Um, ok, so I’m examining the hypothetical logistics of going to Coachella next year and - apart from the fact that I have no friends to go with - the logistics look REALLY promising. I’m about to die of hypothetical excitement.
"As I said, I want a show of my own - called Nothing Special"
- Andy Warhol
- Andy Warhol
I quite like the original version of Candle in the Wind. The lyrics are, at times, quite awkward and literal - for instance:
Even when you died,
The press still hounded you –
All the papers had to say
Was that Marilyn was found in the nude.
I don’t know why I find that such an endearing quality with respect to Candle in the Wind (I probably wouldn’t for most other songs). Just the genius of Elton & Bernie, I suppose.
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There is a new song on Top 40 radio right now that’s so good I want to kill myself. I’m not sure why exceptionally good hip-hop singles make me want to commit suicide, but they often do. I don’t know what the title of the song is, but it’s that religious woman with the perfect stomach from Destiny’s Child and Jay-Z doing a duet featuring a horn riff from the ’70s that I’ve never heard before (but that sounds completely familiar), and the chorus is something along the lines of, “Your love is driving me crazy right now/ I’m kind of hoping you’ll page me right now.” It’s also possible that Jay-Z compares himself to Golden State Warriors guard Nick Van Exel during the last verse, but I can’t be positive.
ANYWAY, by the time you read this sentence, the song I am referring to will be ten thousand years old. You will have heard it approximately 15,000 times, and you might hate it, and I might hate it, too. But right now — today — I am living for this song. As far as I’m concerned, there is nothing that matters as much as hearing it on the radio; I am interested in nothing beyond Beyonce Knowles’s voice. All I do is scan the FM dial for hours at a time, trying to find it.
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Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live
Today, I heard Crazy in Love and felt compelled to revisit one of my favourite passages from Killing Yourself to Live.
2011/12/12
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“A mass rally to protest against violations during the parliamentary elections is taking place at Bolotnaya square in Moscow, Russia, on 10 December, 2011. Demonstrators are demanding an end to Vladimir Putin’s rule. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov”
Getting a contact claustrophobia high looking at this…
(Source: euronews.net)
Time certainly does fly when you’re listening to Pulp and thinking about how you’d like to make out with Jarvis Cocker.
Yesterday I watched at least nine episodes of Law & Order - consecutively. Actually, that’s not strictly true. Technically, I watched like five episodes of Law & Order, two episodes of Law & Order: SVU and two episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. I’m not really sure on the exact numbers of each because it’s kind of blur - a big, wonderful blur of “these are their stories”.
