Farewell Mark Linkous
I can’t say Sparklehorse was the most consistent group/guy in music, but when it/he was good he was very good. Mark Linkous killed himself Sunday — very sad.
Without words
It’s been, what — two weeks? — since the season finale of Californication aired and I still can’t get “Rocket Man” out of my head. I don’t particularly like Elton John, but this scene just blew me away. It was an uneven season, and I often couldn’t make up my mind whether I was watching [...]
Ceci n’est pas une chanteuse
I was looking around at the state of pub-it-yourself magazines (in one of those Screw all y’all, I’ma make my own damn magazine moods) and found this amazing document on a site called MagCloud. It’s called Gigi, the Black Flower by Josh Gosfield, and it’s a collection of retro-designed media that tells the fictional story [...]
Nice one
Why do I still want to like Kanye West? So the guy says a lot of stupid things, so he comes off as a big baby with a huge ego and no self-awareness. So what? If you want a “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” moment, you might have to tolerate idiocy like this. [...]
Things you weren’t meant to see
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The Rolling Stones - cocksucker blues part 2 sélectionné dans Musique et Rock / Pop
Part two of Cocksucker Blues, the documentary about the Rolling Stones’ 1972 North American tour. It is banned, or unreleased, or illegal, or something — let Wikipedia explain. I watched it last night [...]
Sing it, Katie
This may go down as the pinnacle of Auto-tune the News.
Oops — there’s the door. Must be my lettuce dealer with fresh leaf.
A few things your dad liked
Here’s just the sort of thing that gets me going. “Gets me going” perhaps a poor choice of words — but for me, as a kinda-ex-Playboy guy who likes forgotten music and fetishizes everything having to do with bygone bachelorpad-ism, a picture like this is like a papyrus scroll from Giza. Look at that sweet [...]
Not your father’s songwriter Earle
Justin Townes Earle is Steve Earle’s son, and he’s really good. I got to meet him for a profile I wrote for Inked. Nicest guy in the world, though — and I don’t mean to generalize — you often get that with recovered heroin addicts. We should all wake up every day feeling so lucky [...]
Which is better
“I’m a Cuckoo” from Dear Catastrophe Waitress was the best song Belle and Sebastian put out post-Boy With the Arab Strap. What makes it more appealing? Stuart Murdoch in jogging shorts:
…or Lisa and Molly in hats slapping each other?
Yeah, not really a fair fight, is it.
You’ve got to pick up every stitch
BBC: It’s a veritable witch hunt in Gambia, which has invited witch doctors from Guinea to hunt witches. What could possibly go wrong? Gambian police and army are on the case, though, ensuring that no villagers can escape and that all suspected witches have enough diarrhea-inducing potion to drink.
NYT: Demise of David Alan Grier’s Chocolate [...]
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