January 2010
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“In fact, I was hardly listening to anything this past year and a half, just...”
– -Matt Berninger (The National)
Att creative people: No. This is not right.
Creativity does not spring fully formed from the folds of one’s cranium. It relies on engaging with the world around oneself, and engaging with the artform within which one is working.
If your job is to be creative,...
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“Well, not ruin, but there are versions of songs that we had that we maybe got...”
– Matt Berninger (The National)
Disagree. There’s a hushed quality to the song that works precisely because it’s sort of muffled up. There’s very little I would change about Boxer at all, really.
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Monroe hips and poison lips and knives
Erin: I think you're sometimes too generous toward girls.
Me: I'm *always* too generous to girls.
Erin: You seem to think they're made of sugar and spice and all things nice.
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I like it when songs are about...
Guys telling girls they’re going to marry them.
E.g. The Drive-By Truckers - Marry Me; Rooney - If it Were Up to Me; Nas - Getting Married
It’s passionate and romantic and masculine all at once. Who knew that combining love songs with a zest for adult responsibility could turn out so good?
(Green Day’s “Church on Sunday” also qualifies.)
Any others?
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“The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope;...”
– L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Guys, Anne Shirley is the most emo little girl ever.
“But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem...”
– Chuck Klosterman (via douglasmartini)
Genius.
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“We get so much American music here in the rest of the world that we forget that...”
– White Man in the Global Palais: Reporting Live from Internet Border Communities
I wrote an essay for Stylus’ decade-end reunion. It’s about globalization and music and the Internet and America. Some of it’s about M.I.A.; actually, a small chunk of it is something I wanted to write...
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“Here’s something no one’s mentioned yet:
“Yeah, yeah, I got so caught up I...”
– “MBI” in the comments for the Intensities in Ten Suburbs write-up of “Yeah!”
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“It’s one of the simplest beats of the decade (or rather, it would have been if...”
– Andrew Unterberger on “Yeah!,” his #1 Song of the Decade
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