2008

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Wow––I NEVER get those kinds of numbers...

toomuchawesome: fek: So, almost 1,000 comments and over 44,000 ($220!) views later, have Moe or...

NewTeeVee Station

Cutlets (or is it Maurer?) blows the lid off...

Reproductions: Songs of the Human League

Ian from makeUP/Nation of Ulysses is DJing tonight in...

“[Hunter S. Thompson] got very depressed when Bush won in ‘04...”
— Interview with Alex Gibney,...

July 4th Reading!

If you’re anything like me, you like to come home in a drunken stupor after celebrating the...

Left, Right and Center: The Blog

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Help me, sex bloggers!

Anyone know of blogs/message boards/communities that would be interested in analyses of S&M...

Chuck Klosterman surveys his classroom of...

“An audience is like a broad – if you’re indifferent,...”
—  Quote, attributed to Francis...

smokin'

lefindumonde: so i recently noticed cigarettes now cost a whopping $9.25/pack in nyc this means if...

"Doesn't anyone just fuck anymore?"

Canadians are killing us.

youngmanhattanite: If you spent the afternoon watching VH1’s History of Rock ‘n Roll (given the...

The Death Squad and the Film Critic

It’s a third world dictatorship, and the strong man has a list. On it are the names of every known...

“Punk, says Suvy, is “the only view that makes sense to me.”...”
— Consider this as Related...

Other Fast-Food Spokespeople Who May Or...

marklisanti: The Snapple Lady*, Wendy’s Dave Thomas, Hamburglar [Pls. factcheck before reblogging....

Nicole Richie. Mary Kate Olsen. A puddle of spilled beer. I...

soupsoup: (via antoinetta) the hardcore scene today is a...

“I never wrote that exact ending of California Split....

Ethnic cinematic atrocities, and the fake...

Reblogging sexartandpolitics without comment.

“What is Britney Spears doing at a film festival? Or: what...”
— My first dispatch from...

caro: Best way to spend a morning, ever. Funny. I went to a...

““New York at that moment was bankrupt, poor, dirty,...

Isn’t this materially the same as this? via alexbalk

meet market

twentysomethingtales: In token hipster fashion, I just got back from one of the Rooftop Films...

Cinematical, the site I co-founded and used to edit, made it...

“I first saw Wild at Heart on the big screen at a more...”
— Lauren Wissot, from the new...

jakoblodwick: I love looking at a girl who isn’t wearing a...

[film] bloggers are bad, chapter 827

sarazucker: i love louise brooks. (via sherrivoncherry) Me...

“Video? Check. Webby? Check. Profit … ?”
— One of my hand-selected...

“When I was a kid, I thought it made sense for the frog and...”
— Why Kermit and Miss Piggy––and...

one more -- darker -- thought on John...

spiegelman: Between Obama’s risk of assassination and McCain’s risk of simply running out the clock...

“As a consumer of culture in its many forms, I should admit:...”
— oooh, can we?

I guess this explains why Foggy has been forsaken. I love it...

“The show completely changed the way I dress. Best I’ve ever...”
— Black women in New York talk...

“It is called SHALLOW: a series of portraits of people...”
—  Malcolm McClaren is blogging...

alexbalk: Reblogging this again because I’ve been looking at...

I just discovered that this existed/remembered that it...

Hazard of Living in Park Slope #368

For the past ten minutes, there has been a child on the street outside my apartment screaming,...

lonelysandwich: April 24, 1973. “Interview with Lt....

The 'Leave Britney Alone' Guy Stole His...

Yves Saint Laurent is dead.

Gonzo Trailer

Google game

Type “*Yourname* Likes to” into Google and see what happens. 1. Karina likes to push the...

Advice For Girls

johncarney: There’s going to be a huge dearth of women in bars tonight. A great many of your...

Meme

Oh, man. I’m so bored right now, I totally need this. Here we go [via marco]: Ten years ago I...

“On Brownstoner, the bridesmaid borough is now the bride. The...”
— That NY Mag piece on...

slippy: Coming Soon: ‘Law School Nation’? - New York Times...

Funny how there are a lot of blog posts...

And me neither! I’m at Cannes, watching Quentin Tarantino fellate himself!

I think that instead of blood, there is...

keepinganotebook: You know how when you stumble into your living room the morning after having...

CNN this morning. Click on “The Year of the...

Ian McEwan

miss-r: somethingchanged: emilyposts: Can anyone recommend Ian McEwan’s best work? I couldn’t...

"The only unrepentant hedonist I think I've...

“Balk is a semi-famous underground blogger whose entire...”
— What the fuck is an...

Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000. Tonight at Lincoln...

After. From the Ladies’ at Otto.

The ridiculous “before” en route to my...

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My Cannes Schedule (tentative)

Note that I’m leaving a lot of time each day open, for walking around the Marche, for the off...

The Anatomy of Melancholy approach

A funny overlap between two of the four books that I’m currently switching back and forth...

““Janice Min at Us Weekly is like a family member to...”
— THE ‘SPEIDI’...

Media Meshing Tonight

fek: jdel: blakeley: Media Meshing “Where the media elite meet and greet!” Date: Thursday,...

I'm gonna go to Las Vegas and watch a movie...

the eternal question:

am I completely unlikeable? or is there just something wrong with my email?

johncarney: Also, it will greatly up the chances that I...

Season Two of Mad Men begins in July. I MUST get cable...

“…the pubic hair jokes in the trailer get the biggest...”
— A journey deep inside the...

My hair is a disaster. I haven’t been able to get it...

Media Meshing?

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the most intriguing web series pilot I’ve...

Foggy came back...

john Cusack Gives Anti-War Filmmaking a Bad...

The Most Annoying Thing About The...

I really wanted to read that Goth comic book he was going on about, but I didn’t have a chance...

Blame Joel Stein

Today in Ill-Advised Shopping Sprees

dearstella: P.S. “The greatness of art makes its appearance only as dusk begins to fall over...

I have questions, do you have answers?

blakeley: 1. Where is the best place to go to replace my California driver’s license for a New...

It's like getting those text messages...

katiebakes: I don’t think people complain about spam because it’s annoying, or cumbersome to...

A Moment of Clarity

Is it possible that I actually make myself sadder by listening to virtually nothing but music made...

Lindsay Lohan Makes Babies.

This is a beautiful poem. It came as a (possibly spam) comment to this post: I love renaissance...

“I AM SO BORED WITH MYSELF I AM SO FUCKING TIRED OF MYSELF OF...”
— (via ryanadams) Wait a...

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It is the worst story on The Hills.

happy hour place ideas?

nycmeetups: Email me if you have an idea of an outdoor bar we can go to tonight, that won’t be...

A New Gawker Business Model: Content!

Just curious...

feinsodville: doree: … when the Tina Fey backlash is gonna start. Because, you know, it’s...

My former life as a digital bouncer

Jesus christ––where did ryanadams get that bed? My crush on...

yvynyl: “Harmony Korine has a new, characteristically...

I know why McCain Girls sing.

“If you can’t laugh together in bed, the chances are you are...”
— Richard Burton (via scout)...

frangry: allgrownsup: Yes please. No thanks. The dude on...

Someday it won’t be like this. Piles of clothes...

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Death By Blogging

soupsoup: To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature...

“In short, to record All Wave one must use no computers, no...”
— Steve Albini, on The...

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“With service beginning in 1933, the G Train still shows off...”
— Stuff Nobody Likes. Via...

oh jesus christ…my existential crisis has become a...

The Internet Makes Me Hate That Which I...

Like Muppets. I’m going to CVS to stock up on the best over-the-counter painkillers money can...

I can't make a muxtape

yvynyl: karinalongworth: …because I acquire all of my music legally through iTunes, and Muxtape...

Be still, my beating heart...

I can't make a muxtape

…because I acquire all of my music legally through iTunes, and Muxtape is not friendly to...

Another film critic down.

NEWSWEEK’s David Ansen is one of 111 employees at the mag to accept a buyout offer. Via...

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Record Reviews!

1. Amusement Parks on Fire, Amusement Parks on Fire I bought this record this morning on iTunes,...

“Today I will demo three more new songs” — DRAdams to...”
— This is the second of two...

it must be an epidemic

I keep tripping over Park Slope toddlers with bright red open sores around their mouths. They look...

tumblr meetup at Whisk&Ladle

If I’m in town that weekend, I will try to go. I haven’t decided whether or not...

You can watch the entirety of Bush’s War online at...

New Frontiers of Techno-Isolation

I’ve decided that The Saddest Thing in the World is when you go two, three, four days on end...

The Hills: JUST LIKE An Antonioni Film

Flipping Haters At Benihana.

alexbalk: As is the case with the rest of the world, it’s Hills week at Radar. Here’s Spencer...

Thoughts on Ryan Adams' Blog and Videos

I love when people just straight up...