Archive for June 11th, 2007

Bollocks:
saving music by pissing on crippleware

johnnyrotten400×526.jpgI was a snooty record store clerk. Now I put my rock-and-roll piss and vinegar on the RIAA! It works!

reverb: music from los angeles & beyond

Back around march, el-p put out a long-anticipated 3rd album, and i’ve been sleeping on that shit for three months. Shame on me! I finally picked it up this last week, and my mind is officially blown. A lot of mc/producers claim to be “pushing boundaries”, but mr. jaime meline, aka el-producto is one of [...]

curtains

Don’t adjust your screen. It was all a dream. Arrivederci Soprani. Wake up America.
I don’t think the last episode of the Sopranos was a cop out. I agree with Havrilesky that it was instructive and that it perfectly capped the critique of materialist consumer society and its values that was at the heart of the [...]

summer tubing

Life is a tradeoff: for all the fun in the sun that summer brings, the season also ushers in several months of sub-par television. Gone are sexy doctors and superhero cheerleaders and what do you do with a life absent sexy doctors and sperhero cheerleaders? For all of you in prime-time withdrawal, here’s some quick [...]

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