Monthly Archives: March 2005

rooty hooty tooty hoo

Now Wut? has footage of the Jam Master Jay/Adidas party SANS Public Enemy performance, and a pretty redondo clip of Cam boyishly drunk, the watching of which is silently voyeuristic and personal, and makes me feel for the dude, even … Continue reading

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BCAT, love of my life

Honestly, give me one good reason why I should ever get “real” cable.

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Modern Girls

Did I neglect to tell you I think Sleater-Kinney’s The Woods is the greatest rock album I’ve heard in something like two years, and their best album since Dig Me Out? All that annexation of Led Zep, the sharp political … Continue reading

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MOMENTS IN EMO: open torrents, oozing wounds

Steven, my oldest and dearest friend, who joined me in that lovely tour of duty that was high school in nuclear Wyoming, came home drunk the other night, posted up on our ugly blue-grey couch (which looks like a half-consumed … Continue reading

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Memo from Dade County

I unlocked the giftbox and a glut of Pitbull freestyles were inside, including “Miami Clap,” and “Miami” on the beat to “New York.” So like, why was his crunk-aeton album not-so-blazing? Other than the singles “Culo” and “Toma,” M.I.A.M.I. was … Continue reading

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Mixtape Awards (Teen Version)

Mais oui. The Mixtape Awards last week were a montage of bananas and binoculars (a word further immortalized in SPIN this month by Matos, who’s easy with the hollers. Thank you, Matos.). I went straight to the awards from thurrrapy; … Continue reading

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actually

Perhaps I should have qualified that statement with “What Western artist’s suicide isn’t solipsistic?”

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self-portraits/untitled

The Diane Arbus retrospective at the Met is enveloping–six or seven rooms of devastating portrature and tablets, scribbled notepads, letters, resumes, pleas to the Guggenheim. On the long guest list for one of her openings, she’d typed names and demarked … Continue reading

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el diablo, whing-dinging

Soon I will tell you about my bananas evening avec one plainclothes reporterman, and my assortment of new boyfriends. But you will have to wait for a minute. Just a minute.

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jus’ do som’n random

My assessment of the weekend, perhaps a bit overblown but certainly genuine, is that if I were fully immersed in the inchoate culture of grimeland 2005 right now, I would be heading up Rock Steady Crew UK and, ahermmm, innovating … Continue reading

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