January 2011
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Watchjoshmorrissey:
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R. Kelly sings “Happy Birthday” to himself while sitting in a leopard-print chair. He turned 44 on January 8. (Via @KellZodiac.)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL OF US
I love the internet. I love crazy celebrities. Between this, Gucci Mane’s face tattoo, and getting Prince tickets, today has been GREAT.
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From "Oh-Lilo": Lemme Smang It
Alyssa: So Candice for sure already knows this smash hit, but Shil and Steve watched it for the first time yesterday, so I realized I should make sure you all are familiar. It’s a hot R&B jam about how all ladies really want is to be smashed and banged.
Candice: I am more than willing to bet that Sami, a regular Videogum reader, is aware of “Lemme Smang It” Hahaha.
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Conversations With Friends: Eva
Eva: I just want my life to be this scene:
Me: That’s what my life was like in Athens. Now it’s like this:
Eva: HAHAHAHAHA
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PRINCE, Bitches!
My mom got me Prince tickets for February 7th at Madison Square Garden. I can only have them if I quit smoking.
The star is where my seats are located:
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marathonpacks: Data →
marathonpacks:
The sales numbers for Pitchfork’s 2010 top 50 albums, as represented by the January 12 Soundscans (some weren’t present, of course). Erykah Badu and Hot Chip I ballparked based on the last charts they appeared on a couple months ago. Otherwise: listicle without commentary!
50 Wavves – King of the…
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Watchhometapes:
The year is new again. We’ve all been through so much. And I think we might all agree that everything is better set to music.
Enter the Hopscotch Music Fest’s recap video. Directed by good guy Tim Kiernan, this mini-documentary of that magical September 2010 weekend in NC gives us chills. They used a live recording of Bear In Heaven’s festival performance of “Lovesick Teenagers” to...
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Pop Dust: @ The Singles Bar: Yelle, "Safari Disco... →
New Yelle song from her forthcoming LP of the same name. I think it’s out in March? Check it out.
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2010 Year End Mix
01. Fresh and Onlys - “Until The End Of Time” 02. The Love Language - “Brittany’s Back” 03. Local Natives - “Wide Eyes” 04. Breathe Owl Breathe - “Dog Walkers Of The New Age” 05. Deerhunter - “Revival” 06. Diamond Rings - “All Yr Songs” 07. Caribou - “Odessa”
08. Dom - “Burn Bridges”
09. Glasser...
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Women Caught Trying to Hide Stolen Goods Under... →
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This Brazilian Drug Lord Is a Huge Justin Bieber...
Via Gawker:
Some 2,600 police and army operatives swept through a Brazilian slum on Sunday, seizing 11 tons of marijuana and “a small arsenal” of weapons—including a missile—from a notorious drug gang. They also found a Justin Bieber mural.
Pezao, whom The Guardian describes as “one of the area’s top traffickers,” is apparently also one of the area’s top...
WRONG: Teva Stilettos →
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2010 Year End List
I made a year end list for Tiny Mix Tapes. Only my top 25 will be posted, but there was a lot of stuff I liked this year so I made a top 50.
50. Javelin - No Mas 49. Harlem - Hippies 48. Glasser - Ring 47. Cloud Nothings - Turning On 46. The Fresh & Onlys - Play It Strange 45. Memomena - Mines 44. Sharon Van Etten - Epic 43. Grinderman - Grinderman 2 42. Sarah Jaffe - Suburban Nature 41....
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Friendship: A Visual Representation
alyssadehayes:
candiceejones: what if we got two cookie cakes and made a COOKIE CAKE ICE CREAM SANDWICH me: and put a tub of icecream between them OMG OMG OMG WERE SOUL MATES candiceejones: DUH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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NPR Interviews Jay-Z And It's Excellent
minneapolisfuckingrocks:
Pull quote:
”JAY-Z: J. Hova which is a nickname that you know they gave me because it’s like one time I was recording in the studio and I wasn’t writing and one of my friends like, man, this is like how you doing that man? God must really love you. It’s like a religious experience man and then he was like J-hova. And then you know it started out as a joke and then it...
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Shadowplay Jewelry →
I love these necklaces. There are a ton more on that site. I think I could probably make something similar… so I don’t have to spend $500+ dollars.