October 2011
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September 2011
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A Comment I made on AV Club that I'm Posting Here
So NBC premiered two new comedies last night and I kind of liked both of them but I was struck by how generally similar they were in a whole economic/social/political/racial sort of way. The both feature “upper middle class” to filthy stinking rich (mostly) white people in high level media careers basically dealing with various “first world problems” like “work life...
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A Poem for 9/11/11
Whatever you say about it will be stupid
But say it anyway.
Whatever you were doing doesn’t matter
But tell us anyway.
Whoever you are
Wherever you were
However much you try
None of it
Can replace any of what was lost
But try to anyway.
June 2011
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“In a news year dominated by manic ranters, from Charlie Sheen to Donald Trump to...”
– http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/the-14-biggest-ideas-of-the-year/8556/2/
March 2011
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So I haven't been paying as much attention to the...
Here’s one thing that confuses me about what coverage of it I have seen though: Why are the media not widely using the term “Civil War” or “War” to describe what’s going on there? Aerial bombardment, anti-aircraft guns, massive casualties, some cities held by the government others by “rebels”, this is a war no? Yet, most media I’ve seen are...
January 2011
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I Finally Saw the Facebook Movie This Weekend
When I first heard about the project it was before I was a heavy user of facebook myself and I thought that the prospect of any sort of film about the company’s history sounded incredibly uninteresting. Then I became (and still am) an obsessive user of facebook and as I heard the unending number of entertainment news stories about the project I still thought it sounded like a boring idea for...
November 2010
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“Of course, Drudge and Goldberg and their friends could be right—maybe the scanners and the alternative pat-downs are terrible policies. Maybe they have good arguments against them. But no matter how you cut it, the alleged “furor” and “tumult” surrounding them are not actual phenomena in the observable world. They’re a bunch of rich people whining into an...
August 2010
4 posts
davidcho:
Kanye West feat. Jay-Z and Swizz Beats...
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July 2010
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It sucks because I realized that after today’s World Cup Final and the end of THE DECISION (which, annoying as it was, at least tangentially involved basketball, a sport I enjoy) it’s now that interminable time of year in which the normative American sports of baseball and (American) football dominate at a level far beyond what basketball and (real) football could ever hope to...
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I'm the guy former NYO current Business... →
I should let the good folks at Capital New York know though that I don’t know how many other people in Jersey City (even downtown) would know about the site. I’m some sort of weirdo media-geek-who-isn’t-actually-in-the-media anomaly maybe? (Hence the NYO t-shirt which I’m guessing probably hasn’t been worn by too many people who aren’t staffers.) I had 3...
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People Aren't Speculating Enough About the Lebron...
I don’t think there’s been quite enough speculation about what Lebron may decide. People aren’t going “outside of the box” enough with possible scenarios. For instance, maybe he’ll go to college team because he’s never played at that level and he wants to get involved in some campus hijinx? Or - dark horse here - signs with the Harmlem ...
EVERYONE REMEMBER THAT THERE’S A NEW SCISSOR...
May 2010
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April 2010
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March 2010
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Gogol Bordello Takes it to "the Next Level"?
This Billboard piece from last week on the latest iteration of Gogol Bordello: based in Rio and not New York, working with the tour management company that manages Phish and the Dave Matthews Band and also with Rick Rubin/American Recordings/Sony is a must-read, especially for anyone who still doesn’t understand that popular music is still mostly a business venture, and an incredibly risky,...
http://www.theawl.com/2010/03/spy-a-handy-guide →
“Spy was a humorous publication that actually played music videos instead of relying on tawdry reality TV crap for attention. It came in three formats: 45, 8-track, and cassingle. It starred Erik Estrada and David Soul, and its final episode was the most watched television program in America until this year’s Super Bowl. Spy’s famous catch phrase was “Where’s the...
February 2010
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http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=1966 →
John Seroff: One of the great benefits of giving in to the charms of the Tricky/The-Dream monster is that you can unabashedly embrace even the most shameless product-placement jingle as long as the beat is on time, the synth bass is fuzzy and the horns are up front. The merchandise being hawked here is not so much the eponymous $800 Christian Louboutin pumps as the rapidly aging J-Lo brand....
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Matt Cherette Is Going To Move To New York City →
Doree Shafrir is completely correct about this latest contretemps.
doree:
choire:
mattchew03:
I am? Well, I should probably get on that…
Anyway, for reasons unclear to me—because I don’t think I’m that interesting or worthy of something like this—but appreciated regardless, Daniel D’Addario wrote a profile on me for The Awl.
So, if you care to, go forth and read it (but try to ignore the...
davidcho:
Robin Thicke feat. Nicki Minaj -...
WatchVideo for Vampire Weekend’s “Giving up the Gun” featuring the RZA, L’il Jon, Jake Gylenhall and others. I like it.