January 2012
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December 2011
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Satanic Verses →
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W. W. Norton: Jane Austen fires shot in Literary... →
wwnorton:
My dear Sir:
You are very kind in your hints as to the sort of composition which might recommend me at present, and I am fully sensible that an Historical Romance, founded on the House of Saxe-Couborg, might be much more to the purpose of Profit or Popularity than such pictures of domestic Life…
September 2011
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Da Kid Mero →
nativescience:
SWIZZ BEATZ DEFINITELY SOLD HIS SOUL TO SATAN B. I’M CONVINCED THIS NIGGA MADE SOME KINDA DEAL WITH SOMEBODY B. THAT NIGGA MUST KNOW SOME SECRET ABOUT THE BUSH FAMILY HAVING AN ILLEGAL ABORTION/CHILD PROSTITUTION RING OR SOMETHING B CUZ THAT NIGGA MAKES THE SAME 6 BEATS OVER AND OVER AND JUMPS ON EVERY HOOK LIKE “HUH-HUH-HEY-HEY WHUWHU-WHU-WHUHHHH SHOWTAAAAM!” BUT STILL HAS A...
August 2011
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“Was he now
In the middle
Of his life
With half of it
Yet to come
Like a...”
– “Middle Age” by Samuel Menashe (1925–2011)
Read Menashe’s obituary at The New York Times; listen to an audio portrait at the Poetry Foundation.
(via nybooks)
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B Michael Tumblr: I had a dream last night. You... →
bmichael:
I had a dream last night. You were there. We were both marionettes carved of sloughed off wood from the last world war. They ran tin cords through tiny holes in our hands and feet and made us dance the timorous way round the garden patch out back where we used to play as children when our parents…
Ay, por dios.
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Which is worse? Steve Albini, OFWGKTA, or Albini... →
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“Some of what she said was technical, and you would have had to be a welder to...”
– Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution
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Watch the Throne: Let Them Eat Cake By Hua Hsu →
What makes hip-hop such a durable form is its capacity to scramble fiction and fact; the artifice and the realities that art conceals or amplifies become one. In this way, Watch the Throne feels astonishingly different. It captures two artists who no longer need dreams; art cannot possibly prophesy a better future for either of them. All of this — the luxury goods, the art collection, private...
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“… and asks does [he] remember the myriad thespian extras on for example his...”
the notes: Dimly aware of a defect that must have... →
Dimly aware of a defect that must have plagued him even in school — it amounted to a mild case of aphasia — he apologized, saying, “Officialese [Amtssprache] is my only language.” But the point here is that officialese became his language because he was genuinely incapable of uttering a single…
“There is, in short, a nexus of interrelated assumptions built into the basic...”
– -Nicholas Cook (via jsmooth995)
This Analog Life: The glut →
Fifteen years ago, the main problem a lover of music— or film, or television, or other varieties of pop culture— would experience was scarcity. It took money to get hold of the stuff, and if you liked anything weird, it took effort, too. As a result, the default mode was to like what you could….
July 2011
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COCA →
“FLAME: So where does the anger in your music come from?
TYLER: Uh …
FLAME: Is...”
– Waka Flocka Flame interviews Tyler, The Creator @ Interview Magazine. Related: Waka Flocka Flame “Stereo Type” Lyrics. (via tumblinerb)
Yes: I was once in a meeting with a senior... →
zachbaron:
I was once in a meeting with a senior executive at a company I used to work for during which he suggested that the two things that did the best on the internet were lists and obituaries. (What were the ten commandments, he asked, but a list? What was the bible but one long litany of death?) He…
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“The feeling of entering some tripped-out New Age space that’s actually...”
– Nitsuh Abebe
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My Favorite Painter Has Died
My favorite painter has died.
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“Between the chances, choose the odd; read The New Yorker; trust in God; and take...”
– From W.H. Auden’s 1946 Harvard commencement speech, as quoted by our Poetry Editor Paul Muldoon (via newyorker)
“Chekhov told me once, “You know, I recently visited Tolstoy in Gaspra. He was...”
– Peter Gnedich, from The Book of Life (1922), quoted by Peter Sekirin in Memories of Chekhov (via nybooks)
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“The next real literary “rebels” in this country might well emerge as some weird...”
– DFW
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That Evening At Dinner →
By the last few times we saw her it was clear That things were different. When you tried to help her Get out of the car or get from the car to the door Or across the apartment house hall to the elevator There was a new sense of heaviness Or of inertia in the body. It wasn’t That she was less willing to be helped to walk But that the walking itself had become less willing. Maybe...
“I’d been reading books. Not baseball books. Biographies: Martin Luther King,...”
– from “Where We Are Now,” Ethan Canin (thanks, Marina)
June 2011
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“We played Glastonbury last night, and we did well, but the rain was bitingly...”
– Morrissey describes his Glastonbury experience as only Morrissey can.
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“When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone...”
– John Lennon on Waka Flocka Flame (via tumblinerb)
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“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for...”
– T.S. Eliot, from “East Coker” (via liquidnight)
“The title of *Kyrios* [trans., “Lord”] can have two meanings in the Old...”
– from an entry on “Seigneur” in the Vocabulaire de Théologie biblique (1974) as quoted in Boris Bobrinskoy, The Mystery of the Trinity (via wesleyhill)
“Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying:
— That is God.
Hooray!...”
– For Bloomsday. (via evanfleischer)
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B Michael Tumblr: Murder To Dissect: Preliminary... →
bmichael:
I crossed the line, and I’ll let God decide.
To start, let’s take a final look at two blog posts from January ‘11. Latoya Peterson’s initial take on “Monster” is that it’s “as if Kanye tore a page from the diary of Bigger Thomas, the protagonist of Richard Wright’s Native Son.” The…
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NO TRIVIA: Something About Kreayshawn. →
no-trivia:
Kreayshawn, V-Nasty, and company are mostly supported by people who, unlike Willy Staley here, aren’t willing to roll around in the mud with White Girl Mob’s inextricable racial and cultural problems. And that’s because rap’s completely mainstream and even Internet scenes break through to a…