June 2008
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String Quartet Tribute to Arcade Fire's Funeral →
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My dream is to fly. Oh, my rainbow it is too high...
Model’s Web rants pined for love
Love meant everything to her.
Supermodel poured her heart out on the Web in the months leading to her apparent suicide.
“Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably,” the sandy-haired knockout wrote in a poem that concluded: “And never regret anything that made you smile.”
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“We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth....”
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The RZA's muxtape →
Now, THAT’s good.
jstn:
Yes, that RZA.
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The Cali vs. New York debate continues, with Cali...
EDC, or Electric Daisy Carnival, is a 12 hour music festival happening at the LA memorial coliseum tonight. Some would call it a rave, but some inside the scene don’t really think of massives as raves. More of a giant concert. There’s six different stages packed full of talent. Music by the following guests.. MOBY, PAUL VAN DYK, RABBIT IN THE MOON, BT, DONALD GLAUDE, & MORE. With...
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Taylor Momsen signed to IMG Models
Yep that’s right, Taylor Momsen of Gossip Girl fame just got signed to IMG models. This makes her one of the youngest girls on the roster, since Taylor is fourteen - a year younger than Gemma Ward when she scored her first Prada campaign and leaped from IMG’s development board onto their women’s one. There’s no denying that Taylor has model looks and model height, but...
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Jeffrey McDaniel Reads "The First Straw"
I used to think love was two people sucking on the same straw/to see whose thirst was strongerbut then I lift the crushed walnuts of your nape,/traced jackals in the snow-covered tombstones of your teeth./I used to think that love was a non-stop saxophone solo in the lungs/til I hung with you like a pair of sneakers from a Brooklyn phone line/and you promised to always smell the rose in my...
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The Black Ghosts Advance
*The Black Ghosts’ self-titled album follows a couple of aloof boys lamenting a number of even more aloof girls, and outlines an epic struggle to maintain a steely exterior composed of disposable emotions versus the haunting truth of just how crippling those emotions can actually be. Take the nihilistic, I Want Nothing, for a dose of the former, and the desperate and orchestral, Some Way Through...
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Dear Fans, Love Kanye
So we all knew Kanye was a diva, so why was anyone surprised that he was late to his set at Bonnaroo? To his defense, it has been a rare day when any artist has not been somewhat late, he just happened to be really fucking late when every hippie (aka upper middle class, spoiled little brat) was too tired and wanted a shower and some real food. I would have been really pissed too as I fit right...
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Live Webcast of Bonnaroo
http://www.attblueroom.com
(But to my fellow Mac users, you must download the quicktime plug-in or the windows media player for mac osx…it isn’t working for me but maybe you’ll have more luck. Suck it, Jobs.)
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Vampire Weekend, Born Ruffians, Kid Sister, + NYC
So as part of NYC’s Central Park Summer Stage series, Vampire Weekend, Born Ruffians, and Kid Sister played foh frEE. It was tyte minus a few issues I have.
1) The weather channel. Why is the weather channel or other weather websites ALL wrong. I seriously check about three sites and watch the tv channel for the weather and none of them said anything about thunderstorms yesterday. We...
In physical pain atm and needed a pick-me-up only...
Avi Buffalo is so lovely. This song is called...
Heartbeats-The Knife
I still can’t decide...
Leeds Festival 08'
I am back to bring you concert news from across the pond! Why am I in America D: But anyway, I think they did a really great job of mixing the old/new and mainstream/not-so-well-known artists up (can’t so that much for American festivals…). At first Day 1 sounded like a flashback to my elementary/middle school headbanger/mosh pit days, but then they add a little Conor Oberst,...
An aside from my last few posts, this will not be about music. My white Macbook, not even a year old, has crashed. I treated it like the child and pet I never had at college and forbade most people to even touch it. Alas, tonight I got the question mark folder of death, after hearing weird beeping noises from the HD. I had just finished watching the latest Pirates movie and I came upstairs to...
Siren Festival 2008 Lineup
The 8th annual Siren Festival will hit Coney Island on July 19th this year. The acts so far are …
Broken Social Scene (!!!!)
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
The Helio Sequence
Film School (!!!)
Beach House (!!!)
Times New Viking
Jaguar Love
The Dodos (!!)
Annuals (!!!)
Parts & Labor
Dragons of Zynth
These Are the Power
and more TBA
The best part of...
Sonic Youth Battery Park July 4th show tickets
Tickets are required and space is limited. The tickets are free and will be available by reservation on this website starting at noon on Thursday, June 12. There’s a strict limit of 2 per person. You will need to pick up your reserved tickets at one of the specified Downtown locations and times BEFORE July 4th, so please be prepared to do so. The times and locations for pickup will be...
a finger, two dots, then me.
“Known for a moving show that incorporates spoken word, minimalist music, and even sound fx, Derrick Brown is unique for being an outstanding performer but is foremost a page poet. He has won the California Independent Book Critics’ Award in 2004, and his performance poetry has won six first-place poetry slam finishes in Venice Beach, England, and Germany.”
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Zooey Deschanel - The antistarlet.
This summer, Zooey Deschanel takes an unlikely leap into the world of M. Night Shyamalan.
The whole idea of Zooey Deschanel — the quality that gets movie critics calling her quirky and directors calling her day and night — is that she’s the antistarlet. No entourage, no attitude, no nonsense. For our teatime rendezvous, she chooses a restaurant on a fringe of downtown Manhattan so...
So else is an Obama supporter?
Were the Democratic electorate comprised solely of singer-songwriters, Senator Barack Obama would have had the hard-fought Democratic primary contest wrapped up way before this week. The newly-minted presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has seen support from a good many in the influential tunesmithing lobby, from the likes of Jeff Tweedy, Conor Oberst, M. Ward, Win Butler, Colin Meloy,...
If you could go anywhere (feasibly)
During my first year at college, I have learned OMGSOMUCH, but mostly that plane tickets are a fucking ripoff! Since I didn’t go anywhere this year, (save FL LOL but rly), so basically every day after/during class I would frequent travel/airlines sites for cheap flights! Needless to say, I had every intention of taking an under $100 flight to Europe, but alas, THEYDONTEXISTLOL. What I was...
