February 2012
10 posts
björk
Right now, Björk’s in the middle of a month-long New York “residency” built around her last album, Biophilia, a whole multifaceted project that feels a little more imagination-capturing now, in person, than it did when the album was released last fall, and critics tried to make sense of it alone.
I met with Björk last month to talk about it all. Here’s the feature, from...
thenotes:
We had no luck with the weather and the guests at our table were repellent in every respect. They even spoiled Nietzsche for us. Even after they had had a fatal car accident and had been laid out in the church in Sils, we still hated them.
Thomas Bernhard, “Hotel Waldhaus”
Oh, terrific — Miles Klee has undertaken the arduous, finger-cramping task of typing out the entirety...
Roc-a-Fella, Carnegie
Wrote something about Jay-Z’s shows at Carnegie Hall, Beyonce as seen from a distance, the ongoing mutually beneficial relationship between Shawn Carter and New York City’s alleged cultural elite, and icebergs. (Kindly supply your own iceberg.)
Anonymous asked: what do you look like?
prinzhorn dance school
A very quick Vulture take on Prinzhorn Dance School — a band I find pretty endlessly fascinating — and their new album,Clay Class.
I’m pretty sure I could spend 10,000 words circling and trying to pin down the things I hear in this band; they make music in a totally lateral, unexpected way, which winds up creating all sorts of strange and hard-to-describe effects when you spend...
