Entries from March 2008

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

the integration is the message

Have you seen these billboards?

They’re all over the place:

Been wondering what the hell that’s all about, maybe?

Well, answer #1 goes like this:
Hope people have been seeing the billboards that I have put up around town. I think its important everyone knows how much Sarah Marshall SUCKS! How she does look fat in those jeans! [...]

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

culture seeks its level

In Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter explain that really, there was never any conflict between the two to begin with. Counterculture hinges on, and consumer culture consists of, the expression of your lifestyle/identity. Whether you’re choosing to wear Nikes, Doc Martens, or some crazy obscure Japanese [...]

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

yet more from the New Yorker!

“THIS TRACK JUST MADE ME PREGNANT” - Sasha Frere-Jones, pop music critic at the New Yorker, waxes poetic about the Glitch “Lazer-Bass” Scene. Read more…
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

“this above all else…

…to thine own self be true.”
- William Shakespeare as Polonius

YOU MUST READ THIS STORY FROM THE NEW YORKER:
Something in me had snapped, was broken beyond repair. My taste had been central to my identity. I’d cultivated it, kept it fed and watered like an exotic flowering plant. Now I realized that what I thought [...]

Monday, March 17th, 2008

adore adore

heard a track on indie 103.1 a couple of weeks ago by a dude named yoav and really dug the sound, then i checked out the lyrics last night, and was completely sold. with songs about the nightlife underbelly (”club thing“) and celebrity culture (”adore adore“) it’s like social psychology insights on a guitar–with [...]

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

the glitch mob has a website!

i’m excited to announce that the glitch mob website, which i’ve been consulting on over the past few months, is finally launched! it’s still just a wee little weblet at the moment, but there are many plans to have it be slayin’ the bandwidth proper in no time.

theglitchmob.com
ps. i’m looking forward to every instance [...]

Monday, March 10th, 2008

“Every day is another day starring you.”

“The idea that whoever appeared onstage would play not me but a character was central to imagining how to make the narrative: I would need to see myself from outside.”
~ Joan Didion

In the midst of the quicksand hazard posed by every single episode of Lost available online, and in high def, I saw an ad [...]

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

reality imitating art

from realitytvmagazine.com:
As if Hollywood’s not a circus enough as it is, ABC and NBC are both getting in on the action. Roll out the big top, guys, the circus is coming to town.
NBC has announced its plan to air Celebrity Circus, based on an Endemol format that’s been a huge hit in Portugal and Argentina, [...]