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Last week it was confirmed that Kylie Jenner signed a $1 million six month deal with Puma. Officially, she's an "advocate," meaning she can still wear Adidas, because, Kanye. Unofficially, the...
Racked let me talk about L-boog, BDP, Arsenal, Walt Frazier, Tommie Smith, Jil Sander and Lil Wayne, among more obvious things.
new open-ish format recommendations tinyletter by me for the 1-6
How the flaming wordmark for a heritage skateboard glossy started turning up on celebrities of all stripes.
Last piece of mine for the year, at Racked. I talk about California, Suicidal Tendencies, social media and a bunch of other stuff.
This came on in the headphones while looking at the water from a log the day after one of the bigger earthquakes I’ve felt and a couple weeks after I relocated back to the west coast. It was good. I should mimic what singers do in music videos more often maybe.
So much happens in this video. There are key moments where the mood changes suddenly, and also long stretches of increasing intensity. I know this show was written about a bunch but I’d never watched this whole thing (I guess the full set isn’t up though?). Stage “invasion” and “storming” are really weird terms for this since it looks like fairly safe and entirely jubilant dancing / participation / communion. Like a lot of the best shows, there’s a moment where you’re unsure if things are going to get darker or bloody but then things ease up again. It’s also fascinating to see how huge the band is at home, having seen them in a cramped, extremely unglamorous Toronto bar in which obviously there was far less heroism happening.
There’s a Richard Allen BBC doc?? (Oh, of course there is, there’s one on every possible British subject ever)
‘Science For The People’, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1984.
Lance Armstrong's long campaign of doping and deception is the core of Stephen Frears's new film, "The Program." It's a good story, but it doesn't quite add up to a good movie.
On ‘The Program’, for Vice Sports.
Strong you gotta be it
(Vibe always reminds me of Inner City Theme by Inner City)
Well I’ve gotten re-obsessed quickly. The first episode of This is England ‘90 is just like a big fuck you to ‘prestige’ TV, everything about it is just better than anything else. The scenes between Woody and his parents (the ‘surprise’ and the phone call) are so lingeringly funny. In another interview clip I watched, Vicky McClure admitted that things will again get way darker so maybe that’s why I can’t stop thinking about how (relatively) nice that episode was. (The four minute official “the story so far” video on youtube is as intense as you would expect.) Anyway, above is Shane Meadows talking about how the funeral of Thomas Turgoose’s mother, after the film, brought the cast closer together and may have led to its TV continuation (Jesus!) and his childhood winter olympics gang tryouts.
If you’re reading this, it’s probably already too late to get your hands on a pair of OVO Jordan 10s, the most coveted sneaker since, well, last month’s Adidas Yeezy 350 Boost from Kanye West....
At Racked, I tried to parse the expanding apparel wing of Drake’s empire
things on my perfect songs checklist which Royal Headache’s “Carolina” has:
- A bridge with unchanging chords
- Short and sweet
- passes the urge to axl rose twirl test
- dramatic, chiming intro with big drum pickup
- references other songs
- in a register which makes singer’s voice crack at key emotional moments
- about salvation / outcastdom / girls / regret
- ridiculously boring major key 3 chord progression (see also Verve Lucky Man and Third Eye Blind Jumper)
Upstairs he flung his greasy overalls aside and selected a suit from a line of hangers. Brown paper protected them from dust, and he stood for some minutes in the cold, digging his hands into pockets and turning back lapels, sampling the good hundred pounds’ worth of property hanging from an iron-bar. These were his riches, and he told himself that money paid-out on clothes was a sensible investment because it made him feel good as well as look good.
Popsongs is still such a great reference tool. This comment has blown my mind. I’m terrible with knowing lyrics to begin with but it seems like with songs I’ve known and liked forever, my brain just stops working. The fact that all those words are crammed in right at the end of the verse and the tiny pause after sleep ascending with “but to dream” makes it even better.
In honor of the season 2 finale, we take a look at the punk fashions of HACF's best character and the punk attitudes that inform her Silicon Valley disruptions.
Nice to have super on point visuals by Terrell Davis for this Hopes&Fears story.
E•MO•TIONs are running high these days
Getting emotional about theory again.
... though in this case the deviation may seem slight indeed - the cultivation of a quiff, the acquisition of a scooter or a record or a certain type of suit. But it ends in the construction of a style, in a gesture of defiance or contempt, in a smile or a sneer. It signals a Refusal. I would like to think this Refusal is worth making, that these gestures have a meaning, that the smiles and the sneers have some subversive value, even if, in the final analysis, they are, like Genet’s gangster pinups, just the darker side of sets of regulations, just so much graffiti on a prison wall.
- Dick Hebdige in intro to Subculture
Sort of similarly, a couple weeks ago I watched every half-assed youtube Clash documentary I could find and there’s one where Joe Strummer, in his 40′s, is talking about how absurd their ambitions were but that he’s proud that they tried anyway. Obviously the pathos is on overdrive because he died too early and he has such a soft spoken, reflective, good guy way of speaking, as a middle-ager. Ok fine, I have to find it now.
We were always of the Left, but having said that, we didn’t have any solutions to the world’s problems. I mean, we were trying to grope in a Socialist way towards some future where the world might be less of a miserable place than it is, but... if Karl Marx was unable to do it, there’s no way that four guitarists from London could do it. So... we were, like, groping in the dark. You have to think to yourself, what would you do if you did rule the world? It’s a tough question and I don’t think we had an answer to it, not that we should have done. But we did try to put our minds... pose those sort of questions, whatever good that was, we did try.
