August 2011
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On Spotify, digital music, and how we listen now:
Over on the Twitter, there’s been a flurry of discussion as to whether Spotify is an improvement over illegally downloaded music or if it’s basically the same thing. I’d like to propose a third stream: that the problem we face is not one of economics, but of the spiritual nature of how consume music. That is to say: what Spotify and illegally downloaded music have in common is...
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Is the transformation of the Honey Smacks née...
and yet now…
(I’m mostly referring to the angle of the baseball cap and the argot printed on his t-shirt in the updated version.)
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opal and the idiot: That's Sic →
maudnewton:
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From a list of words included in the fourteen-page copy-editing style guide for Nicholson Baker’s novel House of Holes, out this month from Simon & Schuster.
asswood ball-hankie beardwater bonky boobosity boycone brimmingness britneys cockbrisket cockitude crotchal cuntatious dickybird …
Typically I tear through Nicholson Baker’s sexy books, but I’ve been reading this...
Maud Newton on DFW = Sort of kind of awesome →
Where are the Arms is now available for pre-order! Purchase either digital or CD (to be delivered September 13th) and you get two tracks right away.