I would rather see something that was clearly internet engineered for me than a picture of food taken on any cellphone camera, especially if it was instagrammed, and especially if that food involves meat or noodles.
Every parody should be a Pet Shop Boys parody.
I’m beginning to realize that, if I want it to have any cultural relevance to any contemporary audience at all, I should probably get started writing my Velvet Goldmine-style movie about Britpop (to be directed by Sofia Coppola).
skin stretched tight over high cheekbones and thousands of tiny dryness lines beating a path into the corners of your eyes
Do you think that the Occupy crowd really likes A Different Class?
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.
My earliest memory of alternative or new wave music is when I went to tennis camp at the public school down the street from my house, during the summer I was 7. The tennis instructor— who became very frustrated with me when I couldn’t master the backhand— used to sing “Words are very unnecessary” over and over again. He was probably 15.
Anyway, after several years of ogling Rafa on the tv, this evening I’m going to attempt to play tennis again, and if I sing this song, I know it will bring to life my backhand.
“Faded High” is one of my favorite songs of the year, and Justin Vernon singing my favorite line from the song, “None of your shit from the bar” (heh) makes this version very stimulating indeed.
Wednesday Morning Dance Party, y’all.
(Source: mplstv)
Tonight he became the seventh man ever to win a Career Grand Slam, but did you know that Rafael Nadal also starred in this Shakira video earlier this year?
“How to Be Alone” by Tanya Davis and Andrea Dorfman.
But the part about dancing alone, though.
The opener of season four features some new Minneapolis locales, a reenactment of a memorable scene in Cool Hand Luke, a plaid jumpsuit, and Mary’s terrible new haircut. (I think Rhoda won the hair olympics this season and is overall much cuter, which is why I tried on some neon green gauchos from the 70s at the store today. Rhoda would have looked better in them than I did.)
At 26 seconds of the season four theme, Mary is at the grocery store (Sentyrz or Rainbow?) and half-heartedly throws some meat into her shopping cart. At first I was baffled and amused by this action that seemingly has nothing to do with anything, but now I realize the chucking of chuck represents the total fucking downer that is the fourth season. For a show about a single woman, there sure are a lot of major plot points that revolve around serious marital problems!
(Don’t worry, I still love you, MTM.)
After reading the Sassy book, I’m going to the library to read old issues of Sassy. I was too young for Sassy when it was good, but I came of age in the waves of girl power that followed.
So here I go: how good was Sassy? Was I really not cool enough for it (the way I kinda always felt I was)? Or is everyone still clinging to the only girls’ mag legacy that seems different from the others just because it was not as stupid?
The entire time I read the Sassy book I thought of the Fiona clip. Fiona Apple spoke the truth when I was a freshman in high school.
