So, I inadvertently started a pretty ridiculous Twitter meme yesterday. I wrote: Painfully tempted to do a parody rewrite w/John Galt as hipster & Gulch in Williamsburg RT @thecalebbacon: Atlas shrugged and said “meh.” The 60-page speech to be replaced by a Tom Verlaine solo… Which inspired: ziege19 @normative Who is John Galt? Oh, you [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Art & Culture'
Hipster Shrugged
August 27th, 2010 · 18 Comments
Tags: Art & Culture · Language and Literature
EARWORM: “Summer Mood” — Best Coast
August 6th, 2010 · No Comments
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Earworm: Ariel Pink – Beverly Kills
July 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment
You can’t stop the press!
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How to Provoke Me to Homicide
July 3rd, 2010 · 18 Comments
Wired’s Dylan Tweney recounts his live-tweeting of Wagner’s Die Walküre at the San Francisco Opera. I cannot fathom how he escaped the opera house alive. Look, fussing with your phone constantly—even on “minimum brightness”—is kind of a dick move at any performance, but it’s borderline sacrilegious when it comes to Wagner, whose genius was in [...]
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Earworm: Death Cab for Cutie – “Title Track”
June 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments
The mediocrity of their recent stuff sometimes makes me forget how much I liked their early albums.
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Earworm: Pains of Being Pure at Heart – “Everything With You”
June 15th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Getting psyched up for Wednesday’s show…
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Earworm: The Cure – “Just Like Heaven”
June 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Earworm: The XX – “Shelter”
June 8th, 2010 · No Comments
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Post-BeachWeek Earworm: Belle & Sebsatian – “Summer Wasting”
June 5th, 2010 · No Comments
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Beach Earworm: Psychedelic Furs – “Pretty in Pink”
June 2nd, 2010 · 4 Comments
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