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February 1, 2011
La Lupe, by Milo Miles
"The story of Guadalupe Victoria Yoli Raymond, known as La Lupe, is a poignant tale of a performer ruled by instinct and ecstasy. First, she was the right talent at the right place at the right time -- and then, all too soon, she wasn't. Before long, the one-time sensation was cast aside by the music industry, and is now all but forgotten..." Milo Miles on Fresh Air, 1/31/11Related articlesVelez set for the big screen as La Lupe? (hollywood.com)
January 31, 2011
BASSJUMP CURES LAPTOP SPEAKERS
TwelveSouth, a firm specializing in Mac-oriented periphs and gadgets, has created an ingenious solution for the traveling audiophile: a subwoofer that creates good to very good results out of your tinny MacBook Pro speakers. Powered by a simple USB adaptor, this 5x5-inch box boosts not just bass but overall tone, mood and presence. It makes for very satisfying listening to even the most raucous noise you can throw at it, and gives symphonic heft to quieter music you didn't realize needed it. Installation is anxiety-free: plug in the speaker, download the software, and kick off your favorite Bonham thump. The preference interface allows tweaking for different equalization settings, including a custom fix. Turn it up. Yeah, now there's why bassist become bassists: they understand that to move the room, you need to shake some BOTTOM... (more to come)
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January 30, 2011
January 25, 2011
EDDIE IZZARD, PERU CALLING
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From the first verse to Peru's previous national anthem:For a long time the oppressed Peruvian
Dragged the ominous chain;
Condemned to cruel servitude
He moaned for a long time in silence.
But as soon as the sacred cry of
"Freedom!" was heard on the coasts,
He shook off the indolence of slavery,
He raised his humiliated neck...
Cue Eddie Izzard routine: we'd like to hear the lyrics from the LOSING song ("No, wait, go back one..."). (from Tuesday's Wall Street Journal). Related articlesEddie Izzard speaks frankly (jumblerant.blogspot.com)Eddie Izzard Joins Showtime's United States of Tara (omg.yahoo.com)
Top 25 Star Disses: David Thomson, Insult Comic Dog - The Race
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David Thomson's 25 Best Spit Nails in the new edition of his New Biographical Dictionary of Film:
Leonardo DiCaprio: "Beginning to look a touch puffy ... that touch of fey magic he once had has slipped from his face."
Ben Affleck: "Boring, complacent and criminally lucky to have got away with everything so far."
Tom Cruise: "The worst of the spoilt brats of Hollywood."
Hilary Swank: "Pretty, dull, ordinary and incapable of lifting the film clear of a sanctimonious mud."
Angelina Jolie: "The carnal embrouchure that is her mouth [could] blind anyone."
Keira Knightley: "About as interesting as a creme brulee where too much refrigeration has killed flavor with ice burn."
Hugh Grant: "A refugee from Thirties theatre -- or an incipient sneeze looking for a vacant nose."
Matt Damon: "A squashed and rebuilt face."
Harrison Ford: "A limited, anxious actor."
Meryl Streep: "She has problems now with seeming natural."
Demi Moore: "She has no dramatic sense."
Bill Nighy: "Somewhere between a scarecrow and a faded aristocrat."
Richard Gere: "He has been in enough bad films to make one think his career was drawing to a close."
John Cleese: "This great man is no longer funny."
Cate Blanchett: "Prone and unconscious for most of Babel; implausible in Notes on a Scandal; again in Elizabeth ... unbelievable and undesirable [in] Benjamin Button. Enough?"
Brad Pitt: "Hardly anything he touches now is less than 'precious' and 'awesome.'"
Steve Martin: "Fundamentally averse to acting."
Bruce Willis: "Makes quantities of commercial junk, where his raised eyebrows soar into the space left by his receding hairline."
Ralph Fiennes: "Acts as if he would rather be offscreen."
Catherine Zeta-Jones: "It is a prettiness that tends to fade early."
Hugh Jackman: "He is hot (I suppose). Now, he just needs to be interesting."
Nicolas Cage: "If he doesn't have enough money yet to settle for taking a risk, then what is the point of money?"
Jennifer Aniston: "Her £5-million-a-movie career cannot go on for much longer."
Michelle Pfeiffer: "Still carries the rather stunned, obedient air of a checkout girl at the supermarket."
Julie Christie: "Sadly, obvious in her efforts ... gawky, self-conscious and lantern-jawed."
via The Hollywood Reporter
January 13, 2011
DETEROIRATA XI:1
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Favorite new cloud tools:
pinterest, social bulletin boards, more and more addictive
workflowy, a place to make quick and dirty lists in outline form
paprika, more involved but very useful
sugarsync,
icloud, 3 gigs of free auto-storage, auto-syncing
pinboard.in, delicious mirror solution
library.nu, the new gigapedia.org, books in pdf format
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December 30, 2010
DETEROIRATA X:7
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It's a Wrap: Muckrack's Review of the ReviewsNew Fav Tools: feedly.com, pinboard.in
Top Internet Memes of 2010, and more
Undercovered: Veterans Chained to the White House Fence
Discographies, the New Anonymous: "Like you, I also get asked whether I write @Discographies. My response is to say lie and say no ("...but that's really flattering!") and then briefly muse aloud about who it might actually be; I'm sure you'll be delighted to learn that I've invoked you as a possible suspect once or twice. All of which makes me feel a) guilty and b) kind of like my life is turning into an episode of Dexter..."
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December 26, 2010
DOONESBURY: THE ASHTRAY
40: A Doonesbury Retrospective
Frame completely at odds with content: This elite cinder-block of a book begs the question, "why print?" Where's searchable digital media with thematic tags, index, and instant social accessibility when you most want it? There are so many strips in here you want to send to friends -- right now -- that its dinosaur frame feels more tragic than bulky. Trudeau's also so over-exposed and overpraised you'd think he'd be giving tips to Tony Kushner. Made for a sudden-death question on a journalism final: name some great scandals Trudeau missed, botched or steered in the wrong direction.
Related articles'Doonesbury' At 40 (theawl.com)Doonesbury Turns 40 (rollingstone.com)The Butt of Doonesbury, and Proud of It (artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com)"Tuesday (Cartoonist's) Studio: Doonesbury and Yale" and related posts (yalepress.typepad.com)
Having said that, studded with gems:
December 23, 2010
FUNK & SOUL COVERS: TASCHEN, THE SWEAT
Funk & Soul Covers, by Joaquim Paulo, Ed. by Julius WiedermannTaschen site has a "leaf-through" feature, better to search google images for obscure desktoppers. Links to funk underworld reviews. Related articlesTake Cover: Dâm-Funk: Adolescent Funk (pitchfork.com)The Big Books (punjapit.wordpress.com)A Night Of Funk, A Chance At A Year Of Free Concerts (chicagoist.com)
December 22, 2010
DETEROIRATA X:6
Cover of Richard Meltzer
Scribes We Turn To: Richard Meltzer, the Beefheart of rock critics:Graham Johnson
Gary Lucas
Ten Random Discs (Beat Patrol)
Drummer John French's memoirs
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(I interviewed Meltzer a couple years ago for my Site of the Week: Wondertonic, fromhttp://wondertonic.tumblr.com/ Micke Lacher
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