Obama and the Absense of Apathy
There’s a line in the Radiohead song “The Bends” that goes “I wish it was the sixties/I wish I could be happy/I wish, I wish, I wish something would happen.” Until recently that line summed up my political feelings since I began having political feelings. Not my political thoughts, mind you, but political feelings.
Whenever I [...]
From Anonymity to Instant Accountability
In the beginning of the web, it was a wild frontier where assholes could roam free and then return to their real (and usually quite polite) lives. People could post douchey comments in forums and write rude and incorrect blog posts with no consequence. But recently the internet has made enormous steps to actually become [...]
I Bet That You Sound Good on the Dancefloor
The Dancy Future of Pop
The nineties was the era of grunge. That angst filled, distorted-guitar rock produced some great songs and regrettable fashion, but was by-in-large death to a dancefloor. Since the late nineties, rock bands that have intentionally set themselves apart from grunge, have largely fallen into two camps– dance bands and folk-influenced.
The popular [...]
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