Vanity Fair has a lengthy profile of Sarah Palin. It is a great read. It outlines her volatile temper and dubious financing activities. It does rely extensively on anonymous sources, but the stories all hang together in a way that suggest more truth than exaggeration. Excerpt: Warm and effusive in public, indifferent or angry in private: [...]
Posts Tagged ‘music’
Vanity Fair on Sarah Palin
Posted: 3rd September 2010 by Brant in politicsTags: music, politics, republicans, Sarah Palin
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Entertainment quote of the day
Posted: 25th August 2010 by Brant in biz, cultureTags: Fleetwood Mac, Internet, music, Stevie Nicks
Image via Wikipedia The Internet has destroyed rock. Children no longer develop social graces. They don’t hang out anymore. I’m financially stable. I’m okay. But what about the kids trying to make it in this business? If you’re not an established band, if you don’t have a hit single, they’re gonna drop you. There are [...]
MGMT is back
Posted: 25th August 2010 by Brant in culture, funTags: Congratulations (MGMT song), MGMT, music
That’s right. MGMT is back with a new video for the title track of the album called “Congratulations.” Sort of sad, but very beautiful. And the setting is more that a little like Tatooine. Related articles MGMT comes out of retirement, makes video abt how they died as a buzzband (altreport.hipsterrunoff.com) MGMT – Congratulations (hypebeast.com) [...]
Massive Attack, Tracey Thorn and Michel Gondry
Posted: 23rd August 2010 by Brant in cultureTags: Arts, Massive Attack, Michel Gondry, music, Tracey Thorn, Trip hop
Take one part Massive Attack trip-hop, add Tracey Thorn’s beautiful voice and fold it carefully into the creative video technique of Michel Gondry. What do you get? This perfect version of the classic song “Protection” from the Massive Attack album of the same name, Protection. Related articles Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt: Everything but the [...]
Bad Romance cover
Posted: 13th August 2010 by Brant in culture, funTags: cover, fun, Lady Gaga, media, music
I love this for so many reasons.
The best pop song ever: Being Boring
Posted: 6th August 2010 by Brant in cultureTags: music, Pet Shop Boys
I have written about the Pet Shop Boys and Being Boring before. It my all time favorite song. Stephen Emms, music writer for the Guardian, also claims, on the song’s 20th anniversary, that it is the best pop song ever. Intriguingly, what began as an attempt to do out-and-out pop (if we are to believe [...]
Beyoncé has become Lady GaGa. The transformation is complete.
(via, of all things, Fake Steve Jobs)
Nerdcore rap
Posted: 12th July 2010 by Brant in culture, techTags: MC Frontalot, music, nerdcore, rap
From MC Frontalot. Love it. This one is good for a listen too. And here is his little song about his about his Twitter postings and followers.
This is an easy one. It is Kylie Minogue’s “All the Lovers.” Great song, great visuals. I don’t have an embedable version, so you have to follow the link.
Check out the drummer in this video. Jump about one minute in. He is crazy good and way, way better than the rest of the band.
Disintermediation (updated)
Posted: 27th June 2010 by Brant in biz, culture, techTags: cable TV, Internet, media, movies, music, tech, TV
Disintermediation is the process by which a process middleman in a process is eliminated. Remember what the Internet did to travel agents? Who uses a travel agent these days? And how about bricks-and-mortor book stores? Well, we are (finally) getting closer to disintermediation of the cable TV companies. The Internet is a terrific platform for [...]
Very serious stuff and a serious topic. But I like it.