Did anyone watch SNL? Did Galifianakis do Brian Wilson?

Did anyone watch SNL? Did Galifianakis do Brian Wilson?

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Even when Balk apologizes for not responding to emails it is moving and vaguely unsettling.

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Bye Bye Blue Bird

zaragolden:

“So pleasant, it’s disarming…”

“…one of the country’s most respected baristas…”

Who knew!

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jstn:

Stainless steel pop-up toaster features a removable logo plate that toasts The Times “T” onto your bread. Other features include seven heat settings, reheat and defrost buttons, and a slide-out crumb tray.

Gothamist: BOOM TOASTED.

jstn:

Stainless steel pop-up toaster features a removable logo plate that toasts The Times “T” onto your bread. Other features include seven heat settings, reheat and defrost buttons, and a slide-out crumb tray.

Gothamist: BOOM TOASTED.

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FUCK, EDITH ZIMMERMAN IS RUINED. BUT RED SOX FANS AREN’T FUNNY!?!?

FUCK, EDITH ZIMMERMAN IS RUINED. BUT RED SOX FANS AREN’T FUNNY!?!?

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And yes, a lot of it is age - though Christgau knows his audience, and I think he gets the tone of the piece exactly right. I’m pretty sure that whatever musical ‘generation gap’ exists now or will exist is driven by fluency of access to music rather than the content of the music itself.End quote.

Blue Lines Revisited

Agreed.

“First!” is very much a part of the conversation on the internet, meaning “Best New Music”-ing a song before the band has a MySpace is part of the fun. This doesn’t make Christgau and friends thoughtful style of music criticism nostalgia, it just means they are bound to look old when they discover Miley in 2012.

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Yes to all that’s been said. But it’s not just about “First!” when you’re talking about an internationally famous rap star. Just as missing an essential mixtape because you struggle with SendSpace can limit your usefulness in a conversation about the state of rap, so too can skipping out on a canon of insightful work about one of music’s most mused on figures. Not to say the column’s useless, because the aside nuggets and writing are obviously golden, but golly, over 2,000 words! I guess you earn this sort of thing, but we did get Wayne for the Barnes and Noble set in a 2007 issue of The New Yorker.

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But, wait, you’re sure Feldman is okay?

But, wait, you’re sure Feldman is okay?

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zaragolden:

In which Robert Christgau shows his age.
He’s afraid of SendSpace, which makes him the Lil Wayne aficionado equivalent of a batter being afraid of the baseball.
165 Wayne songs in the iTunes? That’s like, what, a month in the studio for Weezy? I’ve got 516, but wouldn’t be surprised if Joe has twice that.
This is nice, though:
Take Da Drought 3’s “Walk It Out,” which I’d never thought about before it came on as I completed the previous graf. Based on a stripper-ready DJ Unk track (I Googled that), it ends each of the 22 lines of its first half with a two-syllable short-u rhyme: stunner, stomach, rubbers, woman, dungeon, fun-ya (???), Bunyan, construction, seduction, discussion, trust ya, fuck ya, fuck ya (yup, twice), busta, touch ya, Usher, Russia, flush ya, crusher, gusher, production, abduction. You may think these aren’t all rhymes, but Wayne disagrees, and puts their music where his mouf is. 
The rhyme after “dungeon,” though? That’d be Funyun. Yellow diamond rings.
Late pass, all around.

Fresh off of the Barnes and Noble blog presses!
Now, we all realize he’s the supremely powerful Xgau — the Dean, the Master, etc. — but seriously: has the man never read a piece on Lil Wayne before? If he had, he would have realized that we’ve covered all of this — the jail, the drugs, the id, the mixtapes, the bio and most of all, the fucking Drought 3. In 2007!
Obviously, it’s well written; he invented this game. But, seriously?

And it requires no identification with the biographical Lil Wayne. M.I.A. and Kanye West I care about — their thought processes are something like mine. Lil Wayne belongs to some other species — and that is central to who he is, what he does, and how he presents himself. Maybe it’s the dope. Or maybe it’s just Lil Wayne.

The dope!

zaragolden:

In which Robert Christgau shows his age.

He’s afraid of SendSpace, which makes him the Lil Wayne aficionado equivalent of a batter being afraid of the baseball.

165 Wayne songs in the iTunes? That’s like, what, a month in the studio for Weezy? I’ve got 516, but wouldn’t be surprised if Joe has twice that.

This is nice, though:

Take Da Drought 3’s “Walk It Out,” which I’d never thought about before it came on as I completed the previous graf. Based on a stripper-ready DJ Unk track (I Googled that), it ends each of the 22 lines of its first half with a two-syllable short-u rhyme: stunner, stomach, rubbers, woman, dungeon, fun-ya (???), Bunyan, construction, seduction, discussion, trust ya, fuck ya, fuck ya (yup, twice), busta, touch ya, Usher, Russia, flush ya, crusher, gusher, production, abduction. You may think these aren’t all rhymes, but Wayne disagrees, and puts their music where his mouf is.

The rhyme after “dungeon,” though? That’d be Funyun. Yellow diamond rings.

Late pass, all around.

Fresh off of the Barnes and Noble blog presses!

Now, we all realize he’s the supremely powerful Xgau — the Dean, the Master, etc. — but seriously: has the man never read a piece on Lil Wayne before? If he had, he would have realized that we’ve covered all of this — the jail, the drugs, the id, the mixtapes, the bio and most of all, the fucking Drought 3. In 2007!

Obviously, it’s well written; he invented this game. But, seriously?

And it requires no identification with the biographical Lil Wayne. M.I.A. and Kanye West I care about — their thought processes are something like mine. Lil Wayne belongs to some other species — and that is central to who he is, what he does, and how he presents himself. Maybe it’s the dope. Or maybe it’s just Lil Wayne.

The dope!

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marcthesharc:

whitehousephotostream:

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President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Dr. Jill Biden, react while watching Sasha Obama and Maisy Biden, the Vice President’s granddaughter, play in a basketball game in Chevy Chase, Md., Feb. 27, 2010.  (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Hard to know what’s best about this. Joe Biden clearly wasn’t paying attention. Jill Biden clearly doesn’t watch sports much. Obama clearly needs a cigarette to deal with this.
Nope, I do know. The best is the woman in the pink sweater, who doesn’t give a shit that the President of the United States is right there and his team is losing, she’s gonna cheer because her team is winning and this is America and when you win you’re happy.

“Listen, coach. Now I know a lot of you are disappointed with Sasha’s performance from behind the arc, but just know that we are working on it every day and I need your support. No one ever said it was going to be easy, but we are committed to getting this team back on track. Now just put her in the game, okay?”

marcthesharc:

whitehousephotostream:

P022710PS-0080:

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Dr. Jill Biden, react while watching Sasha Obama and Maisy Biden, the Vice President’s granddaughter, play in a basketball game in Chevy Chase, Md., Feb. 27, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Hard to know what’s best about this. Joe Biden clearly wasn’t paying attention. Jill Biden clearly doesn’t watch sports much. Obama clearly needs a cigarette to deal with this.

Nope, I do know. The best is the woman in the pink sweater, who doesn’t give a shit that the President of the United States is right there and his team is losing, she’s gonna cheer because her team is winning and this is America and when you win you’re happy.

“Listen, coach. Now I know a lot of you are disappointed with Sasha’s performance from behind the arc, but just know that we are working on it every day and I need your support. No one ever said it was going to be easy, but we are committed to getting this team back on track. Now just put her in the game, okay?”

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Why did I not know this keeps happening?
You like that, Bron Bron?
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I Cannot Sing Half of These Songs

iTunes’ top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending March 8, 2010:

Singles:

1. “Break Your Heart (feat. Ludacris),” Taio Cruz

2. “Rude Boy,” Rihanna

3. “Imma Be,” Black Eyed Peas

4. “Hey, Soul Sister,” Train

5. “Need You Now,” Lady Antebellum

6. “BedRock,” Young Money, Lloyd

7. “Blah Blah Blah (feat. 3OH!3),” Ke$ha

8. “In My Head,” Jason Derulo

9. “Baby (feat. Ludacris),” Justin Bieber

10. “Never Let You Go,” Justin Bieber

And I don’t know how to feel about that. #JustinBieber

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LCD Soundsystem- Oh You (Christmas Blues)

Radio rip but it still sounds right.

Speaking of Greenberg

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Jessica K. Roy's Dear San Francisco Employers: Please Hire Me

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When the outraged masses finally rise up and slaughter Vampire Weekend for the sins of their Ivy League educations and crisply pressed pants, this room might well be Exhibit A—chocolate salted caramel buttercream, Bordeaux, Perrier, pineapple, and blood. And on the soundsystem, as everyone mingles and grown men sidle up to Koenig for photographs? What else but the entirety of Contra, played front to back? No sooner did the record’s dazed final track conclude than Wray and Koenig—introduced as “the man who made us think twice about Oxford commas”—took the stage, white wine glasses in hand.End quote.

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Armond White Shut Out of "Greenberg," Sending Anonymous Angry Emails?

Baumbach to critics (trolls?): keep kicking & screaming. (No Will Ferrell, Stiller.)

Wonder what Mom thinks.

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