Eryn
We are squinting at each other and I start to keep on walking, but then we both sort of stop.
“Hey,” he says.
“Hey,” I say, taking off my sunglasses. “How are you? Um…. when are you at the store these days?”
“Oh, I’m not today, I have the day off,” he says.
“I mean, when are you there [...]
friday dumping of the links.
– What does it say about me that I get so much happiness from a critic absolutely slamming something that deserves to be slammed? The best example this week is Ben Brantley, who must have had a blast writing his review of the new musical Lestat:
Joining the ranks of Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata and other prescription [...]
The New York Times Magazine this weekend featured a profile of Dov Charney, a couple years after the rest of the world had one (oh yeah, and after their own Style section wrote about him and American Apparel in November 2004, and Alex Kuczynski wrote about him in her “Critical Shopper” column last June). It [...]
Shit. I just realized I missed Nan Goldin’s latest show.
I saw Friends with Money this weekend (in an actual movie theater!), and thought it was brilliant. Lauren and I hated Nicole Holofcener’s last movie, Lovely and Amazing (we now refer to as “Stupid and Insulting” or “Insipid and Annoying”), but it’s bothering me that I [...]
New York magazine has a short thing about This American Life’s upcoming Showtime show. Says Ira,It’s like two worlds colliding, right? Pay cable and public broadcasting. But it’s been a really happy thing for us. We kept waiting for the meeting where they say, ‘Okay, when do the girls take off their tops?’ But that [...]
didja miss me?
I haven’t blogged in a month. While I was not blathering away on the interweb (or at least not on this blog), I was getting accepted to grad school (wheee!), getting a stomach virus in Guatemala, going to my parents’ for Passover, unsuccessfully shopping for a bridesmaid dress in New Jersey and playing house with [...]
Here’s a good piece from Nancy Goldstein, based on this genius cartoon:
I wasn’t sure whether to use chorizo or bacon in my paella last weekend, so I called South Dakota state senator Bill Napoli and asked him to make my decision for me.
And Analee Newitz’s column this week at Metroactive is excellent:
My friends said: Ignore [...]
v for verdict
Anthony Kaufman at Alternet says, Above all, “Vendetta” should be enjoyed as the first true anarchist movie Hollywood has ever made.
While at the Times, Manohla D spits, The more valid question is how anyone who isn’t 14 or under could possibly mistake a corporate bread-and-circus entertainment like this for something subversive. You want radical? Wait [...]
Plaintive punk has become the soundtrack of white adolescence… Kill me. Kelefah Sanneh hearts emo, ponders gender at the Times:
A genre that was once mocked for its supposed earnestness is now home to some of the most flamboyant boys in rock ‘n’ roll….emo bands are doing something unlikely: they’re reviving the fierce, fey spirit of [...]
Sure, Naomi and I were asking for it when we went to see the universally panned Failure To Launch last night. We knew it. The nice thing about going to a movie and expecting that it will make you violently ill is that it’s hard for it to be as bad as you think it [...]