A+X #8 by Christopher Hastings and Reilly Brown
“The Disney fox Robin Hood!”
One day I will make an entire Powerpoint of basic marketing concepts illustrated solely with Nerd. This will be “top-of-mind awareness.”
This is excellent, read it in full. On the Kardashian bit in particular:
* Yes, I know Patterson has institutional immunity, and that women also read him. I know because patterson, Sue Grafton and Patricia Cornwell make up about 60% of my mother’s reading habits, to the point where it’s a family joke that she won’t buy a book if there’s no murder in the title. This may explain a lot about me and my family.
** Kim codes white in relation to Kanye, but it’s kind of like how Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is either called white or not depending on who wants to make which point.
*** There was HWFO, but butthurt Louis Tomlinson stans are different than yuppies tsk-tsking about Kanye’s artistry being tainted.
(via katherinestasaph)
Original piece and commentary both well worth reading.
(via parklakespeakers)
Someone (who?) once made the point at the height of pop-cult Kanye-revilery that the whole big deal was a tone argument: the actual content of what he says is true, or at least entirely defensible. Like, George W. Bush didn’t care about black people, and ‘Single Ladies’ probably was the better video, yanno?
(via parklakespeakers)
‘Mah Boy’ by SISTAR19 (씨스타19)
Nice bit of early-summer R&B, featuring Hyorin the vocal booster rocket.
(Source: josukekun, via king-in-yellow)
I thought our ongoing city hall corruption scandal was pretty entertaining — last I heard: ex-mayor of Laval Vaillancourt tried to buy off THOMAS MULCAIR with an envelope! — but yours is wackier.
okay, this rob ford crack cocaine thing is just… god, i don’t even know, every time i think that he can’t top his past trainwrecks, he one-ups himself AGAIN in exciting creative homophobic & racist ways, but as everyone on my twitter feed is pointing out, the best part of all this appears to be that his (alleged) lawyer uses a hotmail address
I feel like there’s gotta be another shoe to drop, somewhere (NOT because I have any trouble believing that awful Toronto mayor/criminal Rob Ford was smoking crack) and I’m just waiting for it.
The most surprising revelation in this story is that Rob Ford voluntarily hangs out with young black people in his spare time.
Hyorin - Night Blues That Rain (Immortal Song II live version)
Hyorin killing it, rather more than usual even (she’s not always controlled on this show, though she’s always compelling. Sistar’s singles, one realizes, don’t come close to pushing her capabilities). The cover is a sort of deconstructed trot that retains the traditional instruments, and evidently a great deal of the saudade. I’m fascinated by the audience reaction: you can tell even the younger viewers/singers are familiar with the song, and that it comes with a preexisting emotional payload.
‘Night Light’ by Miho Hatori
my tempo is loose / like a broken clock / I have no excuse / we have a block / got an electric shock / in the city / from my night light #latenightcitymusic
‘Minha Namorada’ by Tom, Vinícius, Toquinho & Miucha
Monday 6AM, temp dropped 10 degrees overnight and I haven’t been to bed, so this and the morning miso soup are my current lifeline.