Myth of Fingerprints

I was reading some brief obits for some dear departed music industrians in Paste, and found it interesting to see the cause of death listed in each case. You may have pioneered the use of somethingernother and been the first suchandsuch of your generation, but you’d better keep your passing simple in order to have [...]

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11208

Its 86 degrees.
And raining.
At 10:45pm.
In Malibu, CA.

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The Speed of Regret

We saw The Lake House a few weeks ago (in a theater!), which is a movie about Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves and a deadly bus (I am not kidding). It also involves something that is not quite time travel, and is, at best, more romantic magic than sci-fi Delorean (kind of Frequency meets [...]

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I Wrote This About What?

Rock Star: Supernova is almost an SCTV sketch, but with a more absurd premise. Rather than meet as juvenile delinquents and bleed, sweat, and rock drunkenly up Sunset Blvd to fame, these 15 individuals have been chosen as the most dramatically volatile pool Mark Burnett could create and Tommy Lee & Co. could put up [...]

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Can’t Spin Bins from Bytes

I had an era-ending experience, stopping in CD City, used & new media, for their closing sale. I was in need of a glimpse at some particular album art. You know, bigger and more extensive than the 3/4″ square image iTunes or Amazon offers in the top left corner.
CD City used to be called something [...]

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Semper Ter<i>rific!</i>

I read Lincoln at Gettysburg, which traces how Lincoln’s speech, which reframes the role and meaning of the Declaration of Independence and purposes of the forefathers, won the civil war and changed American identity (taa daa!). So, you know, it’s a pretty good speech. Wills’ background on the political and cultural influences on this moment [...]

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