Pretty soon (has it happened yet?), all the contemporary pop artists will be covering 90s modern rock radio hits, and I hope this one gets treated well. Or I hope that it doesn’t. I hope that it gets treated.
The Origin and Copyright Protection of the Unknown Pleasures cover art.
And on the topic of Joy Division… I laughed at the tl;dr section.
If I can put on my teacher hat for a moment, this is also a great example of how to use Wikipedia as a starting point for research, instead of the final destination.
Maria also linked yesterday to Disney’s appropriation of this image (a mashup that makes absolutely no sense), and I couldn’t stop thinking about it at the gym this morning, so this explanation gave me a small bit of peace, or at least something to chew on.
If I didn’t have to go to law school and probably turn into a jerk to do it, I’d be an IP lawyer.
"It seems like every human interaction becomes a marketing opportunity."
via marathonpacks
At the local bar with chalkboards in the bathrooms, I’ve started writing “ADS EVERYWHERE” any time someone spams a URL, even if it’s for a cutesy little arts or indie theater organization. Facebook is an amateur ad feed, and I suspect everyone will stop reading it in two years’ time. I currently work in marketing, but constant promotion leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
We will have intercourse in every direction.
DYFL?: Fun Fact Of The Day
dyfl:
Adele’s “Someone Like You” was co-written by the guy from Semisonic.
Not sure how I missed that until now…
How did I miss that? How did I miss all the coverage of the Minnesota connection? (The Strib published a couple of stories… but for some reason the Current never talks about it, which makes no sense, or maybe I just miss it, every time.*)
But, then, we also all more or less ignored the fact that Young Adult not only takes place in Minnesota but also doesn’t even have those accents y’all have complain about in the movies and actually pretty accurately portrays Minnesota in the early millennium!
Anyway, we’re quite centered on having our own Minnesota-centric culture, so when something Minnesotan is huge and national there’s a little bit of cognitive dissonance. That’s a working theory, anyway.
Or maybe I just thought I was paying attention and missed it all.
*Apropos of nothing except my recent annoyance: No one makes me want to troll the way John Munson does.
Love is the meaning of life.
(I think I am a Twolves fan!)
What does “trolling” mean to you?
Another disappointment that happened this weekend was when I dreamed I saw the Moonrise Kingdom trailer, and the trailer in my dream was Gwyneth Paltrow in a role that was something like Charlize Theron in Young Adult (a movie I really liked!), but instead she was more likeable, and talking shit a little bit like Courtney Love did in Behind the Music. I dreamed the one way that Gwyneth Paltrow could be endearing again, and it was amazing. In my dream, the trailer for Moonrise Kingdom was a trailer about adults.
So you can imagine how disappointing it was to watch the real Moonrise Kingdom trailer and find out that it’s just a bunch of little kids running around in animal costumes, like Wes Anderson is Max Fischer making the same play over and over again. (I am a huge fan of 4/6 of his films! And this one could be good too, I guess.) Also I was never a huge fan of the Anna Karina archetype, so it will be difficult for me to get past it when it’s pasted on a 13-year-old girl. Gwyneth-Courtney is much cooler is all I’m saying.
Poliça - Lay Your Cards Out
OH SHEEEEEIT.
I was just too lazy to re-embed it.
The Polica record is pretty good (a little slow at times for me but there are some rad songs!), but Channy’s haircut is AWESOME in this video. Oh boy, short hair!
Ryan Olson is only in bands with terrible names (Polica, Gayngs, Marijuana Death Squads), but I like this style of music. It is more triphop than chillwave, non?
the etsy shop of the artist, Marnie Karger, who is actually from Minneapolis. [Sorry, Annicka, but you used the words “bestie” and “dins,” so you get edited.]
I’m on a roll of reblogging twee Twin Cities art things so DC will probably unfollow me so hard but whatever these are cool.
You’d be surprised at how many twee Twin Cities art things blogs I follow because on occasion I like one or two of those twee art things! I saw Karger’s work in FrameUps a while ago and thought it was super smart and clever and a good way to do twee and marketable without being saccharine. I would totally own one of these, if I had a particular affinity for any body of water that’s not the Atlantic Ocean.
You know when on Monday you feel totally fine and have plans to take over the world and on Tuesday you wake up and have been hit like a brick with Pain Cold and you can’t even get anything done but you have Computer Phone and you hate Computer Phone all of the time for its crippling simplicity but who ever thought that in your lifetime you could be sick and never leave your bed because of a damn phone? I hate the phone but it sure brings an element of interest to the pity party!
