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 [...]
Archive for January 2009
Odd Trend in Popular Music
23 Jan 200921 Jan 2009
Hey Augusten Burroughs, try writing some fiction for once instead of all these goddamn memoirs!
Times Past and Times Present
15 Jan 2009E.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 2009In 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 2009It 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 ?
