March 2010
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“Waves of admiration and love were an assault, and he was scornful of those who...”
– Robert Gordon & Ted Barron on Alex Chilton at Boogie Woogie Flu
(via Chris)
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15 j3t faves
I’ve been blogging art/craft/design/style images over at just 3 things for more than a year now. Today, I rounded up my 15 favorite posts.
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djsquints:
The Soft Pack - C’mon
One of my...
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“Last month, the Drums, who haven’t even released an album yet, unveiled...”
– Priya Elan, “Why are new acts so reluctant to show us their hits?”
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“If male martyrs can expect to find 72 virgin maidens in paradise when they die,...”
– Michell Tsai, “Honey, I’m dead!”
I have been wondering about this for so long. Predictable, but still somehow a letdown.
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Good things
Marc Hogan’s exhaustively researched article on musicians and the governments that support them (Scandinavia, Canada & UK do; the US, alas, does not). What’s great and unusual about this article is that it backs assertions with verifiable facts— numbers, yay!—a rarity in music journalism.
Gorilla vs. Bear’s new record label. I’ll always and forever...
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“Trying to clear a blockage from a paper shredder with kitchen scissors while the...”
– John Moore, “Secret diary of a rock & roll star, aged 45 1/2”
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“Burton’s Alice In Wonderland is such a travesty that it makes the 1951...”
– K-punk, “Infantilizing children”
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I'm so over
Even by chillwaveglofi standards, this is pretty lazy:
band name: Beach Fossils
provenance: Brooklyn
song titles:”Vacation,” “Daydream,” “Youth”
influences (self-described): nature
sounds like (my description): a Nyquil coma
Please dudes try harder.
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15 favorite j3t posts
I’ve been blogging art/craft/design/style images and links over at just three things for more than a year now. So it seemed as good a time as any to look back and pick some of my favorite posts.
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Il n’y a pas d’amour heureux -...
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Rome - Yeasayer (from Odd blood)
When he sings,...
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“when a designer goes down [Vivian] Westwood Lane, trouble usually ensues.”
– Tim Gunn, Project Runway blog
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just 3 things - friday →
Photography: the strange & wonderful
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“A negative review is liable to inspire an impassioned defense, and vice versa....”
– Judy Berman’s smart, potent, “In defense of negative reviews”
I disagree with Berman on one tiny point: I’ve never gotten any thrill from writing a negative review and never will. (I just refuse to say something’s good when it’s actually quite bad.) But the rest...
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“One of my most favorite songs is “Pink Frost” by the Chills. I have...”
– Hendrik Weber (aka Pantha du Prince).
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just 3 things - wednesday →
Lush, plush & dangerous to know: huge velvet pillows, Wedgwood fairyland lustreware, teeming baroque still life
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Los Angeles
We talked about the weather for a while, then I asked them what they thought about Los Angeles, a city without boundaries, which ate the desert, cut down the Joshua and the May Pole, and dreamt of becoming infinite. Mike Davis, City of Quartz
For a few days we will see smoke back in the canyons, and hear sirens in the night. I have neither heard nor read that a Santa Ana is due, but I know it,...
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Show my ass - Dominique Young Unique →
Liking this a lot—“Lip Gloss” is spot-on.
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Janie - Woven bones (website)
A spurt of pitiless...
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just 3 things - (eco) tuesday →
frogs in jars, bioform textile art & “flotsom jetsom” raft constructed of 450 soccer, basket, volley, base, etc. balls
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“In the worst years of the mortality, Europeans witnessed horrors comparable to...”
– The great mortality: History of the black death, the most devastating plague of all time, John Kelly
This drills straight to the heart of what’s always interested me in epidemic narratives (though in Kelly’s book, it’s almost an aside). That catastrophe-imagined always seems to...
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Kickstarter Is Hiring →
Wow, the marketing job looks great! Too bad it’s NYC-onsite…
yancey:
Nearly a year old and growing fast, Kickstarter’s been featured in Wired, the New York Times’ Year in Ideas, and listed at #1 on Silicon Alley Insider’s Hot NYC Startups to Watch. We’re determined to change the way that ideas are funded and looking for others like us.
We’re looking for a Rails developer and a...
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Congratulations →
Pretty sure these dudes are trying to piss off every last fan (and industry pal). That said, I think I might come to kinda possibly like this. Will be fun to see how it goes down.
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just 3 things - monday →
Man Ray, deco brooch, Lemon Twist trench coat
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Leave the scene behind - The Wave Pictures
from...
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“I can no longer keep silent about the conspiracy afoot in film criticism or the...”
– Armond White, “My Greenberg problem—and yours,” NY Press
Who is this tantrum-throwing infant? My issues with Jonathan Rosenbaum seem rather silly in light of the existence of such an asshole-as-victim. (New York journalists, bleh.) On the other hand, if White’s piece is...
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Hilobrow →
My new favorite blog.
