Archive for January 2009

Odd Trend in Popular Music

23 Jan 2009

How do artists get away with biting hooks from pop hits from the recent past? Consider: the song “Cookie Jar” by Gym Class Heroes featuring The-Dream (aside: what purpose could that hyphen possibly serve?). Perhaps it sounds somewhat familiar. Perhaps it seems to resemble the breakout hit for a certain top-hatted, robot-voiced gentleman. Still not [...]

21 Jan 2009

Hey Augusten Burroughs, try writing some fiction for once instead of all these goddamn memoirs!

Now That You Kind of Miss Year-End Lists

17 Jan 2009

So I avoided being bogged down in the mess of best-of-2008 lists that appeared last month, and now I’m ready to give the world what it wants. These are merely albums that I dug this year, or meant something to me, or are attempts to make me look cool; I make no claims of being [...]

Times Past and Times Present

15 Jan 2009

E.B. White would have been the world’s greatest blogger. His pithy short articles for the New Yorker were exactly what good Web log posts should be (and, of course, rarely are) — economical gems full of sudden humor, small drops of wisdom and unexpected beauty in the quotidian.

Zombies

15 Jan 2009

In the elevator this afternoon a young man offered roles in a zombie film to me and to a young woman who was also in the elevator. The young woman asked whether the job paid. The answer was no, the recompense would be the satisfaction of being on a DVD. I didn’t say yes, but [...]

Songsmith

13 Jan 2009

It has been a while, hasn’t it? But I believe that Uncle Murda has returned to his hideout, and it is now safe for my fams and me to emerge from our self-imposed cyber-exile to resume the valiant wordpressing of Bronze Medals. What has inspired this joyous renaissance ?


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