January 2010
28 posts
NEW: Caribou - Odessa
“I don’t foresee a scenario in which the millions of people that hope to...”
– Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, on the timing of Obama’s State of the Union address.
Rare Swan Divorce Puzzles Researchers →
The Knife - Colouring of Pigeons, from their...
WatchSay what you will about Lily Allen, but the video for “Not Fair” is genius.
“Their system was a mess. Sometimes pieces of paper taped to the wall were the...”
– Bob Noorda, who designed the signage of the NYC subway system in the 1960s
New Yorker: The music of the XX →
“Months later, when I took my friends’ advice and listened to the band’s album, I realized that I had missed the entire point.” Pretty psyched I inspired SFJ to reevaluate the XX - this is an excellent read.
Brian Eno - Baby’s On Fire
The apathy and the ecstasy →
Ueli Bernays traces falsetto’s high-pitched passage from expression to gimmick and back again.
Yeasayer - O.N.E.
When Nixon Met Elvis →
“The image of the one true friend, a soul mate rare to find but dearly beloved,...”
– William Deresiewicz’s fascinating and enlightening essay on “Faux Friendship”, from the Chronicle Review
Either/Or: Sports, Sex, and the Case of Caster... →
This article by Ariel Levy, a few New Yorkers ago, is bad-ass on so many levels. She looks at every angle in the tangled Caster Semenya gender controversy, and uses the case as a grounds to explore the inherent bias of sex categorizations. 1.7 percent of the population is born in a way that deviates from standard definitions of male and female and we’ve organized our society according to...
13th Floor Elevators - You’re Gonna Miss Me
More from the talented young German photographer Tobias Zielony here. (via xxyyzz)
Pinot Noir With An Umlaut →
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely...”
– E.B. White (via mustbethedancing)
Little Dragon - Blinking Pigs
Vengeful Brother Posts His Sister’s Hookup Target... →
