January 2012
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December 2011
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the zipped version of the talking heads playlist. →
1. “Burning Down the House,” from Speaking in Tongues 2. “Cities,” from Fear of Music 3. “Found a Job,”from More Songs about Buildings and Food 4. “Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town,” from ‘77 5. “Houses in Motion,” from Remain in Light 6. “Heaven,” from Stop Making Sense 7. “The Lady Don’t Mind,” from...
Dec 31st
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the best of all possible talking heads playlists. →
Sarah made the mistake of saying that she wasn’t really familiar with Talking Heads, so I made this playlist.  There are about a million other great songs I could’ve put on there, but I think that this gives a pretty good idea of the Talking Heads formula:  David Byrne’s neurotic dynamism and stream of consciousness lyrics supported by the tightest imaginable backing band. A...
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It’s as Ann as the nose on Plain’s face.
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“For a time in the 1980s, he, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and I lived together in...”
– Neal Pollack, satirizing the Hitchens encomia. (via washingtonpoststyle)
Dec 21st
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my top ten albums of fiscal year 2011.
If I learned about the anthropology of indie (or alternative) rock last year—its cultural antecedents, its values, its tendency to interbreed, the shape of the genre—I learned about its history this year.  I finally delved into sacred cows and revered indie statesmen catalogued in things like Pazz and Jop polls and Pitchfork Top 100 lists, and considering the crop of music given to us this year, I...
Dec 21st
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Who Runs Russia? →
Russians have an oddly reverential attitude about their gangsters. For a small fee, tour guides will lead you through Moscow’s Vagankovskoye cemetery, where mafiosi of means are buried – some under life-sized statues or headstones etched with a likeness of the deceased standing next to his BMW. You can tune into Radio Shanson, named after a style of folk music devoted to ballads about prison...
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“[Until then, it is fair to say that for every individual, no ending is certain...”
– David Simon and Ed Burns, from The Corner (2009 edition)
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Listen David Bowie — “Heroes.” ...
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