May 2013
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ON RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES
I’m not about to go into a full-blown review of Daft Punk’s latest album because I don’t have the time to and I also don’t want to be stoned to death like Soraya M., but I will say this one little infant-sized bit about why this album lowkey blows a little bit.
What made (and still makes) Daft Punk such an incredible band is that they identified and isolated one of the central tenants of dance...
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“Later people would say the murder at the Altamont Stones concert in December...”
– Patti Smith
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“ONE DAY I’M GONNA BE A VETERAN IN PARADISE. ONE DAY I’LL BE THE MAN...”
April 2013
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“Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s...”
– D. H. Lawrence
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“Can you ever really be sure of what you’re interested in? Of what parts of the...”
– My review of Tyler, The Creator’s newest, “Wolf”, for Rappers & Models
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March 2013
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Tilda Swinton's moving speech in honor of David...
Dear Dave
When I asked you if you wanted me to say anything here tonight
You said ‘Only three words, one of them testicular’
So I’ll pass that on
Here I am at surely the most eclectic of all the London branches of Bowie Anonymous All the nicest possible freaks are here
We’re in the Victoria and Albert Museum preparing to rifle through your drawers It’s truly an...
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February 2013
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“The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people...”
– T.S. Eliot
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“In the same way that the internet finished normalizing nerd culture and...”
– Kate Carraway for Vice on #selfies
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“Beyoncé is exactly what we know, and it is more remarkable every time she just...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones on Beyonce as the Alpha-Female Pop Star
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“There’s no point to any of this. It’s just a random lottery of...”
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January 2013
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W.S. Merwin
I asked how can you ever be sure /
that what you write is really /
any good at all and he said you can’t /
you can’t you can never be sure /
you die without knowing /
whether anything you wrote was any good /
if you have to be sure don’t write
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“That age when you’re on the train to Paris even though you’re broke...”
– Anne Marie Sanguini, one of my best friends in the whole wide world, basically summing up how the best years of your life need to be the worst just a little bit.
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“That movie is like a three-hour-long bar mitzvah montage.”
– Tavi Gevinson on Justin Bieber’s Never Say Never documentary
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Bad guys are found in one dimensional technicolor deserts or in line at the bank. Sometimes they work at gas stations or just hang out by the payphone next to the free air, but other times each piece of them is put together nicely, sharing your fixation on the blinking floors in a mahogany elevator.
Bad guys set booby traps. They drum their finger tips together and run stop signs and, if it is a...
December 2012
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“To Do:
1. Blow up your TV
2. Throw away your paper
3. Move to the...”
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“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are...”
– Joseph Campbell
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“I’m scared, okay? I’m really scared all the time. I’m like...”
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“Life feels longer the more you engage with it…I should be loving...”
– Zadie Smith 