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Strictly culture.: Topic F, Part One: Stop rolling your eyes!
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Topic F, Part One: Stop rolling your eyes! Though he was sometimes derided as too gloomy and cynical, Vonnegut's most resonant messages have always been hopeful in the face of almost-certain doom. The quote above is taken from a nice Onion. As featured on their A.V. Club site. I think the point they make is more than valid; it's a highly accurate observation and a good (if small) instance of counterpoint to their own, often sneering, content (especially The Hater. No less, wow! But anyway, here it is):.
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Strictly culture.: Topic E, Part 3: For clarity's sake
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Topic E, Part 3: For clarity's sake. I know I've confused people in the real world with this, and now I've carried it over to the blogosphere, but to be clear, when I speak of. And when I have money to burn, I go. After all, CDs are still recordings, right? And when I made reference to. I suppose I meant mp3s, iPods, elbo.ws, eMusic, etc - music collected and/or consumed through a computer. Sorry for any confusion. Dated: Wednesday, March 28, 2007. File under: My Favorite Things. Death of a Party.
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Strictly culture.: Topic D, Part 3: The Guest.
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Topic D, Part 3: The Guest. NOTE: This was originally submitted by an anonymous reader as a comment, but I felt that the writing was quite strong; in fact, I felt it deserved its own post. Enjoy! Pardon my intrusion - stumbled across your blog and felt interested enough to comment. Hope that's kosher? Indie" music is becoming almost universally a commodity alone, so it's no surprising that it's being used to sell other stuff, especially when it seems to do that well. Great blog, keep it up. It's nice to ...
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Strictly culture.: Topic E, Part Two: There will always be a bit of my heart devoted to it.
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Topic E, Part Two: There will always be a bit of my heart devoted to it. I think I'll always have a use for it. I just hope there'll always be record stores to go to. A, "The Lost Art". Agreed. There is still something very satisfying about crawling through record stores. It has nothing to do with a highly consumerist, stereotypically feminine, love of shopping - that. Is the force that propels me into the nearest H&M. Esque fantasy; or maybe it really is. Dated: Tuesday, March 27, 2007. Death of a Party.
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Strictly culture.: Topic D, Part 5: Cool Britannia
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Topic D, Part 5: Cool Britannia. I’m glad Miss Imperial brought up Britpop’s “indie” angle, because it seems to me that today’s “indie” scene bears many similarities to that pop explosion of a decade ago, in terms of trajectory. I’m grateful, too, for the input of our reader/guest poster. At its height, Britpop was inescapable (in Britain, obviously, but also in certain circles in North America, where even a cursory knowledge of Anglopopculture was an easy way to appear. The ubiquity and fractalization o...
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The Bottom of the Order: October 2008
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The Bottom of the Order. Wednesday, October 29, 2008. Somewhere a Ghostrunner is Smiling. Holy goddamn, but Rocco Baldelli turned on that Madsen offering. This has been, maybe, the strangest World Series ever - barring maybe that earthquake thing in '89 - and a dinger by a previously hitless right fielder who's just come back from a ton of time off while he battled a mitochondrial disorder is pretty much fitting. Also, the Rays kind of have a '69 Mets vibe happening, which is appealing, no? Of course, as...
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Strictly culture.: topic d, part 6: science fiction/ double feature
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Topic d, part 6: science fiction/ double feature. Aside from watching the "cooler" strain of radio-friendly pop rock try on and then discard such identities as "alternative", "college rock", and now "indie" (all of which were taken to mean slightly different sounds, granted), i find it even more interesting that "indie" has now become an equally neutured and meaningless term in the movie business. I mean, not to call out. It doesn't seem fair to pit fall out boy against the killers. Maybe i need to ask m...
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Strictly culture.: Topic E, Part 1: The Lost Art
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Topic E, Part 1: The Lost Art. I like the idea that almost anything I might want to hear is at the tips of my fingers. I like that I can carry a thousand songs in my pocket. I like finding new music while at the office. But I still. The act of record shopping. I went last week, moving my way up Bank Street, from Planet of Sound. Housed in the old 5 Arlington. A Studio 1 compilation, some Ken Vandermark, an out-of-print Matthew Shipp Quartet album, and Charles Mingus'. Complete Town Hall Concert.
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Strictly culture.: March 2007
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Topic E, Part 3: For clarity's sake. I know I've confused people in the real world with this, and now I've carried it over to the blogosphere, but to be clear, when I speak of. And when I have money to burn, I go. After all, CDs are still recordings, right? And when I made reference to. I suppose I meant mp3s, iPods, elbo.ws, eMusic, etc - music collected and/or consumed through a computer. Sorry for any confusion. Dated: Wednesday, March 28, 2007. File under: My Favorite Things. A, "The Lost Art". Topic...
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Strictly culture.: Topic D, Part 4: Indie ain't nothing but a circuit.
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Topic D, Part 4: Indie ain't nothing but a circuit. I recall the word "indie" being applied, in Britain, to the sound of the music instead of the situation of the band, much like Anonymous' definition below. I'm not sure how long this has been the case in the UK, but certainly during the Brit Pop. Era, I remember bands such as Blur. Being referred to as "indie" by the English press, even when their records were released by (and on) major labels. With no financial assistance beyond funding.
