Sasha Frere-Jones visits Toronto, surprisingly un-smarmy
Posted by Anupa in Internet, media, Pop Culture, Toronto on 03. May, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’ll tell you an amateur-ish secret: when I first envisioned the visage of New Yorker pop critic Sasha Frere-Jones (after the 2007, Arcade Fire-baiting piece came out with that now-infamous deck “How Indie Rock Lost Its Soul”) using surname etymology (Frere-Jones sounds kinda Creole?) and having only met girls named Sasha, I construed a black, [...]
The Morning Dump: Medical Drama For Realsies, Canadian politician refuses to read, Is white the black? and a 90s blast of Aaliyah and Krakauer
Posted by theashcan in Morning Dump on 10. Apr, 2010 | 1 Comment
Would you care if your real-life doctor was just like Gregory House — the fictional M.D. with a television show named after him? Well, you should, because if House was really looking after you, you’d probably be dead. TIME investigated the affect of medical shows such as House and Grey’s Anatomy on actual medical personnel, [...]
The Morning Dump: Arcade Fire’s case for Haiti, the IRL death of @diditleak, The xx’s ability to depress people live, and the New Yorker on Neil Gaiman
Posted by theashcan in Morning Dump on 23. Jan, 2010 | 0 Comments
The earthquake in Haiti has surely brought out the generosity in many people, and no small amount of celebrities have pitched in their fair share. What we haven’t seen though is this, a beautifully written article in the U.K.’s Guardian by Régine Chassagne, a Haitian and member of Montreal’s Arcade Fire. She deals with her violent past [...]
Laughing all the way to Latveria
Posted by Jef in Art, Music, Rappers on 16. Sep, 2009 | 0 Comments
You have no idea how horny I am to see MF DOOM appear in the new issue of The New Yorker — check out the teaser on the Stones Throw website. But much as I love the metal-faced supervillain and want to see his work get the New Yorker profile style treatment, this shit pisses [...]
