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i am in the car with a russian real estate agent with a thick accent, driving through brooklyn on our way to look at an apartment, and i had a mix i made for a party on a CD in [...]
From the last paragraph of a Time Out NYC Sleigh Bells concert preview from last month:
Sleigh Bells will remain content to hold the adulation of prominent media figures and buzz-feeders such as New Yorker staffer Sasha Frere-Jones, a writer both Miller and Krauss admire. Miller even used some of the prominent names in their growing [...]
The NYT’s A.O. Scott on Gen-X midlife crises in popular culture (where else):
When markedly similar characters and stories start popping up everywhere, it’s more than a trend. It’s what those of us raised on vintage postmodernism call a historical phenomenon. So an intertextual analysis of “Greenberg,” “Hot Tub Time Machine” and “The [...]
…so here goes. I wanted to show you guys the amazing work that a certain lady of my fancy is doing, in the same department as yours truly. If this post suddenly disappears, well that means she discovered it (she’s incredibly humble, but I’m incredibly not). So, while we can, here’s a description of Aleena’s [...]