So this is why Indy is so loath to sign on to the smoking ban:
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Forget New York, Los Angeles, or even Miami, Indianapolis is the most sexually satisfied city in the United States, according to a new report.
The Indiana city is followed by Columbus, Ohio, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Cincinnati, Ohio, and [...]

It’s a bit thick, but good to my eyes:
Music is the discourse that passes itself off as nature; it participates in the construction of meaning, but disguises its meanings as effects.  Here is the source of its singular efficacy as a hidden persuader.
Teaching a week on ads for my music video course, and thus had [...]

Love the J-New. Love this song in particular.  Love them both all the more that she sells the tune (on Fallon) like an old bluesman.  Feel it, gurrl.

Nitsuh calls BS on that one McSweeney’s piece floating around (it’s an online submission and a quick read):
It’s not that I don’t get jokes about students being pointy-headed and namby-pamby and whatnot. (Yes yes clever.) But ultimately, there’s a rhetorical thrust to this piece that’s just as often associated with, say, racist uncles at Thanksgiving, [...]

A short documentary on Mark Linkous, done for Dutch television in 1998. He talks about his 1968 Dodge Charger, motorcycles, and injured animals he finds in the country. He occasionally mentions his music.  I came across this while doing some research for the Dark Night of the Soul compilation I reviewed last May.

Linkous [...]

Wordpress pinged me and told me that someone didn’t like a Pitchfork review I’d written, and had also linked to my blog in doing so.  Which is all fair game, of course.  You write for Pitchfork, you answer to a pretty big audience.  But there are two unique things here that made me want to [...]

Atalanta scores an exclusive (and I mean exclusive) interview with Stevie Wonder:
stevie wonder: the atlanta interview (which, for legal purposes, i should disclose has taken place entirely in my head)
a: have you really been to saturn?
sw: i just got back, actually. it’s my favorite place to fly helicopters.
a: okay, so… is “have a talk with [...]

So Maura (for Sound of the City) interviews a stripper named Bubbles Burujas, who turns out to have a lot to say (perhaps unsurprisingly) about the music she dances to:

BB: When I have to come up with rock sets and I can’t stomach, well, that chart you showed me, I go with the White Stripes, [...]