TeenNick’s new late-night 2-hour block of shows, The ‘90s Are All That seemed compelling enough to me that I upgraded my cable package at a time when “going cable-less” is an increasingly attractive proposition. The upgrade includes the addition of some other channels I’ve already enjoyed, like MLB Network and IFC, but it was TeenNick …
Recently, I compared Earl Sweatshirt to both Bret Easton Ellis and Patrick Bateman, and Earl to American Psycho. That very exercise refreshed many of my reactions to the book and its main character. It’s been about a year since I read American Psycho, but it was a deeply moving, even haunting, experience, and I’ve wanted …
If you have a copy of my eighth grade yearbook, flip through until you find a collage page where you’ll see a picture of yours truly in the bleachers of a girls volleyball game. I’m photographed in a blue knit sweater, trimmed with old gold (although the picture is in black & white, of course), …
It seems like any time an established recording artist has a book of poetry published, it’s probably “for fans only,” and it kind of comes across as a corporate cash in. Maybe I’m just one of those kinds of fans, but I think David Berman is an exception to the rule. In 1999, the same …
…or, Sitcom Darwinism This is the picture of evolution, with survival demanding adaptability, adaptability yielding change, change as progress, progress shaping history… The sitcom was called “Family Matters,” a trite play on words that reflected the lack of creativity and originality with which the show was conceived. Eventually it would come to be known for …
Pavement broke up 11 years ago. I’d never seen them live, and, in fact, I was pretty late to the party, having only discovered them in ’98, six years and four albums into their career. It was 1998 when I bought Slanted and Enchanted, but it may as well have been ’92, and I may …
In April, a Destroyer demo cassette was unearthed and uploaded on a blog called Seven Ten Twelve. [8/18/10 Note: Download the Demo Cassette here.] Six of the nine songs on the tape made their way onto We’ll Build Them A Golden Bridge (which I’ve written about). The other three are new songs to us. Like …