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“FLAME: So where does the anger in your music come from?
TYLER: Uh …
FLAME: Is...”
– Waka Flocka Flame interviews Tyler, The Creator @ Interview Magazine. Related: Waka Flocka Flame “Stereo Type” Lyrics. I know we’re all supposed to be over OFWGKTA, or at least talking way less about them to make up for how much we were talking about them, but this is a good way to catch up...
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Rango and Expectation
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Rango is inessential. It’s a matter of expectations tumbling around. Listmaking possibilities. Questions pressuring you. Do I need to see an animated lizard voiced by Johnny Depp reenact Sergio Leone’s masterpieces in a movie that has no target demographic? A Greek chorus of mariachi owls—seriously—are the first thing you’ll see when you decide that Yes, life is short and the...
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Shlock Corridor: "The Big Heat", Dir. Fritz Lang,... →
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Both are so uncompromising, so intent on staring straight down into the chasm of vengeance, that there’s something inherently competitive about them. Each tries to present the most bleak, dysfunctional, corrupt America possible, and then unleashes on them an equal and opposite force. In both films, a man finds himself dead, emptied, and reduced to little more than negation....
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FreeDarko still has a podcast of sorts, and we did...
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"Damages" And The Rise Of The Super-Casts
More me, this time at GQ.com. I examine the ridiculously over-stuffed cast of Damages and ask how the fuck this is possible, and why this is the future of television—even if Damages itself has been relegated to DirecTV. Also, a list-within-a-list of all the reasons that Keith Carradine is awesome.
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dontbelieveondoreslies asked: Link to your yelp reviews?
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Shlock Corridor: "Out Of The Past"; Dir. Jacques... →
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Hey, here’s another thing that makes us who we are: Neither of us is all that fond of Out of the Past, a noir considered so quintessentially noir-y that most discussions of it devolve into genre-lapping patter. Actually, it’s misleading to say we don’t like Out of the Past …
Eric Freeman and I started a “shit I just watched” Tumblr experience. This is my...
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Feloni, Nicki Minaj lyrics/rumors, bounce, prison....
Those are all things you won’t find in my July XXL feature on homophobia in hip-hop. If you want, blame space limitations, ignorance on my part, or things I simply didn’t feel comfortable getting into as a straight white male who barely counts as a rap fan anymore. However, the piece is also pretty specific: On the most basic level, have attitudes changed, and who will admit to it? We...
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“Forgive and forget” refers to a two-step process. In theory, we decide...”
– Me, at The Good Men Project, on Vick’s Nike endorsement and how we really move on.
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The audio for “The Big O” by...
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“Once the joke is out there, a parenthetical can’t take it away. “Too...”
– Me, for GQ.com, on the annoying “too soon” fallacy, and also some stuff about artists and baby killers.
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“I only have two facial expressions … Smiling Kobe and Intense Kobe.”
– Kobe Bryant, from Mike Sager’s 2007 Esquire feature on him. Kobe also opines that not training dogs should be a crime, like child abuse. I rediscovered this in Best American Sports Writing 2008. Will such a volume even be able to exist for 2011? Or will it be replaced by a monopoly...
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icedoutlighthouse-deactivated20 asked: reminds me of rosmarie bowe
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