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Continue reading →: Girls: making a brand new start
I’ve played — given more chances to — Girls’ Album more often than other record these last few weeks, despite a visceral reaction to the terrain it’s mapping. Like I said in an upcoming Singles Jukebox review of “Laura,” their new single: “it’s an achievement to puree and serve Graham…
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Continue reading →: On Easter eggs and boilerplate
Andrew Sullivan on Barack Obama’s disgraceful, cliche-studded speech at the Human Rights Campaign dinner last night: “His major achievement – the one thing he has actually done – is invite gay families to the Easter egg-roll.” And: “Now he’s pivoting away from his responsibility and the Democratic party’s responsibility and…
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Continue reading →: Singles!
I didn’t know Richard Hawley or his work until I read the Wikipedia entry fifteen minutes before reviewing his single, and while I found his brandy-soaked voice irresistable, the chansonnier in him opens him to fruitier and juicier temptations; I almost don’t want to explore further. As for the rest:…
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Continue reading →: Boring is as boring does.
After watching The Informant!, I wonder whether Matt Damon is merely a boring actor or an actor who chooses projects that cannily exploit his boringness. The parts range from unintentionally boring (The Talented Mr. Ripley), intentionally boring (The Good Shepard), to stalwart-not-boring (the Bourne series). Now he adds wink-wink-boring to…
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Continue reading →: untitled post 900
As usual, Glenn Greenwald gets it right, re new Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Hussein Obama: Through no fault of his own, Obama presides over a massive war-making state that spends on its military close to the amount of the rest of the world combined. The U.S. accounts for almost…
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Continue reading →: No more masquerades
I finally own my own copy of Madonna’s Bedtime Stories, which for years I knew as a pristine cassette rip courtesy of my sister. It’s weird looking back to this era in her history. Erotica was a commercial setback, but of the kind that only worry insider pundits (like Obama…
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Continue reading →: Let’s talk about sex
Never let it be said that Andrew Sullivan doesn’t risk looking like a fool. Beyond the fevered prose and invocations to the Divine, today’s post on sex-as-expunging-of-self proves, once again, how differently we all view the impact of body heat: I have had sex out of love and it’s an…
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Continue reading →: Singles!
This week it’s the worst single yet by that fraud Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey’s white-girl cover of a Foreigner classic, Jay-Z’s latest attempt at relevance, Amerie ft. Lil Wayne and having little to show for it, Susan Boyle showing more heart on a Stones cover than Mick Jagger did, the…
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Continue reading →: Guest House
My song of the week, and I hope it blows up real good. Has he ever sounded this lucid? A friend interrupted himself in the middle of a monologue on Thursday night and stared at my iPod when this came on; after thirty seconds he says, “Wow.”
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Continue reading →: Jesus drank wine, so let him drive
I admit to relief when “Dead Flowers” and “White Liar,” the first two singles from Miranda Lambert’s Revolution, sucked — she’s human after all, I thought, despite two previous albums on her resume laden with gestures, expansive and microscopic, as unique as any of yours and mine, as human as…
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Continue reading →: It’s October
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain — and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.…
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Continue reading →: “I’m proudest that I haven’t killed anybody”
In a letter to a colleague, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. remarked that his dissents in cases that limited the reach of the First Amendment merely upheld “the right of a donkey to drool.” If Matt Lauer’s knees can tremble whenever Ann Coulter appears on “The Today Show,” then its producers…
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