Just North of Something Important

Eating like it’s 1949

Jan 29th

Getting To (and Staying At) Yes

Jan 28th

Central New York is bizzaro world

Remember when I said that Syracuse hasn’t been hit by the recession at all?  Well, turns out...

Jan 28th

Kelly Clarkson's appeal is that she is...

Jan 28th

VAN FUCKIN HALEN

Jan 28th

dloosely: So apparently Obama is pushing to drop the family planning funding from the stimulus...

Jan 27th

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filigree: chronicfail: Far - Pony Yes, a rock cover of Ginuwine’s Pony As soon as I read that...

Jan 27th

Rothko

dhk: mark rothko nudawn: can someone explain him to me in 3 sentences? i saw sooooo much of his...

Jan 27th

Diorama of Shanghai in the Urban Planning Exhibition Hall.

Jan 27th

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towerofsleep: Little Girls - youthtunes From GvsB: ””Girls” are clearly in line to be the new...

Jan 27th

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/us/politics/...

Jan 27th

“…all my time is taken up at the moment watching 24 or...”
— Eddie Argos.

Jan 27th

This is William Kristol’s last column.

Jan 26th

How much of a has-been is Confessions of...

So much of a has-been that there is a joke on The Simpsons about him being a has-been: Ode to...

Jan 26th

My dad sent me an e-mail whose subject...

Robert Burns is the National Poet of Scotland. And today is a Scottish national holiday in his...

Jan 25th

Important news

If you ranked the cities in America least affected by the economic downturn, Syracuse would be #3! ...

Jan 25th

We tried to go bowling.  It didn’t work.

Jan 25th

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Yep, it’s balloon animals made out of condoms having sex.

Jan 22nd

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Art Brut - “People In Love” This song popped into my head earlier this evening, for...

Jan 22nd

The Bush Era: Protesting Too Much About Not...

Jan 21st

maura: haha today is totally 'fuck baby boomers' day
me: hahaha
me: not coincidentally it's also the first day of the obama administration
maura: right?

Jan 21st

All My Generation Wanted Was A (Pat On The...

Jan 21st

MTV's Inaugural Ball Tries To Recapture The...

Jan 21st

P&J

Ballot here, though it’s already changed, of course.  (Would probably swap out Britney for Max...

Jan 21st

Questions

How can MTV make building a computer lab for Kenyan schoolchildren look insincere?  By creating...

Jan 21st

MTV's Be The Change Inaugural Ball

Oh man, am I writing about this tomorrow.  In other news, Kanye’s new look appears to be a...

Jan 21st

Inevitable as the dawn

Jan 21st

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The rhyme at the end of the inaugural benediction came from this: Big Bill Broonzy’s...

Jan 20th

Aretha: “You want to know how to wear a hat, Scalia?  This is how you wear a hat.”

Jan 20th

Justice Scalia has made an unfortunate choice of hat and...

Jan 20th

They are selling Obama keepsakes on QVC right now, if...

Jan 20th

The circle is closed

Blair’s dad’s boyfriend: You were watching Gilmore Girls all night.  Again. Blair: I...

Jan 20th

America's Song

Just gonna compile these, I think. Oprah: “We asked musical legends David Foster and...

Jan 19th

Usher just quoted Aristotle!

Jan 19th

On Oprah's inauguration day panel...

Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jon Bon Jovi!  Maybe they will make out!

Jan 19th

We found out what Obama meant to Justin Timberlake!  (“America is cool again.  Think on...

Jan 19th

I may have to liveblog Oprah today

First she intercut footage of MLK and Obama!  And then she said how excited she was to be with us on...

Jan 19th

California Finds Public-Works Spending No...

Jan 19th

California Finds Public-Works Spending No...

Jan 19th

The lyrics of Max Tundra's "Nord Lead...

I love my Nord Lead Three I know she’ll never cheat on me Her walnut stick is good to feel I...

Jan 19th

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“So Twilight is 25% small time Superman, 25% Twin Peaks and 50% Count Duckula. Though clearly...

Jan 19th

Salman Rushdie got my back

From the Q&A session at Rushdie’s talk at the 92nd Street Y tonight.  From memory, so...

Jan 19th

Overheard at the Max Tundra show

Rachel: See, I could’ve been a rock star.  All you need is bravado. Me: I blame the punk rock...

Jan 18th

Max Tundra

Jan 18th

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Crooked X - a band of 14-year-olds who sound like, I dunno, an un-ironic The Darkness?  Or just...

Jan 16th

The Lex on Animal Collective

i bit the bullet and listened to a stream of the animal collective album - it’s EVEN WORSE...

Jan 15th

Yesterday afternoon, as a kind of improptu celebration of...

Jan 15th

Looked out the window and there was a hawk sitting in the...

Jan 15th

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This is a wildly ineffective ad.  It reminds me that cake is delicious, and the thing that’s...

Jan 15th

Vivian Girls make it so difficult for me to...

Jan 15th

Jan 14th

For those of you that care

Rachel got a job!

Jan 14th

“Al Jazeera is releasing 12 broadcast quality videos today...”
— Al Jazeera Launches Creative...

Jan 14th

“what about ‘my girls’? it’s got such a killer chorus, it...”
— Comment by “billy”...

Jan 14th

Animal Collective is a Band Created By/For/On...

Jan 14th

Demography as Destiny, Continued

vondelpark: The point of the National Journal article is not that the 1992 election provides a...

Jan 13th

Demography as Destiny

southpol: vondelpark: Ramesh Ponnuru points to a stark assessment of voting trends and hope for...

Jan 13th

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BROMANCE, 50s STYLE. Directed by Francis Ford Coppolla.  With Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick...

Jan 13th

“Strenuous motherhood is de rigueur. Duck into the ladies’...”
— Jill Lepore, “Baby...

Jan 13th

That said, I think this is my favorite thing...

Jan 12th

Can We All Stop Saying That Pop Music...

Jan 12th

SEBASTIAN BACH: 'Piece Of Me' Performance...

Jan 12th

The Blind Leading The Blind: Should...

Jan 12th

Oddly engaging and rewarding television.

Jan 12th

“So, Don Cheadle has been in Hotel Rwanda…and Hotel for...”
— Natalie.

Jan 12th

Who Would Jesus Smack Down?

Jan 10th

“Tell him his dad dropped by.”

Jan 10th

Best of the OC YouTube channel

Jan 10th

“When profits and wealth and creativity are denigrated in...”
— ‘Atlas Shrugged’: From Fiction...

Jan 10th

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Josh Schwartz: making music more meaningful since 2003.

Jan 10th

Bon Iver vs. Autotune

towerofsleep: I agree this this is primo remix fodder, but it sounds pretty awesome as-is, IMO. I...

Jan 10th

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So hey, speaking of Au Revoir Simone remixes, here’s one I did!  It’s of “Fallen...

Jan 9th

Poptimists Top 10 of 2008

Jan 9th

Why "Women In Rock" Stories Will Never Be...

Jan 9th

Livin the dream

No shit: just got back from inadvertantly hanging out with the drummer from Dream Theater.  Pic to...

Jan 9th

lalitree: I spent last week in Costa Rica, hiking through...

Jan 8th

“There’s a definite divide between the bands that give me the...”
— Hate Shakes: Bands That Send...

Jan 8th

Just doing my part

I appear to be responsible for an ENTIRE CLAUSE of Jason Gross’ year-end music writing...

Jan 8th

Editorial: Moving Forward in Hard Times

Jan 8th

Research Made Pretty

Jan 8th

shotformeat: Thought bubbles. Yeah, that’s been...

Jan 8th

“That was then. As president-elect, one of Obama’s first...”
— Obama picks RIAA’s favorite...

Jan 7th

Conservative Rock Criticism: It Can Be Just...

Jan 7th

I LOL’ed.  (via Cracked)

Jan 7th

stuffonmycat.com

Jan 7th

hedgieshedgieshedgies: tiny baby hedgie :) (via srp...

Jan 7th

In the US, Gaza is a different war

Jan 7th

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artsystar: indierawk: The Killers - All These Thing I’ve Done. “Time. Truth. And Heart.”/”I got...

Jan 7th

Songs For Soap

Jan 6th

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offnotesnotes: Morrissey: “All You Need Is Me” This one’s for you, and for you only. This...

Jan 6th

Watch

hoarr: Left 4 Dead Hack - Zombies all talk like the “Macho Man” Randy Savage. Hilarious concept...

Jan 5th

Listen

Morrissey - “Something Is Squeezing My Skull” From the Idolator review: I’m a...

Jan 5th

Leak of the Weekend: Morrissey Is Not A Yes...

Jan 5th

Since there are very, very few pictures of me that do not...

Jan 5th

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A fan-made video for Morrissey’s “You Have Killed Me.”  It has a happy ending!

Jan 5th

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This has been viewed like 2 million times so I’m sure you’ve already seen it, but if you...

Jan 5th

I'll stick with my busted old Razr,...

alexbalk: So maybe you already knew this, but I just noticed that the number-one selling paid app...

Jan 5th

The Pop Bubble: Music News Is Now Tech News

Jan 5th

Jan 5th

Prince To Roll Out Three Albums This Year

Jan 5th

this song came on in the car tonight and i...

Jan 5th

Revelations

“Why are they blurring out her hand?” we asked each other of the woman on the TV show. ...

Jan 5th

Sunset over Prospect Park.

Jan 4th

Sunset on Ebbets Field Apartments.

Jan 4th

betelnut: This explains the urban phenomenon of...

Jan 4th

In Guitar Center

Among the emo teens and beaten-down employees trying to sell well-intentioned moms overpriced...

Jan 4th

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I had never watched Top Gun all the way through until last night.  And yeah, it sounds like it was...

Jan 4th

Seriously, never play this if you value your relationships...

Jan 4th

Back to the future: Vinyl record sales double...

Jan 4th

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Things Rock Band 2 has reminded me of: how awesome a drummer Steve Shelley is.  (Also, this is a...

Jan 3rd

“People who are against good government—which is to say,...”
— barthel Why do you think...

Jan 3rd

“I’ve heard grumbling that Obama is “czar crazy”—creating too...”
— More Reasons Why Obama Must...

Jan 3rd

I spend too much time on the internet

In conversation just now, I used a Simpsons reference to explain a There Will Be Blood reference....

Jan 2nd

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