June 2012
14 posts
EL ORÅCULO DEL SAN GENNARO: PERPETUAL ADOLESCENTS... →
sangennaro:
Do you ever get creeped out thinking about why it is exactly that young, inexperienced musicians play such a disproportionately dominant role in new music? (in music journalism, and the culture that exists around it, to be more specific, I guess.) It certainly can’t be because musical skills or…
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stefanigermanottailoveya asked: watch?v=sL4vBBTCO3Y also, Gaga told Target if they were going to give money to the anti-gay thing to not sell her album.
A few words of gratitude
Hello, I’m Evan, and I absolutely love your blog. As a new-to-the-scene, 18-yr old gay man, I have had increasing difficulty finding intellectual attraction and integrity on the “scene”. Hypersexuality and emotional repression have made countless stereotypes come to life in my community and I absolutely hate it. Having realized that I grew up in a world where fully developed,...
monsterinthegirlmask asked: I'm going to safely assume that you'll be too scared to bring any real facts into this argument, or display mine, and probably either not reply or reply privately, which is painfully predictable. But hey, keep on fighting all that constructive public attention to our cause, because you know, with that, we have nothing! I hope that's your goal, because that is the ONLY outcome your...
monsterinthegirlmask asked: Here are some other things you are forcing yourself to ignore; She donates as much as $20,000 per concert to homeless GLBT people, exclusively. She has also since started her own organization that allows GLBT teens to safely leave home if necessary and talk and network amongst themselves. She personally spreads the word whenever there is a not-public-enough gblt suicide. She publicly discouraged...
“There’s such an expectation these days of the global elite that we can all just...”
– Taliesin Gilkes-Bower (via Wayne Marshall). I’ve been thinking about the whole interview, but especially this bit, a lot in the past couple days. (via nickminichino)
Heavy.
Why Is No One Getting On Lady Gaga's Case For... →
sotc-nyc:
This piece by Maura Johnston is really more about the Madonna/Gaga controversy that’s still going on after way too long, but it also has a Hanson-related suggestion for the passive-aggressive medley Madonna’s inserted into her tour.
Hahaha.
Just North of Something Important: I guess →
barthel:
(and this is kinda central to my criticism) I hoped that we would want more from art than just flattering depictions of our self-regard distributed via mass media so that we may point to them in the presence of others and say “See, you see, that is what I really am, that glittering beam of light up there - that is really me!” I guess I hoped we would want things like formal...
"Real Punk Belongs to Fighters" - a misinformed... →
probrucer:
I think this is oversimplified and under-informed. She talks about the dangerous edge that punk lives on in many places around the world and uses that as an excuse to say that American music is vacuous and lacks revolutionary spirit by mentioning Springsteen, Miley Cyrus, Jay-Z, and the unfortunate Varvatos invasion at 315 Bowery. If she had done even the most minimal research, she’d...
Prose; pop!: Gay men and the way we talk about and... →
judyxberman:
ohrohin:
So I wrote this the other week and it seemed prescient. I was at a cocktail party recently with one of my friends and we were, you know, yukking it up with party guests, washing down pizza with champagne, and just having a grand old time. Then suddenly, a gay man passed by my friend and decided to pet her butt in the process. She was mortified; this is someone neither she...
40 sad portraits of closed record stores →
adorpheus:
gaysagainstgaga:
If you get your music from unauthorized downloads instead of paying for it, you’re an asshole. End of story.
Record stores closing have nothing to do with piracy and everything to do with the following things:
1. iTunes
2. Amazon
3. Online Retailers in general
4. Places like Walmart and BestBuy which sell CDs for 1/4 the retail price.
and finally 5. The fact...
