June 2012
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“On Facebook, we are perpetually in beta. We don’t reveal a pre-existing self but...”
– From Facebook in the Age of Facebook, by Rob Horning at The New Inquiry.
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Rufus Wainwright
— One I love
May 2012
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Hype Williams
— The Throning
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WatchEat Me
An installation by the São Paulo artist Renata Padovan, at Treasure Hill, Taipei, March 2012.
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Talking Heads
— Born under punches (I’m a...
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Female Pilot Kicks Passenger Off Plane For Sexist... →
TRIP Linhas Aéreas says the pilot ejected the man before takeoff as he made loud, sexist comments upon learning the pilot was a woman.
SAO PAULO — A Brazilian airline says one of its female pilots tossed a passenger off a flight because he was making sexist comments about women flying planes.
Trip Airlines says in a Tuesday statement the pilot ejected the man before takeoff as he made...
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It should be 'awesome spectacular plugin rages...
Dru Mundorff, the creator of LilyJade, a shady Facebook app, defending his idea in the comments of Russell Brandom’s BuzzFeed article talking about how shady it is. The cross-platform browser plugin, which tricks users into installing it, replaces all the ads on other sites with his. Classy. He’s made a quarter-million bucks off the thing in just two weeks, has already drawn a comment from...
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Radiohead
— Reckoner
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Dexy’s Midnight Runners
— Geno
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April 2012
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Electric Six
— Synthesizer
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10 Untranslatable Words →
— 10 wonderful words from French, Russian, Japanese, Sanskrit, bearing meanings you always needed, but never knew were possible in just one word.
Oh – and each meaning beautifully demonstrated in the context of the world of film. Nice work, Esther Inglis-Arkell.
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Curumin, feat. BNegão & Lucas Santtana
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WatchA version of Robyn’s None of Dem, performed live on Triple J Radio, Australia, by Austra
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Interpol
— Specialist
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“Which magazine did you first fall for? ‘Way back, it was Look-In, a...”
– Jeremy Leslie, the editor of magCulture blog and the organiser of Printout, a bimonthly magazine swapshop in London, in the Guardian.
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All authors are welcome to the London Book Fair…...
From The British Council brings more shame on us, by Nick Cohen in the Guardian. Cohen writes:
Publishers want to break into the Chinese market. To help them “seek out and capitalise on new business partnerships”, the organisers said that this year’s “focus” will be on China. They are keeping Beijing sweet by refusing to invite writers – as “visiting...
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Lady Sovereign
— Random
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“People wonder why nothing is interesting, it’s because they try to get a fucking...”
– Dean Blunt of Hype Williams interviewed in The Guardian. Check the free download at the end. And this song, damn.
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WatchThe brilliant, lucid Grayson Perry talking to the Guardian about the classic art subject matter of the ancients – gods, etc., and on inventing his own god. “They had a definite thing to make art about and a narrative, the Biblical stories and so on – it was very clear. So what they could concentrate on was the form and the style, and I was a bit envious of that. I have to come up with the...
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Natalie Merchant
— Carnival
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Minimum rage: Will Gen Y's career waiters occupy...
by Nona Willis Aronowitz, on Good
Behind the bar of a fancy New York restaurant, a 27-year-old bartender tidies her olive-and-cherry box. She attempts to look distracted while a middle-aged financial analyst holds her captive with small talk.
“So what else do you do?” he slurs, four Manhattans deep.
“Nothing,” she says. “I just do this.”
“Oh!” he answers. “That’s cool. Did you go to...
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“Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of...”
– John Keats, in a letter to Fanny Keats.