December 2009
70 posts
This is easily the best Gossip Girl all season long. Fire the other writers. Now!
ETA: Sigh. I take it back. This episode just went flaccid.
Promo for next week indicates someone dies. Oh god, I hope they kill off Trip Van Der Bilt. PLEASE. This will prove that god exists.
November 2009
45 posts
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Still Rock & Roll to Me
I visited NYC on Saturday to check out the “Who Shot Rock & Roll” photography exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. As many of you probably know, I have been researching how concert photographs are produced and used for music publications. It should come as no surprise that I feel very invested in this exhibition. (Soon enough I can actually share my M.A. thesis with you, so a lot of...
Psychological Obesity →
“People consume content that stimulates their mind and senses. That which angers, excites, energizes, entertains, or otherwise creates an emotional response. This is not always the “best” or most informative content, but that which triggers a reaction.
This isn’t inherently a good thing. Consider the food equivalent. Our bodies are programmed to consume fat and sugars because they’re rare in...
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11/27/09 WPRB Playlist
(FYI: posting from my phone. Apologies for the typos in advance.)
A return to the airwaves. This show was a little ehhhh. Funny, considering I had spent the last month thinking about things I’d play on this particular program.
I was distracted by a visitor to the station during my first hour, and never quite got my bearings back after that. On top of that, it was a 3-hour show, and long...
…So that’s what a rusty show sounds like.
Preparing for today's show.
I’m on the air in about 2 hours. Is there anything you’d like to hear on today’s show?
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Thankfulness.
Glad to be around another year to experience my crazy family, and together another at saying “Cheers” in English, Ukrainian, Polish, Italian, and Arabic.
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Further proof of my "figure skaters know fuck-all...
heathalouise:
theoreticalgirl:
As many of you know, I’m a reformed competitive figure skater. Couple years ago, I wrote a paper for the Experience Music Project’s Pop Conference about the ill-advised musical choices of skaters, and why this happens.
NYC happens to be a big figure skating city, so naturally this is incorporated Ito the annual Thanksgiving Day parade. Two particular instances:
...
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Further proof of my "figure skaters know fuck-all...
As many of you know, I’m a reformed competitive figure skater. Couple years ago, I wrote a paper for the Experience Music Project’s Pop Conference about the ill-advised musical choices of skaters, and why this happens.
NYC happens to be a big figure skating city, so naturally this is incorporated Ito the annual Thanksgiving Day parade. Two particular instances:
• Carly Simon...
11/27, 5-8PM: Her Jazz Returns to WPRB →
After a month-long hiatus to finish writing my master’s thesis, I’ll be back on the airwaves at WPRB this Friday. My show will run from 5-8 this week, so tune in a little earlier than usual. Very excited to be back!
Amateur Hour
Tonight, I went to a DJ night that claimed to be “50s punk precedents, 60s surf psychedelics, and French ye ye.” Sounds pretty awesome, eh? Of course, wouldn’t you know, the mastermind behind the night was out of town, and asked a friend to fill in. Instead, we wound up with a WOGL playlist, plus totally horrific Beatles mashups. (Look, if it ain’t the Cristina/Beatles...
West Philly = Best Philly, Part... →
Two items from Foobooz’s “Quick Bites” caught my eye:
Tom Drinker’s West opened quietly over the weekend at 39th and Chestnut. Six kinds of fries, pizzas and sandwiches make up the menu.
Wow. This sounds awesome. Curious about the pizza.
Today the Sang Kee Noodle House in the Sheraton at 36th and Chestnut opens. It’ll be open till 11pm and combine the noodle dishes of the...
Making A Glove Work With A Touch Screen
Instructables has a great tutorial for modding your gloves to work with touchscreens. If you’re looking for a way to kill time over the holiday weekend, this is a good start.
Of course, it would be nice if it was cold enough to wear gloves… Hello, winter? Where are you?
Daily Number: 31 - The Age of Tweets →
Happy to know this is totally age appropriate!
News at 11: Glenn Branca Says Music is "Dead" →
I’m just surprised that he finally arrived at this conclusion now. Also, way to use the phrase “paradigm shift” incorrectly.
I'll Tumble 4 Ya
After many many years of hosting HJ through Wordpress, Blogger, and Typepad, I’ve totally sold out and gone with Tumblr. Yes, I know I wasn’t writing much on HJ as of late, but the times I did plunk down a thought or two, no one cared.
I figured with the end of grad school in sight, a blog refresh was not necessarily a bad thing. And the interface of Tumblr certainly facilitates...
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Bad Black Mothers →
The always amazing and brilliant Melissa Harris-Lacewell’s take on the cultural and media depictions of “bad black mothers,” most recently contributed to by the film Precious.
Internet Redux →
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As I discovered, I did not have to write an...
THE PRODUCTION AND USE OF POPULAR MUSIC CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHS
Photographs serve as documents of the concert experience for popular music publications. Current scholarship does not address the reliance upon concert photographs as “news” within the institution of music journalism. Using interviews with freelance concert photographers and editors at various print and online music...
Internet Redux →
Watchperpetua:
Douglas Wolk uses images from comic books as visual aids in his “drastically condensed awesome version” of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgment.
This is one of the many reasons why Douglas is awesome.
“In just the span of a short few years, Jon Stewart has gone from optional to...”
– Brian Williams on “New Thought Leaders”
“Winfrey respects her content and her viewers. How many network shows of any...”
– Joyce McFadden: The Cultural Importance Of Oprah (via heathalouise)
caro:
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ohhleary:
Wait a minute! I thought it was always sunny in Philadelphia! I demand a refund!
Ironically, I still have a bunch of friends who live there and not one of them has seen that show.
Do they film it there? I really think that’s the kicker as to whether locals will watch it or not. If they don’t, you’ve lost ‘em.
People totally watch Sunny here and there is a...
Comp Question from Hell
Provide a cultural as well as personal analysis of the collection of photographs, “Untitled Film Stills,” by Cindy Sherman. Your cultural analysis should focus less on aesthetics than the series’ public reception, framing especially its place in feminist photography. Reference to your own politics of gender should be included in your individual review/analysis. Your feelings toward Sherman as a...
I’m on this thing but I never really have anything to say!
“…is so apparent in the reaction to the death of Ken Ober. X: Sad, sweet...”
– tiny outpost: The Gen X/Gen Y “Cultural Divide”