December 06
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November 09
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
I have mixed reviews for the Green Album (Muppets edition, but actually also Weezer edition if we’re bringing it up). I really like OK Go’s theme song cover. I do NOT like Andrew Bird’s cover of “Bein’ Green” (why does everyone love that guy??). I think I like the Airborne Toxic Event’s cover of “Wishing Song” (but it’s never so heartbreaking as when Gonzo sings it). And I love Matt Nathanson’s cover of “I Hope That Something Better Comes Along” even though I really hate Matt Nathanson’s voice (he sounds like all those other guys who are always singing heartfelt bullshit, like John Mayer and that other one). It’s so adult, which the Muppets always have been and the original song totally is, even though it’s played off as a bar singalong in The Muppet Movie. And I love the word “irresistible-ish” and he sells it, along with several lines that are essentially about bestiality.
March 31
» Sony Classics Will Release Whit Stillman’s Latest
Isn’t Adam Brody a little ethnic to show up in a Whit Stillman movie?, but the Greta Gerwig I think is probably some inspired Chloe Sevigny shit. Mostly I guess I’m a little depressed that we’ve all gotten so old that Whit Stillman can’t plausibly cast Chris Eigeman and Taylor Nichols anymore (but I expect cameos!).
Also, on the subject, still don’t want to be entirely convinced that the Whit Stillman Twitter account is fake: “It was all a dream, I used to read George magazine” — yes. “Mondays I go to Barneys and try on everything purple” — no.
February 12
My favorite part of the Scientology article was the sly running gag about the church’s many official magazines.
January 26
November 18
The absolute best possible thing the Gossip Girl writers could have done with the three most irritating, unlikable characters they themselves created (all poors, of course) is have them join forces, become (or stay) evil, and form some kind of weird misfit avenger league. Well fucking done, Gossip Girl writers. And that they did it on Skype is just the cherry. This show is such a clusterfuck of genius.
September 07
Faye is such a good psychologist she can read Seventeen magazine and get all the references.
September 03
“ ‘I always had this perverted sense of pride because I was managing to scrape by here,’ said Brooklyn resident Andrew McQuade, who, after watching two subway rats gnawing on a third bloody rat carcass, finally determined that New York City was a giant sprawling cancer. ‘Well, fuck that. I don’t need to pay $2,000 a month to share a doghouse-sized apartment with some random Craigslist dipshit to prove my worth. I want to live like a goddamn human being.’
— This is literally exactly what I’ve been saying forevs. The last paragraph, of course, is bullshit. Angelenos never move to New York, why would they?
