Archive for November, 2008
Simon Reynolds writes a simul-review of Axl Rose’s Chinese Democracy and Kayne West’s 808 Heartbreak. Of Chinese Democracy, Reynolds makes the now familiar optigraph:
It would be lovely to think that the vigorously polished turd that is “Chinese Democracy” could serve as the tombstone for an entire era of mainstream rock marred by misguided production techniques [...]
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I have a friend serving in Baghdad right now–a member of one of those Human Terrain Teams the APA dislikes so strongly–and she periodically sends snippets of life in a war zone. I haven’t published any of them, because she is likely to do so…and I don’t want to shortcut your pleasure discovering her experiences. [...]
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What a drag it is, getting old.
As you may have heard, Axl Rose, former member of hard rock supergroup Guns N’ Roses, has been working on an album titled “Chinese Democracy.” For years. And years. Seventeen years, in fact.
It was expensive to make. Very expensive. $13 million, expensive.
It was released and now has been reviewed. Chuck Klosterman reviews it for the [...]
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Thank you, NYPD Blue
Is your butt sexy?, the legal edition.
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Trisky bosnian
When we were still all in school, Tammy decided to buy a house in Istria. It was both a practical decision (as she spent long months gathering oral histories of political violence in the area) and an optimistic one (as she fantasized about future research projects and future vacations in the area). As she was [...]
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Mama Afrika
Miriam Makeba, “Mama Afrika”, passed away this week, at the age of 76. She died as most performers would hope to die–after performing a concert, in Italy. She was performing in honor of Roberto Saviano, an author who has received death threats after writing about organized crime.
She, with fellow musicians Hugh Masekela, Letta Mbulu, Caiphus [...]
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This week in poverty.
Photographer Barbara Ann Kenneally takes photographs of poor women and children, living upstate, in Troy, NY.
Artist Suzanne Opton is putting these photographs on billboards across the U.S. They are titled, “Soldier.”
And here, while we’re sentimental:
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Crass of the Titans
I am having a lot of fun over here with Clarence Darrow quotes. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I give you these:
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
History repeats itself. [...]
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Students on the Field
I am very proud of George Smith. As you will be able to tell in today’s story in the Times, he has faced more and different kinds of adversity than many young men. He was a wonderful, assiduous student in my class, and he is a cherished friend. And Reshard Langford, also mentioned in the [...]
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h/t Keivan “Master of the Universe, or at least the Brown Dwarves.”
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