The Morning Dump: Pop Music Anthropology, Next for Gen X, voicing Daria Morgendorffer, and introverts.
Posted by theashcan in Morning Dump on 15. May, 2010 | 2 Comments
Remember when compilation cd’s were all the rage on the Billboard Charts? The NOW! franchise continues to make a killing putting out disc after disc chronicling the good, bad and ugly of popular music. Although less ubiquitious now in our MP3 driven society, the AV Club’s Nathan Rabin has been writing a series of columns [...]
“Jersey Shore” was a labour of love
Posted by Jef in Pop Culture, Television on 26. Jan, 2010 | 2 Comments
It’s the week after the Jersey Shore finale and are you back-lashing yet? Hard to believe this show was ever the phenomenon it was, but before you write it off as some randomly serendipitous mix of trash, race-baiting, and the public’s anthropological curiosity aimed at strange douchebag subcultures and general appetite for all things ironic, [...]
Can you get STDs from watching MTV’s Jersey Shore?
Posted by jessekg in Pop Culture, Television on 11. Dec, 2009 | 4 Comments
Come for the abs, stay for the hilarious irony of it all If there is one thing reality television does really really well, it is to feed on the insecurities of its “stars.” And the shows are actually better for it. Afterall, no one wants to watch what happens when seven level-headed people get picked [...]
Peak Season: MTV's new reality show, or, How I Learned to Drink Everyday in Whistler
Posted by jessekg in Pop Culture, Uncategorized on 27. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Canadians have a fascination with comparing our cities to their American counterparts. Toronto, for instance, stands in for New York City, Chicago, and “Hollywood North,” simply because movies are made there. Vancouver is California, and Whistler would be if you took Disney Land and combined it with Santa Monica – so gorgeous that it doesn’t look [...]
The new, old face of music television?
Posted by Simon in Music, Television, Toronto on 12. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Having read a bit about Toronto’s newest music station, I took some holiday free time today to stop by channel 107, Aux Tv. Billing itself as essentially the anti-MTV, Aux basically tries to emulate the formula made famous by… uh, MTV. But like, late 80′s to early 90′s MTV, when it was all about the [...]
