it seemed pretty pitchy, perhaps as a direct effect of this tryingwaytoohardness to push her voice to be at the center stage of this megalophonic spectacle which ultimately just didn't pay off. again, i'm not a fan of hers, but my friends who were with me at the time (and liked her) seemed unimpressed as well.

for what it's worth, in spite of all their reluctancy to going on tour and general "low-profileness", The Magnetic Fields absolutely kill it when playing live shows.

when math and literature make love = http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Gotta love the irony of such an uncanny intellectual level of conversation on a news item about Chris Brown.

#OCCUPYNBC

f*** yeah En Vogue!

wishful television http://ontevelision.tumblr.com

And nobody has been more aware of this throughout the last few years than Kevin himself, who seems inescapably caught between his desperate ludic need for unrestricted "family" approval and a failed wish for self-repentance after whatever permanent emotional damage I'm guessing the self-titled tour must have brought…

those digital signals.

Pavement:
#winning

at last!
a "Chinese Democracy" for Bono to call his own.

Dogville
one of the few times in history where one can't help but feel genuine exhilaration upon hearing the words: "Do the kids first and make the mother watch. Tell her you will stop if she can hold back her tears".

there is no amount of Sterling Cooper that could ever make Vincent Kartheiser not be Connor.

f*** yeah Merge Records!
IN YOUR FACE, auto-tuning.

sup ma mothaforgetters!!

(not) Dear 2011
fuck. you.

what do we know?
people were all over the blatant insincerity, tryingwaytoohard-ness of "500 days of Summer". anything can happen.

lack of soundtrack
One thing that was poignantly absent from this movie was the soundtrack/score, usually such an essential element for setting the tone in Sofia's movies. From "Hello It's Me" in the phone scene of "The Virgin Suicides", to the down-tempo dreampop-meets-idm Kevin Shields infected (in a good way)…

so let's break this down
(lazy) cold opening, (lazy) monologue (with music and muppets…), parody, parody, penis-themed rap parody, parody, commercial parody,
music, weekend update (with numerous parodies), parody, self-parody,
(SEVEN minutes of) music, actual characters!!!, parody. "reaaally, Seth Meyers??!??!" NOT…

to Michelangelo Matos
Theoretical Girl recently did an adorable (non-disco) cover of "Trouble" for her "Advent Calendar" installments: