Actually, at a detailed reading, you're right. More words aren't necessary. Fewer are. So I'll sum it up quickly.

I'll respond in more detail later, but one thing I wanted to get straight. You keep saying "advocate, ADVOCATE" violence and I said "understand."

No matter how you frame it, focusing disgust directly at individuals rather than practices than the fads themselves smacks of jealousy. I agree, there's fads that afflict this class just like there's fads that afflict the underclass; I think there's probably disproportionate attention paid to them because of their…

"Wanting back what you had before someone else took it away from you" - you mean cheap rent? Blame your landlord.

The line "in fact an economic system that over-rewards some people while under-rewarding almost everybody else?" bothers me, largely because those being raged against aren't generally being over-rewarded at all; Google's pay structure as well as many other tech companies rival what someone with commensurate skills in…

Caught on all over nyc. I live within delivery distance... That milk is evil

Dwell and New York Magazine. Great subway reading (and Dwell keeps me full of ideas when I finally get around to building a place in the woods)

Nah. I like its aesthetic. a little Designers Republic-y.

Thats Amanda Lepore, famous NYC club scenester and transsexual.

Brian, you're failing to recognize that 85% of the readership is comprised of huge fanboys who would sooner donate to a campaign sponsoring public service announcements to preserve traditional East Asian beauty than to one dedicated to saving sick children. NOT ONE MORE SPOILED BEAUTY, Brian! NOT ONE MORE!

Gaspar Noe's Enter the Void is a major attention grabber at parties I've had...people are like WTF is this bad before you know it half of everyone is watching the TV...and by the end, they all hate you.

I like both of them, but I happen to be a huge Detroit techno and French and Chicago house fan, so for them to move away from the loops of Revolution 909, they're moving further away from me. I do like those other albums and a few tracks from Discovery have never left my short playlist (voyager and face to face,…

Wait, what? The key is the same and the instruments utilized are similar, but the tracks are merely complementary - they make a good "mashup" if you will. You have a DJ's ear to be able to identify harmonically complementary songs, but if you think that one is actually derivative of the other, that's a longshot. I…

Even if it was "easy" you would have to have the inspiration to arrange it!!! The original track sounds absolutely nothing like One More Time other than the few chords, in a different order (more than I can say for Robot Rock). producing tracks like this takes talent and inspiration, even if it's made of 100%…

Nooooo, it's easy to copy samples with software and mimic the original works of others (by the way, when I say "original work" here, I mean Daft Punk's inspired use of those samples and building an incredible track by rearranging them and adding to it.) If you think that the only difference is you're not famous, I can…

ROFLMAO Daft Punk is a poor man's Girl Talk...and you have seeeeriously obscure tastes if you had ever heard more than one or two of the original tracks that Daft Punk samples.

Actually, there's no evidence that they ever denied it. There's a single article in Wikipedia that claims this, which says that SOMEONE ELSE reportedly said they denied it, so it's not even a direct attribution. Sort of like that friend of a friend of a friend who claims to be related to Santa Claus.

Yes! Exactly. And Daft Punk is among them...they are producers first and foremost and are more responsible for their music and its arrangement than the vast majority of music today.

Believe it or not I think they peaked at Homework. I'm a very big techno/house fan (favorite DJs of the moment are DVS1 for techno, Francois K for house...look 'me up!) and they've gotten further and further away from that wonderful filtered French house of the 90s... Ah well. Still good, just different. They were…

This is absolutely true when a compositionally significant portion of the derivative work is used, but two chords, rearranged into a different composition, wouldn't really qualify. This is almost "timbre sampling" - they're using two samples as notes for their harmonic properties. You could do the same thing with a…