel piece that has Tatiana the Anonymous Model coming out. Besides being an incredible writer, she’s clearly smart, well-traveled, and stunningly hot. Three more reasons she makes me, a grown-ass man, want to be a 19 year-old 6”4 bulemic genius. All of you too, just…admit it.
Of all the people you could impersonate and defame via a fake Twitter account, would Charlie Kaufman really be your first choice? Then again: Im bout ta ride and glide on yo sugah stick could very well be the working title of his next screenplay. It’s about a Booty Rapper whose career is on a downward slope when he suddenly recieves a 40 Oz. of Mickeys that allows him three wishes, but each...
How Yiddish Thrives In New York →
(via negevrockcity)
Holy shit. Somewhere, my mother is having a coronary right now. Meanwhile, this:
Twenty years ago, Mr. Mason himself regretted being quoted as describing David N. Dinkins, the Democratic mayoral candidate, as “a fancy schvartze,” invoking a Yiddish word, often used derogatorily, for a black man. Mr. Mason later apologized. “I’m a comedian,” he said then, “not a politician.”...
Wow, well, Internet, you’ve really done it again this time. I read some of the stuff lobbed at NatashaVC for her post on Gwkr about “Pool Films,” which I thought was exactly what a great blog post could be: good concept, plenty to argue with, creates its own rubric/logic to plug in information into and get results out of. And now I’m just ashamed, though pretty sure nothing...
chfdigital:
I must say, this is a great find: Pete...
I Will Be Buying The New Yorker And Not Stealing... →
Speaking of some gangster-ass shit: Doree, in the New Yorker, writing about Talib Kweli* and Mos Def.
*Talib Kweli was my first big interview. The guy was ridiculously smart, far more articulate than anybody I’ve ever talked to - still, to this day - and terrifying. I ran out of questions on the phone and froze-up.
Young, College Freshman FEK: Uh, um. Uh. Hang on here, I just…...
Ground Rules
@weareyourfek: I AIN'T TALKIN' BOUT TINA/I AIN'T TALKIN' BOUT NICK/I AIN'T TALKIN' BOUT GRAYDON/I AIN'T TALKIN' BOUT PINCH
@itsthereal: I AIN'T TALKING BOUT ABRAMS, I AIN'T TALKING BOUT SKLAR, I AIN'T TALKING BOUT JARVIS, I AIN'T TALKING BOUT CARR
@weareyourfek: I AIN'T TALKIN BOUT HIPSTERS/I AIN'T TALKIN BOUT THE L/I AIN'T TALKIN BOUT THE HAMPTONS/I AIN'T TALK ABOUT RACHELLE
@itsthereal: I AIN'T TALKING BOUT GAWKER, I AIN'T TALKING BOUT GUEST, I AIN'T TALKING BOUT TUMBLR, I AIN'T TALKING BOUT REX
@weareyourfek: I AIN'T TALKIN' BOUT JEAN GEORGES/I AIN'T TALKIN' BOUT MCNALLY/I AIN'T TALKIN' BOUT CHANG/I AIN'T TALKIN' BOUT BATALI
@itsthereal: I AIN'T TALKING BOUT JULIA, I AIN'T TALKING BOUT HER DOG, I AIN'T TALKING BOUT HER CONDOM DRESS, I AIN'T TALKING BOUT HER BLOG
kapi:
Common People — Pulp
French Existentialist Had A Big Dick, Hated Sex →
Writing-wise, this was the highlight of my weekend. If that tells you anything.
zachlinder:
Paul Anka - Mr. Brightside
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