February 2012
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“When people ask me to explain the South, I usually don’t have an answer beyond...”
– Oxford American editor Marc Smirnoff’s dismantling of Garden & Gun is totally cutting, totally smart and totally overdue. It makes me proud to be a Southerner as well as an OA contributor. (via rachael-maddux)
Oh, this is glorious. I have extra disgust for G&G (“GAG”—!!!)...
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Deep inside the Boosh - Salon.com →
Has music been part of the Boosh from the beginning?
N.F.: The first show we ever did, we had this idea of a zookeeper trapped in someone’s Afro. And we thought, “He’s gotta rap.” That was the first song we ever wrote.
J.B.: We were listening to a lot of Wu Tang Clan and Beastie Boys at the time.
N.F.: Then we realized you can’t really rap in an American accent if you’re English. It’s...
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Minus the Bear - “Pachuca Sunrise”
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I JUST GOT “COOL, LET ME KNOW”-ED.
boyattractions:
Oren Ambarchi – “Salt”
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“This is an across-the-board fair bill aimed at providing accountability and...”
– S.C. bill would add requirements to register voters
Our most sacred rights—*gasp, clasp hands to chest*…somebody’s got the vapors.
What happened in Vegas—By John D'Agata and Jim... →
This is fascinating… as my old journalism teacher said on Facebook, it’s a bit of “the sausage being made.”
From The Lifespan of a Fact, by writer John D’Agata and Jim Fingal, published in February 2012 by W. W. Norton. In 2005, as an intern at The Believer, Fingal began fact-checking D’Agata’s article on the 2002 suicide of Las Vegas teenager Levi Presley. The book is...
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Singled Out: Wild Beasts' 'Loop The Loop' : NPR →
On this song your voice is very sweet, but it’s much harder in other places — almost a growl. Did it take you some time to figure out what kind of a voice you wanted to use as a singer?
HT: “For me, singing is cathartic. I get a huge sense of physical and emotional release from it and in that sense I suppose I let it be as unconscious as possible in a sense. But I think that’s...
“The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his...”
– David Foster Wallace in his essay “David Lynch Keeps His Head.” (via seafaringwoman)