Top 10 brown bands/musicians (Or, mom, why didn’t you let me take guitar lessons?)
Posted by Anupa in Ethnic Aisle, Music, Pop Culture, Race on 01. Jun, 2011 | 7 Comments
We all know white people listen to bands with white people in them, so why can’t I be partial to bands with brown people in them? Oh, you ain’t know there exists a significant body of work beyond M.I.A.? THERE DOES: 1. Das Racist: Here’s a sample lyric from “Ek Shaneesh” which basically made me feel [...]
How to plan for the Rapture Long Weekend
Posted by Simon in Pop Culture on 19. May, 2011 | 0 Comments
Have you heard? This Saturday is the Rapture! The news, served on the interwebs with generous dollops of snarkiness and heathen skepticism, has literally been plastered on the walls of public transit and billboards around many fair cities (including Toronto) for weeks now. Although I’m planning my next few days more around the long-weekend than [...]
Yo Yo Ma plays, kid dances, I cry
Posted by Anupa in Art, Internet, Pop Culture on 15. Apr, 2011 | 0 Comments
Seems Spike Jonze is behind this video: Lil Buck, a young dancer from L.A., performs with Yo Yo Ma at an event advocating arts in public schools. Watch it to the end; I just sent it to Jef, IM-spluttering “THIS MADE ME CRYYYY!” His response: “look at the comment which is like, ‘I guess it [...]
Celebrity commercials suck only as much as the celeb
Posted by Simon in Pop Culture, Uncategorized on 22. Mar, 2011 | 0 Comments
True story: last time I saw Romain Gavras, him and that Black Sawn dude… what’s his name… OH RIGHT, Vincent Cassel were shooting the shit at the world premier of Gavras’ movie Our Day Will Come at TIFF. Yea, that story sounds better when I omit the fact it was the post-film Q&A, but semantics. [...]
The 2012 Olympic logo: unifying haters around the world
Posted by Simon in Pop Culture, Sports on 01. Mar, 2011 | 1 Comment
Just like on the African savannah, there is a circle of life within the macro lens of Marshall McLuhan’s Global Village. One such online tradition is the revered and bi-annual making of snarky derisions about Olympic logos and mascots. It should have come as no surprise than, that when the 2012 Summer Olympic committee took [...]
