January 2008
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Watch#12: belle and sebastian - lazy line painter jane (1997)
i don’t know why the scottish singer monica queen never sang with belle and sebastian ever again, but maybe it’s because the tune she joined them on was so twangy and perfect that it couldn’t be bettered. poor monica queen.
i’m not crazy about the first half of this video, but then we get to see late-90s belle and...
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thoughts on lil wayne's rat-tat-tats
leon: did you know that lil wayne
leon: says something along the lines of
me: tell me tell me tell me
leon: "don't try to run up on me, i got precision with that gat/ i don't rat-tat-tat-tat-tat/ all I got to do is/ tat"
me: whoa.
me: so he shoots once?
leon: yes
me: in the head?
leon: who knows!
leon: in the dicks
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“if a strain of gallows humor didn’t underlie many of mr. cohen’s...”
– stephen holden on leonard cohen in the new york times, june 2006
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Watch#6: anna karina - roller girl (1965)
kat, the new york observer’s photo editor, who wears black spectacles almost as cool as the pair in this film, said she enjoyed sunday’s serge gainsbourg video, but promised that his soundtrack for the 1967 film anna (france’s first tv film in color) was better.
the lady was right. is there anything grander than watching anna...
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Watch#5: lil’ wayne (ft. robin thicke) - shooter (2006)
as we speak, lil’ wayne (aka weezy f. baby, young carter, birdman jr., or maybe you just know him as the best rapper alive) is in the custody of yuma, arizona’s sheriff’s department. that’s because the u.s. border patrol just found 105 grams of marijuana (that’s 210 dime bags, if you were wondering), plus 29...
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good song #1: n.e.r.d. - everyone nose (2008)
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Watch#3: otis redding - shake / i’ve been loving you (1967)
skip shake and get to the gloryland: “this is a song that, you know, we all have to sing sometimes,” says otis redding when he introduces i’ve been loving you to 200,000 california hippies at the monterey international pop festival. “this is the love crowd right? we all love each other don’t we? am I right?...
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“i’m going to promenade down funky broadway until the cows come home”
– van morrison
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Watch#1: dusty springfield - son of a preacher man (1968)
the very first video was chosen because of dusty springfield’s blouse, the single best shirt ever worn on national television.
clothing choices aside, if that little move she does with her right arm before she starts singing doesn’t kill you, then you’re dead inside. and how about how those memphis horns? and how about her...
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don't think twice, tumblr's alright
inspired by my new york observer colleague doree shafrir’s lovely article on the founder of tumblr, i’ve made the life-altering decision to start my very first blog. whoa!
will i write about personal goings-on? probably not.
will max abelson ever write in the third person? only that one time, but not again.
will i share a really grand song every single day of the week, sometimes an...
