January 2011
6 posts
confidential answers to anonymous questions
At this point the term “middle class” is so vague and conceptual that it’s almost an article of religious faith, but I don’t think it was ever intended to mean “of exact median income” — it refers to something more structural, you know? Some people seem to have read that Tennis review as if it’s picking on the band for being “middle...
"something about Keenan’s voice always sounds like...
Spent this morning writing, like many Broadcast fans, about Trish Keenan.
I have a new piece up on Vulture about M.I.A., her new mixtape, and the way listeners warmed back up to her after a rough summer. I.e., mostly stuff the music geeks among you will know about, except for one realization — ever noticed how often M.I.A. uses food as a way of talking about identity? From the mango to the tequila to the cinnamon in the coffee? How freaking apt is it that she got...
Anonymous asked: Catching up on nymag.com posts-- dude, what's up with writing "Wendy Carlos (né Walter Carlos)"? Making a point of mentioning a transperson's birth name is weird enough-- she was already called Wendy when Tron came out; still, okay, whatever. But WHY use a word with masculine and feminine forms when you could dodge the question with "born"?
Anonymous asked: Are you as insufferable in person as you are on the internet?
Oh, "Monster" Video
champagnecandy:
sadydoyle:
Mean Nicki threatens and makes out with Good Nicki in an S/M set-up. That’s clever. But it’s not really that different, in terms of its visual grammar, than the rest of the video. … You have an only marginally less misogynist, more playful variation on the hurt-girls-to-fuck-them/fuck-girls-to-hurt-them, “girls are scary unless they’re our victims” visual...