February 2012
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“At birth, male ceratioids are already equipped with extremely well-developed...”
– Anglerfish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Obviously, the practical things in my life changed after that, but...”
– 5-10-15-20: Robert Wyatt | Features | Pitchfork
Or, “An anchor lets you see the river move.”
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Links
semipoplife:
Tris McCall, Bruce Springsteen: Wrecking Ball
Andrew Ryce, “Bass/House”
Evan Rytlewski, “Trey Songz, last R&B singer standing”
Julianne Esocbedo Shepherd, “What does it mean that Rihanna has collaborated with former abuser Chris Brown?”
The Singles Jukebox, Cassie: “King of Hearts” and Usher: “Climax”
Douglas Wolk: “Johnny Cash: The man in black humor” and “May your song...
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“As a child I feared the day the world would be taken over by robots; these days...”
– Crash course in how to write an interesting lede for an album review by Lindsay Zoladz. (via seanfennessey)
It’s true. Taking notes.
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A Poem I Read in 1995
I was at a place in my life in where I would still pick up The Best American Poetry just to see what was good. In the 1994 edition, published in 1995, there was a series of three poems by a guy named Tom Andrews. The series was called “Cinema Verite” and the poems took the form of short film scripts.
At that time, in addition to poetry, I was also very interested in screenwriting. I...
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WatchOne of those moments of real happiness he talked about here. A genius at work.
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Florence Green, Last World War I Veteran, Dies at... →
In 2006, I had a random thought: Were any veterans of WW I still alive? I crunched some numbers and it seemed unlikely—the vet would have to be well past 100. But then I googled it and discovered that there were, as of May 2006, still 74 remaining. A Wikipedia page had all of their names, where they served, where they lived now, how old they were. I started tracking it, and they were dying...
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“Q: Obviously a tool is a tool and you can use it any way you want. It’s your...”
– Tape Op Magazine > Articles > Steve Albini
So in the full print version of this, which I finally finished reading there are great anecdotes about the Pixies, Nirvana, all of that. But this quote above is definitely the “lede,” if you will.
(via desnoise)
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Semipop Life: Best Lana Del Rey Writing 2012 (part... →
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Sasha Frere-Jones:
Most of the tracks were produced by Emile Haynie, who has mostly recorded hip-hop until now—a slightly misleading credential, since “Born to Die” sounds only intermittently like hip-hop, and there is nothing like rapping (except for a few Dad-like eruptions of vernacular in…