Split Infinitives

Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators: Paul...

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:33:27 -0400

Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators: Paul Williams

Uncle Murda ft. French Montana, Jadakiss, Styles P, Jim Jones,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 01:32:00 -0400

Uncle Murda ft. French Montana, Jadakiss, Styles P, Jim Jones, Vado, and Cam’Ron - “Warning (Remix)”

2011

Still maybe kinda sorta the hardest record of the decade.

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Wed, 15 May 2013 10:41:05 -0400

This is the first I’m seeing of this.

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:44:44 -0400

This is the first I’m seeing of this.

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, “She Passed By My...

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:27:20 -0400

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, “She Passed By My Window”

From Nocturama, 2003

Beastie Boys, “Multilateral Nuclear...

Sat, 11 May 2013 01:55:15 -0400

Beastie Boys, “Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament”

From Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, 2011

Frank. (h/t goldenfiddle)

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:30:58 -0400

Frank.

(h/t goldenfiddle)

"But by this time, Miller was in a heaven of his own. He wrote rhapsodically in “Big Sur and the..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:59:13 -0400

“But by this time, Miller was in a heaven of his own. He wrote rhapsodically in “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch” that the rugged Pacific coast was “the first real home I have ever known… It is all so inviting, so spectacular.” In fact, it is hard to believe that this is the same Miller who watches his friend Van Norden “grinding away” at a prostitute in “Tropic of Cancer.” But it is—Miller’s entire career was composed of cycles of self-annihilation and self-reinvention. Having been the sybarite, he decided to become a sort of Eastern sage of the great West, reflecting that “The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.” That modifier, “apparently,” says it all—ironic remove coupled with just the slightest admission that this struggle is really his own. Brooklyn does not fit neatly into this narrative of regeneration, which is why I suspect Miller loathed the place.”

- Henry Miller, Brooklyn Hater

Likwit Allstars (Tash, J-RO, E-Swift, Madlib, Phil Da Agony,...

Fri, 10 May 2013 02:40:28 -0400

Likwit Allstars (Tash, J-RO, E-Swift, Madlib, Phil Da Agony, Defari, King Tee, Lootpack, Wildchild, J Wells, and Styliztik), “Cali Kings”

From Cali Kings - Mix Tape Vol. 1, 1998

Gravity Dir. by Alfonso Cuaron, 2013 Well, I wish the first time...

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:48:56 -0400

Gravity

Dir. by Alfonso Cuaron, 2013

Well, I wish the first time I saw this wasn’t on a 15” computer screen.

The Company You Keep Dir. by Robert Redford, 2013 This was...

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:45:04 -0400

The Company You Keep

Dir. by Robert Redford, 2013

This was better than I expected and I know it’s Redford’s own fusty ode to ’60s radicalism, but I couldn’t help think it would be better if the lead were played by Warren Beatty. Though I guess that’s technically true of almost every movie.

Inside Llewyn Davis Dir. by Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013 Adam...

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:37:31 -0400

Inside Llewyn Davis

Dir. by Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013

Adam Driver in a cowboy hat.

The two comments on this story are kind, which is how I really...

Tue, 07 May 2013 23:48:38 -0400

The two comments on this story are kind, which is how I really know Zach did a great job with this.

Majical Cloudz, “Turns Turns Turns” From Turns Turns...

Tue, 07 May 2013 23:43:21 -0400

Majical Cloudz, “Turns Turns Turns”

From Turns Turns Turns EP, 2012

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Tue, 07 May 2013 14:24:25 -0400

Black Mirror, “The National Anthem” 2011

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:16:56 -0400

Black Mirror, “The National Anthem”

2011

Souls of Mischief, “Step to My Girl” 1992

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:27:00 -0400

Souls of Mischief, “Step to My Girl”

1992

"When I worked for Jack Fischer at Harper’s, he would look at the final galleys. He would take his..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 14:20:00 -0400

“

When I worked for Jack Fischer at Harper’s, he would look at the final galleys. He would take his pencil and he would go through and make changes—cross things out, put things in—and it would go right off to the press. I was appalled. Writers deserve the final word about their prose.

I believe in the writer—the writer, above all. That’s how we started off: admiring the writer. We organized the New York Review according to the writers we admired most: Edmund Wilson, Wystan Auden, Fred Dupee, Norman, Bill, Lizzie, Mary among them. Each of them had a confident sense of their own prose, and it meant a great deal to them—the matter of a comma, a semicolon, a word—and it does to our writers today. And so, when it comes to making a change, we should not do it without their permission. If a moment comes at some point where we see something should be improved, we don’t just scribble it in but call them up wherever they are. And that is, I think, crucial.

”

- Robert Silvers

Cashmere Cat, “Mirror Maru” 2012

Sun, 05 May 2013 02:03:00 -0400

Cashmere Cat, “Mirror Maru”

2012

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Sun, 05 May 2013 01:51:13 -0400