January 2012
14 posts
Sheryl Sandberg: the first lady of Facebook takes... →
This is not a bad article per se, and I don’t know enough about Sheryl Sandberg to say something about her either way, but as someone quite invested in opportunity and equality in business these types of “woman beating the men at their own game”-portraits always do strike me as feeding into a harmful narrative and perpetuating the myth that the game isn’t inherently rigged...
“Because Born To Die is bad. It’s really bad. It’s bad in ways that “Video Games”...”
– Oh screw you, Stereogum.
Not because the album’s great — it isn’t, it’s too long and same-y; ‘passable’ at best with a few singles and a lot of filler — but because Stereogum comes across as deeply, worryingly calculating and cynical here. If you follow the site you...
We Need To Talk About Skyrim
So I was all like “Oh get a life you people, who gets excited about looking at video game sunsets” and who’s laughing now? It’s not me. Definitely not me.
Tech Blogs Are From Mars, Music Blogs Are From... →
As a founder, I have a personal goal that’s just as important and just as core to our culture: I do not want to sell this company. I have opened nearly every meeting by telling potential investors and potential employees this, so I guess readers should know it from the beginning as well.
Of course, there’s the caveat that if someone calls me tomorrow and offers $1 billion, I might cave. I do...
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The Classical: Wrestling Is A Vampire →
airgordon:
Remember that Smashing Pumpkins question I asked forever ago? (Of course you don’t.) It was for this piece I wrote for The Classical about attending the first show for Billy Corgan’s wrestling promotion, Resistance Pro, which got put up a few minutes ago — a long time coming, but a worthwhile wait after getting such a deep, awesome edit by Mr. David Roth. I talk about the ’90s, the...
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tomewing:
This is my last column for the Guardian’s Film & Music section (the section itself is ending next week, folding back into the paper - a sad day IMO) - blogging got me the gig so if this does turn out to be the last regular thing I write there I wanted something hopeful but faintly valedictory, and a feature on Tumblr’s positive influence on music writing felt like just the thing....
December 2011
22 posts
insomnius:
andrewtsks:
insomnius:
I love One Week One Band, but a whole week stuffed with Spotify links is a bit of a bummer.
Agreed. This better not become the default mode of operation for the site. Not everyone has, or is interested in getting, Spotify. JUST SAYIN!
I’m in Australia, so I don’t even have the option of getting Spotify (at least, not without a whole lot of proxy-related...
One Week // One Band: Theme Week Submissions
isabelthespy:
hndrk:
Disrupting regular service for a quick One Week // One Band PSA:
I was initially planning to leave the week starting December 26th vacant as a Christmas break because nobody should be tied to blogging lengthy musical pieces during the festive days. But why let a good week go to waste?
I wanted to toy around with the format a bit in the new year anyway, so I guess I...
“Poor Adele. Not a phrase you hear often, as she had been having such a good...”
– Music critics snub the public’s taste in Poll of Polls | The Independent
So many gold quotes in that one.
Which is funny but also sad because if you took a mile’s worth of steps back and looked at the bigger picture there’s some good observations (not new but interesting...
One Week One Band—The Whole List
hangingfire:
Monday
How I discovered radiophonics—an introduction
The Tomorrow People
Daphne Oram, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and excerpt from The Same Trade as Mozart
The interior of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop studio
Daphne Oram—”Pompie Ballet”
Tuesday
Delia Derbyshire, “Blue Veils and Golden Sands”
Delia describes her method of making music with tape-loops
“Science and Health”, the music...
I'm Neither Contractually Obligated Nor...
Smith Westerns - All Die Young
The Generationals - Yours Forever
Gorillaz - Amarillo
Nicola Roberts - Lucky Day
Computer Magic - Running
Coeur de Pirate - Danse et Danse
Charli XCX - Stay Away
Wild Beasts - Lion’s Share
Blouse - Videotapes
Grimes - Vanessa
Fucked Up - Queen of Hearts
M83 - Wait
Yuck - Shook Down
Alex Turner - Piledriver Waltz
St....
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“My love life is kinda like that dinosaur bit from The Tree of Life. I mean,...”
– Terrible awards season humor, courtesy of yours truly on Gchat.
One Week // One Band: Theme Week Submissions
Disrupting regular service for a quick One Week // One Band PSA:
I was initially planning to leave the week starting December 26th vacant as a Christmas break because nobody should be tied to blogging lengthy musical pieces during the festive days. But why let a good week go to waste?
I wanted to toy around with the format a bit in the new year anyway, so I guess I might as well start early....
I Was a Teenage Dungeon Master
Do you think sneaking ‘The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim for Xbox 360’ onto my christmas wish list in between a TASCHEN coffee table book on modernism and the ‘Antoine Doinel’-cycle box set lessens the chances of my parents going “Our son wants to spend his time doing what??” yes/no?
“It’s not just for fantasy enthusiasts” etc.
November 2011
14 posts
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“If your dreams are always so much better than what is happening in your life,...”
– Is this…
A) A moderately chuckle-worthy joke that popped into my head last night that I can’t bother to Google check because that certainly ends up in disappointment like the time I thought nobody came up with “White Whine” before
OR
B) The poorly fonted inscription (post...
MY FRIEND DAN →
backleftlitz:
Hello! You’re probably in the middle of deciding whether to spend Thanksgiving with your ailing father or super-hot new boyfriend/girlfriend, so let me just say quick that this is my 150th post on Tumblr, that that number is sort of skewed b/c at least 20% of the time I gnash teeth/pull hair for a while post-posting and then delete the post, and also that—because in a sense most of...
#regularbrag
So earlier today I came back into my flat and heard Sunset Rubdown playing on the stereo and also some voices that indicated my flatmate had a couple of girls over. Being genuinely amazed by the unsuspected prospect of two of my favourite things together I entered the living room with an excited “Whoa, someone’s got great taste in music!” and in my mind the scene played out in...
“Growing up, moving on, leaving your youth behind: all more serious than you...”
– My favourite album: 13 by Blur | Music | guardian.co.uk
This might all sound overly sentimental, especially when you’re not sharing the feeling towards said record. ‘13’ is my favourite album* as well though, so reading this makes my heart warm a little…
(*It used to be a toss...
“Additionally Mr. DiCaprio, who typically comes accessorized with a supermodel...”
– What now, NYT?? I can’t even.
… (<- the ellipsis of complete and utter intellectual resignation)
A Star Who Isn’t Afraid to Take Risks | NYTimes.com
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I've made a huge mistake…
So my family’s all stocked up on iPhones and a few weeks back I taught my parents how to make video/FaceTime calls, so they could ring me up free of charge.
Now this is how our calls go:
What happened to your hair?
You look really sleepy. Did you just get up?
Is your bed still not made in the background there?
Here, let me just walk you through our kitchen remodelling…
Are you...