July 2012
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If you live in Australia today you can get a copy of the new Big Issue (#412) and read a feature I wrote about 90s revivalism. Had to cut it way down so all the parentheses paying tribute to Simon Reynolds ended up in the nether.
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After playing through Gossamer a few times I began to wonder how many sucker kids would be at festivals in the next year in their denim cut-offs and Ray Bans shouting uplifting hooks like “Love! Love! Love!”, feeling like to be young is very heaven etc., basically trying to ride the same vibes from the first album, without realising that the whole song is a pessimistic screed about the...
neveralovelysoreal asked: I began to mistrust your country when I saw BMX Bandits, but this pronunciation of Bjork really takes it over the top.
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rawkblog:
jakec:
imathers replied to your video: rawkblog: For the first-ever Rawkblog…
Bow-ie. Byork.
Say goodbye to yer loved ones, Mathers. Pistols at dawn.
Is it secretly pronounced “Buhjork”?
The correct Australian pronunciation is actually closer to “Bwark.”
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Stuff Girls Like
katecarraway:
New Girl News column for Vice is about Stuff Girls Like. The image on the post is pretty great, but the image that comes up if you post it to Facebook is the most majestic pony you ever seeeeeeen.
I’m in this, though not as any of the stuff girls like.
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“Another of SLAM’s objectives is to change the way in which noise levels are...”
– Not a bad interview if you’re interested in the forces attempting to dismantle live music in Melbourne, and some of the people working against them.
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"Why I Love Jonathan Richman" by Everett True
Shamelessly copied from Plan B #18
I first heard Jonathan Richman back in ‘82. It was when I was sharing a tiny one- bedroom flat in south east London with my friend Aggi. Every evening after work, I would rush home to paste down some more Girl’s Annual illustrations among enthusiastic words about The Go-Betweens and early Creation acts like Mod acolytes Jasmine Minks and the Byrds-ian Revolving...
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This whole album is just grim.
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“1975: Sensible for once, I dropped some speed and Valium, went to the office,...”
– Lester Bangs
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Do you think anybody has ever grown up thinking their name was ‘Cheyenne’ when in fact their birth name was Anne, but as an infant her parents found her to be especially bashful and took to calling her Shy Anne, which then imprinted itself in her memory and her parents never corrected her? Do you think your parents lied to you about your name? How old were you when you first asked your...
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“…a misused Kathryn Hahn…”
– Clem Bastow on The Newsroom
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“It’s Sophie’s EP release party. You can stream it! She’s about...”
– Tumblr’s Daniel Kolitz telling me to watch a party hosted by Tumblr’s Sophie Weiner via Ustream. The internet is weird. We are all connected. We are all best friends.
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Not to flatter him too much but Chris Ott’s tenure at One Week // One Band covering The Cure has been everything I want One Week // One Band tenures to be. The Spotify playlists are extremely helpful. I’ve never been one for The Cure, they were never of any significant relevance to anyone I knew so I just missed out on them, but I’m having a real good time getting the gaps...
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TOBACCONIST
I guess it’s the part of me that sat attentively through high school anti-drug lectures and gruesome QUITline ads that gave me pause when I walked into the tobacco shop and for the first time ever, they recognised me. I asked for the same thing I always did (which had recently gone up 30c) and while he was ringing it up the guy who looked a little like another guy I used to play tennis with...
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“[Publishing is] making something public. That’s not a job anymore. That’s a...”
– Clay Shirky (via austinkleon)
It may require nothing to publish but it still requires hella something to write. Let’s be real: what this kind of accessibility has done for writers is made finding the good ones and clinging to them like driftwood even more important, lest you’re overcome...
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neveralovelysoreal replied to your post: I was out the other night when “Rill Rill” came on and it made me think of something. It’s a good song, but let’s be real— the lyrics are pretty dumb. I thought of a Stereogum post on the new Lana Del Rey video, which I think they liked, but they said the lyrics were stupid. Yes, but I wondered: what makes “National Anthem” dumb and “Rill Rill” cool? The...
supcakes asked: I was out the other night when "Rill Rill" came on and it made me think of something. It's a good song, but let's be real-- the lyrics are pretty dumb. I thought of a Stereogum post on the new Lana Del Rey video, which I think they liked, but they said the lyrics were stupid. Yes, but I wondered: what makes "National Anthem" dumb and "Rill Rill" cool? The...
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“8:50pm - Donny Benet
If I was hanging out with my lady during Benet’s...”
– Jonny reviews the Rice Is Nice party at the Annandale.
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I’m going to see Mere Women on Saturday....
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“Goddamnit! This is the problem with doing interviews, everything’s on...”
– David Prowse, drummer for Japandroids, to me. Why not read another interview?
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