February 2012
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Music Dump - Adele's Gotye Turbo Folk Rocks Chris... →
Gotye on the incorrect grammar of the ‘Hearts A Mess’ (and, actually lots more); Adele on why she’s giving up sad songs, apparently; the tycoon of “turbo-folk”; who the HELL is Bob Lefsetz?; Chris Brown deserves no pity; Field Music on why they’re OK with making no money; who actually listens to those compilation CDs and thinks, “now, that’s what I...
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Vagabond Monster Mind Brainstorming Machine Penis
Groupthink: The Brainstorming Myth by Jonah Lehrer (New Yorker): Apparently, brainstorming doesn’t really work if it’s done how it’s usually done, where every idea is as good as any other. Instead, people come up with more ideas, and more creative ideas, if there’s tension in the group, if ideas are challenged.
Man As Machine by Max Byrd (Wilson Quarterly): Louis XV, in...
Music Dump - R.I.P. Whitney Houston Edition →
(featuring links to thoughtful and interesting and incisive articles written by the likes of Ann Powers, Jonathan Bogart, Toure, Helen Killer and Sasha Frere-Jones.)
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Offensive Synaesthete Man Making Puberty Blood
How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy by Katherine McAuliffe (The Atlantic): I’ve seen a fair few articles darkly insinuating that Toxoplasma Gondii, a parasite related to malaria, affects human behaviour. T. Gondii is a cat parasite, really, and its lifecycle often involves infecting rats and mice in the hope that they will be eaten by cats and thus infect the cats. In order to do this, T....
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Music Dump - All Lana Del Rey All The Time Edition →
Well, the title’s self-explanatory, isn’t it? Jessica Hopper, Jonathan Bogart, Maura Johnston, Sasha Frere-Jones, Katherine St Asaph, Amy Klein, Nitsuh Abebe and Liz Phair have had their say, and I’ve done me some hyperlinking. I’ve been amazed at how many people on my Facebook have been arguing about her - she really is some sort of phenomenon. (I don’t have a strong...