exec. dir. creative development @nytimes @tbrandstudio.
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one good criterion for 'is it indie rock?' is a record should, ideally, have one or two really annoying songs you have to skip but somehow make the album better
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Tough call. Doolittle onward co-released by a major. Surfer Rosa was one of the ones where we were like “this is chiefly alternative rock.” Albini we put to use in different strokes elsewhere on the list. Would maybe be on there if we had more Rough Trade or Touch and Go bands
these wheels that are soft enough to cruise but hard enough to powerslide are incredible. what a time to be a geriatric skateboarder
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taking off headphones, turning to my wife as she walks by: "if you think about it Steven Soderbergh is the Steve Albini of directors" "Who are you talking to? You're on pickup duty today right?"
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Mad Men's core thesis repeated ad nauseam was that nobody else really cares about your darkest, most shameful neurosis. I still don't think people get that (and they sure don't want to believe it) but it's the most interesting idea any TV show has ever been built around.
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if any billionaires are wondering if they're wearing the wrong kind of leather jacket I can help advise for a reasonable fee
two elegant elderly women walk past a Mapplethorpe decorative plate display at LACMA. "Do you remember that boy Robert?" "Robert? Oh yes he was always getting in trouble for taking his penis out wasn't he?"
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hipsters were (and are) just people who define themselves by liking exactly the right stuff exactly the right amount. it's not complicated?
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nobody remembers this but there was a strange period from 2010 to 2013 where people would offer you a dollar for a cigarette and you'd customarily say 'all good man you can have one'
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asked my five year old if he wanted to learn an instrument and he said yeah the drums and i said why and he said because i can already play them
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monday morning talking ambient bangers in the gchat this will be the highlight of my day it's all downhill from here
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.@conniewang has an incredible segment on this week's episode of @ThisAmerLife. I make a brief cameo. check it out!! thisamericanlife.org/863/cha…
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been on a Martin Dupont kick lately. incredible band that is literally underrated. like, Pitchfork doesn't have a single piece of writing about them which seems insane pitchfork.com/search/?q=Mart…
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