May 2009
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The Best Part 7: Are You that Somebody by Aaliyah
Many things are the worst. This is my attempt to find the things that are the best.
Aaliyah’s “Are you that Somebody?” is the best middle-school song of my generation that no one really knew what do with.
First of all, this song is an amazing pop song. An awesome beat by a young and hungry Timbaland. An awesome performance by a young and hungry Aaliyah. The perfect song...
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I'm Asian
…and I deal with it. When I see Asians on TV or Movies, here’s what I think to myself. It’s very much a Margaret Cho paraphrase but essentially its this: “I’m kinda glad that people who look like me are up there.”
So to celebrate this, I’ve put together my top 5 Pop Culture Asians. This is of course, the JOHN CHO memorial list because John Cho is the...
April 2009
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The Best Part 6: Sunny Came Home by Shawn Colvin
Many things are the worst. This is my attempt to find the things that are the best.
Miss me? Apologies for being a bit AWOL. I’m both very busy at work and working on something very long.
This is the best song that reminds me of the 5th grade.
So this song is the ultimate mid-90s Lilith Fair blerg pseudo-feminist crappy ugh lite rock. It is a terrible genre with terrible songs and I...
WatchWill this be awesome? Or is this Soderbergh over-indulgence with intriguing, but ultimately misguided, stunt casting?
ps If you don’t know what I mean, google Sasha Grey.
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WatchVideogum posted this earlier. What can I say? I’m sentimental like that.
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The Best Part 5: The Last of the English Roses by...
Many things are the worst. This is my attempt to find the things that are the best.
The Last of the English Roses by Pete Doherty is the best song I’ve heard in the past month written by a boozy-druggy fuck up that reminds us of the unerring fact that the best songs are always written by boozy-druggy fuck ups.
Chris Martin of Coldplay, he’s the kind of guy that has his shit...
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“He’s like a fictional character, but he’s real. First off, his mother was a...”
– Bob Dylan (on Obama)
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The Best Part 4: Shu Qi smoking a cigarette in...
Many things are the worst. This is my attempt to find the things that are the best.
aka I need to stop obsessing over this woman.
The scene below is the best scene of some chick smoking sadly in a film.
Things you do in life are only beautiful for a short period of time. To lie on your bed listening to Ryan Adams’ Heartbreaker, staring at the ceiling, taking a moment to breathe before...
March 2009
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The Best Part 3: Shu Qi reading the letter in Part...
Many things are the worst. This is my attempt to find the things that are the best.
This scene in the film ‘Three Times’ contains the best response to a piece of writing in any film I’ve ever seen.
I guess all I have to say is that I write because I hope I could possibly make someone smile like Shu Qi smiles here (starting at 1:40 in the clip below).
“Do you remember...
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The Best Part 2: Us
Many things are the worst. This is my attempt to find the things that are the best.
I promise this won’t always be music related.
‘Us’ by Regina Spektor is the best song that tangentially hints at the cliches we associate with love.
Love is eternal (“They made a statue of us”).
Love is exhibitionist (“Now tourists come and stare at us”)
Love is to...
The Best Part 1: Jane Says
Many things are the worst. This is my attempt to find the things that are the best.
‘Jane Says’ by Jane’s Addiction is perhaps the best song ever about the person you named your band after.
For as long as girls like Jane will exist - which is of course, forever - there will be boys who will write songs (or poems or novels or movies) about them.
Boys want to save girls. Boys...
WatchSo guys, I’ve come full circle with this trailer. At first I loved it unironically. Then I ironically backlashed the shit out of it. Then I backlashed the backlash (an action very similar to remixing the remix) and now I sincerely love it again.
Kids, irony. Teh internets killed it dead. Lets all embrace stupid sincerity again?
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Some Chick Paints Herself Having Sex with... →
Is this subversive? Beguiling? Self-indulgent? Art? Is the concept too high or just high enough?
Her take: “I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives. The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to locate something intimate and...
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WatchThe Best or the Bestest? Houston we have a dog! Why isn’t this on Hulu? Lots of Yelling!
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Texas Forever! →
Friday Night Lights is renewed you guys! Love this.
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Good Internet Things: Slate Cultural Gabfest →
Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner and Dana Stevens. Slate’s lovably erudite cultural commentators whose podcast sounds like every conversation I’ve ever wanted to have.
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Some initial goals
for the blog.
Not only infrequently post long rants about imagined worlds of possibility. It will be hard. The one below I just needed to get out of my system because I watched the film ‘Snow Angels’ last night.
Post non-long blocks of text. Um, some interesting other things I guess.
Attempt to invoke emotions other than “introspection” or “melancholy” or...
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Teenage Fanclubs
There are two types of films and TV shows about teenagers. There are shows about teenagers for teenagers. There are also shows about teenagers for adults.
The former make a lot of money and, more often than not, terrible. This is because teenagers are susceptible to advertising, buy frivolous things, and are, as a rule, lame. And if you don’t believe me, please walk into a high school. ...
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“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become...”
– vs naipaul