August 2011
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Steve Jobs: A Tribute
With Steve Jobs stepping down from CEO of Apple, everyone seems to be sharing their own personal anecdotes about Steve, so I figured I’d join in.
I remember the first time I met Steve Jobs. It was the summer of 1998. I was sitting in the lobby of Apple. And Steve walks in and—this was a classic Steve move—he took a look at the visitor’s list from the receptionist and started calling...
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Watch“I think we shared a lot of tastes: cars or clothes, and women obviously.” —Eric Clapton
Oh look, another Stephen Malkmus interview →
Including such gems as:
You shouldn’t book more time than you need [in the studio]. I told Beck we needed a week. He said how about five days with a day off in the middle. “All right, Mr. Laid Back California.” Let’s just be ready to play and burn $1,000.
“ALL RIGHT, MR. LAID BACK CALIFORNIA.”
Also, this interview is conducted by Galaxie 500’s Dean Wareham.
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The Stephen Malkus media blitz continues →
This interview isn’t as kinda sad as his last interview. So that’s nice.
There’s this golden nugget about that lyric contest:
But I guess if anyone has the enthusiasm to come up with an idea that’ll make someone listen to the album, I’m open to it. I mean, obviously if they said the contest would be “Give Stephen Malkmus a Blow Job,” I’d say that’s a little too far. I’m not...
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The Awl: What Makes A Great Critic →
Maria Bustillos writes:
Having read a lot of books is possibly the last qualification we need in a critic. It does not follow in the slightest that Critic A is better than Critic B because he has read 100 or 1000 more books than has Critic B. This is in no way to slight Reynolds, Rayner or Bolle, by the way. I mean only to point out that the most we can say is that some relevant...
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“I knew that [Pavement’s reunion tour] was coming,” he said, “so if people...”
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“And Mr. Hansen said Pavement was “the band that 40 other bands were emulating.”...”
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“Mr. Malkmus gently needled Mr. Hansen for his cultivated technophobia (“I bet...”
– Dave Itzkoff’s NY Times article about Stephen Malkmus and Beck is pretty great
“You see, telling people not to download the iOS 5 beta is like putting the...”
– TechCrunch’s Greg Kumparak has come up with a really great and apt and just very good analogy
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Nick Douglas: Everyone loses! →
nickdouglas:
Everyone loses!
Though the haplessly self-serious Andy Baron overdid it, there is value in calling out a fake meme. This isn’t some obscure corner of the internet; Today Show hosts have posted horsemaning pics, and legit news organizations, looking for more hour-ending filler, have glommed onto it because they want to “stay relevant.” So yes, it actually makes sense to post...
Dembot: Horsemaning A Forced Meme? A day in the... →
dembot:
Kids these days.
Horsemanning is making the rounds, and it’s a creepy one. When authentically posed, one person hides their head and another person shows their head somewhere else. Over the last week, many people have been inspired by the idea, performing their own versions. It’s…
Full disclosure: In the summer of 2010, I worked for BuzzFeed as an editorial intern. I do not work...
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A review of KFC's Double Down that I wrote in...
By BRIAN A. FELDMAN STAFF WRITER
Colonel Sanders “Double Down” (KFC) 4.5 out of 5 stars
Remember that scene in Avatar, where Jake Sully forms Tsahaylu with that Na’vi horse thing? That’s feeling one experiences after eating a Double Down. Only instead of unity between man and nature, it’s more like a unity between man and a chicken-salt-grease abomination. In a way,...
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On the bus
Jeff: ok i cant keep reading on the bus i'm gonna puke
Jeff: talk to you later
Brian: words words wrods words
Jeff: ass
Brian: puuuuuuke
“Jake decides to accept the risky job when he first sets eyes on the show’s...”
– It’s always nice to check in on the Good Morning, Miami wiki every once in a while
The Mystery of Herman Cain and the Donna Summer... →
This is my favorite news story of the year, hands down:
Nothing strange about that on the surface, until you Google the quote and you realize that these words of wisdom were uttered not by a poet, but by disco queen Donna Summer in her song “The Power of One.” Even more bizarre, this isn’t even one of Summer’s classic hits — she recorded it just over a decade ago as the...
Norway's a-ha reunite for July attacks memorial →
In any other situation besides mass murder (and paradoxically, because of it), there would be so many comments to make about this. Or just a few sarcastic ones.
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