December 2010
59 posts
Black coffee, cigarettes and 45s
My grandmother chain-smoked, wore a leather jacket, and drank hot black coffee, even during the summer. Her husband, whom she never bothered to divorce, lived in the basement. She slept on the couch in the living room with her boyfriend, Norman, and whichever dogs were following her around at the time. Her daughter Sandy and Sandy’s husband, whom never seemed to have a shirt on during...
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WatchSourpatch - “Never (Ever, Ever) Enough”
Ok, ok, for something less yelly, here is an adorable album about falling in love and breaking up and falling in love again. It’s called Crushin’ (thanks, Jess).
Last 2010 single of the day (I promise).
Previously: White Lung, Double Negative.
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WatchDouble Negative - “Knife on a String”
From another great punk/hardcore release in 2010, Daydreamnation.
Previously: White Lung.
Ok, since I'm shameless
Here are 15 favorite longreads from Capital in 2010:
License to trill: The reinvention of Robert Davi by Zachary Woolfe (piece of the year if you ask me!)
David Simon on the doomed relationship between cities and their newsrooms by Josh Benson
Citizen Mondo: ‘Project Runway,’ parable of meritocracy, has found its ideal protagonist by Tom Scocca
Not even the Internet could save...
Four Hundred Dresses | Gay Talese on what Elaine... →
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White Lung - “Wild Failure”
From one...
5 Years of Philadelphyinz Mix →
If only for Andy’s Wiz Khalifa —> Sleigh Bells —> Notorious BIG transitions.
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Introducing Cut Time, Capital New York's monthly... →
Chris did a wonderful job with this mix for us. Please check it out and download the free mp3 beyond the click.
“His pictures are hardly handsome, and he, like everybody else, is less handsome...”
– Mark Twain on one of Charles Dickens’ New York readings of A Christmas Carol at Steinway Hall, in 1868. He gets fiercely critical right after that last sentence. Spent a lot of time researching Dickens’ readings for this week’s Thirteen column, and, although there was a glowing...
“i hate that we live in a society where more people like burning man than...”
– me. (via alithea)
haters and hecklers
agrammar:
I mention this because the best coping strategy we’ve devised — to be a thick-skinned adult; to understand that other people’s opinions are not personal attacks; to understand that someone, inevitably, will not care for what you do, and that’s a valid response on their part, and apart from the few cases where you can learn from it, all it really means is that What You Do is Not...
If there is grace
“My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. It’s the biggest problem you face if you believe in both religion and the absolute equality of men and women.” And yet there’s no personal inconsistency for him in the new album’s sixth track, based on the 30th chapter and third verse of the “unapologetically patriarchal” book of Genesis, where Bilhah acts as a surrogate mother for...
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My neighbor's top 5 favorite songs of 2010
5. Drake - “Best I Ever Had”
4. Drake - “Fancy”
3. Drake - “Every Girl”
2. The-Dream - “Shawty is Da Sh*!” (Clean version)
1. Ciara - “Ride”
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Nick Paumgarten: The top ten two-beer arguments... →
This is a brilliant idea for a list. Also, a good list.
Goosebumps
“In the fifth grade I was arrested from school and suspended for a week cause I made blueprints and plans and went through the classrooms stealing all the Goosebumps books. I was successful with three classrooms. The way I did it, every week I came home with a certain amount. I had numbers one through 73. Then I fucking got caught. And I was a little smartass, so I was like, What a...
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The Apartment is the service we have on Christmas... →
Mark Lotto, people.
“It sounds like it was recorded in a downtempo underwater sex chamber or inside a neon motel sign. It belongs on the Art Laboe Connection forever, with Sade and Minnie Riperton and other sensual heavyweights. It is the eye of the quiet storm.” Pretty much.
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The two men’s romantic appetites have made them... →
Stevenson and AJ make magic.
"Remembering Josh Levine" (New York Times) →
youngmanhattanite:
Amazing friend, amazing person.
Gillian Reagan: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010 →
I tried to take into account what a bunch of other folks had already recommended, and what I felt needed a little more love, especially all of the beautiful stuff from online publications and blogs. To be honest, the Robert Ebert profile in Esquire was one of the best things I read this year, but everyone read that, right? Sidenote: Ebert’s “My old man” is also a gorgeous...
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“Little Women” sisterhood
“And yet to attribute the astonishing popularity of the series to its glittering, high-end context alone would be to sell the show short. Its strongest appeal, it seems to me, is its ‘Little Women’ sisterhood theme. “These are three sisters who genuinely love each other,” Burns says. They fight, they squabble, but mostly with one another. But don’t you fight with them. Deep down is a ...
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Sorkin on Sarah
So I don’t think I will save my condemnation, you phony pioneer girl. (I’m in film and television, Cruella, and there was an insert close-up of your manicure while you were roughing it in God’s country. I know exactly how many feet off camera your hair and make-up trailer was.)
It must be gnarly to be jaded at 28. →
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“If I had a paintball gun, I’d still be paying legal fees. [The Cathy...”
– If you don’t like Lynda Barry, don’t talk to me.
abloodymess:
a taste of the new Shellac record...