Addicted to Apple Double Ginger. (Taken with instagram)
The weirder strain of criticism concerns authenticity. People seem to feel that [Lana] Del Rey is trying to trick us, though it’s impossible to figure out exactly what that trick would be, as we are dealing with an entertainer and her audience, not a naturally fractious relationship… Why is pop music the only art form that still inspires such arrantly stupid discussion? The debates that surround authenticity have no relationship to popular music as it’s been practiced for more than a century. Artists write material, alone or with assistance, revise it, and then present a final work created with the help of professionals who are trained for specific and relevant production tasks. This makes popular music similar to film, television, visual art, books, dance, and related areas like food and fashion. And yet no movie review begins, ‘Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in The Iron Lady.’
You Want Fries With That?
- Cpt. Rucker: I'm old school all the way. Don't start none, won't be none. You have a question, Anawalt?
- Anawalt: Why are you handing out McDonalds applications?
- Cpt. Rucker: Anytime you fuck up you're going to fill out another line. As your new captain let me make it clear: wipe your feet before you step in my house. We're going to send the street a message. Drop the lattes and get your narrow behinds out of your patrol cars. Walk the courtyards, the alleys, the streets. Squeeze your snitches. You want omelets, you gotta crack eggs. We will be the most proactive patrol in the entire city. We protect, we serve, and we kick ass until we smell shit! If anybody has a problem with that, Mickey D's needs all the help they can get. The McRib is back.
6 months old and over it.
M 18-34
- Katie: Yeah, but do you think straight guys are going to watch a show about a dude taking care of a child?
- Paul: They're watching New Girl and it's about three guys doing that.
I mean, SERIOUSLY?
(via imwithkanye)
#LACMA (Taken with instagram)
Margaret
Last night I saw Kenneth Lonergan’s much-delayed follow up to the wonderful You Can Count On Me. The trailer doesn’t fully express how engrossing this movie is and only the second half gets close to encapsulating what the movie is really about. Lonergan deals with the experience of being a teenager in a way that is so on the mark and, as a result, not always easy to watch. Anna Paquin is pitch perfect (even her shortcomings work in her favor) as a typical teenage girl who witnesses — and is partly responsible for — a horrific accident. Through this, Lonergan explores what happens when the already dramatic, histrionic, everything-is-the-end-of-the-world life of an average teenager is jolted by a situation is quite literally life and death. The results are mesmerizing.
Shit New Yorkers Say
And, yet again, “it’s so true.” On a related note, though, I’m going to go ahead and say that this should mark the official end of the meme. Technically, I told my friend Amy yesterday that I thought it was over, but I’m making an exception for this video. Everyone has already said enough shit (myself included) and I think that we, as a people, should move on. But not to Queens.
