Swinging Modern Sounds #103: Song Turned Blue
I’m not writing confessionals; I’m trying to write hooks.
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Posts Tagged: Beastie Boys
Swinging Modern Sounds #92: Perfection
You will now find some version of the list below. It is imperfect.
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Sound & Vision Is
Aside from his endless capacity for self-invention, Bowie changed the way we experience our own sense of identity.
...moreThe Butt Song
Last night as my husband got ready to go out [my daughter] grabbed his coat and said, “Call 1-900-Mix-A-Lot and kick those nasty thoughts.”
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Victim Story, a Mix CD
All the cruelty of the past seasons washed away with the new layer of snow. I thought your streak was over. I thought we could be friends.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Ian Svenonius’s “Principles of Modernism”
[T]he most essential thing is actually a kind of worldview, a mindset—or maybe it’s an ideology.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #65: Tragedy Plus Time
Jesse Malin is a lifer in a business that rarely features lifers anymore.
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The Rumpus Interview with Tyler Gartzman
Rapper Tyler Gartzman talks about getting high, hypothetically making out with George Bush, not getting laid since high school, and how a white, Jewish kid in Atlanta became a talented hip-hop wordsmith.
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What About Bob?
The King of the Sidetrack, the Master of the Interview Hijack, a Self-Described Hack and One Lovable Sad Sack, Mister Bob Mack
...more“Sabotage” Video Recreated by Coolest Librarians Ever
You gotta fight! For your right! To check out books and return them by their due date! Some librarians who are cooler than everyone else in the world decided to remake the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” video but with tough-love librarians instead of bizarro-world Starsky and Hutch. You need to watch it right now because every […]
...moreThe Eyeball, a New Blog by Ryan Boudinot
Acts of Nostalgia My old friend Nate sent me this picture yesterday, taken some 17 years ago. That’s me in the middle, playing drums, wearing a pith helmet onto which is adhered a lit candle. The guy playing bass to the left is today one of the chief economists at the Federal Reserve, formerly an […]
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