March 2012
February 2012
"blog success" means not having to check if the...
maura:
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not to mention SONGWRITING CREDITS
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25 minutes until i leave for Jimmy Fallon. Look for me on the band bench tonight!!
naming blogs is easy: she's a 'rebel' →
maura:
after getting wind of this weekend’s incident in which rihanna opened the floodgates for her 14 million-plus twitter followers to go after someone who criticized her decision to work with chris brown—namely by calling her interrogator fat and ugly and subsequently letting her followers know that…
the question is: when does Twitter jump the same shark that Usenet did, and we all...
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Book Stalker: Anniversary! →
bookstalker:
Well, it’s officially been one year since I came up with The Plan, and I have to say it’s been quite a trip. Besides meeting fellow book-lovers, authors, bloggers and misc. cool folk, I’ve also had some pretty neat reading experiences. It was hard to narrow down the list, but I wanted…
i am on this list under “amazing authors”!
THANK YOU!!
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Interview w/me about "B-sides and Broken Hearts"... →
learn what I would consider to be the theme song to my life, and what my future writing projects are going to be!
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Woman in Comedy: A really scary thing happened to...
gabydunn:
Part of me thinks it’s too soon to be writing about this because I don’t think I’ve completely processed how I feel, but I also think maybe this has happened to other women and I should talk about it in as raw a way as possible. I’m still really embarrassed and ashamed and garbled up inside, but maybe this can start a helpful discussion in terms of women and comedy.
Last night, I was...
“I do not think I need to point out the ways in which this is beyond horrific, as...”
– The Rejectionist shares her excellent site with Meg Clark, ranting about Franzen.
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what springsteen & M.I.A. have in common
They both sampled “The Last Words Of Copernicus” - Bruce on “Death to My Hometown” (the chanting song sampled underneath the melody in both the intro and the outro. It’s the version from the Alan Lomax collection) and M.I.A. in “Tell Me Why”.
This link compares M.I.A. to a version of “The Last Words of Copernicus,” and “Death to My...
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“Every scenario we might imagine seems absurd, and they all show a fundamental...”
– DeRogatis on Cobain at 45. Plus a reprint of an interview he did with him in 1993.
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“You use your muscle and your mind and you pray your best
That your best is good...”
– “Rocky Ground,” which I alternately rate as the best or the second best song on Wrecking Ball
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“Bobby Keys, saxophonist who’s played with everyone from Elvis Presley to the...”
– why yes, i do give a fuck about what bobby keys has to say about the e street band’s horn section.
“Young girls look up to people like you to guide them through circumstances too...”
– An Open Letter to Rihanna: It’s Time to Talk That Talk : thank you, @jasonlipshutz
[disclaimer: i work here]
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“But in the end we felt it’s not going to be possible to replace Clarence,...”
– SVZ on the tour.
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“And there was the time Bruce Springsteen came in and bought a vintage pink and...”
– i LOVE that Bruce used to shop at Trash & Vaudeville. Then again, didn’t we all once upon a time?
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“The opening performances were deceptively good. Lady Gaga, looking like a...”
– Fair assessment by SFJ.