This week was ridiculously slow, but here a few interesting tidbits: 1) just like everyone else, RS be lovin’ the Arctic Monkeys. Am I the only one who is not jumping on that bandwagon? I haven’t heard the album in its entirety, but what I have heard has utterly failed to blow me away. 2)...
Ghost Wars Those of you from Seattle (and possibly from elsewhere) may remember a band named Juno. Juno was filled with talent (Death Cab fans may remember that Nick Harmer and Jason McGerr lent their talents to Juno, and I believe Nate Mendel did, as well?) – but frontman former pro-snowboarder Arlie Carstens was often...
Not music related, but I just can’t help myself – I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m pretty much obsessed with Project Runway. None of the designers from this season have me as excited as I was about Jay McCarroll last year (who I liked since day one, thank you!), but it’s...
Again, not ignoring you – just distracted/busy! The internship has been going pretty well – like most internships, there’s lots of busy work to be done, and most of it isn’t remotely glamorous. I’ve spent most of my time putting together packets of some sort – gossip packets (all the major gossip columns in newspapers)...
Break-up songs are never hard to find. As anyone who creates art or enjoys a lot of it will tell you, pain has a tendency to result in a better product than happiness does. It just translates better (probably because, in my opinion, happiness tends to be much more subjective and individualized). In my mission...
It’s A Beautiful Day When I listen to the radio, I tend to listen to “classic rock” stations, because there’s a better shot that they’ll play things I both recognize and enjoy (of course, when I’m in Seattle, KEXP takes over a sizable portion of the air time in my car). Recently, I was listening...
Yesterday was my first day of my internship with Rolling Stone. The day’s events and observations are as follows: I spent the first half of the day learning about media packets and meeting people, and the second half standing in the wall of covers – a hallway with the covers of every issue of Rolling...
When you’re reading any sort of non-fiction memoirs, articles in newspapers & magazines, blogs, it’s good to know where the writer is coming from. Having an idea of the author’s general tastes, opinions and areas of expertise make it easier for us to know how to interpret what they write. This all sounds very serious...
I know what you’re thinking. “Taylor, the last thing the internet needs is yet another MP3 blog.” And you’re right – partly. With MP3 blogs like Jefitoblog, Stereogum, Fluxblog and Gorilla vs. Bear, what more could I possibly hope to contribute? There are a handful of reasons for the existence of this blog. Firstly, I’m...
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