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Jay-Z - Some How Some Way (feat. Beanie Siegel...

Jan 26th

Jan 20th

Town Hall - Mary A. Longden

Jan 17th

The Oracle Hysterical - Im wunderschönen Monat...

Jan 16th

Jan 15th

On Rihanna's Album Covers

I am working my way through the Rihanna discography. I have little to say about the quality of the music, which is consistently not-bad, with the exception of the singles, which I already knew were good. I’m actually more interested in her albums’ cover designs. The cover above, from Music of the Sun, is clearly the worst. I suppose this makes sense, since it was her first album and...

Jan 15th

Two Songs

I would not be surprised if this was the most listened-to song of the past five years in certain circles. I was introduced to M.I.A. during my freshman year of college in the fall of 2007, just after the release of Kala. At the time, M.I.A. was certainly not an underground artist by any means, but she certainly had not gained the notoriety that she would gain after “Paper Planes”...

Jan 15th

Jan 14th

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Peep Show

Aurora: So that's great, you're in a band. What's it called?

Jez: Oh, right now we're called "Various Artists" just to fuck over people with iPods. We think it'll set us back two or three years, which is cool.

Jan 13th

Jan 9th

765 notes

Jan 8th

1,278 notes

Re: 8 Days of Ryan Gosling

I just remembered I was supposed to write up the conclusions of my Ryan Gosling marathon. I guess I’m still planning to do that. Maybe tomorrow.

Jan 7th

The Beach Boys - I Know There’s an Answer ...

Jan 7th

2012 resolutions

whirr: Pen the great American novel Die

Jan 2nd

4 notes

Dec 30th

Plans

Last night I watched The Notebook, which was really a terrible movie. I am leaving open the possibility that I simply don’t understand the genre of sappy, derivative romantic films, assuming that there are enough sappy, derivative romantic films for them to constitute a genre. Perhaps within this genre, The Notebook is noteworthy. Even if this is the case, the defining qualities of this...

Dec 26th

Julio Iglesias - La Mer I’ve been digging...

Dec 25th

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Peep Show

Jez: People like lager and nuts.

Super Hans: People like Coldplay and voting for the Nazis.

Dec 23rd

Coming soon: 8 Days of Ryan Gosling

I first learned of the “Feminist Ryan Gosling” meme a few weeks ago when I tried to introduce a friend of mine to “College Freshman.” I made a comment about how if she was unfamiliar with “College Freshman,” she really couldn’t have a good grasp on internet memes in general. She retorted by voicing her approval of FRG, as well as “Judging...

Dec 20th

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →

Health (10) Body Language (6) Beyoncé (4) Nicki Minaj (4) A$AP Rocky (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 19th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →

Teebs (28) John Lennon & Yoko Ono (16) Coldplay (14) Atlas Sound (12) John Lennon (11) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 13th

Dec 10th

806 notes

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →

The Beach Boys (32) Mtislav Rostropovich (8) Gidon Kremer, Kent Nagano & London Symphony Orchestra (4) Vassily Primakov, Paul Mann, Ødense Symphony Orchestra (4) Come On And…

Dec 7th

“Rebecca Chapman, who has a master of arts in English and comparative literature...”

– That is a beautiful first graf. Source

Dec 2nd

HEALTH - Before Tigers (CFCF Remix)

Nov 25th